Improving Outage Reporting for Submarine Cables and Enhanced Submarine Cable Outage Data, 22360-22361 [2021-08651]

Download as PDF 22360 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 80 / Wednesday, April 28, 2021 / Rules and Regulations Eric J. Letvin, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mitigation, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration—FEMA Resilience, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency. [FR Doc. 2021–08703 Filed 4–27–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 9110–12–P FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Parts 1 and 4 [GN Docket 15–206, FCC 16–81, FCC 19– 138; FRS 21073] Improving Outage Reporting for Submarine Cables and Enhanced Submarine Cable Outage Data Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Final rule and announcement of compliance date. AGENCY: In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved a new information collection associated with rules governing submarine cable outage reporting requirements in the 2016 Report and Order, FCC 16–81, as modified in the 2019 Order on Reconsideration, FCC 19–138, in GN Docket No. 15–206. The Commission also announces that compliance with the rules will be required six months after the date of this notice. This notice is consistent with the 2016 Report and Order and the 2019 Order on Reconsideration, which state that the Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing a compliance date for the rule section mandating submarine cable outage reporting requirements. DATES: Effective date: This rule is effective October 28, 2021. Compliance date: Compliance with the amendments to 47 CFR 4.1 and 4.15, published at 81 FR 52354 on August 8, 2016, and 85 FR 15733 on March 19, 2020, respectively, is required as of October 28, 2021. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Cinnamon at (202) 418–2319 or scott.cinnamon@fcc.gov or Charlene C. Goldfield at (202) 418–1372 or charlene.goldfield@fcc.gov, AttorneyAdvisors of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document announces that OMB approved the information collection jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with RULES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:50 Apr 27, 2021 Jkt 253001 requirement in § 4.15 on March 25, 2021. The Commission publishes this document to announce the compliance date of the rule. If you have any comments on the burden estimates listed below, or how the Commission can improve the collections and reduce any burdens caused thereby, please contact Nicole Ongele, Federal Communications Commission, Room 3.310, 45 L Street NE, Washington, DC 20554, regarding OMB Control Number 3060–1283. Please include the OMB Control Number in your correspondence. The Commission will also accept your comments via email at PRA@fcc.gov. To request materials in accessible formats for people with disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic files, audio format), send an email to fcc504@ fcc.gov or call the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432 (TTY). Synopsis As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507), the FCC is notifying the public that it received final OMB approval on March 25, 2021, for the information collection requirements contained in § 4.15 of its rules. Under 5 CFR part 1320, an agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a current, valid OMB Control Number. No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act that does not display a current, valid OMB Control Number. The foregoing notice is required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13, October 1, 1995, and 44 U.S.C. 3507. The total annual reporting burdens and costs for the respondents are as follows: OMB Control Number: 3060–1283. OMB Approval Date: March 25, 2021. OMB Expiration Date: March 31, 2024. Title: Improving Outage Reporting for Submarine Cables and Enhanced Submarine Cable Outage Data. Form Number: N/A. Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. Number of Respondents and Responses: 74 respondents; 336 responses. Estimated Time per Response: 6 hours. Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement. Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for these collections PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 is contained in 47 U.S.C. 34–39, 151, 154, 155, 157, 201, 251, 254, 301, 303(b), 303(g), 303(r), 307, 309(a), 309(j), 316, 332, 403, 615a–1, 615c, 1302(a), and 1302(b); 5 U.S.C. 301, and Executive Order no. 10530. Total Annual Burden: 2,016 hours. Total Annual Cost: No Cost. Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s). Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: These outage reports filed with the Commission pursuant to part 4 are presumed confidential. The information in these filings may be shared with the Department of Homeland Security only under appropriate confidential disclosure protections. Other persons seeking disclosure must follow the procedures delineated in 47 CFR 0.457 and 0.459 of the Commission’s rules for requests for and disclosure of information. The Commission recently adopted rule revisions, scheduled to take effect on September 30, 2022, that would expand this sharing to participating agencies of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, tribal nations, territories, and other agencies of federal government that have official duties that make them directly responsible for emergency management and first responder support functions. See In the Matter of Amendments to Part 4 of the Commission’s Rules Concerning Disruptions to Communications, Second Report and Order, FCC 21–34 (2021). Needs and Uses: This information collection pertains to a Report and Order adopted by the Commission in 2016 and modified in part by an Order on Reconsideration adopted by the Commission in 2019. The Report and Order adopted final rules requiring submarine cable licensees to report service outages through the network outage reporting system (NORS). The Order on Reconsideration modified the Report and Order by reexamining and amending certain aspects of the required reporting to better conform the requirements to how the Commission expects to use the outage information. Specifically, these licensees will need to report specific unplanned outages greater than 30 minutes on a portion of the cable system between submarine line terminal equipment (SLTE) or greater than four hours when it affects a fiber pair. Submarine cables are the conduit