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Title: Special Eligibility Showings for
Authorizations in the Public Safety Pool
(47 CFR 90.20(a)(2)(v) and
90.20(a)(2)(xi)).
Form Number: Not applicable.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals or
household and business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 220 respondents; 220
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.704
hours (range of 15 minutes to 45
minutes).
Frequency of Response: One-time
reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for the collections of
information is contained in Sections
154(i), 161, 303(g), 303(r), 332(c)(7).
Total Annual Burden: 155 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No Cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: Yes.
The information collection in 47 CFR
90.20(a)(2)(v) affects individuals, and
there is a system of records that covers
it (FCC/WTB–1, Wireless Services
Licensing Records).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
Requests to withhold information
submitted to the Commission from
public inspection will be treated in
accordance with section 0.459 of the
Commission’s rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
collects this information to ensure that
certain non-governmental applicants
applying for the use of frequencies in
the Public Safety Pool meet the
eligibility criteria set forth in the
Commission’s rules.
OMB Control Number: 3060–1237.
Title: FCC EEO Informal Complaint
and Formal Complaint forms.
Form Number: FCC Form-5621, FCC
Form-5622.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals or
households; Federal Government.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 23 respondents; 23
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 2.5
hours–5 hours.
Frequency of Response: One-time
reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Voluntary.
Statutory authority for these collections
is contained in the Civil Rights Act of
1964 § 7, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2000e;
Age Discrimination in Employment act
of 1967 (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. 621–634;
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
(ADA), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 12101–
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12213; Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as
amended, 29. U.S.C. 501 et seq.
Total Annual Burden: 67 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $8,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: Yes.
The PII in this information collection is
covered by the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission’s
Government-wide System of Records
Notice or ‘‘SORN,’’ EEOC/GOVT–1,
Equal Employment Opportunity in the
Federal Government’s Complaint and
Appeal Records.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
Confidentiality of information will be
provided in accordance with the Privacy
Act. The Commission is not requesting
respondents to submit confidential
information to the Commission. If the
Commission requests respondents to
submit information which respondents
believe is confidential, respondents may
request confidential treatment of such
information pursuant to section 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 0.459.
Needs and Uses: FCC employees and
related individuals may seek a forum
through the Office of Workplace
Diversity to resolve, investigate, and
issue Final Agency Decisions regarding
allegations of discrimination and/or
retribution or reprisals by completing
FCC Form-5621 and/or FCC Form-5622.
Federal Communications Commission.
Cecilia Sigmund,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the
Secretary.
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[OMB 3060–1003; FRS 16575]
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 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
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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 26, 2020.
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, (202) 418–2991.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–1003.
Title: Communications Disaster
Information Reporting System (DIRS).
Form No.: Not applicable.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; Not-for-profit
institutions; Federal Government; and/
or State, local or tribal governments.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 400 Respondents and
104,000 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.1–0.5
Hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory
and Voluntary. For Support Recipients,
the obligation to report is mandatory.
For all other DIRS participants, the
obligation to report is voluntary.
Statutory authority for collecting this
information from satellite providers is
contained in 47 U.S.C. 151 et. seq.,
154(i), 218, 303(r) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as
amended.
Total Annual Burden: 16,320 Hours.
Total Annual Costs: No Cost(s).
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Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
The information collection from
respondents shall be treated as
presumptively confidential upon filing.
The Commission will limit direct access
to DIRS reports to select Commission
staff and, with protections at least as
strong as required by the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA), with select
federal and potentially state agency
partners, including the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS). The
Commission will not publish the
individual submissions but may publish
this information on an aggregated basis
in daily communications status reports.
The Commission will also work with
respondents to ensure that any concerns
regarding the confidentiality of their
DIRS filings are resolved in a manner
consistent with Commission rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
launched DIRS in 2007 pursuant to its
mandate to promote the safety of life
and property through the use of wire
and radio communication as required by
the Communications Act of 1934, as
amended. DIRS is a voluntary, efficient
and web-based system that
communications companies may use to
report their infrastructure status during
times of crisis (e.g., related to a disaster).
DIRS uses a number of template forms
tailored to different communications
sectors (i.e., wireless, wireline,
broadcast, and cable) to facility the
entry of this information. To use DIRS,
a company first inputs its emergency
contact information. After this, they
submit information using the template
form appropriate for their
communications sector. OMB initially
approved the DIRS information
collection in 2007 under OMB Control
Number 3060–1003, and OMB has
approved multiple revisions and
extensions of the collection since that
time. (See OMB Control No. 3060–1003;
07/21/2007; 06/08/2012; 07/02/2015;
07/17/2018.)
The Commission is now revising the
DIRS information collection to provide
for one new form tailored to satellite
communications providers and to
update its previous burden estimates.
First, the new form has the same general
scope as existing forms, already
approved by OMB, but is tailored to
satellite providers’ networks. Since
OMB’s 2007 approval, satellite
providers have been expressly
authorized to participate in DIRS, but
DIRS does not currently include a
tailored form for them to do so.
