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Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023–11106 Filed 5–24–23; 8:45 am]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
MOORESVILLE, AL, File No. BMP–
20230210AAD; MIRACLE MEDIA
GROUP, LLC, WORD(AM), Fac. ID No.
36169, FROM DAYTONA BEACH, FL,
TO PORT ORANGE, FL, File No. BP–
20230209AAG; ORLANDO RADIO
MARKETING, INC., WNDO(AM), Fac.
ID No. 1185, FROM APOPKA, FL, TO
FAIRVIEW SHORES, FL, File No. BP–
20230302AAB; MOBILE PARTNERS,
INC., WVNZ(AM), Fac. ID No. 52050,
FROM RICHMOND, VA, TO ASHLAND,
VA, File No. BP–20230511AAE; LABOR
NEIGHBOR RESEARCH & TRAINING
CENTER, KCNM(FM), Fac. ID No.
766448, FROM CIMARRON, NM, TO
MAXWELL, NM, File No. 0000211871;
VCY AMERICA INC., KVLM(FM), Fac.
ID No. 71650, FROM LAMESA, TX, TO
TARZAN, TX, File No. 0000212959;
FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES, INC.,
WGCC–FM, Fac. ID No. 23603, FROM
BATAVIA, NY, TO KENDALL, NY, File
No. 0000213726; WOODARD
BROADCASTING CO., INC., WVOK–
FM, Fac. ID No. 73609, FROM OXFORD,
AL, TO OHATCHEE, AL, File No.
0000213072; MICHAEL RADIO
COMPANY, LLC, KLLM(FM), Fac. ID
No. 762455, FROM WHEATLAND, WY,
TO LARAMIE, WY, File No.
0000205045; and IHM LICENSES, LLC,
WFFX(FM), Fac. ID No. 54611, FROM
HATTIESBURG, MS, TO MARRERO,
LA, File No. 0000214604. The full text
of these applications is available
electronically via the Consolidated Data
Base System (CDBS) https://
licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/
prod/app_sear.htm or Licensing and
Management System (LMS), https://
apps2int.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/
publicAppSearch.html.
Federal Communications Commission.
Nazifa Sawez,
Assistant Chief, Audio Division, Media
Bureau.
[FR ID 141583]
Radio Broadcasting Services; AM or
FM Proposals To Change the
Community of License
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Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The agency must receive
comments on or before July 24, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Federal Communications
Commission, 45 L Street NE,
Washington, DC 20554.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rolanda F. Smith, 202–418–2054.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
following applicants filed AM or FM
proposals to change the community of
license: BRANTLEY BROADCAST
ASSOCIATES, LLC, WWTM(AM), Fac.
ID No. 54328, FROM DECATUR, AL, TO
DATES:
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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
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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 July 24, 2023.
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 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: 3060–0798.
Title: FCC Authorization for Radio
Service Authorization; Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau; Public
Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.
Form Number: FCC Form 601.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individual and
households, Business or other for-profit
entities, state, local, or tribal
government, and not for profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 255,552
respondents; 255,552 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.5 to
1.25 hours.
Frequency of Response:
Recordkeeping requirement; third party
disclosure requirement, on occasion
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reporting requirement and periodic
reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for these collections are
contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 154,
154(i), 155(c), 157, 201, 202, 208, 214,
301, 302a, 303, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311,
314, 316, 319, 324, 331, 332, 333, 336,
534, 535, and 554 of the
Communications Act of 1934.
Total Annual Burden: 225,808 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $72,474,000.
Needs and Uses: FCC Form 601 is a
consolidated, multi-part application
form that is used for market- based and
site-based licensing for wireless
telecommunications services, including
public safety, which are filed through
the Commission’s Universal Licensing
System (ULS) or any other electronic
filing interface the Commission
develops. FCC Form 601 is composed of
a main form that contains
administrative information and a series
of schedules used for filing technical
and other information. This form is used
to apply for a new license, to amend or
withdraw a pending application, to
modify or renew an existing license,
cancel a license, submit required
notifications, request an extension of
time to satisfy construction
requirements, request an administrative
update to an existing license (such as
mailing address change), or request a
Special Temporary Authority License.
Respondents are required to submit FCC
Form 601 electronically.
On January 18, 2023, the Commission
adopted the 4.9 GHz Seventh Report
and Order (FCC 23–3) where it
concluded that collecting additional
technical data on public safety
operations in the 4.94–4.99 GHz band
(4.9 GHz band) will improve
interference protection and give public
safety licensees more confidence in the
band without adding a significant
burden on licensees or applicants. The
Commission also established a Band
Manager to coordinate operations in the
4.9 GHz band. The Band Manager will
use the more granular technical data
collected on public safety operations in
ULS via the FCC Form 601 to perform
frequency coordination and will be
empowered to work with public safety
licensees to ensure efficient use of this
spectrum and enable new, noncommercial operations on a secondary,
preemptable basis.
