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in supply or price increase. This final
rule is a purely administrative action
and has no implications under
Executive Order 13211.
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Bridging the Digital Divide for LowIncome Consumers, Lifeline and Link
Up Reform and Modernization,
Telecommunications Carriers Eligible
for Universal Service Support
For the reasons discussed in the
preamble, the Bureau of Land
Management amends 43 CFR part 1820
as follows:
PART 1820—APPLICATION
PROCEDURES
1. The authority citation for part 1820
continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552, 43 U.S.C. 2, 1201,
1733, and 1740.
Subpart 1821—General Information
2. Amend § 1821.10 in paragraph (a)
by revising the entry for ‘‘Colorado State
Office’’ to read as follows:
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Where are BLM offices located?
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State Offices and Areas of Jurisdiction
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Colorado State Office, Denver Federal
Center, Building 40, Lakewood, CO
80215; Public Room, Denver Federal
Center, Building 1A, Lakewood, CO
80225; P.O. Box 151029, Lakewood, CO
80215.
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Laura Daniel-Davis,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Land
and Minerals Management.
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Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
Administrative practice and
procedure, Archives and records, Public
lands.
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In this document, the Federal
Communications Commission
(Commission) is issuing a final rule for
the Lifeline program.
DATES: This rule is effective May 31,
2023. As of May 31, 2023, the
amendments to 47 CFR 54.403(a)(3),
54.413, and 54.414(b), published
January 16, 2018, at 83 FR 2075, are
withdrawn,
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nicholas Page, Nicholas.Page@fcc.gov,
Telecommunications Access Policy
Division, Wireline Competition Bureau,
(202) 418–7400 or TTY: (202) 418–0484.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Federal Communications Commission
(Commission) adopted amendments to
47 CFR 54.403(a)(3), 54.413, and
54.414(b) that were to become effective
upon announcement in the Federal
Register of OMB information collection
approval (83 FR 2075, January 16, 2018)
(FR Doc. 2018–00152). These amended
rules were vacated by the Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in National
Lifeline Association v. Federal
Communications Commission. 921 F.3d
1102. Accordingly, revisions to
§ 54.403(a)(3), third column on page
2084; § 54.413, first column on page
2085; and § 54.414(b), second column
on page 2085 are being withdrawn and
these rules are reverting back to their
prior version.
SUMMARY:
List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 54
Communications common carriers,
Health facilities, Internet, Libraries,
Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Schools, and
Telecommunications.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary.
Final Rules
For the reasons discussed in the
preamble, the Federal Communications
Commission amends 47 CFR part 54 to
read as follows:
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List of Subjects in 43 CFR Part 1820
§ 1821.10
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Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 155, 201,
205, 214, 219, 220, 229, 254, 303(r), 403,
1004, 1302, 1601–1609, and 1752, unless
otherwise noted.
2. Amend § 54.403 by revising
paragraph (a)(3) to read as follows:
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§ 54.403
Lifeline support amount.
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(3) Tribal lands support amount.
Additional Federal Lifeline support of
up to $25 per month will be made
available to an eligible
telecommunications carrier providing
Lifeline service to an eligible resident of
Tribal lands, as defined in § 54.400(e),
to the extent that the eligible
telecommunications carrier certifies to
the Administrator that it will pass
through the full Tribal lands support
amount to the qualifying eligible
resident of Tribal lands and that it has
received any non-Federal regulatory
approvals necessary to implement the
required rate reduction.
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§ 54.413
Link Up for Tribal lands.
(a) Definition. For purposes of this
subpart, the term ‘‘Tribal Link Up’’
means an assistance program for eligible
residents of Tribal lands seeking
telecommunications service from a
telecommunications carrier that is
receiving high-cost support on Tribal
lands, pursuant to subpart D of this part,
that provides:
(1) A 100 percent reduction, up to
$100, of the customary charge for
commencing telecommunications
service for a single telecommunications
connection at a subscriber’s principal
place of residence imposed by an
eligible telecommunications carrier that
is also receiving high-cost support on
Tribal lands, pursuant to subpart D of
this part. For purposes of this subpart,
a ‘‘customary charge for commencing
telecommunications service’’’ is the
ordinary charge an eligible
telecommunications carrier imposes and
collects from all subscribers to initiate
service with that eligible
telecommunications carrier. A charge
imposed only on qualifying low-income
consumers to initiate service is not a
customary charge for commencing
telecommunications service. Activation
charges routinely waived, reduced, or
eliminated with the purchase of
additional products, services, or
minutes are not customary charges
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eligible for universal service support;
and
(2) A deferred schedule of payments
of the customary charge for commencing
telecommunications service for a single
telecommunications connection at a
subscriber’s principal place of residence
imposed by an eligible
telecommunications carrier that is also
receiving high-cost support on Tribal
lands, pursuant to subpart D of this part,
for which the eligible resident of Tribal
lands does not pay interest. The interest
charges not assessed to the eligible
resident of Tribal lands shall be for a
customary charge for connecting
telecommunications service of up to
$200 and such interest charges shall be
deferred for a period not to exceed one
year.
