Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget, 2499-2502 [2019-01499]

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• FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 26 (Thursday, February 7, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2499-2502]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-01499]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-XXXX, OMB 3060-0422, OMB 3060-0700, OMB 3060-0718, OMB 3060-
0937, OMB 3060-0984, OMB 3060-1042]


Information Collections 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 March 11, 
2019. 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 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

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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.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-XXXX.
    Title: Broadcast Incubator Program.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: New information collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; not-for-profit 
institutions; Tribal Governments.
    Number of Respondents: 20 respondents; 123 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 4 to 16 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement; annual 
reporting requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for these collections are contained in 47 U.S.C. 
151, 152(a), 154(i), 257, 303, 307-310, and 403.
    Total Annual Burden: 1,179 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $326,700.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The need for confidentiality 
for this collection of information is not anticipated; however, when 
submitting an incubation proposal (including the underlying contract 
and certified statements), applicants may, upon request, redact 
confidential or proprietary terms.
    Needs and Uses: On August 3, 2018, the Commission released a Report 
and Order (Order), Rules and Policies to Promote New Entry and 
Ownership Diversity in the Broadcasting Services, FCC 18-114, in MB 
Docket No. 17-289, establishing the requirements that will govern the 
incubator program that the Commission previously decided to adopt to 
support the entry of new and diverse voices into the radio broadcast 
industry. The Commission recognized the need for more innovative 
approaches to encourage access to capital, as well as technical, 
operational, and management training for use by new entrants and small 
businesses, that without assistance, would not be able to own broadcast 
stations. The incubator program is designed for small businesses, 
struggling station owners, and new entrants that do not have any other 
means to access the financial assistance and operational support 
necessary for success in the broadcast industry. The goal is the 
pairing of these small aspiring, or struggling, broadcast station 
owners with established broadcasters. These incubation relationships 
will provide new entrants and struggling small broadcasters access to 
the financing, mentoring, and industry connections that are necessary 
for success in the industry, but to date have been unavailable to many. 
In return for successfully incubating a small aspiring, or struggling, 
broadcast station owner as part of the incubator program, an incumbent 
broadcaster will be eligible to receive a waiver of the Commission's 
Local Radio Ownership Rule following the conclusion of a successful 
qualifying incubation relationship. Commission staff will use the 
initial incubator applications, certification statements, contracts, 
and any responses to Commission requests for additional information to 
determine qualifications for participation in the incubator program. 
Commission staff will use the periodic reports to determine whether 
ongoing incubation relationships are proceeding in a manner consistent 
with the parties' initial filings and are likely to result in a 
successful incubation relationship. In the event the parties seek to 
extend the duration of their incubation relationship, the filing of a 
request for such an extension will enable Commission staff to gauge the 
types of problems incubating parties are experiencing. Information 
provided by the parties to the Commission no later than six months 
before the contract termination date will allow Commission staff to 
evaluate which option for station ownership the incubating parties plan 
to pursue at the conclusion of the relationship. Additionally, 
Commission staff will review documentation submitted to seek a reward 
waiver to assess whether the market where the reward waiver is sought 
is a comparable market to where the incubated station was located.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0422.
    Title: Section 68.5, Waivers (Application for Waivers of Hearing 
Aid Compatibility Requirements).
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 2 respondents; 2 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 3 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. 610.
    Total Annual Burden: 6 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: None.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: An assurance of 
confidentiality is not offered because this information collection does 
not require the collection of personally identifiable information from 
individuals.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: Telephone manufacturers seeking a waiver of 47 CFR 
68.4(a)(1), which requires that certain telephones be hearing aid 
compatible, must demonstrate that compliance with the rule is 
technologically infeasible or too costly. Information is used by FCC 
staff to determine whether to grant or dismiss the request. Prior to 
(and after) the adoption of FCC 17-135, manufacturers could request 
waivers for wireline telephones connected to the public switched 
telephone network. Pursuant to FCC 17-135, waivers may also be 
requested for wireline advanced communications services telephonic 
customer premises equipment (ACS telephonic CPE), which includes 
wireline telephones used for Voice over internet Protocol (VoIP).