Collecting this information from
satellite providers via DIRS is necessary
to meet the Commission’s goals of
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restoring communications quickly and
ensuring that emergency and defense
personnel have access to effective
communications during disaster events,
thus helping fulfill the Commission’s
public safety mandate.
Second, as a part of the Commission’s
response to the 2017 hurricane season,
the Commission adopted the PR and
USVI Funds Order to improve Puerto
Rico and the U.S. Virgin Island’s
communications networks’ resiliency
and recovery efforts, amongst other
purposes. (PR and USVI Funds Order,
FCC 19–95, para. 1–9). The PR and
USVI Funds Order requires Support
Recipients to report in DIRS. The
Commission requests a revision of the
currently approved collection to include
mandatory DIRS reporting for Support
Recipients. Mandatory DIRS reporting
will allow the Commission to track
networking hardening efforts and
increase Support Recipients’
accountability, which the Commission
expects will improve network hardening
efforts and make networks more
resilient in future. The PR and USVI
Funds Order does not otherwise alter
DIRS.
Federal Communications Commission.
Cecilia Sigmund,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020–06093 Filed 3–23–20; 8:45 am]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
[OMB 3060–0390; FRS 16587]
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 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
SUMMARY:
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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 26, 2020.
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, (202) 418–2991.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0390.
Title: Broadcast Station Annual
Employment Report, FCC Form 395–B.
Form Number: FCC–395–B.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities, Not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 14,000 respondents, 14,000
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Frequency of Response: Annual
reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. The statutory
authority of this collection of
information is contained in 47 U.S.C.
154(i) and 334.
Total Annual Burden: 14,000 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: FCC Form 395–B,
the ‘‘Broadcast Station Annual
Employment Report,’’ is a data
collection device used by the
Commission to assess industry
employment trends and provide reports
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-1003; FRS 16575]
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 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 26,
2020. 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, (202) 418-2991.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1003.
Title: Communications Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS).
Form No.: Not applicable.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for- profit entities; Not-for-profit
institutions; Federal Government; and/or State, local or tribal
governments.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 400 Respondents and 104,000
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.1-0.5 Hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory and Voluntary. For Support
Recipients, the obligation to report is mandatory. For all other DIRS
participants, the obligation to report is voluntary. Statutory
authority for collecting this information from satellite providers is
contained in 47 U.S.C. 151 et. seq., 154(i), 218, 303(r) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 16,320 Hours.
Total Annual Costs: No Cost(s).
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Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The information collection
from respondents shall be treated as presumptively confidential upon
filing. The Commission will limit direct access to DIRS reports to
select Commission staff and, with protections at least as strong as
required by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), with select federal
and potentially state agency partners, including the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS). The Commission will not publish the individual
submissions but may publish this information on an aggregated basis in
daily communications status reports. The Commission will also work with
respondents to ensure that any concerns regarding the confidentiality
of their DIRS filings are resolved in a manner consistent with
Commission rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission launched DIRS in 2007 pursuant to
its mandate to promote the safety of life and property through the use
of wire and radio communication as required by the Communications Act
of 1934, as amended. DIRS is a voluntary, efficient and web-based
system that communications companies may use to report their
infrastructure status during times of crisis (e.g., related to a
disaster). DIRS uses a number of template forms tailored to different
communications sectors (i.e., wireless, wireline, broadcast, and cable)
to facility the entry of this information. To use DIRS, a company first
inputs its emergency contact information. After this, they submit
information using the template form appropriate for their
communications sector. OMB initially approved the DIRS information
collection in 2007 under OMB Control Number 3060-1003, and OMB has
approved multiple revisions and extensions of the collection since that
time. (See OMB Control No. 3060-1003; 07/21/2007; 06/08/2012; 07/02/
2015; 07/17/2018.)
The Commission is now revising the DIRS information collection to
provide for one new form tailored to satellite communications providers
and to update its previous burden estimates. First, the new form has
the same general scope as existing forms, already approved by OMB, but
is tailored to satellite providers' networks. Since OMB's 2007
approval, satellite providers have been expressly authorized to
participate in DIRS, but DIRS does not currently include a tailored
form for them to do so. Collecting this information from satellite
providers via DIRS is necessary to meet the Commission's goals of
restoring communications quickly and ensuring that emergency and
defense personnel have access to effective communications during
disaster events, thus helping fulfill the Commission's public safety
mandate.
Second, as a part of the Commission's response to the 2017
hurricane season, the Commission adopted the PR and USVI Funds Order to
improve Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Island's communications
networks' resiliency and recovery efforts, amongst other purposes. (PR
and USVI Funds Order, FCC 19-95, para. 1-9). The PR and USVI Funds
Order requires Support Recipients to report in DIRS. The Commission
requests a revision of the currently approved collection to include
mandatory DIRS reporting for Support Recipients. Mandatory DIRS
reporting will allow the Commission to track networking hardening
efforts and increase Support Recipients' accountability, which the
Commission expects will improve network hardening efforts and make
networks more resilient in future. The PR and USVI Funds Order does not
otherwise alter DIRS.
Federal Communications Commission.
Cecilia Sigmund,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the Secretary.
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