(b) An eligible resident of Tribal lands
may receive the benefit of the Tribal
Link Up program for a second or
subsequent time only for otherwise
qualifying commencement of
telecommunications service at a
principal place of residence with an
address different from the address for
which Tribal Link Up assistance was
provided previously.
4. Amend § 54.414 by revising
paragraph (b) to read as follows:
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§ 54.414
Up.
Reimbursement for Tribal Link
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(b) In order to receive universal
support reimbursement for providing
Tribal Link Up, eligible
telecommunications carriers must
follow the procedures set forth in
§ 54.410 to determine an eligible
resident of Tribal lands’ initial
eligibility for Tribal Link Up. Eligible
telecommunications carriers must
obtain a certification form from each
eligible resident of Tribal lands that
complies with § 54.410 prior to
enrolling him or her in Tribal Link Up.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 660
[Docket No. 230523–0136]
RIN 0648–BM07
Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions;
Fisheries Off West Coast States;
Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; 2023
Harvest Specifications for Pacific
Whiting, and 2023 Pacific Whiting
Tribal Allocation
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
This rule implements the
domestic 2023 harvest specifications for
Pacific whiting including the 2023 tribal
allocation for the Pacific whiting
fishery, the non-tribal sector allocations,
and a set-aside for incidental mortality
in research activities and nongroundfish fisheries. NMFS issues this
final rule for the 2023 Pacific whiting
fishery under the authority of the Pacific
Coast Groundfish Fishery Management
Plan, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act, the
Pacific Whiting Act of 2006, and other
applicable laws. These measures are
intended to help prevent overfishing,
achieve optimum yield, ensure that
management measures are based on the
best scientific information available,
and provide for the implementation of
tribal treaty fishing rights.
DATES: Effective May 31, 2023.
ADDRESSES:
SUMMARY:
Electronic Access
This final rule is accessible via the
internet at the Office of the Federal
Register website at https://
www.federalregister.gov. Background
information and documents are
available at the NMFS website at
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov and at
the Pacific Fishery Management
Council’s (Council’s) website at https://
www.pcouncil.org/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colin Sayre, phone: 206–526–4656, and
email: Colin.Sayre@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The transboundary stock of Pacific
whiting is managed through the
Agreement Between the Government of
the United States of America and the
Government of Canada on Pacific Hake/
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Whiting of 2003 (Agreement). The
Agreement establishes bilateral
management bodies to implement the
terms of the Agreement, including the
Joint Management Committee (JMC),
which recommends the annual catch
level for Pacific whiting. NMFS issued
a proposed rule on April 06, 2023 (88
FR 20457), that describes the
Agreement, including the establishment
of F–40 percent default harvest rate, the
explicit allocation of Pacific whiting
coastwide total allowable catch (TAC) to
the United States (73.88 percent) and
Canada (26.12 percent), the bilateral
bodies to implement the terms of the
Agreement, including the Joint
Management Committee (JMC), and the
process used to determine the coastwide
TAC under the Agreement, including
adjusting the TAC for carryovers from
the prior year. The proposed rule also
proposed allocating 17.5 percent of the
U.S. TAC of Pacific whiting for 2023 to
Pacific Coast Indian tribes that have a
treaty right to harvest groundfish, and
implementing a set-aside (750 metric
tons (mt)) for Pacific whiting for
research and incidental mortality in
other fisheries.
2023 TAC Recommendation
The Treaty’s Advisory Panel (AP) and
JMC met in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada February 28–March
1, 2023, to develop advice on a 2023
coastwide TAC. The AP provided its
2023 TAC recommendation to the JMC
on March 1, 2023. The JMC reviewed
the advice of the AP, as well the
Treaty’s Joint Technical Committee, and
Science Review Group, and agreed on a
TAC recommendation for transmittal to
the United States and Canadian
Governments.
The Agreement directs the JMC to
base the catch limit recommendation on
the default harvest rate unless scientific
evidence demonstrates that a different
rate is necessary to sustain the offshore
Pacific whiting resource. After
consideration of the 2023 stock
assessment and other relevant scientific
information, the JMC did not use the
default harvest rate, and instead agreed
on a more conservative approach. There
were two primary reasons for choosing
a TAC well below the level of F–40
percent. First, the JMC noted aging of
the 2010, 2014, and 2016 year classes
and wished to extend access to these
stocks as long as possible, which a
lower TAC would accomplish by
lowering the rate of removal of these
year-classes. Second, there is
uncertainty regarding the current size of
the apparent large 2020 year class
because there has not yet been a postrecruitment observation of this cohort
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 54
[WC Docket Nos. 17-287, 11-42, 09-197; FCC 17-155; FR ID 141908]
Bridging the Digital Divide for Low-Income Consumers, Lifeline
and Link Up Reform and Modernization, Telecommunications Carriers
Eligible for Universal Service Support
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission
(Commission) is issuing a final rule for the Lifeline program.
