Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, Mandatory Electronic Filing of System Security and Integrity Policies and Procedures Documents, 34453-34454 [2023-11417]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 103 / Tuesday, May 30, 2023 / Rules and Regulations the first column, amendatory instruction 4 and the corresponding regulatory text is corrected to read as follows: ■ 4. Amend § 60.17 by: ■ a. Revising paragraphs (h)(187) and (201); ■ b. Redesignating paragraphs (h)(202) through (222) as paragraphs (h)(203) through (223), respectively; and ■ c. Adding new paragraph (h)(202). The revisions and addition read as follows: § 60.17 Incorporations by reference. * * * * * (h) * * * (187) ASTM D6216–20, Standard Practice for Opacity Monitor Manufacturers to Certify Conformance with Design and Performance Specifications, approved September 1, 2020; IBR approved for appendix B to part 60. * * * * * (201) ASTM D6784–02 (Reapproved 2008), Standard Test Method for Elemental, Oxidized, Particle-Bound and Total Mercury in Flue Gas Generated from Coal-Fired Stationary Sources (Ontario Hydro Method), approved April 1, 2008; IBR approved for § 60.56c(b). (202) ASTM D6784–16, Standard Test Method for Elemental, Oxidized, Particle-Bound and Total Mercury in Flue Gas Generated from Coal-Fired Stationary Sources (Ontario Hydro Method), approved March 1, 2016; IBR approved for appendix B to part 60. * * * * * Dated: May 24, 2023. Richard A. Wayland, Director, Air Quality Assessment Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. [FR Doc. 2023–11407 Filed 5–26–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 1 ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with RULES1 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, Mandatory Electronic Filing of System Security and Integrity Policies and Procedures Documents Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Final rule. AGENCY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (the FCC or Commission), amends a rule to VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:30 May 26, 2023 Jkt 259001 Congressional Review Act The Commission has determined, and the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), concurs, that this rule is non-major under the Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 804(2). The Commission will send a copy of this Order to Congress and the Government Accountability Office pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A). Final Regulatory Flexibility Certification Under Section 604(a) of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the Bureau is not required to prepare a final regulatory flexibility analysis because the Order does not require notice-andcomment rulemaking. Although not required in this particular situation, we are optionally including a Final Regulatory Flexibility Certification in this order since an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Certification was included in the CEFS Announcement Public Notice. Paperwork Reduction Act [PS Docket No. 22–217; DA 23–392; FR ID 143022] SUMMARY: announce mandatory use of the CALEA Electronic Filing System (CEFS), which is available at: https://www.fcc.gov/cefs for certain required filings for telecommunications providers pursuant to the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). DATES: Effective June 29, 2023. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rosemary Cabral, Attorney Advisor, Policy and Licensing Division, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, at (202) 418–0662 or Rosemary.Cabral@ fcc.gov; or Chris Fedeli, Attorney Advisor, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau at 202–418–1514 or Christopher.Fedeli@fcc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission’s Order in PS Docket No. 22–217, DA 23–392, adopted and released on May 15, 2023. The full text of this document is available at https://docs.fcc.gov/public/ attachments/DA-23-392A1.pdf. This document does not adopt or propose new or substantively modified information collection(s) 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). This document may contain non-substantive modifications to an approved information collection. PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 34453 Any such modifications will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for review pursuant to OMB’s non-substantive modification process. Synopsis Section 105 of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, 47 U.S.C. 1004, and section 229(b) of the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. 229(b), require all covered entities to file System Security and Integrity (SSI) Plans with the Federal Communications Commission (Commission). The Commission first specified the requirements for telecommunications carriers’ SSI Plans in 1999. Pursuant to § 1.20005 of the Commission’s rules, all providers subject to CALEA must file their SSI Plans prior to commencing service and must re-file a complete updated SSI Plan within 90 days following any changes to information contained in a previously-filed SSI Plan. All SSI Plans must contain all information listed under §§ 1.20003 and 1.20004 of the Commission’s rules. On June 1, 2022, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) announced the launch of CEFS, which allows covered entities to file System Security and Integrity Policies and Procedures Documents (SSI Plans) confidentially and securely online, eliminating the need for paper filing. Filers that seek to file confidentially or to preserve the confidentiality of a piece of information in a filing may still request such treatment under § 0.459 of the Commission’s rules. Also, CEFS operates on a platform that links to the Commission Registration System (CORES) to reduce the need for filers to re-enter basic information that CORES users have already provided to the Commission. The new system will allow users to file SSI Plans electronically and, once they have electronically filed a plan in CEFS, to log back in to CEFS and retrieve and view that filing. CEFS encourages timely filings of new SSI Plans and updated SSI Plans and reduces the risk of filing errors that require re-submission. In the CEFS Announcement Public Notice, the Bureau stated that electronic filing of SSI Plans in CEFS would initially be voluntary and proposed to make electronic filing mandatory six months later. The six-month transition period allowed regulated entities time to familiarize themselves with CEFS and CORES, if necessary, and obtain FCC Usernames and FCC Registration Numbers (FRNs) needed to file in CEFS. The transition period also allowed time for internal consideration of any further modifications to the new system. In E:\FR\FM\30MYR1.SGM 