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4. On page 17043, in the collection of
information section, ‘‘We invite public
comments on these information
collection requirements. If you wish to
comment, please submit your comments
electronically as specified in the
ADDRESSES section of this final rule and
identify the rule (CMS–9930–F), the
ICR’s CFR citation, CMS ID number, and
OMB control number.’’ is corrected to
read,
‘‘We invite public comments on these
information collection requirements. If
you wish to comment, please identify
the rule (CMS–9930–F) the ICR’s CFR
citation, CMS ID number, and OMB
control number. Comments and
recommendations must be received by
the OMB desk officer via one of the
following transmissions: OMB, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs;
Attention: CMS Desk Officer; Fax: (202)
395–5806 OR Email: OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov.
To obtain copies of a supporting
statement and any related forms for the
collection(s) summarized in this rule,
you may make your request using one
of following:
1. Access CMS’ website address at
website address at https://www.cms.gov/
Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/
PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRAListing.html.
2. Email your request, including your
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and CMS document identifier, to
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3. Call the Reports Clearance Office at
(410) 786–1326.’’
Dated: May 7, 2018.
Ann C. Agnew,
Executive Secretary to the Department,
Department of Health and Human Services.
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Restoring Internet Freedom
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Final rule; announcement of
effective date.
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AGENCY:
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 Restoring Internet
Freedom Declaratory Ruling, Report and
SUMMARY:
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Order, and Order (Order)’s transparency
rule. This document is consistent with
the Order, which stated that the
Commission would publish a notice in
the Federal Register announcing the
effective date of the refinements to the
transparency rule, the delayed
amendatory instructions revising the
Commission’s rules consistent with the
Order, and the Order, which among
other things restore the classification of
broadband internet access service as an
information service, reinstate the private
mobile service classification of mobile
broadband internet access service, and
eliminate the conduct rules imposed by
the Title II Order.
DATES: The Order and amendments to
47 CFR 1.49, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.5, 8.7, 8.9,
8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 8.14, 8.15, 8.16, 8.17,
8.18, 8.19, and 20.3, published at 83 FR
7852, February 22, 2018, are effective
June 11, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ramesh Nagarajan, Competition Policy
Division, Wireline Competition Bureau,
at (202) 418–2582, or
Ramesh.Nagarajan@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
document announces that, on May 2,
2018, OMB approved, for a period of
three years, the information collection
requirements relating to the
transparency rule contained in the
Commission’s Order, FCC 17–166,
published at 83 FR 7852, February 22,
2018. The OMB Control Number is
3060–1158. The Commission publishes
this document as an announcement of
the effective date of the refinements to
the transparency rule, the delayed
amendatory instructions (amendatory
instructions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8 published
at 83 FR 7852, February 22, 2018), and
the Order, which among other things
restore the classification of broadband
internet access service as an information
service, reinstate the private mobile
service classification of mobile
broadband internet access service, and
eliminate the conduct rules imposed by
the Title II Order. 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
email PRA@fcc.gov or contact Nicole
Ongele, Federal Communications
Commission, at Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov
or (202) 418–2991. Please include the
OMB Control Number, 3060–1158, in
your correspondence.
To request materials in accessible
formats for people with disabilities
(Braille, large print, electronic files,
audio format), send an email to fcc504@
fcc.gov or call the Consumer and
Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202)
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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 May 2,
2018, for the information collection
requirements contained in the
modifications to the Commission’s rules
in 47 CFR part 8. 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
3060–1158.
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: 3060–1158.
OMB Approval Date: May 2, 2018.
OMB Expiration Date: May 31, 2021.
Title: Transparency Rule Disclosures,
Restoring Internet Freedom, Report and
Order, WC Docket No. 17–108, FCC 17–
166.
Form Number: N/A.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities, Not-for-profit entities,
State, local, or Tribal governments.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 1,919 respondents; 1,919
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 26
hours.
