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Estimated Time per Respondent: 15
minutes.
Annual Burden Hours: 6,000 hours.
Frequency of Reporting or Use:
Monthly.
Dated: May 1, 2024.
Kalesha Malloy,
IT Specialist.
[FR Doc. 2024–09860 Filed 5–6–24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6690–01–P
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
[OMB 3060–1151; FR ID 217642]
Information Collection Being
Submitted for Review and Approval to
Office of Management and Budget
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burdens, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC or
the Commission) invites the general
public and other Federal Agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection.
Pursuant to the Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC
seeks specific comment on how it might
‘‘further reduce the information
collection burden for small business
concerns with fewer than 25
employees.’’ The Commission 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.
SUMMARY:
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted on or before June 6, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function. Your comment must be
submitted into www.reginfo.gov per the
above instructions for it to be
considered. In addition to submitting in
www.reginfo.gov also send a copy of
your comment on the proposed
information collection to Nicole Ongele,
khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES
DATES:
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FCC, via email to PRA@fcc.gov and to
Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. Include in the
comments the OMB control number as
shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or copies of the
information collection, contact Nicole
Ongele at (202) 418–2991. To view a
copy of this information collection
request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) go
to the web page https://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the
section of the web page called
‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ (3) click on
the downward-pointing arrow in the
‘‘Select Agency’’ box below the
‘‘Currently Under Review’’ heading, (4)
select ‘‘Federal Communications
Commission’’ from the list of agencies
presented in the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box,
(5) click the ‘‘Submit’’ button to the
right of the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, (6)
when the list of FCC ICRs currently
under review appears, look for the Title
of this ICR and then click on the ICR
Reference Number. A copy of the FCC
submission to OMB will be displayed.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of
its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork burdens, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), the FCC invited
the general public and other Federal
Agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on the following information
collection. Comments are requested
concerning: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the
Commission’s burden estimates; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information collected; and
(d) 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.
Pursuant to the Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public
Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(4),
the FCC seeks specific comment on how
it might ‘‘further reduce the information
collection burden for small business
concerns with fewer than 25
employees.’’
OMB Control Number: 3060–1151.
Title: Sections 1.1411, 1.1412, 1.1415,
and 1.1416 Pole Attachment Access and
Dispute Resolution Requirements.
Form Number: FCC Form 5653.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently-approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
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Number of Respondents and
Responses: 1,380 respondents; 165,009
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.25—
5 hours.
Frequency of Response: On-occasion
reporting requirement, recordkeeping
requirement, and third-party disclosure
requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory or
required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information
collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 224.
Total Annual Burden: 120,980 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,800.
Needs and Uses: The Commission is
requesting Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval for a revision to
a currently approved information
collection. In Accelerating Wireline
Broadband Deployment by Removing
Barriers to Infrastructure Investment,
WC Docket No. 17–84, Fourth Report
and Order, FCC 23–109 (rel. December
15, 2023) (Order), the Commission
adopted rules that implement the pole
attachment requirements in section 224
of the Communications Act of 1934, as
amended. The Order substantially
revised 47 CFR 1.1411, redesignated
existing 47 CFR 1.1415 as 47 CFR
1.1416, and added a new 47 CFR 1.1415.
Section 1.1411. In the Order, the
Commission adopted regulations
requiring utilities to share information
about their poles with prospective
telecommunications and cable attachers.
The Commission created this
requirement to help improve the
attachment process and potentially
reduce disputes, thus facilitating
broadband deployment. Specifically, the
Order requires utilities to provide to
potential attachers, upon request, the
information contained in their most
recent cyclical pole inspection reports,
or any intervening, periodic reports
created before the next cyclical
inspection, for the poles covered by a
submitted attachment application,
including whether any of the affected
poles have been ‘‘red tagged’’ by the
utility for replacement and the
scheduled replacement date or
timeframe (if any). For the purposes of
this new transparency requirement, a
cyclical pole inspection report is any
report that a utility creates in the normal
course of its business that sets forth the
results of the routine inspection of its
poles during the utility’s normal pole
inspection cycle, while a periodic pole
inspection report is any report that a
utility creates in the normal course of its
business that sets forth the results of the
inspection of any of its poles outside the
utility’s normal pole inspection cycle.