30MYR1 34454 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 103 / Tuesday, May 30, 2023 / Rules and Regulations response to the CEFS Announcement Public Notice, we received no comments regarding the proposal to mandate electronic filing of SSI Plans or the timing of the proposed requirement. We received one comment from Subsentio, LLC (Subsentio), which serves as a Trusted Third Party (TTP) for entities subject to CALEA, requesting that CEFS implementation include the ability for TTPs to continue to file SSI Plans on behalf of multiple clients. On December 12, 2022, the Bureau announced the availability of CEFS for voluntary filing of SSI Plans. During this time, the Bureau began accepting SSI Plans that were filed in CEFS voluntarily, and implementing enhancements to ensure that CEFS is operating effectively and efficiently when mandatory electronic filing takes effect. Over the past decades, the Commission has made significant progress to upgrade and modernize its filing procedures. Given the wellestablished benefits of electronic filing, in this Order, we amend our rules to require the electronic filing of SSI Plans through the new database, CEFS. Specifically, the order amends § 1.20005 to announce mandatory use of the CALEA Electronic Filing System (CEFS) to file SSI Plans electronically. The new CEFS database will reduce the overall burden associated with these filings as well as increase the efficiency of our administrative processes significantly. List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 1 Communications common carriers, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Telecommunications. 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: ■ ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with RULES1 Authority: 47 U.S.C. chs. 2, 5, 9, 13; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note, unless otherwise noted. 2. Amend § 1.20005 by revising paragraph (a) and adding paragraph (c) to read as follows: § 1.20005 Submission of policies and procedures and Commission review. (a) Each telecommunications carrier shall file with the Commission the VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:30 May 26, 2023 Jkt 259001 [FR Doc. 2023–11417 Filed 5–26–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712–01–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 635 [Docket No. 220919–0193; RTID 0648– XC999] Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fisheries; General Category Retention Limit Adjustment National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Temporary rule; retention limit adjustment. AGENCY: NMFS is adjusting the General category bluefin tuna (BFT) daily retention limit from the default of one large medium or giant BFT to three large medium or giant BFT. This daily retention limit applies to Atlantic Tunas General category (commercial) permitted vessels and Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Charter/Headboat permitted vessels with a commercial sale endorsement when fishing commercially for BFT. This adjustment will be effective for the June through August time period until further modified. DATES: Effective June 1, 2023, through August 31, 2023, or until NMFS announces via an action in the Federal Register another adjustment to the retention limit. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Redd, Jr., larry.redd@noaa.gov, 301–427–8503. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Atlantic HMS fisheries, including BFT fisheries, are managed under the authority of the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act (ATCA; 16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.) and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery SUMMARY: Federal Communications Commission. Lauren Kravetz, Chief of Staff, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. ■ policies and procedures it uses to comply with the requirements of this subpart. These policies and procedures shall be filed before commencing service and, thereafter, within 90 days of a carrier’s merger or divestiture or a carrier’s amendment of its existing policies and procedures. * * * * * (c) As of June 29, 2023, any filings required by paragraph (a) of this section shall be submitted electronically through the Commission’s CALEA Electronic Filing System (CEFS). PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act; 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). The 2006 Consolidated Atlantic HMS Fishery Management Plan (FMP) and its amendments are implemented by regulations at 50 CFR part 635. Section 635.27 divides the U.S. BFT quota recommended by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and as implemented by the United States among the various domestic fishing categories, per the allocations established in the 2006 Consolidated HMS FMP and its amendments. NMFS is required under the Magnuson-Stevens Act to provide U.S. fishing vessels with a reasonable opportunity to harvest quotas under relevant international fishery agreements such as the ICCAT Convention, which is implemented domestically pursuant to ATCA. As described in § 635.27(a), the current baseline U.S. BFT quota is 1,316.14 metric tons (mt) (not including the 25 mt ICCAT allocated to the United States to account for bycatch of BFT in pelagic longline fisheries in the Northeast Distant Gear Restricted Area). The General category baseline quota is 710.7 mt. This baseline quota is further subdivided into subquotas by time period. The baseline subquota for the June through August time period is 355.4 mt. The default General category daily retention limit is one large medium or giant BFT (measuring 73 inches (185 cm) curved fork length (CFL) or greater) per vessel per day/trip and applies to General category permitted vessels and to HMS Charter/ Headboat permitted vessels (when fishing commercially for BFT) (§ 635.23(a)(2)). Adjustment of General Category Daily Retention Limit Under § 635.23(a)(4), NMFS may increase or decrease the daily retention limit of large medium and giant BFT over a range of zero to five BFT per vessel after considering the regulatory determination criteria under § 635.27(a)(7). NMFS has considered all of the relevant determination criteria and their applicability to the General category BFT retention limit for the June through August time period. After considering these criteria, NMFS has decided to increase the daily retention limit from one to three large medium or giant BFT per vessel per day/trip (i.e., three BFT measuring 73 inches (185 cm) CFL or greater) for General category permitted vessels and for HMS Charter/Headboat permitted vessels with a commercial sale endorsement when fishing commercially for BFT. HMS Charter/ E:\FR\FM\30MYR1.SGM 30MYR1