for the vast majority of voice, data, and internet connectivity between the mainland United States and Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as the connectivity between the United States and the rest of the world. E:\FR\FM\28APR1.SGM 28APR1 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 80 / Wednesday, April 28, 2021 / Rules and Regulations Accordingly, the operation and maintenance of the undersea cables licensed in the United States are essential to the nation’s economic stability, national security and other vital public interests. As with other information collection using NORS (under OMB Control No. 3060–0484), this newly approved collection will facilitate FCC monitoring, analysis, and investigation of the reliability and security of submarine cable networks, and to identify and take action on potential threats to our Nation’s telecommunications infrastructure. Lists of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 4 Submarine Cable Outage. Federal Communications Commission. Marlene Dortch, Secretary. Final Rules For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Federal Communications Commission amends 47 CFR part 4 as follows. PART 4—DISRUPTIONS TO COMMUNICATIONS 1. The authority citation for part 4 continues to read as follows: ■ Authority: 47 U.S.C. 34–39, 151, 154, 155, 157, 201, 251, 307, 316, 615a–1, 1302(a) and 1302(b); 5 U.S.C. 301 and Executive Order no. 10530. § 4.15 [Amended] 2. Amend § 4.15 by removing paragraph (d). ■ Administrative Procedure We have determined, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(B), that prior notice and opportunity for public comment are impractical and unnecessary. Public comment could not inform this correction process in any meaningful way. We have further determined that, under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3), the agency has good cause to make this rule effective upon publication, as it is important for the proper administration of our programs for our regulations in the CFR to be completely and correctly worded. [FR Doc. 2021–08651 Filed 4–27–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712–01–P DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service 50 CFR Part 92 [Docket No. FWS–R7–MB–2020–0134; FXMB12610700000–201–FF07M01000] RIN 1018–BF08 Migratory Bird Subsistence Harvest in Alaska; Harvest Regulations for Migratory Birds in Alaska During the 2021 Season; Correction Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Final rule; correction. jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with RULES AGENCY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently issued a final rule that revised the migratory bird subsistence harvest regulations in Alaska. The final rule included an improperly worded SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:37 Apr 27, 2021 Jkt 253001 amendatory instruction that resulted in the unintentional removal of regulatory text. This document corrects that inadvertent error and restores the regulations to their proper wording. DATES: This correction is effective April 28, 2021. ADDRESSES: You may find the rulemaking action at the Federal eRulemaking Portal: https:// www.regulations.gov in Docket No. FWS–R7–MB–2020–0134. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 19, 2021, we published a final rule (86 FR 20311) that was effective upon publication and that revised certain regulations in title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) in part 92. The amendatory instructions to the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) for the revisions to § 92.31 included an instruction to revise paragraph (e); however, the instruction should have been to revise the introductory text of paragraph (e). By instructing OFR to revise paragraph (e) to read as set forth in the rule, we inadvertently instructed OFR to replace all of paragraph (e), which at the time of publication of the April 19, 2021, rule included subparagraphs (e)(1) and (2), with the text set forth in the rule. However, we did not mean to remove paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) from the CFR; our intention was only to revise the introductory text of paragraph (e). Accordingly, this rule corrects our inadvertent error by adding paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) back to § 92.31. List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 92 Hunting, Treaties, Wildlife. Regulation Promulgation For the reasons given in the preamble, we amend part 92, of subchapter G of chapter I, title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as follows: PART 92—MIGRATORY BIRD SUBSISTENCE HARVEST IN ALASKA 1. The authority citation for part 92 continues to read as follows: ■ PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 22361 Authority: 16 U.S.C. 703–712. 2. Amend § 92.31 by adding paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) to read as follows: ■ § 92.31 Region-specific regulations. * * * * * (e) * * * (1) Season: April 2–June 30 and July 31–August 31 for seabirds; April 2–June 20 and July 22–August 31 for all other birds. (2) Closure: July 1–July 30 for seabirds; June 21–July 21 for all other birds. * * * * * Madonna Baucum, Regulations and Policy Chief, Division of Policy, Economics, Risk Management, and Analytics, Joint Administrative Operations, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [FR Doc. 2021–08792 Filed 4–27–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4333–15–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 679 [Docket No. 210217–0022] RTID 0648–XB042 Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Greenland Turbot in the Aleutian Islands Subarea of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Temporary rule; closure. AGENCY: NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Greenland turbot in the Aleutian Islands subarea of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 2021 Greenland turbot initial total allowable catch (ITAC) in the Aleutian Islands subarea of the BSAI. DATES: Effective 1200 hours, Alaska local time (A.l.t.), May 1, 2021, through 2400 hours, A.l.t., December 31, 2021. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Allyson Olds, 907–586–7228. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS manages the groundfish fishery in the BSAI according to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (FMP) prepared by the North Pacific Fishery Management SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\28APR1.SGM 28APR1

