Technology Transitions, USTelecom Petition for Declaratory Ruling That Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers Are Non-Dominant in the Provision of Switched Access Services, Policies and Rules Governing Retirement of Copper Loops by Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers and Special Access for Price Cap Local Exchange Carriers, 2563-2564 [2018-00760]
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2. Amend § 11.31 by:
a. In the table in paragraph (e), adding
an entry under ‘‘State and Local Codes
(Optional)’’ for ‘‘Blue Alert’’, and
■ b. Removing the first paragraph (f).
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michele Levy Berlove, Attorney
Advisor, Wireline Competition Bureau,
at (202) 418–1477, or by email at
Michele.Berlove@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
document announces that, on January 5,
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2018, OMB approved, for a period of
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(e) The following Event (EEE) codes
requirements relating to certain of the
are presently authorized:
discontinuance rules contained in the
Commission’s Technology Transitions
Event
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Declaratory Ruling, Second Report and
codes
Order, and Order on Reconsideration,
FCC 16–90, published at 81 FR 62632,
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contact Nicole Ongele, Federal
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Communications Commission, Room A–
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C620, 445 12th Street SW, Washington,
DC 20554. Please include the OMB
Control Number, 3060–0149, in your
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
correspondence. The Commission will
COMMISSION
also accept your comments via email at
47 CFR Part 63
PRA@fcc.gov.
To request materials in accessible
[GN Docket No. 13–5, RM–11358; WC
formats for people with disabilities
Docket No. 13–3; FCC 16–90]
(Braille, large print, electronic files,
audio format), send an email to fcc504@
Technology Transitions, USTelecom
fcc.gov or call the Consumer and
Petition for Declaratory Ruling That
Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202)
Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers
418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432
Are Non-Dominant in the Provision of
(TTY).
Switched Access Services, Policies
and Rules Governing Retirement of
Synopsis
Copper Loops by Incumbent Local
As required by the Paperwork
Exchange Carriers and Special Access
for Price Cap Local Exchange Carriers Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507),
the FCC is notifying the public that it
AGENCY: Federal Communications
received final OMB approval on January
Commission.
5, 2018, for the information collection
ACTION: Final rule; announcement of
requirements contained in the
effective date.
modifications to the Commission’s rules
in 47 CFR part 63. Under 5 CFR part
SUMMARY: In this document, the
1320, an agency may not conduct or
Commission announces that the Office
sponsor a collection of information
of Management and Budget (OMB) has
unless it displays a current, valid OMB
approved, for a period of three years, the
Control Number.
information collection associated with
No person shall be subject to any
the Commission’s discontinuance rules. penalty for failing to comply with a
This document is consistent with the
collection of information subject to the
Technology Transitions Declaratory
Paperwork Reduction Act that does not
Ruling, Second Report and Order, and
display a current, valid OMB Control
Order on Reconsideration, FCC 16–90,
Number. The OMB Control Number is
which stated that the Commission
3060–0149.
would publish a document in the
The foregoing notice is required by
Federal Register announcing the
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
effective date of those rules.
Public Law 104–13, October 1, 1995,
DATES: The amendments to 47 CFR
and 44 U.S.C. 3507.
63.71(a) introductory text, (b), (g), and
The total annual reporting burdens
(i) published at 81 FR 62632, September and costs for the respondents are as
12, 2016, are effective on January 18,
follows:
2018.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0149.
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OMB Approval Date: January 5, 2018.
OMB Expiration Date: January 31,
2021.
Title: Part 63, Application and
Supplemental Information
Requirements; Technology Transitions
et al., GN Docket No. 13–5 et al.
Form Number: N/A.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 60 respondents; 60
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 6
hours.
Frequency of Response: One-time
reporting requirement and third-party
disclosure requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for this collection of
information is contained in 47 U.S.C.
214 and 402 of the Communications Act
of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 360 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
The Commission is not requesting that
the respondents submit confidential
information to the FCC. Respondents
may, however, request confidential
treatment for information they believe to
be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules.
Privacy Act: No impact(s).