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 30, 2023)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 34453-34454]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11417]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 1

[PS Docket No. 22-217; DA 23-392; FR ID 143022]


Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, Mandatory 
Electronic Filing of System Security and Integrity Policies and 
Procedures Documents

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (the 
FCC or Commission), amends a rule to announce mandatory use of the 
CALEA Electronic Filing System (CEFS), which is available at: https://www.fcc.gov/cefs for certain required filings for telecommunications 
providers pursuant to the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement 
Act (CALEA).

DATES: Effective June 29, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rosemary Cabral, Attorney Advisor, 
Policy and Licensing Division, Public Safety and Homeland Security 
Bureau, at (202) 418-0662 or [email protected]; or Chris Fedeli, 
Attorney Advisor, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau at 202-
418-1514 or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's Order 
in PS Docket No. 22-217, DA 23-392, adopted and released on May 15, 
2023. The full text of this document is available at https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-23-392A1.pdf.

Congressional Review Act

    The Commission has determined, and the Administrator of the Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB), concurs, that this rule is non-major under the 
Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 804(2). The Commission will send a 
copy of this Order to Congress and the Government Accountability Office 
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A).

Final Regulatory Flexibility Certification

    Under Section 604(a) of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the Bureau 
is not required to prepare a final regulatory flexibility analysis 
because the Order does not require notice-and-comment rulemaking. 
Although not required in this particular situation, we are optionally 
including a Final Regulatory Flexibility Certification in this order 
since an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Certification was included in 
the CEFS Announcement Public Notice.

Paperwork Reduction Act

    This document does not adopt or propose new or substantively 
modified information collection(s) 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). This document may contain non-substantive 
modifications to an approved information collection. Any such 
modifications will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget 
for review pursuant to OMB's non-substantive modification process.