    OMB Control: 3060-0700.
    Title: Open Video Systems Provisions, FCC Form 1275.
    Form Number: FCC Form 1275.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; and State, 
Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 280 respondents; 4,672 
respondents.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement; Third party 
disclosure requirement; On occasion reporting requirement.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.25 to 20 hours.
    Total Annual Burden: 9,855 hours.
    Total Annual Costs: None.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory

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authority for this collection is contained in Section 302 of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for 
confidentiality with this collection of information.
    Needs and Uses: Section 302 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act 
provides for specific entry options for telephone companies wishing to 
enter the video programming marketplace, one option being to provide 
cable service over an ``open video system'' (``OVS''). The rule 
sections that are covered by this collection relate to OVS.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0718.
    Title: Part 101 Rule Sections Governing the Terrestrial Microwave 
Fixed Radio Service.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit 
institutions, and state, local, or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 9,500 respondents; 32,446 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .25-2.85 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and every 10 year reporting 
requirements, third party disclosure requirement, and recordkeeping 
requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits or 
retain benefits. Statutory authority for this information collection is 
contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 301, 303(f), 303(g), 303(r), 307, 
308, 309, 310, and 316.
    Total Annual Burden: 38,290 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $2,564,650.
    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 Commission will submit this information 
collection to the Office of Management and Budget for a three-year 
approval of OMB Control Number 3060-0718. Part 101 rule sections 
require respondents to report or disclose information to the Commission 
or third parties, respectively, and to maintain records. These 
requirements are necessary for the Commission staff to carry out its 
duties to determine technical, legal and other qualifications of 
applicants to operate and remain licensed to operate a station(s) in 
the common carrier and/or private fixed microwave services. In 
addition, the information is used to determine whether the public 
interest, convenience, and necessity are being served as required by 47 
U.S.C. 309 and to ensure that applicants and licenses comply with 
ownership and transfer restrictions imposed by 47 US.C. 310. Without 
this information, the Commission would not be able to carry out its 
statutory responsibilities.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0937.
    Title: Establishment of a Class A Television Service, MM Docket No. 
00-10.
    Form Number: Not applicable.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement; Third party 
disclosure requirement; On occasion and quarterly reporting 
requirements.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 380 respondents; 9,850 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.017 hours-52 hours.
    Obligation To Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in 
Sections 154(i), 307, 308, 309 and 319 of the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 172,087 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $1,851,000.
    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: On November 29, 1999, the Community Broadcasters 
Protection Act of 1999 (CBPA), Public Law 106-113, 113 Stat. Appendix I 
at pp. 1501A-594-1501A-598 (1999), codified at 47 U.S.C. 336(f), was 
enacted. That legislation provided that a low power television (LPTV) 
licensee should be permitted to convert the secondary status of its 
station to the new Class A status, provided it can satisfy certain 
statutorily-established criteria by January 28, 2000. The CBPA directs 
that Class A licensees be subject to the same license terms and renewal 
standards as full-power television licenses and that Class A licensees 
be accorded primary status as television broadcasters as long as they 
continue to meet the requirements set forth in the statute for a 
qualifying low power station.
    For those stations that met the certification deadline, the CBPA 
sets out certain certification procedures, prescribes the criteria to 
maintain a Class A license, and outlines the interference protection 
Class A stations must provide to analog, digital, LPTV and TV 
translator stations.
    The CBPA directs that Class A stations must comply with the 
operating requirements for full-service television broadcast stations 
in order to maintain Class A status. Therefore, beginning on the date 
of its application for a Class A license and thereafter, a station must 
be ``in compliance'' with the Commission's operating rules for full-
service television stations, contained in 47 CFR part 73.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0984.
    Title: 90.175(b)(1), Frequency Coordinator Requirements, 
Industrial/Business Pool frequencies.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, and State, 
local, or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 2,700 respondents; 2,700 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
    Frequency of Response: One-time reporting requirement, and third 
party disclosure requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in 
Sections 4(i), 11, 303(g), 303(r), and 332(c)(7) of the Communications 
Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 161, 301, 302(a), 303(g), 
303(r), 309, 332(c)(7), 336 and 337.
    Total Annual Burden: 2,700 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: Section 90.175 requires third party disclosures by 
applicants proposing to operate a land mobile radio station. If they 
are requesting a frequency that formerly was coordinated exclusively by 
one industry-specific frequency coordinator, they are required to 
obtain written concurrence of that frequency coordinator.
    On August 18, 2016, the Commission adopted a Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking, FCC 16-110, in WP Docket No. 16-261, RM-11719 and RM-11722 
(2016 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking), which proposed to amend Part 90 
of the Commission's Rules to expand access to private land mobile radio 
(PLMR) spectrum. Among the many actions taken in the 2016 Spectrum 
Access NPRM, the Commission proposed to make certain frequencies that 
are designated for central station alarm operations available for other 
PLMR uses.
    Specifically, the Commission proposed to modify section 
95.35(c)(63) to remove the use limitation in the