Frequency of Response: On-occasion
reporting requirement; Third-party
disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. The statutory
authority for this information collection
is contained in Section 257 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as
amended, 47 U.S.C. 257.
Total Annual Burden: 49,894 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $560,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
There is no need for confidentiality with
this information collection.
Needs and Uses: The Order revises
the information collection requirements
applicable to internet service providers
(ISPs). The Order requires an ISP to
publicly disclose network management
practices, performance characteristics,
and commercial terms of its broadband
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internet access service sufficient to
enable consumers to make informed
choices regarding the purchase and use
of such services, and entrepreneurs and
other small businesses to develop,
market, and maintain internet offerings.
As part of these disclosures, the rule
requires ISPs to disclose their
congestion management, applicationspecific behavior, device attachment
rules, and security practices, as well as
any blocking, throttling, affiliated
prioritization, or paid prioritization in
which they engage. Specifically, the rule
requires ISPs to disclose:
• Blocking. Any practice (other than
reasonable network management
elsewhere disclosed) that blocks or
otherwise prevents end user access to
lawful content, applications, service, or
non-harmful devices, including a
description of what is blocked.
• Throttling. Any practice (other than
reasonable network management
elsewhere disclosed) that degrades or
impairs access to lawful internet traffic
on the basis of content, application,
service, user, or use of a non-harmful
device, including a description of what
is throttled.
• Affiliated Prioritization. Any
practice that directly or indirectly favors
some traffic over other traffic, including
through use of techniques such as traffic
shaping, prioritization, or resource
reservation, to benefit an affiliate,
including identification of the affiliate.
• Paid Prioritization. Any practice
that directly or indirectly favors some
traffic over other traffic, including
through use of techniques such as traffic
shaping, prioritization, or resource
reservation, in exchange for
consideration, monetary or otherwise.
• Congestion Management.
Descriptions of congestion management
practices, if any. These descriptions
should include the types of traffic
subject to the practices; the purposes
served by the practices; the practices’
effects on end users’ experience; criteria
used in practices, such as indicators of
congestion that trigger a practice,
including any usage limits triggering the
practice, and the typical frequency of
congestion; usage limits and the
consequences of exceeding them; and
references to engineering standards,
where appropriate.
• Application-Specific Behavior.
Whether and why the ISP blocks or ratecontrols specific protocols or protocol
ports, modifies protocol fields in ways
not prescribed by the protocol standard,
or otherwise inhibits or favors certain
applications or classes of applications.
• Device Attachment Rules. Any
restrictions on the types of devices and
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any approval procedures for devices to
connect to the network.
• Security. Any practices used to
ensure end-user security or security of
the network, including types of
triggering conditions that cause a
mechanism to be invoked (but
excluding information that could
reasonably be used to circumvent
network security).
The rule also requires ISPs to disclose
performance characteristics, including a
service description and the impact of
non-broadband internet access services
data services. Specifically, the rule
requires ISPs to disclose a general
description of the service—including
the service technology, expected and
actual access speed and latency, and the
suitability of the service for real-time
applications—as well as what nonbroadband internet access service data
services, if any, are offered to end users,
and whether and how any nonbroadband internet access service data
services may affect the last-mile
capacity available for, and the
performance of, broadband internet
access service.
Finally, the rule requires ISPs to
disclose commercial terms of service,
including price of the service, privacy
policies, and redress options.
Specifically, the rule requires disclosure
of, for example, monthly prices, usagebased fees, and fees for early
termination or additional network
services; a complete and accurate
disclosure about the ISP’s privacy
practices, if any, including whether any
network management practices entail
inspection of network traffic, and
whether traffic is stored, provided to
third parties, or used by the ISP for nonnetwork management purposes; and
practices for resolving complaints and
questions from consumers,
entrepreneurs, and other small
businesses. The rule requires ISPs to
make such disclosures either via a
publicly available, easily accessible
website or through transmittal to the
Commission, which will make such
disclosures available via a publicly
available, easily accessible website.