When asking for information about
the status of a utility’s poles for a
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planned buildout, the attacher must
submit its information request no earlier
than contemporaneously with an
attachment application. The utility will
have ten business days to respond to the
request. Where an attacher amends its
application based on the information it
receives from the utility, the utility will
have the option to restart the 45-day
period for responding to the application
on the merits and conducting the
required make-ready survey. Regardless
of whether the utility elects to restart
the 45-day response period, any
additional survey costs necessitated by
the amended application, such as a
second survey after a survey for the
original application has been
completed, will be borne by the new
attacher consistent with the new
attacher’s obligation to pay for makeready costs associated with its
application.
The Commission also required
utilities to retain copies, in whatever
form they were created, of any such
cyclical or periodic pole inspection
reports they conduct in the normal
course of business, until such time as
the utility completes a superseding
cyclical pole inspection report covering
the poles included in the attachment
application. The Commission reiterated
that utilities are required to provide
only the information they already
possess and track in the normal course
of conducting pole inspections at the
time of the attacher’s request for data.
The Commission did not require
utilities to collect or create new
information for the purpose of
responding to such requests or to
provide all information they may
possess on the affected poles outside
their pole inspection reports. The
Commission found that adopting this
limited requirement achieves a balance
between a potential attacher’s need for
more information about the poles that it
plans to use as part of a broadband
buildout and the utility’s interest in
minimizing the burden of mandatory
disclosures.
Section 1.1415. To expedite the
resolution of pole attachment disputes
that impede or delay active broadband
deployment projects, the Commission
established the Rapid Broadband
Assessment Team (RBAT), which will
consist of one or more staff from the
Commission’s Enforcement Bureau and
one or more staff from the Commission’s
Wireline Competition Bureau. The
Commission created the RBAT in an
effort to make the Commission’s pole
attachment dispute resolution process
more responsive and adaptable with the
goal of facilitating broadband
deployment. The Order charged the
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RBAT with expediting the resolution of
such disputes by swiftly engaging key
stakeholders, gathering relevant
information, distilling issues in dispute,
and recommending to the parties, where
appropriate, an abbreviated mediation
process, placement of a complaint (or
portion of a complaint) on the
Commission’s Accelerated Docket based
on consideration of specified criteria,
and/or any other action that the RBAT
determines will help the parties resolve
their dispute.
To request RBAT review and
assessment of a dispute that a party to
the dispute contends is impeding or
delaying deployment of broadband
facilities, the party must first notify the
Chief of the Enforcement Bureau’s
Market Disputes Resolution Division
(MDRD) of the request by phone and in
writing. The MDRD Chief will direct the
party to FCC Form 5653—Request for
RBAT Review and Assessment—on the
MDRD website and to instructions for
completing and electronically
transmitting the form to the RBAT. The
form will elicit information relevant to
the scope and nature of the dispute, and
to whether the dispute is appropriate for
expedited mediation and/or placement
on the Accelerated Docket. The
information submitted by a party on the
FCC Form 5653 will assist the RBAT in
efficiently reviewing and assessing the
party’s dispute and in providing
guidance on the most effective means of
resolving it. The RBAT also may request
that one or both parties provide the
RBAT with documentation or other
information relevant to the dispute.
After reviewing the parties’
submissions, the RBAT will provide
guidance and advice to the parties on
the most effective means of resolving
their dispute, including staff-supervised
mediation, use of the Accelerated
Docket, and/or other action.
Should the RBAT recommend staffsupervised mediation, it shall be
conducted pursuant to 47 CFR 1.737,
the requirements of which may be
modified or waived as appropriate in
this context or as needed in light of the
facts or circumstances of a particular
case. In the event that the parties are
unable to settle their dispute, and a
prospective complainant seeks
placement of its complaint on the
Accelerated Docket, the RBAT will
decide whether the complaint or a
portion of the complaint is suitable for
inclusion on the Accelerated Docket
based on a totality of the factors listed
in 47 CFR 1.1415(e).
