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accordance with the framework adopted
in the order. New York winning bidders
that are ultimately authorized to receive
Connect America Phase II support will
be subject to the same location
reporting, build-out milestone
certifications, and non-compliance
measures as Connect America Phase II
auction recipients.
This information collection addresses
the requirement that certain carriers
with high cost reporting obligations
must file information about their
locations which meet their broadband
deployment public interest obligations
via an electronic portal (‘‘portal’’). The
Rate-of-Return Order required that the
Universal Service Administrative
Company (USAC) establish the portal so
that carriers could file their location
data with the portal starting in 2017.
The Rate-of-Return Order required all
recipients of Phase II model-based
support and rate-of-return carriers to
submit geocoded location data and
related certifications to the portal.
Recipients of Phase II model-based
support had been required to file such
information in their annual reports due
by July 1. The Phase II Auction Order
requires auction winners to build-out
networks capable of meeting their
public interest obligations and report, to
an online portal, locations to which
auction winners had deployed such
networks. This information collection
also addresses the new portal reporting
requirements for carriers receiving
Alaska Plan support, including their
submission of fiber/microwave middlemile network maps, and recipients of
Phase II support that is awarded in
partnership with New York’s New NY
Broadband Program.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–26679 Filed 12–11–17; 8:45 am]
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Information Collection Being
Submitted for Review and Approval to
the Office of Management and Budget
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
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AGENCY:
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burdens, and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal
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Communications Commission (FCC or
the Commission) invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection.
Comments are requested concerning:
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimate; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on the respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and ways to
further reduce the information
collection burden on small business
concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
The Commission may not conduct or
sponsor a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) control number. No person shall
be subject to any penalty for failing to
comply with a collection of information
subject to the PRA that does not display
a valid OMB control number.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted on or before January 11, 2018.
If you anticipate that you will be
submitting comments, but find it
difficult to do so within the period of
time allowed by this notice, you should
advise the contacts listed below as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to
Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB, via email
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov; and
to Cathy Williams, FCC, via email PRA@
fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov.
Include in the comments the OMB
control number as shown in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or copies of the
information collection, contact Cathy
Williams at (202) 418–2918. To view a
copy of this information collection
request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go
to the web page https://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the
section of the web page called
‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ (3) click on
the downward-pointing arrow in the
‘‘Select Agency’’ box below the
‘‘Currently Under Review’’ heading, (4)
select ‘‘Federal Communications
Commission’’ from the list of agencies
presented in the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box,
(5) click the ‘‘Submit’’ button to the
right of the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, (6)
when the list of FCC ICRs currently
under review appears, look for the OMB
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control number of this ICR and then
click on the ICR Reference Number. A
copy of the FCC submission to OMB
will be displayed.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of
its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork burdens, and as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC or
the Commission) invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection.
Comments are requested concerning:
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimate; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on the respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and ways to
further reduce the information
collection burden on small business
concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
OMB Control Number: 3060–XXXX.
Title: Mobility Fund Phase II
Challenge Process.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: New information
collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities, not-for-profit institutions,
and state, local or tribal governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents
and Responses: 500 respondents and
500 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 204
hours for challengers; 71 hours for
challenged parties.
Frequency of Response: One-time
reporting requirement.
Obligation To Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for the currently approved
information collection is contained in
sections 154, 254, and 303(r) of the
Communications Act, as amended, 47
U.S.C. 4, 254, 303(r).
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
78,725 hours.
Total Annual Costs: None.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
To the extent the information submitted
pursuant to this information collection
is determined to be confidential, it will
be protected by the Commission. If a
respondent seeks to have information
collected pursuant to this information
collection withheld from public
inspection, the respondent may request
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confidential treatment pursuant to
section 0.459 of the Commission’s rules
for such information. See 47 CFR 0.459.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Needs and Uses: A request for
approval of this new information
collection is being submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to obtain the full three-year
clearance from OMB. In its November
2011 USF/ICC Transformation Order
(FCC 11–161), the Commission
established the Mobility Fund, which
consists of two phases. Mobility Fund
Phase I (MF–I) provided one-time
universal service support payments to
immediately accelerate deployment of
mobile broadband services. MF–II will
use a reverse auction to provide ongoing
universal service support payments to
continue to advance deployment of such
services. The Commission adopted the
rules and framework for MF–I in the
USF/ICC Transformation Order, and
sought comment in an accompanying
further notice of proposed rulemaking
on the proposed framework for MF–II.
In its February 2017 Mobility Fund II
Report and Order and Further Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking (MF–II Report
and Order and/or FNPRM) (FCC 17–11),
the FCC adopted the rules and
framework for moving forward
expeditiously with the MF–II auction.
