Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Management and Budget, 61901-61903 [2019-24662]

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• FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 220 (Thursday, November 14, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61901-61903]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-24662]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-0262, 3060-0360, 3060-0653, 3060-3060-0754]


Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval 
to 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, 
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. Pursuant to the Small Business 
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC seeks specific comment on how it 
might ``further reduce the information collection burden for 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 December 16, 
2019. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments but find 
it difficult to do so with 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 [email protected]; and to Cathy Williams, FCC, via 
email [email protected] and to [email protected]. 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)

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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 Title 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, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), the FCC invited the general public and 
other Federal Agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the 
following information collection. Comments are requested concerning: 
(a) 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; (b) the accuracy 
of the Commission's burden estimates; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d) 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. Pursuant to the Small Business 
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C. 
3506(c)(4), the FCC seeks specific comment on how it might ``further 
reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns 
with fewer than 25 employees.''
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0262.
    Title: Section 90.179, Shared Use of Radio Stations.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit, non-for-profit 
institutions, and state, local and tribal government.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 43,000 respondents, 43,000 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .25 up to .75 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement and On occasion 
reporting requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 
154(i), 161, 303(g), 303(r) and 332(c)(7).
    Total Annual Burden: 43,000 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: None.
    Privacy Act 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 was directed by the United States 
Congress, in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, to dedicate 2.4 MHz of 
electromagnetic spectrum in the 746-806 MHz band for public safety 
services. Section 90.179 requires that Part 90 licensees that share use 
of their private land mobile radio facility on non-profit, cost-sharing 
basis to prepare and keep a written sharing agreement as part of the 
station records. Regardless of the method of sharing, an up-to-date 
list of persons who are sharing the station and the basis of their 
eligibility under Part 90 must be maintained. The requirement is 
necessary to identify users of the system should interference problems 
develop. This information is used by the Commission to investigate 
interference complaints and resolve interference and operational 
complaints that may arise among the users.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0360.
    Title: Section 80.409, Station Logs (Maritime Services).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit 
institutions, and state, local and tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 19,214 respondents; 19,214 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 27.3-95 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151-
155, 301-609.
    Total Annual Burden: 538,082 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: None.
    Privacy Act 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 extension (no 
change in the recordkeeping requirement) to the OMB to obtain the full 
three-year clearance from them. The information collection requirements 
are as follows:
    Section 80.409(c), Public Coast Station Logs: This requirement is 
necessary to document the operation and public correspondence of public 
coast radio telegraph, public coast radiotelephone stations, and Alaska 
public-fixed stations, including the logging of distress and safety 
calls where applicable. Entries must be made giving details of all work 
performed which may affect the proper operation of the station. Logs 
must be retained by the licensee for a period of two years from the 
date of entry, and, where applicable, for such additional periods such 
as logs relating to a distress situation or disaster must be retained 
for three years from the date of entry in the log. If the Commission 
has notified the licensee of an investigation, the related logs must be 
retained until the licensee is specifically authorized in writing to 
destroy them. Logs relating to any claim or complaint of which the 
station licensee has notice must be retained until the claim or 
complaint has been satisfied or barred by statute limiting the time for 
filing suits upon such claims.
    Section 80.409(d), Ship Radiotelegraph Logs: Logs of ship stations 
which are compulsorily equipped for radiotelegraphy and operating in 
the band 90 to 535 kHz must contain specific information in log entries 
according to this subsection.
    Section 80.409(e), Ship Radiotelephone Logs: Logs of ship stations 
which are compulsorily equipped for radiotelephony must contain 
specific information in applicable log entries and the time of their 
occurrence.
    The recordkeeping requirements contained in section 80.409 is 
necessary to document the operation and public correspondence service 
of public coast radiotelegraph, public coast radiotelephone stations 
and Alaska-public fixed stations, ship radiotelegraph, ship 
radiotelephone and applicable radiotelephone including the logging of 
distress and safety calls where applicable.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0653.
    Title: Sections 64.703(b) and (c), Consumer Information--Posting by 
Aggregators.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 56,075 respondents; 5,339,038 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .017 hours (1 minute) to 3 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirements; Third 
party disclosure.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this information collection is found at section 
226 [47 U.S.C. 226] Telephone Operator Services codified at 47 CFR 
64.703(b) Consumer Information.
    Total Annual Burden: 174,401 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $1,446,340.

