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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
[OMB 3060–1042; FR ID 266288]
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
Communications Commission (FCC or
Commission) invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collection.
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 February 4,
2025. 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 No.: 3060–1042.
Title: Request for Technical Support—
Help Request Form.
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Form No.: N/A—Electronic only.
Type of Review: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals or
household; business or other for-profit;
not-for-profit institutions; and state,
local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 36,300 respondents and
36,300 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.14
hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement and
recordkeeping requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. There is no
statutory authority for this information
collection. The Commission developed
this information collection on its own
motion to assist users of the Universal
Licensing System (ULS) or other FCC
electronic systems.
Total Annual Burden: 5,082 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $609,840.
Needs and Uses: The FCC maintains
internet software used by the public to
apply for licenses, participate in
auctions for spectrum, and maintain
license information. In this mission,
FCC has a ‘help desk’ that answers
questions related to these systems as
well as resetting and/or issuing user
passwords for access to these systems.
The form currently is available on the
website https://esupport.fcc.gov/
request.htm under OMB Control
Number 3060–1042. This form will
continue to substantially decrease
public and staff burden since all the
information needed to facilitate a
support request will be submitted in a
standard format but be available to a
wider audience. This eliminates or at
least minimizes the need to follow-up
with the customers to obtain all the
information necessary to respond to
their request. This form also helps
presort requests into previously defined
categories to all staff to respond more
quickly.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
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Information Collection Being Reviewed
by the Federal Communications
Commission Under Delegated
Authority
Federal Communications
Commission.
AGENCY:
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Notice and request for
comments.
ACTION:
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 collection.
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 February 4,
2025. 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: 3060–1207.
Title: Sections 25.701, Other DBS
Public Interest Obligations, and 25.702,
Other SDARS Public Interest
Obligations.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension of an
existing collection.
Respondents: Business or other for
profit entities.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 3 respondents and 3
responses.
SUMMARY:
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Estimated Hours per Response: 18
hrs.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement, Recordkeeping
requirement, Third party disclosure
requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 54 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $592.
Obligation to Respond: Required to be
obtained or retained for benefits. The
statutory authority for this information
collection is contained in sections 154,
301, 302, 303, 307, 309, 319, 332, 605,
and 721 of the Communications Act of
1934, as amended.
Needs and Uses: In 2012, the
Commission replaced the decades-old
requirement that commercial and
noncommercial television stations
maintain public files at their main
studios with a requirement to post most
of the documents in those files to a
central, online public file hosted by the
Commission. On January 28, 2016, the
Commission adopted a Report and
Order (‘‘R&O’’) in MB Docket No. 14–
127, FCC 16–4, In the Matter of
Expansion of Online Public File
Obligations to Cable and Satellite TV
Operators and Broadcast and Satellite
Radio Licensees, expanding the
requirement that public inspection files
be posted to the FCC-hosted online
public file database to satellite TV (also
referred to as ‘‘Direct Broadcast
Satellite’’ or ‘‘DBS’’) providers and to
satellite radio (also referred to as
‘‘satellite Digital Audio Radio Services’’
or ‘‘SDARS’’) licensees, among other
entities. The Commission stated that its
goal is to make information that these
entities are already required to make
publicly available more accessible while
also reducing costs both for the
government and the public sector. The
Commission took the same general
approach to transitioning these entities
to the online file that it took with
television broadcasters in 2012, tailoring
the requirements as necessary to the
different services. The Commission also
took similar measures to minimize the
effort and cost entities must undertake
to move their public files online.
Specifically, the Commission required
entities to upload to the online public
file only documents that are not already
on file with the Commission or that the
Commission maintains in its own
database. The Commission also
exempted existing political file material
from the online file requirement and
required that political file documents be
uploaded only on a going-forward basis.
The Commission first adopted a
public inspection file requirement for
broadcasters more than 40 years ago.
The public file requirement grew out of
Congress’ 1960 amendment of Sections
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309 and 311 of the Communications Act
of 1934. Finding that Congress, in
enacting these provisions, was guarding
‘‘the right of the general public to be
informed, not merely the rights of those
who have special interests,’’ the
Commission adopted the public
inspection file requirement to ‘‘make
information to which the public already
has a right more readily available, so
that the public will be encouraged to
play a more active part in dialogue with
broadcast licensees.’’ The information
provided in the public file enables
citizens to engage in an informed dialog
with their local video provider or to file
complaints regarding provider
operations. Satellite TV (also known as
‘‘Direct Broadcast Satellite’’ or ‘‘DBS’’)
providers and satellite radio (also
referred to as ‘‘Satellite Digital Audio
Radio Services’’ or ‘‘SDARS’’) licensees
have public and political file
requirements modeled, in large part, on
the longstanding broadcast
requirements. With respect to DBS
providers, the Commission adopted
public and political inspection file
requirements in 1998 in conjunction
with the imposition of certain public
interest obligations, including political
broadcasting requirements, on those
entities. DBS providers were required to
‘‘abide by political file obligations
similar to those requirements placed on
terrestrial broadcasters and cable
systems’’ and were also required to
maintain a public file with records
relating to other DBS public interest
obligations. The Commission imposed
equal employment opportunity and
political broadcast requirements on
SDARS licensees in 1997, noting that
the rationale behind imposing these
requirements on broadcasters also
applies to satellite radio.