DATES: This rule is effective May 31, 2023. As of May 31, 2023, the
amendments to 47 CFR 54.403(a)(3), 54.413, and 54.414(b), published
January 16, 2018, at 83 FR 2075, are withdrawn,
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nicholas Page, [email protected],
Telecommunications Access Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau,
(202) 418-7400 or TTY: (202) 418-0484.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Communications Commission
(Commission) adopted amendments to 47 CFR 54.403(a)(3), 54.413, and
54.414(b) that were to become effective upon announcement in the
Federal Register of OMB information collection approval (83 FR 2075,
January 16, 2018) (FR Doc. 2018-00152). These amended rules were
vacated by the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in National
Lifeline Association v. Federal Communications Commission. 921 F.3d
1102. Accordingly, revisions to Sec. 54.403(a)(3), third column on
page 2084; Sec. 54.413, first column on page 2085; and Sec.
54.414(b), second column on page 2085 are being withdrawn and these
rules are reverting back to their prior version.
List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 54
Communications common carriers, Health facilities, Internet,
Libraries, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Schools, and
Telecommunications.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary.
Final Rules
For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Federal
Communications Commission amends 47 CFR part 54 to read as follows:
PART 54--UNIVERSAL SERVICE
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1. The authority citation for part 54 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 155, 201, 205, 214, 219, 220,
229, 254, 303(r), 403, 1004, 1302, 1601-1609, and 1752, unless
otherwise noted.
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2. Amend Sec. 54.403 by revising paragraph (a)(3) to read as follows:
Sec. 54.403 Lifeline support amount.
* * * * *
(a) * * *
(3) Tribal lands support amount. Additional Federal Lifeline
support of up to $25 per month will be made available to an eligible
telecommunications carrier providing Lifeline service to an eligible
resident of Tribal lands, as defined in Sec. 54.400(e), to the extent
that the eligible telecommunications carrier certifies to the
Administrator that it will pass through the full Tribal lands support
amount to the qualifying eligible resident of Tribal lands and that it
has received any non-Federal regulatory approvals necessary to
implement the required rate reduction.
* * * * *
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3. Revise Sec. 54.413 to read as follows:
Sec. 54.413 Link Up for Tribal lands.
(a) Definition. For purposes of this subpart, the term ``Tribal
Link Up'' means an assistance program for eligible residents of Tribal
lands seeking telecommunications service from a telecommunications
carrier that is receiving high-cost support on Tribal lands, pursuant
to subpart D of this part, that provides:
(1) A 100 percent reduction, up to $100, of the customary charge
for commencing telecommunications service for a single
telecommunications connection at a subscriber's principal place of
residence imposed by an eligible telecommunications carrier that is
also receiving high-cost support on Tribal lands, pursuant to subpart D
of this part. For purposes of this subpart, a ``customary charge for
commencing telecommunications service''' is the ordinary charge an
eligible telecommunications carrier imposes and collects from all
subscribers to initiate service with that eligible telecommunications
carrier. A charge imposed only on qualifying low-income consumers to
initiate service is not a customary charge for commencing
telecommunications service. Activation charges routinely waived,
reduced, or eliminated with the purchase of additional products,
services, or minutes are not customary charges
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eligible for universal service support; and
(2) A deferred schedule of payments of the customary charge for
commencing telecommunications service for a single telecommunications
connection at a subscriber's principal place of residence imposed by an
eligible telecommunications carrier that is also receiving high-cost
support on Tribal lands, pursuant to subpart D of this part, for which
the eligible resident of Tribal lands does not pay interest. The
interest charges not assessed to the eligible resident of Tribal lands
shall be for a customary charge for connecting telecommunications
service of up to $200 and such interest charges shall be deferred for a
period not to exceed one year.
(b) An eligible resident of Tribal lands may receive the benefit of
the Tribal Link Up program for a second or subsequent time only for
otherwise qualifying commencement of telecommunications service at a
principal place of residence with an address different from the address
for which Tribal Link Up assistance was provided previously.
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4. Amend Sec. 54.414 by revising paragraph (b) to read as follows:
Sec. 54.414 Reimbursement for Tribal Link Up.
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(b) In order to receive universal support reimbursement for
providing Tribal Link Up, eligible telecommunications carriers must
follow the procedures set forth in Sec. 54.410 to determine an
eligible resident of Tribal lands' initial eligibility for Tribal Link
Up. Eligible telecommunications carriers must obtain a certification
form from each eligible resident of Tribal lands that complies with
Sec. 54.410 prior to enrolling him or her in Tribal Link Up.
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