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    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: An assurance of confidentiality is 
not offered because this information collection does not require the 
collection of personally identifiable information (PII) from 
individuals.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: The information collection requirements included 
under this OMB Control Number 3060-0653, requires aggregators 
(providers of telephones to the public or to transient users of their 
premises) under 47 U.S.C. 226(c)(1)(A), 47 CFR 64.703(b) of the 
Commission's rules, to post in writing, on or near such phones, 
information about the pre-subscribed operator services, rates, carrier 
access, and the FCC address to which consumers may direct complaints.
    Section 64.703(c) of the Commission's rules requires the posted 
consumer information to be added when an aggregator has changed the 
pre-subscribed operator service provider (OSP) no later than 30 days 
following such change. Consumers will use this information to determine 
whether they wish to use the services of the identified OSP.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0754.
    Title: FCC Form 2100, Application for Media Bureau Audio and Video 
Service Authorization, Schedule H.
    Form Number: FCC Form 2100, Schedule H.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 1,758 respondents; 1,758 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement: Annual reporting 
requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in 
Sections 154(i) and 303 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 17,580 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $1,054,800.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for 
confidentiality with respect to this collection of information.
    Needs and Uses: Commercial full-power and Class A television 
broadcast stations are required to file FCC Form 2100, Schedule H 
(formerly FCC Form 398) (Children's Television Programming Report) 
within 30 days after the end of each calendar year. FCC Form 2100, 
Schedule H is a standardized form that: (a) Provides a consistent 
format for reporting the children's educational television programming 
aired by licensees to meet their obligation under the Children's 
Television Act of 1990 (CTA), and (b) facilitates efforts by the public 
and the FCC to monitor compliance with the CTA.
    Commercial full-power and Class A television stations are required 
to complete FCC Form 2100, Schedule H within 30 days after the end of 
each calendar year and file the form with the Commission. The 
Commission places the form in the station's online public inspection 
file maintained on the Commission's database (www.fcc.gov). Stations 
use FCC Form 2100, Schedule H to report, among other things, the Core 
Programming (i.e., children's educational and informational 
programming) the station aired the previous calendar year. FCC Form 
2100, Schedule H also includes a ``Preemption Report'' that must be 
completed for each Core Program that was preempted during the year. 
This ``Preemption Report'' requests information on the reason for the 
preemption, the date of each preemption, the reason for the preemption 
and, if the program was rescheduled, the date and time the program was 
re-aired.
    On July 10, 2019, the Commission adopted a Report and Order in MB 
Docket Nos. 18-202 and 17-105, FCC 19-67, In the Matter of Children's 
Television Programming Rules; Modernization of Media Regulation 
Initiative, which modernizes the children's television programming 
rules in light of changes to the media landscape that have occurred 
since the rules were first adopted. Among other revisions, the Report 
and Order revises the children's television programming rules to expand 
the Core Programming hours to 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.; modify the safe 
harbor processing guidelines for determining compliance with the 
children's programming rules; require that broadcast stations air the 
substantial majority of their Core Programming on their primary program 
streams, but permit broadcast stations to air up to 13 hours per 
quarter of regularly scheduled weekly programming on a multicast 
stream; eliminate the additional processing guideline applicable to 
stations that multicast; and modify the rules governing preemption of 
Core Programming. In addition, the Report and Order revises the 
children's television programming reporting requirements by requiring 
that Children's Television Programming Reports (FCC Form 2100, Schedule 
H) be filed on an annual rather than quarterly basis, within 30 days 
after the end of the calendar year; eliminating the requirements that 
the reports include information describing the educational and 
informational purpose of each Core Program aired during the current 
reporting period and each Core Program that the licensee expects to air 
during the next reporting period; eliminating the requirement to 
identify the program guide publishers who were sent information 
regarding the licensee's Core Programs; and streamlining the form by 
eliminating certain fields. The Report and Order also eliminates the 
requirement to publicize the Children's Television Programming Reports. 
The Report and Order directs the Media Bureau to make modifications to 
FCC Form 2100, Schedule H as needed to conform the form with the 
revisions to the children's programming rules, including the changes to 
the processing guidelines and preemption policies.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-24662 Filed 11-13-19; 8:45 am]
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