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when you arrive. If you need assistance
for accessibility reasons, or if you have
any questions, contact Dale L. Aultman,
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A. Approval of Minutes
• January 18, 2018 (Regular Meeting)
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• FCSIC Financial Reports
• Report on Insured and Other
Obligations
• Quarterly Report on Annual
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C. New Business
• Report on Investment Portfolio
• Policy Statement Concerning Sale of
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(Audit Committee Meeting)
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Dated: February 27, 2018.
Dale L. Aultman,
Secretary, Farm Credit System Insurance
Corporation Board.
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Authority
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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
Communications Commission (FCC or
the Commission) invites the general
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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 FCC may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid 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 Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
control number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should
be submitted on or before May 1, 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 contact listed below as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to
Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@
fcc.gov and to Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information about the
information collection, contact Nicole
Ongele at (202) 418–2991.
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
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
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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: 3060–0910.
Title: Third Report and Order in CC
Docket No. 94–102 to Ensure
Compatibility with Enhanced 911
Emergency Calling Systems.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 967 respondents; 967
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory.
Statutory authority for this collection of
information is contained in 47 U.S.C.
Sections 1, 4(i), 201, 303, 309 and 332
of the Communications Act of 1934, as
amended.
Total Annual Burden: 967 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No Cost.
Privacy Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
There is no need for confidentiality with
this collection of information.
Needs and Uses: The information
submitted to the Commission will
provide public service answering points
(PSAPs), providers of location
technology, investors, manufacturers,
local exchange carriers, and the
Commission with valuable information
necessary for full Phase II E911 service
implementation. These reports will
provide helpful, if not essential
information for coordinating carrier
plans with those of manufacturers and
PSAPs. The reports will also assist the
Commission’s efforts to monitor Phase II
developments and to take action, if
necessary, to maintain the Phase II
implementation schedule.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
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AGENCY:
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Notice and request for
comments.
ACTION:
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.
DATES: Written PRA comments should
be submitted on or before May 1, 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 contact listed below as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to
Cathy Williams, FCC, via email PRA@
fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information about the
information collection, contact Cathy
Williams at (202) 418–2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No.: 3060–0999.
Title: Hearing Aid Compatibility
Status Report and Section 20.19,
Hearing Aid-Compatible Mobile
Handsets (Hearing Aid Compatibility
Act).
Form Number: FCC Form 655.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities.
Number of Respondents: 934
respondents; 934 responses.
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Estimated Time per Response: 13
hours per response (average).
Frequency of Response: On occasion
and annual reporting requirements and
third party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for this information collection
is contained in 47 U.S.C. Sections 151,
154(i), 157, 160, 201, 202, 208, 214, 301,
303, 308, 309(j), 310 and 610 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as
amended.
Total Annual Burden: 12,140 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No costs.
Privacy Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
Information requested in the reports
may include confidential information.
However, covered entities are allowed
to request that such materials submitted
to the Commission be withheld from
public inspection.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
will submit this information collection
as a revision to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) after
this 60-day comment period to obtain
the full three-year clearance for the
collection. The revision is necessary to
implement the final rules promulgated
in the 2015 Fourth Report and Order,
FCC 15–155 (Fourth Report and Order),
which expanded the scope of the rules
due to a shift from Commercial Mobile
Radio Services (CMRS) to digital mobile
service. We estimate that there will be
a small increase in the number of
respondents/responses, total annual
burden hours, and total annual cost
from the previously approved estimates.
The collection is necessary to
implement certain disclosure
requirements that are part of the
Commission’s wireless hearing aid
compatibility rule. In a Report and
Order in WT Docket No. 01–309, FCC
03–168, adopted and released in
September 2003, implementing a
mandate under the Hearing Aid
Compatibility Act of 1988, the
Commission required digital wireless
phone manufacturers and service
providers to make certain digital
wireless phones capable of effective use
with hearing aids, label certain phones
they sold with information about their
compatibility with hearing aids, and
report to the Commission (at first every
six months, then on an annual basis) on
the numbers and types of hearing aidcompatible phones they were producing
or offering to the public. These reporting
requirements were subsequently
amended on several occasions, and the
existing, OMB-approved collection
under this OMB control number
includes these modifications.
