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Title: Inmate Calling Services Annual
Reporting, Certification, and Consumer
Disclosure Requirements.
Form Number(s): FCC Form 2301(a)
and FCC Form 2301(b).
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently-approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for
profit.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 20 respondents; 20
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 5
hours–80 hours.
Frequency of Response: Annual
reporting and certification requirements;
third party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory.
Statutory authority for this information
collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 1,
4(i), 4(j), 201, 225, 276, and 303(r) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as
amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i)–(j), 201,
225, 276, and 303(r).
Total Annual Burden: 2,000 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
The Commission anticipates treating as
presumptively confidential any
particular information identified as
proprietary by providers of inmate
calling services (ICS).
Needs and Uses: Section 201 of the
Communications Act of 1934 Act, as
amended (Act), 47 U.S.C. 201, requires
that ICS providers’ interstate and
international rates and practices be just
and reasonable. Section 276 of the Act,
47 U.S.C. 276, requires that payphone
service providers (including ICS
providers) be fairly compensated for
completed calls.
In the Second Report and Order and
Third Further Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (Second Report and Order),
WC Docket No. 12–375, FCC 15–136,
the Commission undertook
comprehensive reform of the ICS rules.
The Commission, among other things,
established new rate caps for interstate
and intrastate ICS calls and limited and
capped ancillary service charges. To
enable the Commission to ensure
compliance with the rules adopted in
the Second Report and Order and
monitor the effectiveness of the ICS
reforms, the Commission required all
ICS providers to file annual reports
providing data and other information on
their ICS operations.
In particular, the Commission
required each ICS provider to file a
report annually specifying, for the prior
calendar year: Interstate, international,
and intrastate minutes of use by facility;
and the name, size, and type of facility
being served; fees for any ancillary
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services, the amount of these fees, and
the number of times each fee was
imposed; monthly site commission
payments; rates and minutes of use for
video calling services by facility, as well
as ancillary fee charges for such
services; the number of disabilityrelated calls, problems associated with
such calls, and ancillary fees charged in
connection with such calls; and the
number of complaints received related
to, for example, dropped calls and poor
call quality and the number of instances
of each by TTY and TRS users. The
annual reports ensure that the
Commission has access to the
information it needs to fulfill its
regulatory duties, while minimizing the
burden on ICS providers.
The Commission required that an ICS
provider certify annually the accuracy
of the data and other information
submitted in the provider’s annual
report and the provider’s compliance
with the Commission’s ICS rates.
Pursuant to the authority delegated to it
by the Commission in the Second
Report and Order, the Commission’s
Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau)
created standardized templates for the
annual reports (FCC Form 2301(a)) and
certifications (FCC Form 2301(b)). The
Bureau provided instructions that
explain the reporting and certification
requirements and reduce the burden of
the data collection. The Commission
also required ICS providers to disclose
to consumers their interstate, intrastate,
and international rates and ancillary
service charges.
On June 13, 2017, the D.C. Circuit
vacated the video visitation
requirements in the annual report.
Pursuant to the D.C. Circuit’s mandate,
the Commission has removed the video
visitation reporting requirements in the
annual report and amended the
instructions to reflect the removal of
this requirement. As part of the
Commission’s continued administration
of the ICS data collection, the
Commission has modified the
instructions for FCC Form 2301(a) and
FCC Form 2301(b) in several additional
respects. These changes make the
instructions clearer and will make the
annual reports easier to understand and
analyze. The amended instructions
require ICS providers to: Submit all
reports using the electronic Excel
template provided by the Commission,
and to provide the data in a machinereadable, manipulatable format; provide
city and state information for each
facility served; group the facilities
served by underlying contracts in the
section for ICS Rates; separately report
and explain their rates for debit/prepaid
calls and collect calls; report fixed site
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commission payments by facility as well
as by contract; and explain certain
entries, including any entry that omits
requested information. These changes
will impose only a minimal additional
burden on providers because they
address only information that providers
usually and customarily compile in the
normal course of their business
activities. The information will help the
Commission continue to analyze
changes in the ICS industry, to monitor
compliance with the ICS rules, and to
enforce these rules.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
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Information Collection Being Reviewed
by the Federal Communications
Commission
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burdens, and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (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 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
SUMMARY:
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of Management and Budget (OMB)
control number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should
be submitted on or before November 25,
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 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:
Title: Incumbent 39 GHz Licensee
Payment Instruction.
Form Number: FCC Form 1877.
Type of Review: New information
collection.
Respondents: Individuals or
households and Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 10 respondents; 10
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 5
hours.
Frequency of Response: One-time
reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for this information collection
is contained in 47 U.S.C. 309(j)(8)(G).
Total Annual Burden: 50 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No Cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
Impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
The information collection includes
information identifying bank accounts
and providing account and routing
numbers to access those accounts. FCC
considers that information to be records
not routinely available for public
inspection under 47 CFR 0.457, and
exempt from disclosure under FOIA
exemption 4 (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4)).
Needs and Uses: The Commission is
requesting Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval for a new
information collection as described
below.