The Order eliminates the additional
reporting obligations adopted in the
Title II Order and the related guidance
in the 2016 Advisory Guidance and
returns to the requirements established
in the Open internet Order. In addition,
the Order eliminates the direct
notification requirement adopted in the
Title II Order.
The Commission anticipates that the
revised disclosures will empower
consumers and businesses with
information about their broadband
internet access service, protecting the
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openness of the internet. The
information collection will assist the
Commission in its statutory obligation
to report to Congress on market entry
barriers in the telecommunications
market.
Federal Communications Commission.
Katura Jackson,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the
Secretary.
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We, the U.S. Fish and
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(Kuenzler hedgehog cactus) from
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threats to this plant have been reduced
to the point that it no longer meets the
definition of endangered under the Act,
but that it is likely to become an
endangered species within the
foreseeable future.
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2018.
ADDRESSES: This final rule, as well as
comments and materials received in
response to the proposed rule, are
available on the internet at https://
www.regulations.gov at Docket No.
FWS–R2–ES–2016–0137. Comments
and materials we received, as well as
supporting documentation used in
preparation of this rule, are available for
public inspection at https://
www.regulations.gov and by
appointment, during normal business
hours, at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
New Mexico Ecological Services Field
Office (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT).
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Parts 1, 8, and 20
[WC Docket No. 17-108, FCC 17-166]
Restoring Internet Freedom
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 Restoring
Internet Freedom Declaratory Ruling, Report and Order, and Order
(Order)'s transparency rule. This document is consistent with the
Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a notice in the
Federal Register announcing the effective date of the refinements to
the transparency rule, the delayed amendatory instructions revising the
Commission's rules consistent with the Order, and the Order, which
among other things restore the classification of broadband internet
access service as an information service, reinstate the private mobile
service classification of mobile broadband internet access service, and
eliminate the conduct rules imposed by the Title II Order.
DATES: The Order and amendments to 47 CFR 1.49, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.5,
8.7, 8.9, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 8.14, 8.15, 8.16, 8.17, 8.18, 8.19, and
20.3, published at 83 FR 7852, February 22, 2018, are effective June
11, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ramesh Nagarajan, Competition Policy
Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, at (202) 418-2582, or
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document announces that, on May 2,
2018, OMB approved, for a period of three years, the information
collection requirements relating to the transparency rule contained in
the Commission's Order, FCC 17-166, published at 83 FR 7852, February
22, 2018. The OMB Control Number is 3060-1158. The Commission publishes
this document as an announcement of the effective date of the
refinements to the transparency rule, the delayed amendatory
instructions (amendatory instructions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8 published at 83
FR 7852, February 22, 2018), and the Order, which among other things
restore the classification of broadband internet access service as an
information service, reinstate the private mobile service
classification of mobile broadband internet access service, and
eliminate the conduct rules imposed by the Title II Order. 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 email [email protected] or contact Nicole Ongele, Federal
Communications Commission, at [email protected] or (202) 418-2991.
Please include the OMB Control Number, 3060-1158, in your
correspondence.
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 May 2, 2018, for the information collection requirements
contained in the modifications to the Commission's rules in 47 CFR part
8. 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 3060-1158.
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: 3060-1158.
OMB Approval Date: May 2, 2018.
OMB Expiration Date: May 31, 2021.
Title: Transparency Rule Disclosures, Restoring Internet Freedom,
Report and Order, WC Docket No. 17-108, FCC 17-166.
Form Number: N/A.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, Not-for-profit
entities, State, local, or Tribal governments.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,919 respondents; 1,919
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 26 hours.
Frequency of Response: On-occasion reporting requirement; Third-
party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The
statutory authority for this information collection is contained in
Section 257 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.
257.
Total Annual Burden: 49,894 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $560,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for
confidentiality with this information collection.