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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 80 (Wednesday, April 28, 2021)]
[Rules and Regulations]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-08651]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Parts 1 and 4

[GN Docket 15-206, FCC 16-81, FCC 19-138; FRS 21073]


Improving Outage Reporting for Submarine Cables and Enhanced 
Submarine Cable Outage Data

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Final rule and announcement of compliance date.

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SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) has approved a new information collection 
associated with rules governing submarine cable outage reporting 
requirements in the 2016 Report and Order, FCC 16-81, as modified in 
the 2019 Order on Reconsideration, FCC 19-138, in GN Docket No. 15-206. 
The Commission also announces that compliance with the rules will be 
required six months after the date of this notice. This notice is 
consistent with the 2016 Report and Order and the 2019 Order on 
Reconsideration, which state that the Commission will publish a 
document in the Federal Register announcing a compliance date for the 
rule section mandating submarine cable outage reporting requirements.

DATES: 
    Effective date: This rule is effective October 28, 2021.
    Compliance date: Compliance with the amendments to 47 CFR 4.1 and 
4.15, published at 81 FR 52354 on August 8, 2016, and 85 FR 15733 on 
March 19, 2020, respectively, is required as of October 28, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Cinnamon at (202) 418-2319 or 
[email protected] or Charlene C. Goldfield at (202) 418-1372 or 
[email protected], Attorney-Advisors of the Public Safety and 
Homeland Security Bureau, Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability 
Division.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document announces that OMB approved 
the information collection requirement in Sec.  4.15 on March 25, 2021.
    The Commission publishes this document to announce the compliance 
date of the rule. If you have any comments on the burden estimates 
listed below, or how the Commission can improve the collections and 
reduce any burdens caused thereby, please contact Nicole Ongele, 
Federal Communications Commission, Room 3.310, 45 L Street NE, 
Washington, DC 20554, regarding OMB Control Number 3060-1283. Please 
include the OMB Control Number in your correspondence. The Commission 
will also accept your comments via email at [email protected].
    To request materials in accessible formats for people with 
disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic files, audio format), 
send an email to [email protected] or call the Consumer and Governmental 
Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432 (TTY).