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On November 19, 2015, the
Commission adopted final rules in a
Fourth Report and Order, FCC 15–155
(Fourth Report and Order), that, among
other changes, expanded the scope of
the Commission’s hearing aid
compatibility provisions to cover
handsets used with any digital
terrestrial mobile service that enables
two-way real-time voice
communications among members of the
public or a substantial portion of the
public, including through the use of preinstalled software applications. Prior to
2018, the hearing aid compatibility
provisions were limited only to
handsets used with two-way switched
voice or data services classified as
Commercial Mobile Radio Service, and
only to the extent they were provided
over networks meeting certain
architectural requirements that enable
frequency reuse and seamless handoff.
As a result of the Fourth Report and
Order, beginning January 1, 2018, all
device manufacturers and Tier I carriers
that offer handsets falling under the
expanded scope of covered handsets are
required to comply with the
Commission’s hearing aid compatibility
provisions, including annual reporting
requirements on FCC Form 655. For
other service providers that are not Tier
I carriers, the expanded scope of the
Commission’s hearing aid compatibility
provisions applies beginning April 1,
2018.
Following release of the Fourth
Report and Order, the Commission is
required to amend the FCC Form 655 to
reflect the newly expanded scope of
handsets covered by the hearing aid
compatibility provisions, as well as to
capture information regarding existing
disclosure requirements clarified by the
Commission in the Fourth Report and
Order. As a consequence of the Fourth
Report and Order, FCC Form 655 filing
and other requirements will apply to
those newly-covered handsets offered
by device manufacturers and service
providers that have already been
reporting annually on their compliance
with the Commission’s hearing aid
compatibility provisions, as well to any
device manufacturers and service
providers that were previously exempt
because they did not offer any covered
handsets or services prior to 2018.
As a result, the Commission is
requesting a revision of this collection
in order to implement the final rules
promulgated in the Fourth Report and
Order, which expanded the scope of the
rules due to a shift from Commercial
Mobile Radio Services (CMRS) to digital
mobile service. We estimate that the
expanded scope will increase the
potential number of respondents subject
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to this collection and correspondingly
increase the responses and burden
hours. The minor language changes to
the instructions to FCC Form 655 and to
the form itself clarifying this expanded
scope will help the Commission
compile data and monitor compliance
with the current version of the hearing
aid compatibility rules while making
more complete and accessible
information available to consumers.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
[OMB 3060–0182]
Information Collection Being Reviewed
by the Federal Communications
Commission Under Delegated
Authority
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
SUMMARY:
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February 21, 2018.
The following item has been deleted
from the list of items scheduled for
consideration at the Thursday, February
22, 2018, Open Meeting and previously
listed in the Commission’s Notice of
February 15, 2018.
Media ........................................................
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Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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Title: Amendment of Parts 74, 76 and 78 of the Commission’s Rules Regarding
Maintenance of Copies of FCC Rules (MB Docket No. 17–231); Modernization
of Media Regulation Initiative (MB Docket No. 17–105).
Summary: The Commission will consider a Report and Order that would eliminate
specific Part 74, 76, and 78 rules that require certain broadcast and cable entities to maintain paper copies of Commission rules, while retaining provisions
that require the subject entities to be familiar with the rules governing their operations.
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.
DATES: Written PRA comments should
be submitted on or before May 1, 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 contact listed below as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to
Cathy Williams, FCC, via email PRA@
fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information about the
information collection, contact Cathy
Williams at (202) 418–2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0182.
Title: Section 73.1620, Program Tests.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Businesses or other forprofit, Not-for-profit institutions.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 1,470 respondents; 1,470
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1–5
hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement; Third party
disclosure.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. The statutory
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authority for this collection is contained
in Section 154(i) of the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 1,521 hours.
Total Annual Cost: None.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
There is no need for confidentiality with
this collection.
Needs and Uses: The information
collection requirements for this
collection are as follows:
47 CFR 73.1620(a)(1) require
permittees of a nondirectional AM or
FM station, or a nondirectional or
directional TV station to notify the FCC
upon beginning of program tests. An
application for license must be filed
within 10 days of this notification.
47 CFR 73.1620(a)(2) require a
permittee of an AM or FM station with
a directional antenna to file a request for
program test authority 10 days prior to
date on which it desires to begin
program tests. This is filed in
conjunction with an application for
license.
47 CFR 73.1620(a)(3) require a
licensee of an FM station replacing a
directional antenna without changes to
file a modification of the license
application within 10 days after
commencing operations with the
replacement antenna.
47 CFR 73.1620(a)(4) requires a
permittee of an AM station with a
directional antenna to file a request for
program test authority 10 days prior to
the date on which it desires to begin
program test.