The Commission is conducting an
auction for 39 GHz spectrum pursuant
to 47 U.S.C. 309(j)(8)(G) in which it is
offering incumbent licensees a share of
auction proceeds as an incentive to
relinquish voluntarily previously
granted spectrum usage rights in order
to permit the assignment of new initial
licenses subject to flexible use rules.
The information in the form is needed
to make payments of the respective
shares of auction proceeds. The
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information required for a licensee with
respect to payments in incentive
auctions is covered under 47 CFR
1.2115(b).
The information collection for which
we are requesting approval is necessary
for incumbent licensees to instruct the
Commission on how to pay the
approved amounts due to them, and for
the payees to make certifications that
reduce the risk of waste, fraud, abuse
and improper payments.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
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FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Federal Maritime Commission.
Final notice of submission for
OMB review.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Federal Maritime Commission
(Commission) hereby gives notice that it
has submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) a
request for a reinstatement of the
existing collection of information
requirements under Commission rules
concerning Licensing, Financial
Responsibility Requirements and
General Duties for Ocean Transportation
Intermediaries.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before October 24,
2019.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be
addressed to:
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for
Federal Maritime Commission, 725
17th Street NW, Washington, DC
20503, OIRA_Submission@
OMB.EOP.GOV, Fax: (202) 395–5806
and to:
Karen V. Gregory, Managing Director,
Office of the Managing Director,
Federal Maritime Commission, 800
North Capitol Street NW, Washington,
DC 20573, Telephone: (202) 523–
5800, omd@fmc.gov.
Please reference the information
collection’s title and OMB approved
number in your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Copies of the submission(s) may be
obtained by contacting Donna Lee at
202–523–5800 or email: omd@fmc.gov.
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Pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Commission
invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to comment on the
proposed information collection. On
May 31, 2019, the Commission
published a notice and request for
comment in the Federal Register (84 FR
25274) regarding the agency’s request to
OMB for reinstatement for information
collections as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The
Commission received no comments on
the request for reinstatement of OMB
approval. The Commission has
submitted the described information
collection to OMB for approval.
In response to this notice, comments
and suggestions should address one or
more of the following points: (1) The
necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper
performance of the agency’s functions;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Open for
Comment
Title: 46 CFR part 515—Licensing,
Financial Responsibility Requirements
and General Duties for Ocean
Transportation Intermediaries.
OMB Approval Number: 3072–0018
(Expired March 31, 2019)
Abstract: The Shipping Act of 1984
(the Act), 46 U.S.C. 40101–41309 (2006),
as modified by Public Law 105–258
(The Ocean Shipping Reform Act of
1998) and Section 424 of Public Law
105–383 (The Coast Guard
Authorization Act of 1998), provides
that no person in the United States may
act as an ocean transportation
intermediary (OTI) unless that person
holds a license issued by the
Commission. The Commission shall
issue an OTI license to any person that
the Commission determines to be
qualified by experience and character to
act as an OTI. Further, no person may
act as an OTI unless that person
furnishes a bond, proof of insurance, or
other surety in a form and amount
determined by the Commission to
insure financial responsibility. The
Commission has implemented the Act’s
OTI requirements in regulations
contained in 46 CFR part 515, including
financial responsibility Forms FMC–48,
FMC–67, FMC–68, and FMC–69,
Optional Rider Forms FMC–48A and
FMC–69A, its related license
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-XXXX]
Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal
Communications Commission
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 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
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of Management and Budget (OMB) control number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before November
25, 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 contact listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email
[email protected] and to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the
information collection, contact Nicole Ongele at (202) 418-2991.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Incumbent 39 GHz Licensee Payment Instruction.
Form Number: FCC Form 1877.
Type of Review: New information collection.
Respondents: Individuals or households and Business or other for-
profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 10 respondents; 10 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 5 hours.
Frequency of Response: One-time reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. 309(j)(8)(G).
Total Annual Burden: 50 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No Cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No Impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The information collection
includes information identifying bank accounts and providing account
and routing numbers to access those accounts. FCC considers that
information to be records not routinely available for public inspection
under 47 CFR 0.457, and exempt from disclosure under FOIA exemption 4
(5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4)).
Needs and Uses: The Commission is requesting Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) approval for a new information collection as described
below.
The Commission is conducting an auction for 39 GHz spectrum
pursuant to 47 U.S.C. 309(j)(8)(G) in which it is offering incumbent
licensees a share of auction proceeds as an incentive to relinquish
voluntarily previously granted spectrum usage rights in order to permit
the assignment of new initial licenses subject to flexible use rules.
The information in the form is needed to make payments of the
respective shares of auction proceeds. The information required for a
licensee with respect to payments in incentive auctions is covered
under 47 CFR 1.2115(b).
The information collection for which we are requesting approval is
necessary for incumbent licensees to instruct the Commission on how to
pay the approved amounts due to them, and for the payees to make
certifications that reduce the risk of waste, fraud, abuse and improper
payments.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-20632 Filed 9-23-19; 8:45 am]
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