Among other things, the Commission
stated in the MF–II Report and Order
that, prior to the auction, it would
establish a map of areas presumptively
eligible for MF–II support based on the
most recently available FCC Form 477
mobile wireless coverage data, and
provide a limited timeframe for parties
to challenge those initial determinations
during the pre-auction process. The
Commission sought comment in the
accompanying Mobility Fund II FNPRM
on how to best design a robust, targeted
MF–II challenge process that efficiently
resolves disputes about the areas
eligible for MF–II support. In August
2017, the Commission released an Order
on Reconsideration and Second Report
and Order (Challenge Process Order)
(FCC 17–102) in which it (1)
reconsidered its earlier decision to use
FCC Form 477 data to compile the map
of areas presumptively eligible for MF–
II support and decided it would instead
conduct a new, one-time data collection
with specified data parameters tailored
to MF–II to determine the areas in
which there is deployment of qualified
LTE that will be used (together with
high-cost disbursement data available
from the Universal Service
Administrative Company (USAC)) for
this purpose, and (2) adopted a
streamlined challenge process that will
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efficiently resolve disputes about areas
deemed presumptively ineligible for
MF–II support. The map of areas
presumptively eligible for MF–II
support will serve as the starting point
for the challenge process pursuant to
which an interested party (challenger)
may initiate a challenge with respect to
one or more areas initially deemed
ineligible for MF–II support (i.e., areas
not listed on the Commission’s map of
areas presumptively eligible for MF–II
support and challenged parties can
respond to challenges. A challenger
seeking to initiate a challenge of one or
more areas initially deemed ineligible in
the Commission’s map of areas
presumptively eligible for MF–II
support may do so via the online
challenge portal developed by USAC for
this purpose (the USAC portal). For
each state, a challenger must (1) identify
the area(s) it seeks to challenge, (2)
submit detailed proof of a lack of
unsubsidized, qualified 4G LTE
coverage in each challenged area in the
form of actual outdoor speed test data
collected using the standardized
parameters specified by the Commission
in the Challenge Process Order and any
other parameters the Commission or the
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
and Wireline Competition Bureau (the
Bureaus) may implement, and (3) certify
its challenge.
After the challenge window closes,
the USAC system will use an automated
challenge validation process developed
by USAC to validate a challenger’s
evidence and will determine which
challenged areas pass validation and
which fail. Once all valid challenges
have been identified, a challenged party
that chooses to respond to any valid
challenge(s) will have a response
window within which to submit
additional data via the online USAC
portal. A challenged party may submit
technical information that is probative
regarding the validity of a challenger’s
speed tests (i.e., information
demonstrating that the challenger’s
speed tests are invalid or do not
accurately reflect network performance),
including speed test data and other
device-specific data collected from
transmitter monitoring software or,
alternatively, may submit its own speed
test data that conforms to the same
standards and requirements specified by
the Commission and the Bureaus for
challengers.
In conjunction with the qualified 4G
LTE data separately collected pursuant
to OMB 3060–1242 that will be used to
create the map of areas presumptively
eligible for MF–II support, the
information collected under this new
MF–II challenge process collection will
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enable the Commission to efficiently
resolve disputes concerning the
eligibility or ineligibility of an area
initially deemed ineligible for MF–II
support and establish the final map of
areas eligible for such support, thereby
furthering the Commission’s goal of
targeting MF–II support to areas that
lack adequate mobile voice and
broadband coverage absent subsidies
through a transparent process.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–26731 Filed 12–11–17; 8:45 am]
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COMMISSION
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Information Collection Being Reviewed
by the Federal Communications
Commission
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burdens, and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC or
Commission) invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collections.
Comments are requested concerning:
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimate; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on the respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and ways to
further reduce the information
collection burden on small business
concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor
a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) control
number. No person shall be subject to
any penalty for failing to comply with
a collection of information subject to the
PRA that does not display a valid OMB
control number.
SUMMARY:
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-XXXX]
Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to
the Office of Management and Budget
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens,
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the
general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on the following information collection. Comments are requested
concerning: Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission,
including whether the information shall have practical utility; the
accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on the
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology; and ways to further reduce the
information collection burden on small business concerns with fewer
than 25 employees.
The Commission may not conduct or sponsor a collection of
information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) control number. No person shall be subject to any
penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject
to the PRA that does not display a valid OMB control number.
DATES: Written comments should be submitted on or before January 11,
2018. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but find
it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice,
you should advise the contacts listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB, via
email [email protected]; and to Cathy Williams, FCC, via
email [email protected] and to [email protected]. Include in the
comments the OMB control number as shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies
of the information collection, contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418-
2918. To view a copy of this information collection request (ICR)
submitted to OMB: (1) Go to the web page https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the section of the web page called ``Currently
Under Review,'' (3) click on the downward-pointing arrow in the
``Select Agency'' box below the ``Currently Under Review'' heading, (4)
select ``Federal Communications Commission'' from the list of agencies
presented in the ``Select Agency'' box, (5) click the ``Submit'' button
to the right of the ``Select Agency'' box, (6) when the list of FCC
ICRs currently under review appears, look for the OMB control number of
this ICR and then click on the ICR Reference Number. A copy of the FCC
submission to OMB will be displayed.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC or the Commission) invites the general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following
information collection. Comments are requested concerning: Whether the
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility; the accuracy of the
Commission's burden estimate; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information collected; ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology; and ways to further reduce the information collection
burden on small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
OMB Control Number: 3060-XXXX.