Needs and Uses: The Commission is
seeking Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval for a revision to
a currently approved collection. Section
214 of the Communications Act of 1934,
as amended, requires that a carrier first
obtain FCC authorization either to (1)
construct, operate, or engage in
transmission over a line of
communications, or (2) discontinue,
reduce or impair service over a line of
communications. Part 63 of title 47 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
implements Section 214. Part 63 also
implements provisions of the Cable
Communications Policy Act of 1984
pertaining to video which was approved
under this OMB Control Number 3060–
0149. In 2009, the Commission modified
Part 63 to extend to providers of
interconnected Voice of internet
Protocol (VoIP) service the
discontinuance obligations that apply to
domestic non-dominant
telecommunications carriers under
Section 214 of the Communications Act
of 1934, as amended. In 2014, the
Commission adopted improved
administrative filing procedures for
domestic transfers of control, domestic
discontinuances and notices of network
changes, and among other adjustments,
modified Part 63 to require electronic
filing for applications for authorization
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to discontinue, reduce, or impair service
under section 214(a) of the Act. In July
2016, the Commission revised certain
section 214(a) discontinuance
procedures. To reduce burdens on
carriers, the Commission revised its
rules to: (1) Allow carriers to provide
notice via email or other alternative
methods to offer additional options to
customers, and (2) provide for
streamlined treatment of applications to
discontinue services for which the
carrier has had no existing customers or
reasonable requests for service during
the previous 180 days. It also addressed
a gap in the Commission’s rules by
making a competitive LEC’s application
for discontinuance deemed granted on
the effective date of any copper
retirement that made the discontinuance
unavoidable. The Commission further
concluded that applicants must provide
notice of discontinuance applications to
federally-recognized Tribal Nations. The
Commission estimates that there will be
only minimal impact on the annual
burden hours associated with
discontinuance applications as a result
of these revisions. Specifically, the
Commission estimates that carriers will
need no more than one additional hour
per application for purposes of
determining which, if any, Tribal
Nations are located in the service areas
to be affected by the planned
discontinuance and providing such
notice. The estimated number of
respondents, responses, and burden
hours associated with this collection
differ from those set forth in the 60-day
notice published on October 28, 2016
(81 FR 75054), which covered
additional section 214(a)
discontinuance rules adopted in 2016
that will now be addressed separately.
As a result, the burden hours herein are
substantially reduced from those
contained in the 60-day notice.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
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Effective January 18, 2018, until
the effective date of the final 2018 and
2019 harvest specifications for BSAI
groundfish, unless otherwise modified
or superseded through publication of a
notification in the Federal Register.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steve Whitney, 907–586–7228.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
Need for Correction
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 679
[Docket No. 161020985–7181–02]
RIN 0648–XF866
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic
Zone Off Alaska; Inseason Adjustment
to the 2018 Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands Pollock, Atka Mackerel, and
Pacific Cod Total Allowable Catch
Amounts; Correction
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule; inseason
adjustment; correction.
AGENCY:
NMFS is correcting a
temporary rule that published on
December 20, 2017, adjusting the 2018
total allowable catch (TAC) amounts for
the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
(BSAI) pollock, Atka mackerel, and
Pacific cod fisheries. One table in the
document contained an error.
SUMMARY:
NMFS published an inseason
adjustment of the 2018 TAC amounts for
the BSAI pollock, Atka mackerel, and
Pacific cod fisheries (82 FR 60329,
December 20, 2017). A table providing
information about the 2018 allocations
of pollock TACs and community
development quota (CDQ) directed
fishing allowances (DFA) contained an
incorrect amount in the column titled
‘‘2018 allocations’’ and the second row
in the Bering Sea subarea titled ‘‘CDQ
DFA.’’ This value was specified as
164,434 metric tons (mt), instead of the
correct value of 136,434 mt.
NMFS anticipates that this correction
will not affect the fishing operations of
the CDQ vessels that are subject to these
DFAs. This is because of the seasonal
allocations for the Bering Sea subarea
CDQ DFAs are correctly specified.
Correction
In FR Doc. 2017–27428, published on
December 20, 2017 (82 FR 60329), the
following correction is made to Table 5:
On page 60330, in Table 5, column 2
is corrected to incorporate the correct
amount for the Bering Sea subarea CDQ
pollock DFA.
Table 5 is corrected and reprinted in
its entirety to read as follows:
TABLE 5—FINAL 2018 ALLOCATIONS OF POLLOCK TACS TO THE DIRECTED POLLOCK FISHERIES AND TO THE CDQ
DIRECTED FISHING ALLOWANCES (DFA) 1
[Amounts are in metric tons]
2018 A season 1
2018
Allocations
Area and sector
Bering Sea subarea TAC 1 ..............................................................................
CDQ DFA .........................................................................................................
ICA 1 .................................................................................................................
Total Bering Sea non-CDQ ......................................................................
A season DFA
SCA harvest
limit 2
2018 B
season 1
B season DFA
1,364,341
136,434
47,888
1,180,019
n/a
61,395
n/a
531,008
n/a
38,202
n/a
330,405
n/a
75,039
n/a
649,010
590,009
472,007
431,887
40,121
2,360
118,002
206,503
354,006
40,788
19,000
265,504
212,403
194,349
18,054
1,062
53,101
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
165,203
132,162
n/a
n/a
n/a
33,041
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
324,505
259,604
237,538
22,066
1,298
64,901
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
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AFA Inshore .....................................................................................................
AFA Catcher/Processors 3 ...............................................................................
Catch by C/Ps ..........................................................................................
Catch by CVs 3 .........................................................................................
Unlisted C/P Limit 4 ...................................................................................
AFA Motherships .............................................................................................
Excessive Harvesting Limit 5 ............................................................................
Excessive Processing Limit 6 ...........................................................................
Aleutian Islands subarea ABC .........................................................................
Aleutian Islands subarea TAC 1 .......................................................................