Synopsis

    Section 105 of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement 
Act, 47 U.S.C. 1004, and section 229(b) of the Communications Act, 47 
U.S.C. 229(b), require all covered entities to file System Security and 
Integrity (SSI) Plans with the Federal Communications Commission 
(Commission). The Commission first specified the requirements for 
telecommunications carriers' SSI Plans in 1999. Pursuant to Sec.  
1.20005 of the Commission's rules, all providers subject to CALEA must 
file their SSI Plans prior to commencing service and must re-file a 
complete updated SSI Plan within 90 days following any changes to 
information contained in a previously-filed SSI Plan. All SSI Plans 
must contain all information listed under Sec. Sec.  1.20003 and 
1.20004 of the Commission's rules.
    On June 1, 2022, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau 
(Bureau) announced the launch of CEFS, which allows covered entities to 
file System Security and Integrity Policies and Procedures Documents 
(SSI Plans) confidentially and securely online, eliminating the need 
for paper filing. Filers that seek to file confidentially or to 
preserve the confidentiality of a piece of information in a filing may 
still request such treatment under Sec.  0.459 of the Commission's 
rules. Also, CEFS operates on a platform that links to the Commission 
Registration System (CORES) to reduce the need for filers to re-enter 
basic information that CORES users have already provided to the 
Commission. The new system will allow users to file SSI Plans 
electronically and, once they have electronically filed a plan in CEFS, 
to log back in to CEFS and retrieve and view that filing. CEFS 
encourages timely filings of new SSI Plans and updated SSI Plans and 
reduces the risk of filing errors that require re-submission.
    In the CEFS Announcement Public Notice, the Bureau stated that 
electronic filing of SSI Plans in CEFS would initially be voluntary and 
proposed to make electronic filing mandatory six months later. The six-
month transition period allowed regulated entities time to familiarize 
themselves with CEFS and CORES, if necessary, and obtain FCC Usernames 
and FCC Registration Numbers (FRNs) needed to file in CEFS. The 
transition period also allowed time for internal consideration of any 
further modifications to the new system. In

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response to the CEFS Announcement Public Notice, we received no 
comments regarding the proposal to mandate electronic filing of SSI 
Plans or the timing of the proposed requirement. We received one 
comment from Subsentio, LLC (Subsentio), which serves as a Trusted 
Third Party (TTP) for entities subject to CALEA, requesting that CEFS 
implementation include the ability for TTPs to continue to file SSI 
Plans on behalf of multiple clients.
    On December 12, 2022, the Bureau announced the availability of CEFS 
for voluntary filing of SSI Plans. During this time, the Bureau began 
accepting SSI Plans that were filed in CEFS voluntarily, and 
implementing enhancements to ensure that CEFS is operating effectively 
and efficiently when mandatory electronic filing takes effect.
    Over the past decades, the Commission has made significant progress 
to upgrade and modernize its filing procedures. Given the well-
established benefits of electronic filing, in this Order, we amend our 
rules to require the electronic filing of SSI Plans through the new 
database, CEFS. Specifically, the order amends Sec.  1.20005 to 
announce mandatory use of the CALEA Electronic Filing System (CEFS) to 
file SSI Plans electronically. The new CEFS database will reduce the 
overall burden associated with these filings as well as increase the 
efficiency of our administrative processes significantly.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 1

    Communications common carriers, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements, Telecommunications.

Federal Communications Commission.
Lauren Kravetz,
Chief of Staff, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.

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.  1.20005 by revising paragraph (a) and adding paragraph 
(c) to read as follows:


Sec.  1.20005  Submission of policies and procedures and Commission 
review.

    (a) Each telecommunications carrier shall file with the Commission 
the policies and procedures it uses to comply with the requirements of 
this subpart. These policies and procedures shall be filed before 
commencing service and, thereafter, within 90 days of a carrier's 
merger or divestiture or a carrier's amendment of its existing policies 
and procedures.
* * * * *
    (c) As of June 29, 2023, any filings required by paragraph (a) of 
this section shall be submitted electronically through the Commission's 
CALEA Electronic Filing System (CEFS).

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