Title: Mobility Fund Phase II Challenge Process.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: New information collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit
institutions, and state, local or tribal governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents and Responses: 500 respondents and
500 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 204 hours for challengers; 71 hours
for challenged parties.
Frequency of Response: One-time reporting requirement.
Obligation To Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for the currently approved information collection
is contained in sections 154, 254, and 303(r) of the Communications
Act, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 4, 254, 303(r).
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 78,725 hours.
Total Annual Costs: None.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: To the extent the information
submitted pursuant to this information collection is determined to be
confidential, it will be protected by the Commission. If a respondent
seeks to have information collected pursuant to this information
collection withheld from public inspection, the respondent may request
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confidential treatment pursuant to section 0.459 of the Commission's
rules for such information. See 47 CFR 0.459.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
Needs and Uses: A request for approval of this new information
collection is being submitted to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to obtain the full three-year clearance from OMB. In its November
2011 USF/ICC Transformation Order (FCC 11-161), the Commission
established the Mobility Fund, which consists of two phases. Mobility
Fund Phase I (MF-I) provided one-time universal service support
payments to immediately accelerate deployment of mobile broadband
services. MF-II will use a reverse auction to provide ongoing universal
service support payments to continue to advance deployment of such
services. The Commission adopted the rules and framework for MF-I in
the USF/ICC Transformation Order, and sought comment in an accompanying
further notice of proposed rulemaking on the proposed framework for MF-
II. In its February 2017 Mobility Fund II Report and Order and Further
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (MF-II Report and Order and/or FNPRM)
(FCC 17-11), the FCC adopted the rules and framework for moving forward
expeditiously with the MF-II auction. Among other things, the
Commission stated in the MF-II Report and Order that, prior to the
auction, it would establish a map of areas presumptively eligible for
MF-II support based on the most recently available FCC Form 477 mobile
wireless coverage data, and provide a limited timeframe for parties to
challenge those initial determinations during the pre-auction process.
The Commission sought comment in the accompanying Mobility Fund II
FNPRM on how to best design a robust, targeted MF-II challenge process
that efficiently resolves disputes about the areas eligible for MF-II
support. In August 2017, the Commission released an Order on
Reconsideration and Second Report and Order (Challenge Process Order)
(FCC 17-102) in which it (1) reconsidered its earlier decision to use
FCC Form 477 data to compile the map of areas presumptively eligible
for MF-II support and decided it would instead conduct a new, one-time
data collection with specified data parameters tailored to MF-II to
determine the areas in which there is deployment of qualified LTE that
will be used (together with high-cost disbursement data available from
the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC)) for this purpose,
and (2) adopted a streamlined challenge process that will efficiently
resolve disputes about areas deemed presumptively ineligible for MF-II
support. The map of areas presumptively eligible for MF-II support will
serve as the starting point for the challenge process pursuant to which
an interested party (challenger) may initiate a challenge with respect
to one or more areas initially deemed ineligible for MF-II support
(i.e., areas not listed on the Commission's map of areas presumptively
eligible for MF-II support and challenged parties can respond to
challenges. A challenger seeking to initiate a challenge of one or more
areas initially deemed ineligible in the Commission's map of areas
presumptively eligible for MF-II support may do so via the online
challenge portal developed by USAC for this purpose (the USAC portal).
For each state, a challenger must (1) identify the area(s) it seeks to
challenge, (2) submit detailed proof of a lack of unsubsidized,
qualified 4G LTE coverage in each challenged area in the form of actual
outdoor speed test data collected using the standardized parameters
specified by the Commission in the Challenge Process Order and any
other parameters the Commission or the Wireless Telecommunications
Bureau and Wireline Competition Bureau (the Bureaus) may implement, and
(3) certify its challenge.
After the challenge window closes, the USAC system will use an
automated challenge validation process developed by USAC to validate a
challenger's evidence and will determine which challenged areas pass
validation and which fail. Once all valid challenges have been
identified, a challenged party that chooses to respond to any valid
challenge(s) will have a response window within which to submit
additional data via the online USAC portal. A challenged party may
submit technical information that is probative regarding the validity
of a challenger's speed tests (i.e., information demonstrating that the
challenger's speed tests are invalid or do not accurately reflect
network performance), including speed test data and other device-
specific data collected from transmitter monitoring software or,
alternatively, may submit its own speed test data that conforms to the
same standards and requirements specified by the Commission and the
Bureaus for challengers.
In conjunction with the qualified 4G LTE data separately collected
pursuant to OMB 3060-1242 that will be used to create the map of areas
presumptively eligible for MF-II support, the information collected
under this new MF-II challenge process collection will enable the
Commission to efficiently resolve disputes concerning the eligibility
or ineligibility of an area initially deemed ineligible for MF-II
support and establish the final map of areas eligible for such support,
thereby furthering the Commission's goal of targeting MF-II support to
areas that lack adequate mobile voice and broadband coverage absent
subsidies through a transparent process.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-26731 Filed 12-11-17; 8:45 am]
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