Needs and Uses: The Order revises the information collection
requirements applicable to internet service providers (ISPs). The Order
requires an ISP to publicly disclose network management practices,
performance characteristics, and commercial terms of its broadband
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internet access service sufficient to enable consumers to make informed
choices regarding the purchase and use of such services, and
entrepreneurs and other small businesses to develop, market, and
maintain internet offerings. As part of these disclosures, the rule
requires ISPs to disclose their congestion management, application-
specific behavior, device attachment rules, and security practices, as
well as any blocking, throttling, affiliated prioritization, or paid
prioritization in which they engage. Specifically, the rule requires
ISPs to disclose:
Blocking. Any practice (other than reasonable network
management elsewhere disclosed) that blocks or otherwise prevents end
user access to lawful content, applications, service, or non-harmful
devices, including a description of what is blocked.
Throttling. Any practice (other than reasonable network
management elsewhere disclosed) that degrades or impairs access to
lawful internet traffic on the basis of content, application, service,
user, or use of a non-harmful device, including a description of what
is throttled.
Affiliated Prioritization. Any practice that directly or
indirectly favors some traffic over other traffic, including through
use of techniques such as traffic shaping, prioritization, or resource
reservation, to benefit an affiliate, including identification of the
affiliate.
Paid Prioritization. Any practice that directly or
indirectly favors some traffic over other traffic, including through
use of techniques such as traffic shaping, prioritization, or resource
reservation, in exchange for consideration, monetary or otherwise.
Congestion Management. Descriptions of congestion
management practices, if any. These descriptions should include the
types of traffic subject to the practices; the purposes served by the
practices; the practices' effects on end users' experience; criteria
used in practices, such as indicators of congestion that trigger a
practice, including any usage limits triggering the practice, and the
typical frequency of congestion; usage limits and the consequences of
exceeding them; and references to engineering standards, where
appropriate.
Application-Specific Behavior. Whether and why the ISP
blocks or rate-controls specific protocols or protocol ports, modifies
protocol fields in ways not prescribed by the protocol standard, or
otherwise inhibits or favors certain applications or classes of
applications.
Device Attachment Rules. Any restrictions on the types of
devices and any approval procedures for devices to connect to the
network.
Security. Any practices used to ensure end-user security
or security of the network, including types of triggering conditions
that cause a mechanism to be invoked (but excluding information that
could reasonably be used to circumvent network security).
The rule also requires ISPs to disclose performance
characteristics, including a service description and the impact of non-
broadband internet access services data services. Specifically, the
rule requires ISPs to disclose a general description of the service--
including the service technology, expected and actual access speed and
latency, and the suitability of the service for real-time
applications--as well as what non-broadband internet access service
data services, if any, are offered to end users, and whether and how
any non-broadband internet access service data services may affect the
last-mile capacity available for, and the performance of, broadband
internet access service.
Finally, the rule requires ISPs to disclose commercial terms of
service, including price of the service, privacy policies, and redress
options. Specifically, the rule requires disclosure of, for example,
monthly prices, usage-based fees, and fees for early termination or
additional network services; a complete and accurate disclosure about
the ISP's privacy practices, if any, including whether any network
management practices entail inspection of network traffic, and whether
traffic is stored, provided to third parties, or used by the ISP for
non-network management purposes; and practices for resolving complaints
and questions from consumers, entrepreneurs, and other small
businesses. The rule requires ISPs to make such disclosures either via
a publicly available, easily accessible website or through transmittal
to the Commission, which will make such disclosures available via a
publicly available, easily accessible website.
The Order eliminates the additional reporting obligations adopted
in the Title II Order and the related guidance in the 2016 Advisory
Guidance and returns to the requirements established in the Open
internet Order. In addition, the Order eliminates the direct
notification requirement adopted in the Title II Order.
The Commission anticipates that the revised disclosures will
empower consumers and businesses with information about their broadband
internet access service, protecting the openness of the internet. The
information collection will assist the Commission in its statutory
obligation to report to Congress on market entry barriers in the
telecommunications market.
Federal Communications Commission.
Katura Jackson,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the Secretary.
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