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urbanized areas where the frequencies designated for alarm use in urban 
areas are not in use. The Commission tentatively concluded that it 
would be in the public interest to make these frequencies available for 
other PLMR operations in those areas and sought comment on this 
proposal, including its costs and benefits. The Commission also sought 
comment on other ways to expand PLMR users' access to frequencies that 
are designated, but no longer needed, for central station commercial 
protection services, including by making available channels in 
urbanized areas where some of the urban frequencies are in use, 
including: Related costs and benefits associated with such proposals; 
current and expected future need for central station commercial 
protection service channels in the 460-470 MHz band; and how to protect 
incumbent central station commercial protection service operations from 
harmful interference if eliminating the use restriction on any 
frequency in any area where it currently is in use.
    On October 22, 2018, the Commission issued a Report and Order and 
Order, FCC 18-143, in WP Docket No. 15-32, RM-11572, WP Docket No. 16-
261, RM-11719 and RM-11722 (800/PLMR Access Order), in which it revised 
certain rules to require applicants for channels currently designated 
for central station alarm use to obtain the concurrence of the central 
station alarm frequency coordinator in order to use the channels for 
uses other than central station alarm operations. This requirement is 
similar to existing requirements pertaining to certain other channels. 
The Report and Order and Order did not revise any of the information 
collection requirements that are contained in this collection but 
rather added additional frequencies to the list. Therefore, this 
essentially is adding an additional 200 respondents to this collection.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1042.
    Title: Request for Technical Support--Help Request Form.
    Form No.: N/A--Electronic only.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Individuals or household; business or other for-
profit; not-for-profit institutions; and state, local or tribal 
government.
    Number of Respondents: 36,300.
    Estimated Time per Response: 8 minutes (0.13 hours).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and 
recordkeeping requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Total Annual Burden: 5,082 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $609,840.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: Possible Impacts.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: In general there is no need 
for confidentiality. On a case by case basis, the Commission may be 
required to withhold from disclosure certain information about the 
location, character, or ownership of a historic property, including 
traditional religious sites.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this collection as 
revision to the currently approved collection. The Commission is 
slightly revising the electronic form to include five additional data 
elements, FCC Registration Number, Call Sign, Antenna Registration 
Number, Facility ID and File Number. Today customers are asked to 
include this information as part of their narrative description and 
often neglect to include all the necessary information to process their 
request. This results in customer services representatives needing to 
contact the customers to obtain the additional details, which slows 
down case resolution. We do not anticipate these changes will impact 
the customer burden, since they will only need to include the 
information applicable to their request, and it was previous requested 
as part of the description field. There will be no change to the 
estimated average burden (hours and costs) or the number of 
respondents.
    The FCC's maintains internet software used by the public to apply 
for licenses, participate in auctions for spectrum, and maintain 
license information. In this mission, FCC has a `help desk' that 
answers questions related to these systems as well as resetting and/or 
issuing user passwords for access to these systems.
    The form currently is available on the website https://esupport.fcc.gov/request.htm under OMB Control Number 3060-1042. This 
form will continue to substantially decrease public and staff burden 
since all the information needed to facilitate a support request will 
be submitted in a standard format but be available to a wider audience. 
This eliminates or at least minimizes the need to follow-up with the 
customers to obtain all the information necessary to respond to their 
request. This form also helps presort requests into previously defined 
categories to all staff to respond more quickly.

Federal Communications Commission.
Katura Jackson,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the Secretary.
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