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GHz,’’ GN Docket Number 18–122 (FCC
20–22). This rulemaking, which is
under the purview of the Commission’s
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau,
is hereinafter referred to as the 3.7 GHz
Report and Order.
The Commission believes that C-band
spectrum for terrestrial wireless uses
will play a significant role in bringing
next-generation services like 5G to the
American public and assuring American
leadership in the 5G ecosystem. The
agency took action to make this valuable
spectrum resource available for new
terrestrial wireless uses as quickly as
possible, while also preserving the
continued operation of existing Fixed
Satellite Services (FSS) available during
and after the transition.
In the 3.7 GHz Report and Order, the
Commission concluded that a public
auction of the lower 280 megahertz of
the C-band will best carry out our goals,
and the agency will add a mobile
allocation to the 3.7–4.0 GHz band so
that next-generation services such as 5G
can use the band. Relying on the
Emerging Technologies framework, the
Commission adopted a process to
relocate FSS operations into the upper
200 megahertz of the band, while fully
reimbursing existing operators for the
costs of this relocation and offering
accelerated relocation payments to
encourage a speedy transition. The
Commission also adopted service and
technical rules for overlay licensees in
the 280 megahertz of spectrum
designated for transition to flexible use.
Among other information collection
requirements in the 3.7 GHz Report and
Order, the Commission has adopted
several requirements, described in the
text, related to the protection of TT&C
earth stations and coordination with 3.7
GHz Service licensees. In a section of
the 3.7 GHz Report and Order titled
‘‘Adjacent Channel Protection Criteria’’
the Commission sets out the following
requirements:
Pursuant to paragraph 388 of the 3.7
GHz Report and Order, the Commission
requires that the TT&C operators make
available certain pertinent technical
information about their systems upon
request by licensees in the 3.7 GHz
Service to ensure the protection of
TT&C operations. In addition, paragraph
389 of the 3.7 GHz Report and Order
includes the requirement that, in the
event of a claim by a TT&C earth station
operating in 4.0–4.2 GHz of harmful
interference by a 3.7 GHZ operator, the
earth station operator must demonstrate
that that have installed a filter that
complies with the mask requirement
prescribed by the Commission. This
requirement will facilitate an efficient
and safe transition by requiring earth
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station operators to demonstrate their
compliance with the mask
requirements, thereby minimizing the
risk of interference.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
[OMB 3060–XXXX; FRS 17781]
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
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 28, 2021.
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.
SUMMARY:
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Direct all PRA comments to
Cathy Williams, FCC, via email to PRA@
fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information about the
information collection, contact Cathy
Williams at (202) 418–2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–XXXX.
Title: Legacy High-Cost Support
Recipient Initial Report of Current
Service Offerings.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: New information
collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities, not-for-profit institutions,
and state, local or tribal governments.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: Up to 110 respondents and
110 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 16
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. 154, 254 and
303(r).
Total Annual Burden: 1,760 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
Most of the information collected under
this collection will be made publicly
available. However, in recognition of the
fact that a carrier may consider the
infrastructure information required to be
submitted as part of its initial report to
be sensitive, such infrastructure
information will be treated as
presumptively confidential by the
Commission and the Universal Service
Administrative Company (USAC) and
withheld from public inspection,
although USAC will provide these data
to the Commission and the relevant
state, territory, and Tribal governmental
entities that have jurisdiction over a
particular service area, as applicable. To
the extent that a respondent seeks to
have other information collected in
response to this information collection
withheld from public inspection, the
respondent may request confidential
treatment pursuant to 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Needs and Uses: A request for
approval of this new information
collection will be submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) after this 60-day comment period
in order to obtain the full three-year
clearance from OMB.
On November 18, 2011, the
Commission released the USF/ICC
ADDRESSES:
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Transformation Order (FCC 11–161) in
which it comprehensively reformed and
modernized the universal service and
intercarrier compensation systems to
ensure that robust, affordable voice and
broadband service, both fixed and
mobile, are available to Americans
throughout the nation. In the USF/ICC
Transformation Order, the Commission,
among other things, adopted a
requirement that all eligible
telecommunications carriers (ETCs)
offer broadband service in their
supported area that meets certain basic
performance requirements and report
regularly on associated performance
measures as a condition of receiving
federal high-cost universal service
support.
