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C. Congressional Review Act
47 CFR Part 1
[MD Docket No. 20–58; FCC 20–15; FRS
16594]
Closure of FCC Lockbox 979088 Used
To Collect Payment of Forfeiture
Penalties Imposed by the Commission
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
In this document, the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC or
Commission) adopts an Order that
closes Lockbox 979088 and modifies the
relevant rule provisions to require
electronic payment of forfeiture
penalties imposed by the Commission.
DATES: Effective May 21, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Warren Firschein, Office of Managing
Director at (202) 418–2653 or Roland
Helvajian, Office of Managing Director
at (202) 418–0444.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a
summary of the Commission’s Order,
FCC 20–15, MD Docket No. 20–58,
adopted on February 26, 2020 and
released on February 28, 2020, which is
the subject of this rulemaking. The full
text of this document is available for
public inspection and copying during
normal business hours in the FCC
Reference Center (Room CY–A257), 445
12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554,
or by downloading the text from the
Commission’s website at https://
www.fcc.gov/document/closurecommission-lockbox-used-collectforfeiture-payments.
SUMMARY:
I. Administrative Matters
A. Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
1. Section 603 of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act, as amended, requires a
regulatory flexibility analysis in notice
and comment rulemaking proceedings.
See 5 U.S.C. 603(a). As we are adopting
these rules without notice and
comment, no regulatory flexibility
analysis is required.
B. Final Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 Analysis
2. This document does not contain
new or modified information collection
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requirements subject to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Public
Law 104–13. In addition, therefore, it
does not contain any new or modified
information collection burden for small
business concerns with fewer than 25
employees, pursuant to the Small
Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002,
Public Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(4).
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3. The Commission will not send a
copy of the Order pursuant to the
Congressional Review Act, see 5 U.S.C.
801(a)(1)(A), because the adopted rules
are rules of agency organization,
procedure, or practice that do not
‘‘substantially affect the rights or
obligations of non-agency parties. See 5
U.S.C. 804(3)(C).
II. Introduction
4. In the Order, we reduce
expenditures by the Commission and
modernize procedures by modifying
§ 1.80(h) of our rules, 47 CFR 1.80(h),
which sets forth the method for parties
to remit forfeiture penalties imposed by
the Commission. The rule amendment
reflects the closure of the P.O. Box 1
used to collect forfeiture payments. We
discontinue the option of manual fee
payments and instead require the use of
an electronic payment for forfeiture
penalties.
5. The Commission has begun to
reduce its reliance on P.O. Boxes for the
collection of fees, instead encouraging
the use of electronic payment systems
for all application and regulatory fees
and closing certain lockboxes. We find
that electronic payment of forfeiture
penalties imposed by the Commission
reduces the agency’s expenditures
(including eliminating the annual fee for
the bank’s services) and the cost of
manually processing each transaction,
with little or no inconvenience to the
Commission’s regulatees, applicants,
and the public.
6. As part of this effort, we are now
closing P.O. Box 979088 and modifying
the relevant rule provision that requires
payment of forfeiture penalties via the
closed P.O. Box. The rule change is
contained in the Appendix of the Order.
We make this change without notice
and comment because it is a rule of
agency organization, procedure, or
practice exempt from the general notice1 A P.O. Box used for the collection of fees is
referred to as a ‘‘lockbox’’ in our rules and other
Commission documents. The FCC collects
application processing fees using a series of P.O.
Boxes located at U.S. Bank in St. Louis, Missouri.
See 47 CFR 1.1101–1.1109 (setting forth the fee
schedule for each type of application remittable to
the Commission along with the correct lockbox).
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and-comment requirements of the
Administrative Procedure Act, see 5
U.S.C. 553(b)(A).
7. Implementation. As a temporary
transition measure, for 90 days after
publication of this document in the
Federal Register, U.S. Bank will
continue to process payments to P.O.
Box 979088. After that date, forfeiture
payments must be made in accordance
with the procedures set forth in each
forfeiture order and on the
Commission’s website, www.fcc.gov/
licensing-databases/fees. For now, such
payments will be made through the Fee
Filer Online System (Fee Filer),
accessible at https://www.fcc.gov/
licensing-databases/fees/fee-filer. As we
assess and implement U.S. Treasury
initiatives toward an all-electronic
payment system, we may transition to
other secure payment systems with
appropriate public notice and guidance.
III. Ordering Clauses
8. Accordingly, it is ordered, that
pursuant to sections 4(i), 4(j), 158, 208,
and 224 of the Communications Act of
1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i),
154(j), 158, 208, and 224, the Order is
hereby adopted and the rules set forth
in the Appendix of the Order are hereby
amended effective May 21, 2020.
List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 1
Administrative practice and
procedure.
Federal Communications Commission.