The Commission is creating two new
radio service codes and directing
applicants seeking to license 4.9 GHz
band base/mobile, mobile-only or
temporary fixed stations (new radio
service code PB) to submit with their
applications on FCC Form 601:
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coordinates (base), antenna height above
average terrain (base), center frequency,
emission designator, effective radiated
power, number of units (mobile and
temporary fixed), and area of operation
(mobile and temporary fixed). Similarly,
the Commission is directing applicants
seeking to license 4.9 GHz band
permanent fixed point-to-point, pointto-multi-point and fixed receiver
stations (new radio service code PF) to
submit with their applications on FCC
Form 601: transmitter and receiver
antenna coordinates, frequencies,
polarizations, tolerance, effective
isotropic radiated power, emission
designator, type of modulation, antenna
model, gain, antenna center line
height(s) above ground level and ground
elevation above mean sea level, and
path azimuth and distance.
The current FCC Form 601 already
collects the information detailed above
on Schedules D, H and I, but existing
4.9 GHz band operations under radio
service code PA are not currently
required to utilize these schedules. The
changes proposed herein will modify
the instructions of the FCC Form 601 to
include the two new radio service codes
and to duplicate certain questions from
Schedule D onto Schedule I regarding
eligibility, extended implementation
and associated call sign.
On July 18, 2022, the Commission
released a Report and Order and Second
Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,
Partitioning, Disaggregation, and
Leasing of Spectrum, WT Docket No.
19–38, FCC 22–53, in which the
Commission established the Enhanced
Competition Incentive Program (ECIP)
to establish incentives for wireless radio
service licensees to make underutilized
spectrum available to small carriers,
Tribal Nations, and entities serving rural
areas (ECIP Report and Order in WT
Docket No. 19–38, FCC 22–53). In the
Report and Order, the Commission
adopted a program under which any
covered geographic area licensee may
offer spectrum to an unaffiliated eligible
entity through a partition and/or
disaggregation, and any covered
geographic area licensee eligible to lease
in an included service may offer
spectrum to an unaffiliated eligible
entity through a long-term leasing
arrangement. If the FCC finds that
approval of an ECIP eligible assignment
or lease is in the public interest, the
agency will consent to the transaction
and confer benefits, including five-year
license term extensions, one year
construction extensions, and substituted
alternative construction requirements
for rural-focused transactions. The
Commission also established rules to
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permit reaggregation of geographic
licenses.
In establishing the ECIP, the
Commission requires applicants seeking
to participate in the program to submit
certain information that shows the
transaction qualifies for ECIP inclusion.
The Commission found that the ECIP
builds on Congressional goals in the
MOBILE NOW Act to incentivize
beneficial transactions in the public
interest that will promote greater
competition in the provision of wireless
services, facilitate increased availability
of advanced wireless services in rural
areas, facilitate new opportunities for
small carriers and Tribal Nations to
increase access to spectrum, and bring
more advanced wireless service
including 5G to underserved
communities.
The ECIP related change created a
new Schedule O, similar to schedule K,
that will be used by certain ECIP
Licensees to file either their Initial
Operation Requirement Notifications
(IORN) or their Final Operation
Requirement Notifications (FORN), as
required by 47 CFR 1.60004, 1.60006
The Commission now seeks approval
for revisions to its currently approved
collection of information under OMB
Control Number 3060–0798 to permit
the collection of the two changes. We
anticipate that these revisions will have
no impact on the hourly burden to
complete FCC Form 601, as the existing
burden already provides the appropriate
estimate. The Commission therefore
seeks approval for a revision to its
currently approved information
collection on FCC Form 601 to revise
FCC Form 601 accordingly.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023–11126 Filed 5–24–23; 8:45 am]
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Sunshine Act Meetings
Wednesday, May 31,
2023 at 10:30 a.m. and its continuation
at the conclusion of the open meeting
on June 1, 2023.
TIME AND DATE:
1050 First Street, NE,
Washington, DC and virtual (this
meeting will be a hybrid meeting.)
PLACE:
This meeting will be closed to
the public.
STATUS:
Compliance
matters pursuant to 52 U.S.C. 30109.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-0798; FR ID 141653]
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 July 24,
2023. 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: 3060-0798.
Title: FCC Authorization for Radio Service Authorization; Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau; Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.
Form Number: FCC Form 601.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individual and households, Business or other for-
profit entities, state, local, or tribal government, and not for profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 255,552 respondents; 255,552 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.5 to 1.25 hours.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement; third party
disclosure requirement, on occasion
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reporting requirement and periodic reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for these collections are contained in 47 U.S.C.
151, 152, 154, 154(i), 155(c), 157, 201, 202, 208, 214, 301, 302a, 303,
307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 314, 316, 319, 324, 331, 332, 333, 336, 534,
535, and 554 of the Communications Act of 1934.
Total Annual Burden: 225,808 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $72,474,000.