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 12 (Thursday, January 18, 2018)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 2563-2564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-00760]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 63
[GN Docket No. 13-5, RM-11358; WC Docket No. 13-3; FCC 16-90]
Technology Transitions, USTelecom Petition for Declaratory Ruling
That Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers Are Non-Dominant in the
Provision of Switched Access Services, Policies and Rules Governing
Retirement of Copper Loops by Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers and
Special Access for Price Cap Local Exchange Carriers
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date.
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SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years,
the information collection associated with the Commission's
discontinuance rules. This document is consistent with the Technology
Transitions Declaratory Ruling, Second Report and Order, and Order on
Reconsideration, FCC 16-90, which stated that the Commission would
publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective
date of those rules.
DATES: The amendments to 47 CFR 63.71(a) introductory text, (b), (g),
and (i) published at 81 FR 62632, September 12, 2016, are effective on
January 18, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michele Levy Berlove, Attorney
Advisor, Wireline Competition Bureau, at (202) 418-1477, or by email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document announces that, on January 5,
2018, OMB approved, for a period of three years, the information
collection requirements relating to certain of the discontinuance rules
contained in the Commission's Technology Transitions Declaratory
Ruling, Second Report and Order, and Order on Reconsideration, FCC 16-
90, published at 81 FR 62632, September 12, 2016, as specified above.
The OMB Control Number is 3060-0149. The Commission publishes this
document as an announcement of the effective date of the rules. If you
have any comments on the burden estimates listed below, or how the
Commission can improve the collections and reduce any burdens caused
thereby, please contact Nicole Ongele, Federal Communications
Commission, Room A-C620, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554.
Please include the OMB Control Number, 3060-0149, in your
correspondence. The Commission will also accept your comments via email
at [email protected].
To request materials in accessible formats for people with
disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic files, audio format),
send an email to [email protected] or call the Consumer and Governmental
Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432 (TTY).
Synopsis
As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3507), the FCC is notifying the public that it received final OMB
approval on January 5, 2018, for the information collection
requirements contained in the modifications to the Commission's rules
in 47 CFR part 63. Under 5 CFR part 1320, an agency may not conduct or
sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a current, valid
OMB Control Number.
No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply
with a collection of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act
that does not display a current, valid OMB Control Number. The OMB
Control Number is 3060-0149.
The foregoing notice is required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, Public Law 104-13, October 1, 1995, and 44 U.S.C. 3507.
The total annual reporting burdens and costs for the respondents
are as follows:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0149.
OMB Approval Date: January 5, 2018.
OMB Expiration Date: January 31, 2021.
Title: Part 63, Application and Supplemental Information
Requirements; Technology Transitions et al., GN Docket No. 13-5 et al.
Form Number: N/A.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 60 respondents; 60 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 6 hours.
Frequency of Response: One-time reporting requirement and third-
party disclosure requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in
47 U.S.C. 214 and 402 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 360 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting that the respondents submit confidential information to the
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for
information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of the
Commission's rules.
Privacy Act: No impact(s).
Needs and Uses: The Commission is seeking Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval for a revision to a currently approved
collection. Section 214 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended,
requires that a carrier first obtain FCC authorization either to (1)
construct, operate, or engage in transmission over a line of
communications, or (2) discontinue, reduce or impair service over a
line of communications. Part 63 of title 47 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) implements Section 214. Part 63 also implements
provisions of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 pertaining to
video which was approved under this OMB Control Number 3060-0149. In
2009, the Commission modified Part 63 to extend to providers of
interconnected Voice of internet Protocol (VoIP) service the
discontinuance obligations that apply to domestic non-dominant
telecommunications carriers under Section 214 of the Communications Act
of 1934, as amended. In 2014, the Commission adopted improved
administrative filing procedures for domestic transfers of control,
domestic discontinuances and notices of network changes, and among
other adjustments, modified Part 63 to require electronic filing for
applications for authorization
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to discontinue, reduce, or impair service under section 214(a) of the
Act. In July 2016, the Commission revised certain section 214(a)
discontinuance procedures. To reduce burdens on carriers, the
Commission revised its rules to: (1) Allow carriers to provide notice
via email or other alternative methods to offer additional options to
customers, and (2) provide for streamlined treatment of applications to
discontinue services for which the carrier has had no existing
customers or reasonable requests for service during the previous 180
days. It also addressed a gap in the Commission's rules by making a
competitive LEC's application for discontinuance deemed granted on the
effective date of any copper retirement that made the discontinuance
unavoidable. The Commission further concluded that applicants must
provide notice of discontinuance applications to federally-recognized
Tribal Nations. The Commission estimates that there will be only
minimal impact on the annual burden hours associated with
discontinuance applications as a result of these revisions.
Specifically, the Commission estimates that carriers will need no more
than one additional hour per application for purposes of determining
which, if any, Tribal Nations are located in the service areas to be
affected by the planned discontinuance and providing such notice. The
estimated number of respondents, responses, and burden hours associated
with this collection differ from those set forth in the 60-day notice
published on October 28, 2016 (81 FR 75054), which covered additional
section 214(a) discontinuance rules adopted in 2016 that will now be
addressed separately. As a result, the burden hours herein are
substantially reduced from those contained in the 60-day notice.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-00760 Filed 1-17-18; 8:45 am]
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