Cecilia Sigmund,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
Final Rules
For the reasons discussed in the
preamble, the Federal Communications
Commission amends 47 CFR part 1 as
follows:
PART 1—PRACTICE AND
PROCEDURE
1. The authority citation for part 1
continues to read as follows:
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2. Amend § 1.80 by revising paragraph
(h) to read as follows:
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Forfeiture proceedings.
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(h) Payment. The forfeiture should be
paid electronically using the
Commission’s electronic payment
system in accordance with the
procedures set forth on the
Commission’s website, www.fcc.gov/
licensing-databases/fees.
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47 CFR Part 64
[WC Docket Nos. 17–97, 20–67; FCC 20–
42; FRS 16631]
Call Authentication Trust Anchor;
Implementation of TRACED Act—
Knowledge of Customers by Entities
With Access to Numbering Resources
Federal Communications
Commission.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Final rule.
In this document, the
Commission adopts a rule that mandates
that all originating and terminating
voice service providers implement the
STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication
framework in the internet Protocol (IP)
portions of their networks by June 30,
2021. In establishing this requirement,
the Report and Order both acts on the
Commission’s proposal to require voice
service providers to implement the
STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication
framework if major voice service
providers did not voluntarily do so by
the end of 2019, and implements
Congress’s direction in the recently
enacted Pallone-Thune Telephone
Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement
and Deterrence (TRACED) Act to
mandate STIR/SHAKEN not later than
18 months after the date of enactment of
that Act. This action builds on the
Commission’s aggressive and multipronged approach to ending illegal
caller ID spoofing.
SUMMARY:
DATES:
Effective May 21, 2020.
For
further information, please contact
Mason Shefa, Competition Policy
Division, Wireline Competition Bureau,
at Mason.Shefa@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
The full
text of this document, WC Docket Nos.
17–97, 20–67; FCC 20–42, adopted and
released on March 31, 2020, is available
for public inspection during regular
business hours in the FCC Reference
Information Center, Portals II, 445 12th
Street SW, Room CY–A257,
Washington, DC 20554 or at the
following internet address: https://
docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC20-42A1.pdf . The Further Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking WC Docket Nos.
17–97, 20–67; FCC 20–42, adopted
concurrently with this document and
available at the same internet address, is
published elsewhere in this issue of the
Federal Register.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: 47 U.S.C. chs. 2, 5, 9, 13; 28
U.S.C. 2461 note, unless otherwise noted.
§ 1.80
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Synopsis
I. Introduction
1. Each day, Americans receive
millions of unwanted phone calls. One
source indicates that Americans
received over 58 billion such calls in
2019 alone. These include ‘‘spoofed’’
calls whereby the caller falsifies caller
ID information that appears on a
recipient’s phone to deceive them into
thinking the call is from someone they
know or can trust. Spoofing has legal
and illegal uses. For example, medical
professionals calling patients from their
mobile phones often legally spoof the
outgoing phone number to be the office
phone number for privacy reasons, and
businesses often display a toll-free callback number. Illegal spoofing, on the
other hand, occurs when a caller
transmits misleading or inaccurate
caller ID information with the intent to
defraud, cause harm, or wrongly obtain
anything of value. And these spoofed
calls are not simply an annoyance—they
result in billions of dollars lost to fraud,
degrade consumer confidence in the
voice network, and harm our public
safety. A 2019 survey estimated that
spoofing fraud affected one in six
Americans and cost approximately
$10.5 billion in a single 12-month
period.
2. The Commission, Congress, and
state attorneys general all agree on the
need to protect consumers and put an
end to illegal caller ID spoofing. Over
the past three years, the Commission
has taken a multi-pronged approach to
this problem—issuing hundreds of
millions of dollars in fines for violations
of our Truth in Caller ID rules;
expanding those rules to reach foreign
calls and text messages; enabling voice
service providers to block certain clearly
unlawful calls before they reach
consumers’ phones; and clarifying that
voice service providers may offer callblocking services by default. We have
also called on industry to ‘‘trace back’’
illegal spoofed calls and text messages
to their original sources and encouraged
industry to develop and implement new
caller ID authentication technology.
That technology, known as STIR/
SHAKEN, allows voice service
providers to verify that the caller ID
information transmitted with a
particular call matches the caller’s
number. Entities variously refer to this
technology as either ‘‘SHAKEN/STIR’’
or ‘‘STIR/SHAKEN.’’ In the past, the
Commission has referred to the
technology as ‘‘SHAKEN/STIR.’’ To
ensure consistency with the TRACED
Act, we use ‘‘STIR/SHAKEN’’ here. Its
widespread implementation will reduce
the effectiveness of illegal spoofing,
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[FR Doc No: 2020-07540]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 1
[MD Docket No. 20-58; FCC 20-15; FRS 16594]
Closure of FCC Lockbox 979088 Used To Collect Payment of
Forfeiture Penalties Imposed by the Commission
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC
or Commission) adopts an Order that closes Lockbox 979088 and modifies
the relevant rule provisions to require electronic payment of
forfeiture penalties imposed by the Commission.