Needs and Uses: FCC Form 601 is a consolidated, multi-part
application form that is used for market- based and site-based
licensing for wireless telecommunications services, including public
safety, which are filed through the Commission's Universal Licensing
System (ULS) or any other electronic filing interface the Commission
develops. FCC Form 601 is composed of a main form that contains
administrative information and a series of schedules used for filing
technical and other information. This form is used to apply for a new
license, to amend or withdraw a pending application, to modify or renew
an existing license, cancel a license, submit required notifications,
request an extension of time to satisfy construction requirements,
request an administrative update to an existing license (such as
mailing address change), or request a Special Temporary Authority
License. Respondents are required to submit FCC Form 601
electronically.
On January 18, 2023, the Commission adopted the 4.9 GHz Seventh
Report and Order (FCC 23-3) where it concluded that collecting
additional technical data on public safety operations in the 4.94-4.99
GHz band (4.9 GHz band) will improve interference protection and give
public safety licensees more confidence in the band without adding a
significant burden on licensees or applicants. The Commission also
established a Band Manager to coordinate operations in the 4.9 GHz
band. The Band Manager will use the more granular technical data
collected on public safety operations in ULS via the FCC Form 601 to
perform frequency coordination and will be empowered to work with
public safety licensees to ensure efficient use of this spectrum and
enable new, non-commercial operations on a secondary, preemptable
basis.
The Commission is creating two new radio service codes and
directing applicants seeking to license 4.9 GHz band base/mobile,
mobile-only or temporary fixed stations (new radio service code PB) to
submit with their applications on FCC Form 601: coordinates (base),
antenna height above average terrain (base), center frequency, emission
designator, effective radiated power, number of units (mobile and
temporary fixed), and area of operation (mobile and temporary fixed).
Similarly, the Commission is directing applicants seeking to license
4.9 GHz band permanent fixed point-to-point, point-to-multi-point and
fixed receiver stations (new radio service code PF) to submit with
their applications on FCC Form 601: transmitter and receiver antenna
coordinates, frequencies, polarizations, tolerance, effective isotropic
radiated power, emission designator, type of modulation, antenna model,
gain, antenna center line height(s) above ground level and ground
elevation above mean sea level, and path azimuth and distance.
The current FCC Form 601 already collects the information detailed
above on Schedules D, H and I, but existing 4.9 GHz band operations
under radio service code PA are not currently required to utilize these
schedules. The changes proposed herein will modify the instructions of
the FCC Form 601 to include the two new radio service codes and to
duplicate certain questions from Schedule D onto Schedule I regarding
eligibility, extended implementation and associated call sign.
On July 18, 2022, the Commission released a Report and Order and
Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Partitioning,
Disaggregation, and Leasing of Spectrum, WT Docket No. 19-38, FCC 22-
53, in which the Commission established the Enhanced Competition
Incentive Program (ECIP) to establish incentives for wireless radio
service licensees to make underutilized spectrum available to small
carriers, Tribal Nations, and entities serving rural areas (ECIP Report
and Order in WT Docket No. 19-38, FCC 22-53). In the Report and Order,
the Commission adopted a program under which any covered geographic
area licensee may offer spectrum to an unaffiliated eligible entity
through a partition and/or disaggregation, and any covered geographic
area licensee eligible to lease in an included service may offer
spectrum to an unaffiliated eligible entity through a long-term leasing
arrangement. If the FCC finds that approval of an ECIP eligible
assignment or lease is in the public interest, the agency will consent
to the transaction and confer benefits, including five-year license
term extensions, one year construction extensions, and substituted
alternative construction requirements for rural-focused transactions.
The Commission also established rules to permit reaggregation of
geographic licenses.
In establishing the ECIP, the Commission requires applicants
seeking to participate in the program to submit certain information
that shows the transaction qualifies for ECIP inclusion. The Commission
found that the ECIP builds on Congressional goals in the MOBILE NOW Act
to incentivize beneficial transactions in the public interest that will
promote greater competition in the provision of wireless services,
facilitate increased availability of advanced wireless services in
rural areas, facilitate new opportunities for small carriers and Tribal
Nations to increase access to spectrum, and bring more advanced
wireless service including 5G to underserved communities.
The ECIP related change created a new Schedule O, similar to
schedule K, that will be used by certain ECIP Licensees to file either
their Initial Operation Requirement Notifications (IORN) or their Final
Operation Requirement Notifications (FORN), as required by 47 CFR
1.60004, 1.60006
The Commission now seeks approval for revisions to its currently
approved collection of information under OMB Control Number 3060-0798
to permit the collection of the two changes. We anticipate that these
revisions will have no impact on the hourly burden to complete FCC Form
601, as the existing burden already provides the appropriate estimate.
The Commission therefore seeks approval for a revision to its currently
approved information collection on FCC Form 601 to revise FCC Form 601
accordingly.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-11126 Filed 5-24-23; 8:45 am]
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