47 CFR 73.1620(a)(5) requires that,
except for permits subject to successive
license terms, a permittee of an LPFM
station may begin program tests upon
notification to the FCC in Washington,
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-0999]
Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal
Communications Commission
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
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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 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.
DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before May 1,
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 contact listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Cathy Williams, FCC, via email
[email protected] and to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the
information collection, contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418-2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No.: 3060-0999.
Title: Hearing Aid Compatibility Status Report and Section 20.19,
Hearing Aid-Compatible Mobile Handsets (Hearing Aid Compatibility Act).
Form Number: FCC Form 655.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 934 respondents; 934 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 13 hours per response (average).
Frequency of Response: On occasion and annual reporting
requirements and third party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. Sections 151, 154(i), 157, 160, 201, 202, 208, 214, 301, 303,
308, 309(j), 310 and 610 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 12,140 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No costs.
Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Information requested in the
reports may include confidential information. However, covered entities
are allowed to request that such materials submitted to the Commission
be withheld from public inspection.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this information
collection as a revision to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
after this 60-day comment period to obtain the full three-year
clearance for the collection. The revision is necessary to implement
the final rules promulgated in the 2015 Fourth Report and Order, FCC
15-155 (Fourth Report and Order), which expanded the scope of the rules
due to a shift from Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS) to digital
mobile service. We estimate that there will be a small increase in the
number of respondents/responses, total annual burden hours, and total
annual cost from the previously approved estimates.
The collection is necessary to implement certain disclosure
requirements that are part of the Commission's wireless hearing aid
compatibility rule. In a Report and Order in WT Docket No. 01-309, FCC
03-168, adopted and released in September 2003, implementing a mandate
under the Hearing Aid Compatibility Act of 1988, the Commission
required digital wireless phone manufacturers and service providers to
make certain digital wireless phones capable of effective use with
hearing aids, label certain phones they sold with information about
their compatibility with hearing aids, and report to the Commission (at
first every six months, then on an annual basis) on the numbers and
types of hearing aid-compatible phones they were producing or offering
to the public. These reporting requirements were subsequently amended
on several occasions, and the existing, OMB-approved collection under
this OMB control number includes these modifications.
On November 19, 2015, the Commission adopted final rules in a
Fourth Report and Order, FCC 15-155 (Fourth Report and Order), that,
among other changes, expanded the scope of the Commission's hearing aid
compatibility provisions to cover handsets used with any digital
terrestrial mobile service that enables two-way real-time voice
communications among members of the public or a substantial portion of
the public, including through the use of pre-installed software
applications. Prior to 2018, the hearing aid compatibility provisions
were limited only to handsets used with two-way switched voice or data
services classified as Commercial Mobile Radio Service, and only to the
extent they were provided over networks meeting certain architectural
requirements that enable frequency reuse and seamless handoff. As a
result of the Fourth Report and Order, beginning January 1, 2018, all
device manufacturers and Tier I carriers that offer handsets falling
under the expanded scope of covered handsets are required to comply
with the Commission's hearing aid compatibility provisions, including
annual reporting requirements on FCC Form 655. For other service
providers that are not Tier I carriers, the expanded scope of the
Commission's hearing aid compatibility provisions applies beginning
April 1, 2018.
Following release of the Fourth Report and Order, the Commission is
required to amend the FCC Form 655 to reflect the newly expanded scope
of handsets covered by the hearing aid compatibility provisions, as
well as to capture information regarding existing disclosure
requirements clarified by the Commission in the Fourth Report and
Order. As a consequence of the Fourth Report and Order, FCC Form 655
filing and other requirements will apply to those newly-covered
handsets offered by device manufacturers and service providers that
have already been reporting annually on their compliance with the
Commission's hearing aid compatibility provisions, as well to any
device manufacturers and service providers that were previously exempt
because they did not offer any covered handsets or services prior to
2018.
As a result, the Commission is requesting a revision of this
collection in order to implement the final rules promulgated in the
Fourth Report and Order, which expanded the scope of the rules due to a
shift from Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS) to digital mobile
service. We estimate that the expanded scope will increase the
potential number of respondents subject
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to this collection and correspondingly increase the responses and
burden hours. The minor language changes to the instructions to FCC
Form 655 and to the form itself clarifying this expanded scope will
help the Commission compile data and monitor compliance with the
current version of the hearing aid compatibility rules while making
more complete and accessible information available to consumers.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
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