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Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024–09839 Filed 5–6–24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6712–01–P
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
[OMB 3060–1162; FR ID 218294]
Information Collection Being
Submitted for Review and Approval to
Office of Management and Budget
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burdens, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC or
the Commission) invites the general
public and other Federal Agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection.
Pursuant to the Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC
seeks specific comment on how it might
‘‘further reduce the information
collection burden for small business
concerns with fewer than 25
employees.’’
DATES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted on or before June 6, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function. Your comment must be
submitted into www.reginfo.gov per the
above instructions for it to be
considered. In addition to submitting in
www.reginfo.gov also send a copy of
your comment on the proposed
information collection to Cathy
Williams, FCC, via email to PRA@
fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov.
Include in the comments the OMB
control number as shown in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or copies of the
information collection, contact Cathy
Williams at (202) 418–2918. To view a
copy of this information collection
request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) go
to the web page https://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the
section of the web page called
‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ (3) click on
SUMMARY:
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-1151; FR ID 217642]
Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to
Office of Management and Budget
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,
as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the general
public and other Federal Agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on the following information collection. Pursuant to the Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC seeks specific comment on how it
might ``further reduce the information collection burden for small
business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.'' The Commission 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 comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be submitted on or before June 6, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting
``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using
the search function. Your comment must be submitted into
www.reginfo.gov per the above instructions for it to be considered. In
addition to submitting in www.reginfo.gov also send a copy of your
comment on the proposed information collection to Nicole Ongele, FCC,
via email to [email protected] and to [email protected]. Include in the
comments the OMB control number as shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies
of the information collection, contact Nicole Ongele at (202) 418-2991.
To view a copy of this information collection request (ICR) submitted
to OMB: (1) go to the web page https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the section of the web page called ``Currently
Under Review,'' (3) click on the downward-pointing arrow in the
``Select Agency'' box below the ``Currently Under Review'' heading, (4)
select ``Federal Communications Commission'' from the list of agencies
presented in the ``Select Agency'' box, (5) click the ``Submit'' button
to the right of the ``Select Agency'' box, (6) when the list of FCC
ICRs currently under review appears, look for the Title of this ICR and
then click on the ICR Reference Number. A copy of the FCC submission to
OMB will be displayed.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork burdens, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), the FCC invited the general public and
other Federal Agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection. Comments are requested concerning:
(a) 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; (b) the accuracy
of the Commission's burden estimates; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d) 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. Pursuant to the Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(4), the FCC seeks specific comment on how it might ``further
reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns
with fewer than 25 employees.''
OMB Control Number: 3060-1151.
Title: Sections 1.1411, 1.1412, 1.1415, and 1.1416 Pole Attachment
Access and Dispute Resolution Requirements.
Form Number: FCC Form 5653.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently-approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,380 respondents; 165,009
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.25--5 hours.
Frequency of Response: On-occasion reporting requirement,
recordkeeping requirement, and third-party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory or required to obtain or retain
benefits. Statutory authority for this information collection is
contained in 47 U.S.C. 224.
Total Annual Burden: 120,980 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,800.
Needs and Uses: The Commission is requesting Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) approval for a revision to a currently approved
information collection. In Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment
by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, WC Docket No. 17-84,
Fourth Report and Order, FCC 23-109 (rel. December 15, 2023) (Order),
the Commission adopted rules that implement the pole attachment
requirements in section 224 of the Communications Act of 1934, as
amended. The Order substantially revised 47 CFR 1.1411, redesignated
existing 47 CFR 1.1415 as 47 CFR 1.1416, and added a new 47 CFR 1.1415.
Section 1.1411. In the Order, the Commission adopted regulations
requiring utilities to share information about their poles with
prospective telecommunications and cable attachers. The Commission
created this requirement to help improve the attachment process and
potentially reduce disputes, thus facilitating broadband deployment.
Specifically, the Order requires utilities to provide to potential
attachers, upon request, the information contained in their most recent
cyclical pole inspection reports, or any intervening, periodic reports
created before the next cyclical inspection, for the poles covered by a
submitted attachment application, including whether any of the affected
poles have been ``red tagged'' by the utility for replacement and the
scheduled replacement date or timeframe (if any). For the purposes of
this new transparency requirement, a cyclical pole inspection report is
any report that a utility creates in the normal course of its business
that sets forth the results of the routine inspection of its poles
during the utility's normal pole inspection cycle, while a periodic
pole inspection report is any report that a utility creates in the
normal course of its business that sets forth the results of the
inspection of any of its poles outside the utility's normal pole
inspection cycle.