On October 27, 2020, the Commission
adopted the 5G Fund Report and Order
(FCC 20–150) in which it, among other
things, helped to complete the reform of
the high-cost program begun in the USF/
ICC Transformation Order by adopting
additional public interest obligations
and performance requirements for
legacy high-cost support recipients,
whose broadband-specific public
interest obligations for mobile wireless
services were not previously detailed.
The public interest obligations adopted
in the 5G Fund Report and Order for
each competitive ETC receiving legacy
high-cost support for mobile wireless
services require that such competitive
ETC (1) use an increasing percentage of
its legacy support toward the
deployment, maintenance, and
operation of voice and broadband
networks that support 5G meeting the
adopted performance requirements
within its subsidized service area(s),
and (2) meet specific 5G broadband
service deployment coverage
requirements and service deployment
milestone deadlines that take into
consideration the amount of legacy
support the carrier receives.
In order to gain a complete
understanding of the current service
offerings of each competitive ETC
receiving legacy high-cost support for
mobile wireless services, the
Commission adopted rules that require
each such competitive ETC to file an
initial report containing information
and certifications about (1) its current
mobile service offerings in each of its
subsidized service areas and how it is
using legacy support, (2) whether it is
offering mobile services in its
subsidized service areas at rates that are
reasonably comparable to those charged
in urban areas, and (3) whether it has
availed itself of the geographic
flexibility granted by the Commission
concerning its use of support within any
other designated service area(s) for
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which it or an affiliated competitive
ETC receives legacy support. See 47
CFR 54.313(p), 54.322(g), (h). The
information and certifications provided
in these initial reports will be used by
the Commission to ensure that
competitive ETCs receiving legacy highcost support for mobile wireless services
deploy 5G service by in their subsidized
service areas consistent with the rules
adopted by the Commission in the 5G
Fund Report and Order.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Announcement of Board
Approval Under Delegated Authority
and Submission to OMB
Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System.
SUMMARY: The Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System (Board) is
adopting a proposal to extend for three
years, without revision, the Quarterly
Report of Interest Rates on Selected
Direct Consumer Installment Loans and
the Quarterly Report of Credit Card
Plans (FR 2835; FR 2835a; OMB No.
7100–0085).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Federal Reserve Board Clearance
Officer—Nuha Elmaghrabi—Office of
the Chief Data Officer, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, Washington, DC 20551, (202)
452–3829.
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) Desk Officer—Shagufta Ahmed—
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, New Executive Office Building,
Room 10235, 725 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20503, or by fax to
(202) 395–6974.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June
15, 1984, OMB delegated to the Board
authority under the PRA to approve and
assign OMB control numbers to
collections of information conducted or
sponsored by the Board. Boardapproved collections of information are
incorporated into the official OMB
inventory of currently approved
collections of information. The OMB
inventory, as well as copies of the PRA
Submission, supporting statements, and
approved collection of information
instrument(s) are available at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
These documents are also available on
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the Federal Reserve Board’s public
website at https://
www.federalreserve.gov/apps/
reportforms/review.aspx or may be
requested from the agency clearance
officer, whose name appears above.
Final Approval Under OMB Delegated
Authority of the Extension for Three
Years, Without Revision, of the
Following Information Collection
Report title: Quarterly Report of
Interest Rates on Selected Direct
Consumer Installment Loans and
Quarterly Report of Credit Card Plans.
Agency form number: FR 2835; FR
2835a.
OMB control number: 7100–0085.
Frequency: Quarterly.
Respondents: Commercial banks.
Estimated number of respondents: FR
2835: 150; FR 2835a: 50.
Estimated average hours per response:
FR 2835: .29; FR 2835a: .50.
Estimated annual burden hours: FR
2835: 176; FR 2835a: 100.
General description of report: The FR
2835 collects information from a sample
of commercial banks on interest rates
charged on loans for new vehicles and
loans for other consumer goods and
personal expenses. The FR 2835a
collects information on two measures of
credit card interest rates from a sample
of commercial banks with $1 billion or
more in credit card receivables and a
representative group of smaller issuers.
The data from these reports help the
Board analyze current household
financial conditions and the
implications of these conditions for
household spending and, as such, these
data provide valuable input to the
monetary policymaking process.
Legal authorization and
confidentiality: The FR 2835 and the FR
2835a are authorized by sections 2A and
11 of the Federal Reserve Act (‘‘FRA’’).