DATES: Effective May 21, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Warren Firschein, Office of Managing
Director at (202) 418-2653 or Roland Helvajian, Office of Managing
Director at (202) 418-0444.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's Order,
FCC 20-15, MD Docket No. 20-58, adopted on February 26, 2020 and
released on February 28, 2020, which is the subject of this rulemaking.
The full text of this document is available for public inspection and
copying during normal business hours in the FCC Reference Center (Room
CY-A257), 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554, or by downloading
the text from the Commission's website at https://www.fcc.gov/document/closure-commission-lockbox-used-collect-forfeiture-payments.
I. Administrative Matters
A. Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
1. Section 603 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, as amended,
requires a regulatory flexibility analysis in notice and comment
rulemaking proceedings. See 5 U.S.C. 603(a). As we are adopting these
rules without notice and comment, no regulatory flexibility analysis is
required.
B. Final Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 Analysis
2. This document does not contain new or modified information
collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), Public Law 104-13. In addition, therefore, it does not contain
any new or modified information collection burden for small business
concerns with fewer than 25 employees, pursuant to the Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(4).
C. Congressional Review Act
3. The Commission will not send a copy of the Order pursuant to the
Congressional Review Act, see 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A), because the
adopted rules are rules of agency organization, procedure, or practice
that do not ``substantially affect the rights or obligations of non-
agency parties. See 5 U.S.C. 804(3)(C).
II. Introduction
4. In the Order, we reduce expenditures by the Commission and
modernize procedures by modifying Sec. 1.80(h) of our rules, 47 CFR
1.80(h), which sets forth the method for parties to remit forfeiture
penalties imposed by the Commission. The rule amendment reflects the
closure of the P.O. Box \1\ used to collect forfeiture payments. We
discontinue the option of manual fee payments and instead require the
use of an electronic payment for forfeiture penalties.
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\1\ A P.O. Box used for the collection of fees is referred to as
a ``lockbox'' in our rules and other Commission documents. The FCC
collects application processing fees using a series of P.O. Boxes
located at U.S. Bank in St. Louis, Missouri. See 47 CFR 1.1101-
1.1109 (setting forth the fee schedule for each type of application
remittable to the Commission along with the correct lockbox).
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5. The Commission has begun to reduce its reliance on P.O. Boxes
for the collection of fees, instead encouraging the use of electronic
payment systems for all application and regulatory fees and closing
certain lockboxes. We find that electronic payment of forfeiture
penalties imposed by the Commission reduces the agency's expenditures
(including eliminating the annual fee for the bank's services) and the
cost of manually processing each transaction, with little or no
inconvenience to the Commission's regulatees, applicants, and the
public.
6. As part of this effort, we are now closing P.O. Box 979088 and
modifying the relevant rule provision that requires payment of
forfeiture penalties via the closed P.O. Box. The rule change is
contained in the Appendix of the Order. We make this change without
notice and comment because it is a rule of agency organization,
procedure, or practice exempt from the general notice-
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and-comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act, see 5
U.S.C. 553(b)(A).
7. Implementation. As a temporary transition measure, for 90 days
after publication of this document in the Federal Register, U.S. Bank
will continue to process payments to P.O. Box 979088. After that date,
forfeiture payments must be made in accordance with the procedures set
forth in each forfeiture order and on the Commission's website,
www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees. For now, such payments will be
made through the Fee Filer Online System (Fee Filer), accessible at
https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/fee-filer. As we assess
and implement U.S. Treasury initiatives toward an all-electronic
payment system, we may transition to other secure payment systems with
appropriate public notice and guidance.
III. Ordering Clauses
8. Accordingly, it is ordered, that pursuant to sections 4(i),
4(j), 158, 208, and 224 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended,
47 U.S.C. 154(i), 154(j), 158, 208, and 224, the Order is hereby
adopted and the rules set forth in the Appendix of the Order are hereby
amended effective May 21, 2020.
List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 1
Administrative practice and procedure.
Federal Communications Commission.
Cecilia Sigmund,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
Final Rules
For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Federal
Communications Commission amends 47 CFR part 1 as follows:
PART 1--PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
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1. The authority citation for part 1 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 47 U.S.C. chs. 2, 5, 9, 13; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note,
unless otherwise noted.
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2. Amend Sec. 1.80 by revising paragraph (h) to read as follows:
Sec. 1.80 Forfeiture proceedings.
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(h) Payment. The forfeiture should be paid electronically using the
Commission's electronic payment system in accordance with the
procedures set forth on the Commission's website, www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees.
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