When asking for information about the status of a utility's poles
for a
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planned buildout, the attacher must submit its information request no
earlier than contemporaneously with an attachment application. The
utility will have ten business days to respond to the request. Where an
attacher amends its application based on the information it receives
from the utility, the utility will have the option to restart the 45-
day period for responding to the application on the merits and
conducting the required make-ready survey. Regardless of whether the
utility elects to restart the 45-day response period, any additional
survey costs necessitated by the amended application, such as a second
survey after a survey for the original application has been completed,
will be borne by the new attacher consistent with the new attacher's
obligation to pay for make-ready costs associated with its application.
The Commission also required utilities to retain copies, in
whatever form they were created, of any such cyclical or periodic pole
inspection reports they conduct in the normal course of business, until
such time as the utility completes a superseding cyclical pole
inspection report covering the poles included in the attachment
application. The Commission reiterated that utilities are required to
provide only the information they already possess and track in the
normal course of conducting pole inspections at the time of the
attacher's request for data. The Commission did not require utilities
to collect or create new information for the purpose of responding to
such requests or to provide all information they may possess on the
affected poles outside their pole inspection reports. The Commission
found that adopting this limited requirement achieves a balance between
a potential attacher's need for more information about the poles that
it plans to use as part of a broadband buildout and the utility's
interest in minimizing the burden of mandatory disclosures.
Section 1.1415. To expedite the resolution of pole attachment
disputes that impede or delay active broadband deployment projects, the
Commission established the Rapid Broadband Assessment Team (RBAT),
which will consist of one or more staff from the Commission's
Enforcement Bureau and one or more staff from the Commission's Wireline
Competition Bureau. The Commission created the RBAT in an effort to
make the Commission's pole attachment dispute resolution process more
responsive and adaptable with the goal of facilitating broadband
deployment. The Order charged the RBAT with expediting the resolution
of such disputes by swiftly engaging key stakeholders, gathering
relevant information, distilling issues in dispute, and recommending to
the parties, where appropriate, an abbreviated mediation process,
placement of a complaint (or portion of a complaint) on the
Commission's Accelerated Docket based on consideration of specified
criteria, and/or any other action that the RBAT determines will help
the parties resolve their dispute.
To request RBAT review and assessment of a dispute that a party to
the dispute contends is impeding or delaying deployment of broadband
facilities, the party must first notify the Chief of the Enforcement
Bureau's Market Disputes Resolution Division (MDRD) of the request by
phone and in writing. The MDRD Chief will direct the party to FCC Form
5653--Request for RBAT Review and Assessment--on the MDRD website and
to instructions for completing and electronically transmitting the form
to the RBAT. The form will elicit information relevant to the scope and
nature of the dispute, and to whether the dispute is appropriate for
expedited mediation and/or placement on the Accelerated Docket. The
information submitted by a party on the FCC Form 5653 will assist the
RBAT in efficiently reviewing and assessing the party's dispute and in
providing guidance on the most effective means of resolving it. The
RBAT also may request that one or both parties provide the RBAT with
documentation or other information relevant to the dispute. After
reviewing the parties' submissions, the RBAT will provide guidance and
advice to the parties on the most effective means of resolving their
dispute, including staff-supervised mediation, use of the Accelerated
Docket, and/or other action.
Should the RBAT recommend staff-supervised mediation, it shall be
conducted pursuant to 47 CFR 1.737, the requirements of which may be
modified or waived as appropriate in this context or as needed in light
of the facts or circumstances of a particular case. In the event that
the parties are unable to settle their dispute, and a prospective
complainant seeks placement of its complaint on the Accelerated Docket,
the RBAT will decide whether the complaint or a portion of the
complaint is suitable for inclusion on the Accelerated Docket based on
a totality of the factors listed in 47 CFR 1.1415(e).
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-09839 Filed 5-6-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6712-01-P