Suspension of Community Eligibility, 64354 [C1-2015-26449]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 205 / Friday, October 23, 2015 / Rules and Regulations
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
44 CFR Part 64
[Docket ID FEMA–2015–0001; Internal
Agency Docket No. FEMA–8405]
Suspension of Community Eligibility
Correction
In rule document 2015–26449
beginning on page 63130 in the issue of
Monday, October 19, 2015, make the
following correction:
§ 64.6
[Corrected]
On page 63131, in the table, in the
first column, in the Region VII entry
‘‘Kansas: 23 Hanover, City of,
Washington County’’ should read
‘‘Kansas: Hanover, City of, Washington
County’’.
[FR Doc. C1–2015–26449 Filed 10–22–15; 8:45 am]
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47 CFR Part 73
[MB Docket No. 14–226; FCC 15–118]
Broadcast Licensee-Conducted
Contests
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
In this document, the Federal
Communications Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) amends the portion of
its rules known as the ‘‘Contest Rule’’ to
permit broadcast licensees to comply
with their obligation to disclose material
contest terms either by broadcasting
those terms or by making them available
in writing on a publicly accessible
Internet Web site. In particular, the
Commission amends the Contest Rule to
allow licensees to satisfy their
disclosure obligation by posting
material contest terms on the station’s
Web site, the licensee’s Web site, or, if
neither the individual station nor the
licensee has its own Web site, any
Internet Web site that is readily
accessible to the public. The
Commission also adopts requirements
that define the disclosure obligation in
cases where a licensee has chosen to
meet its obligation through an Internet
Web site.
DATES: This rule contains information
collection requirements that have not
been approved by OMB. The
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Commission will publish a document in
the Federal Register announcing the
effective date.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Raelynn Remy, Raelynn.Remy@fcc.gov,
or Raphael Sznajder, Raphael.Sznajder@
fcc.gov, Federal Communications
Commission, Media Bureau, (202) 418–
2120.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a
summary of the Commission’s Report
and Order (‘‘Order’’), MB Docket No.
14–226, FCC 15–118, which was
adopted and released on September 17,
2015. The full text of this document is
available for public inspection and
copying during regular business hours
in the FCC Reference Center, Federal
Communications Commission, 445 12th
Street SW., Room CY–A257,
Washington, DC 20554. This document
will also be available via ECFS at
https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/. Documents
will be available electronically in ASCII,
Microsoft Word, and/or Adobe Acrobat.
Alternative formats are available for
people with disabilities (Braille, large
print, electronic files, audio format), by
sending an email to fcc504@fcc.gov or
calling the Commission’s Consumer and
Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202)
418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432
(TTY).
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
Analysis
This document contains new or
modified information collection
requirements subject to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA).1 The
requirements will be submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review under Section 3507(d)
of the PRA. OMB, the general public,
and other Federal agencies will be
invited to comment on the new or
modified information collection
requirements contained in this
proceeding. In addition, we note that
pursuant to the Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, we
previously sought specific comment on
how the Commission might further
reduce the information collection
burden for small business concerns with
fewer than 25 employees.
I. Introduction
1. Our ‘‘Contest Rule,’’ Section
73.1216 of our rules, requires broadcast
licensees to disclose on air the material
terms of contests that they broadcast. In
this Order, we update that rule to permit
broadcast licensees to comply with their
obligation to disclose material contest
1 The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA),
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terms either by broadcasting those terms
or by making them available in writing
on a publicly accessible Internet Web
site. In particular, we amend the Contest
Rule to allow licensees to satisfy their
disclosure obligation by posting
material contest terms on the station’s
Web site, the licensee’s Web site, or, if
neither the individual station nor the
licensee has its own Web site, any
Internet Web site that is readily
accessible to the public. Commenters in
this proceeding uniformly support
updating the Contest Rule, which has
remained unchanged since its adoption
by the Commission almost forty years
ago.
2. We also adopt, with some
modifications, requirements proposed
in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
that define the disclosure obligation in
cases where a licensee has chosen to
meet its obligation through an Internet
Web site. Specifically, we revise the
Contest Rule to specify that in such
cases a licensee: (i) Must broadcast the
relevant Web site address periodically
with information sufficient for a
consumer easily to find material contest
terms online; (ii) must establish a link
or tab to material contest terms on the
Web site’s home page; (iii) must
maintain contest terms online for a
period of at least thirty days after the
contest has ended; and (iv) must
announce on air that the material terms
of a contest have changed since the
contest was first announced, where that
is the case, and direct participants to the
Web site to review the changes. As
discussed below, the announcements of
any change in contest terms must be
made within 24 hours of the change and
periodically thereafter. Finally, we
require that licensees ensure that any
material terms disclosed on a Web site
conform in all substantive respects to
those mentioned over the air.
3. The actions we take in this Order
to update the Contest Rule advance the
public interest by affording broadcasters
more flexibility in the manner of their
compliance with Section 73.1216 while
giving consumers improved access to
important contest information. Through
this Order, we take another step to
modernize our rules to reflect how
Americans access and consume
information in the 21st century. At the
same time, we affirm the core principles
of the Contest Rule. Regardless of the
medium of disclosure, broadcasters
must provide complete, accurate, and
timely information about the contests
they conduct, ensure that such
information is not false, misleading, or
deceptive, and conduct their contests
substantially as announced or
advertised.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
44 CFR Part 64
[Docket ID FEMA-2015-0001; Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA-8405]
Suspension of Community Eligibility
Correction
In rule document 2015-26449 beginning on page 63130 in the issue of
Monday, October 19, 2015, make the following correction:
Sec. 64.6 [Corrected]
On page 63131, in the table, in the first column, in the Region VII
entry ``Kansas: 23 Hanover, City of, Washington County'' should read
``Kansas: Hanover, City of, Washington County''.
[FR Doc. C1-2015-26449 Filed 10-22-15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 1505-01-D