Synopsis

    As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3507), the FCC is notifying the public that it received final OMB 
approval on March 25, 2021, for the information collection requirements 
contained in Sec.  4.15 of its rules. Under 5 CFR part 1320, an agency 
may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it 
displays a current, valid OMB Control Number. No person shall be 
subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of 
information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act that does not 
display a current, valid OMB Control Number.
    The foregoing notice is required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, Public Law 104-13, October 1, 1995, and 44 U.S.C. 3507.
    The total annual reporting burdens and costs for the respondents 
are as follows:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-1283.
    OMB Approval Date: March 25, 2021.
    OMB Expiration Date: March 31, 2024.
    Title: Improving Outage Reporting for Submarine Cables and Enhanced 
Submarine Cable Outage Data.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 74 respondents; 336 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 6 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for these 
collections is contained in 47 U.S.C. 34-39, 151, 154, 155, 157, 201, 
251, 254, 301, 303(b), 303(g), 303(r), 307, 309(a), 309(j), 316, 332, 
403, 615a-1, 615c, 1302(a), and 1302(b); 5 U.S.C. 301, and Executive 
Order no. 10530.
    Total Annual Burden: 2,016 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: No Cost.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: These outage reports filed 
with the Commission pursuant to part 4 are presumed confidential. The 
information in these filings may be shared with the Department of 
Homeland Security only under appropriate confidential disclosure 
protections. Other persons seeking disclosure must follow the 
procedures delineated in 47 CFR 0.457 and 0.459 of the Commission's 
rules for requests for and disclosure of information. The Commission 
recently adopted rule revisions, scheduled to take effect on September 
30, 2022, that would expand this sharing to participating agencies of 
the 50 states, the District of Columbia, tribal nations, territories, 
and other agencies of federal government that have official duties that 
make them directly responsible for emergency management and first 
responder support functions. See In the Matter of Amendments to Part 4 
of the Commission's Rules Concerning Disruptions to Communications, 
Second Report and Order, FCC 21-34 (2021).
    Needs and Uses: This information collection pertains to a Report 
and Order adopted by the Commission in 2016 and modified in part by an 
Order on Reconsideration adopted by the Commission in 2019. The Report 
and Order adopted final rules requiring submarine cable licensees to 
report service outages through the network outage reporting system 
(NORS). The Order on Reconsideration modified the Report and Order by 
reexamining and amending certain aspects of the required reporting to 
better conform the requirements to how the Commission expects to use 
the outage information. Specifically, these licensees will need to 
report specific unplanned outages greater than 30 minutes on a portion 
of the cable system between submarine line terminal equipment (SLTE) or 
greater than four hours when it affects a fiber pair.
    Submarine cables are the conduit for the vast majority of voice, 
data, and internet connectivity between the mainland United States and 
Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, 
Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as the connectivity 
between the United States and the rest of the world.

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Accordingly, the operation and maintenance of the undersea cables 
licensed in the United States are essential to the nation's economic 
stability, national security and other vital public interests. As with 
other information collection using NORS (under OMB Control No. 3060-
0484), this newly approved collection will facilitate FCC monitoring, 
analysis, and investigation of the reliability and security of 
submarine cable networks, and to identify and take action on potential 
threats to our Nation's telecommunications infrastructure.

Lists of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 4

    Submarine Cable Outage.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary.

Final Rules

    For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Federal 
Communications Commission amends 47 CFR part 4 as follows.

PART 4--DISRUPTIONS TO COMMUNICATIONS

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1. The authority citation for part 4 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  47 U.S.C. 34-39, 151, 154, 155, 157, 201, 251, 307, 
316, 615a-1, 1302(a) and 1302(b); 5 U.S.C. 301 and Executive Order 
no. 10530.


Sec.  4.15  [Amended]

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2. Amend Sec.  4.15 by removing paragraph (d).

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