Section 2A of the FRA requires that the
Board and the Federal Open Market
Committee maintain long-run growth of
the monetary and credit aggregates
commensurate with the economy’s long
run potential to increase production, so
as to promote effectively the goals of
maximum employment, stable prices,
and moderate long-term interest rates.1
Section 11 of the FRA authorizes the
Board to require reports from each
member bank as it may deem necessary
and authorizes the Board to prescribe
reports of liabilities and assets from
insured depository institutions to enable
the Board to discharge its responsibility
to monitor and control monetary and
credit aggregates.2 The obligation to
1
2
12 U.S.C. 225a.
12 U.S.C. 248(a).
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[Notices]
[Pages 16361-16362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-XXXX; FRS 17781]
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 28,
2021. 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 Cathy Williams, FCC, via email to
[email protected] and to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the
information collection, contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418-2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-XXXX.
Title: Legacy High-Cost Support Recipient Initial Report of Current
Service Offerings.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: New information collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit
institutions, and state, local or tribal governments.
Number of Respondents and Responses: Up to 110 respondents and 110
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 16 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. 154, 254 and 303(r).
Total Annual Burden: 1,760 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Most of the information
collected under this collection will be made publicly available.
However, in recognition of the fact that a carrier may consider the
infrastructure information required to be submitted as part of its
initial report to be sensitive, such infrastructure information will be
treated as presumptively confidential by the Commission and the
Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) and withheld from
public inspection, although USAC will provide these data to the
Commission and the relevant state, territory, and Tribal governmental
entities that have jurisdiction over a particular service area, as
applicable. To the extent that a respondent seeks to have other
information collected in response to this information collection
withheld from public inspection, the respondent may request
confidential treatment pursuant to 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's
rules.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
Needs and Uses: A request for approval of this new information
collection will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) after this 60-day comment period in order to obtain the full
three-year clearance from OMB.
On November 18, 2011, the Commission released the USF/ICC
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Transformation Order (FCC 11-161) in which it comprehensively reformed
and modernized the universal service and intercarrier compensation
systems to ensure that robust, affordable voice and broadband service,
both fixed and mobile, are available to Americans throughout the
nation. In the USF/ICC Transformation Order, the Commission, among
other things, adopted a requirement that all eligible
telecommunications carriers (ETCs) offer broadband service in their
supported area that meets certain basic performance requirements and
report regularly on associated performance measures as a condition of
receiving federal high-cost universal service support.
On October 27, 2020, the Commission adopted the 5G Fund Report and
Order (FCC 20-150) in which it, among other things, helped to complete
the reform of the high-cost program begun in the USF/ICC Transformation
Order by adopting additional public interest obligations and
performance requirements for legacy high-cost support recipients, whose
broadband-specific public interest obligations for mobile wireless
services were not previously detailed. The public interest obligations
adopted in the 5G Fund Report and Order for each competitive ETC
receiving legacy high-cost support for mobile wireless services require
that such competitive ETC (1) use an increasing percentage of its
legacy support toward the deployment, maintenance, and operation of
voice and broadband networks that support 5G meeting the adopted
performance requirements within its subsidized service area(s), and (2)
meet specific 5G broadband service deployment coverage requirements and
service deployment milestone deadlines that take into consideration the
amount of legacy support the carrier receives.
In order to gain a complete understanding of the current service
offerings of each competitive ETC receiving legacy high-cost support
for mobile wireless services, the Commission adopted rules that require
each such competitive ETC to file an initial report containing
information and certifications about (1) its current mobile service
offerings in each of its subsidized service areas and how it is using
legacy support, (2) whether it is offering mobile services in its
subsidized service areas at rates that are reasonably comparable to
those charged in urban areas, and (3) whether it has availed itself of
the geographic flexibility granted by the Commission concerning its use
of support within any other designated service area(s) for which it or
an affiliated competitive ETC receives legacy support. See 47 CFR
54.313(p), 54.322(g), (h). The information and certifications provided
in these initial reports will be used by the Commission to ensure that
competitive ETCs receiving legacy high-cost support for mobile wireless
services deploy 5G service by in their subsidized service areas
consistent with the rules adopted by the Commission in the 5G Fund
Report and Order.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-06335 Filed 3-26-21; 8:45 am]
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