The information collection
requirements contained in 47 CFR
25.701(d) require each DBS provider to
keep and permit public inspection of a
complete and orderly record (political
file) of all requests for DBS origination
time made by or on behalf of candidates
for public office, together with an
appropriate notation showing the
disposition made by the provider of
such requests, and the charges made, if
any, if the request is granted. The
disposition includes the schedule of
time purchased, when the spots actually
aired, the rates charged, and the classes
of time purchased. Also, when free time
is provided for use by or on behalf of
candidates, a record of the free time
provided is to be placed in the political
file. All records required to be retained
by this section must be placed in the
political file as soon as possible and
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retained for a period of two years. DBS
providers must make available, by fax,
email, or by mail upon telephone
request, copies of documents in their
political files and assist callers by
answering questions about the contents
of their political files. If a requester
prefers access by mail, the DBS provider
must pay for postage but may require
individuals requesting documents to
pay for photocopying. If a DBS provider
places its political file on its website, it
may refer the public to the website in
lieu of mailing copies.
Any material required to be
maintained in the political file must be
made available to the public by either
mailing or website access or both.
The information collection
requirements contained in 47 CFR
25.701(d) require DBS providers to
place all new political file material
required to be retained by this section
in the online file hosted by the
Commission.
47 CFR 25.701(f)(6) information
collection requirements require each
DBS provider to maintain a public file
containing a complete and orderly
record of quarterly measurements of:
Channel capacity and yearly average
calculations on which it bases its four
percent reservation, as well as its
responses to any capacity changes; a
record of entities to whom
noncommercial capacity is being
provided, the amount of capacity being
provided to each entity, the conditions
under which it is being provided and
the rates, if any, being paid by the
entity; and a record of entities that have
requested capacity, disposition of those
requests and reasons for the disposition.
All records required by this provision
must be placed in a file available to the
public as soon as possible and be
retained for a period of two years.
47 CFR 25.701(f)(6) to require DBS
providers to place all public file
material required to be retained by this
section in the online file hosted by the
Commission. Each DBS provider must
place in the online file the records
required to be placed in the public
inspection file by 47 CFR
25.701(e)(commercial limits in
children’s programs) and by 47 CFR
25.601 and Part 76, Subpart E (equal
employment opportunity requirements)
and retain those records for the period
required by those rules. In addition,
each DBS provider is required to
provide a link to the public inspection
file hosted on the Commission’s website
from the home page of its own website,
if the provider has a website, and
provide on its website contact
information for a representative who
can assist any person with disabilities
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with issues related to the content of the
public files. Each DBS provider is also
required to include in the online public
file the name, phone number, and email
address of the licensee’s designated
contact for questions about the public
file, and include in the online public
file the address of the provider’s local
public file if the provider retains
documents in the local public file that
are not available in the Commission’s
online file.
47 CFR 25.702(b) requires each
SDARS licensee to maintain a complete
and orderly record (political file) of all
requests for SDARS origination time
made by or on behalf of candidates for
public office, together with the
disposition made by the provider of
such requests, and the charges made, if
any, if the request is granted. The
disposition must include the schedule
of time purchased, when the spots
actually aired, the rates charged, and the
classes of time purchased. Also, when
free time is provided for use by or on
behalf of candidates, a record of the free
time provided is to be placed in the
political file. SDARS licensees are
required to place all records required by
this section in the political file as soon
as possible and retain the record for a
period of two years.
The information collection
requirements contained in 47 CFR
25.702(c) require each SDARS applicant
or licensee to place in the online file
hosted by the Commission the records
required to be placed in the public
inspection file by 47 CFR 25.601 and
73.2080 (equal employment
opportunities) and to retain those
records for the period required by those
rules. Each SDARS licensee must
provide a link to the public inspection
file hosted on the Commission’s website
from the home page of its own website,
if the licensee has a website, and
provide on its website contact
information for a representative who
can assist any person with disabilities
with issues related to the content of the
public files. Each SDARS licensee is
also required to include in the online
public file the name, phone number,
and email address of the licensee’s
designated contact for questions about
the public file, and include in the online
public file the address of the provider’s
local public file if the provider retains
documents in the local public file that
are not available in the Commission’s
online file.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary.
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FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION
$2,304,629 per voyage. 46 U.S.C.
42106(4), 42107(1)(a); 46 CFR part 506.
[Docket No. FMC–2024–0022]
II. Summary of Investigation
The Commission’s statutory authority
includes the mandate to monitor and
evaluate conditions that affect shipping
in the foreign trade of the United States.
46 U.S.C. 42101(a).1 Chapter 421
encourages the maintenance of a United
States merchant marine for the national
defense and the development of
domestic and foreign commerce. 46
U.S.C. 50101(b). Under a separate
statutory provision, the Commission can
also investigate whether a foreign
government is unduly impairing the
access of a vessel documented under the
laws of the United States to ocean trade
between foreign ports and take any
action it finds appropriate to remedy
any such violation. 46 U.S.C. 41108(d).
The Commission has consistently
held that its powers do not only protect
United States flagged shipping, and that
foreign governmental actions that are
detrimental to third-flag carriers can
create conditions unfavorable to
shipping in the United States foreign
trade within the meaning of Chapter
421. Petition of Ace Line, 19 S.R.R. 481,
482 (FMC 1979). In the past, the
Commission has investigated port
practices in Japan that included
restrictive and discriminatory licensing
practices and refusals to grant licenses
to United States carriers. Port
Restrictions and Requirements in the
United States/Japan Trade, 62 FR 9696,
9699 (March 4, 1997). The Commission
has also investigated conditions created
in the United States-Korea, United
States-Taiwan, and United StatesVenezuela trades. See Randy L.
Baldemor, Comment Federal Maritime
Commission Sanctions on Japanese
Carriers: A Call for Fairer Methods of
Resolving Disputes, 8 Pac. Rim L & Pol’y
J. 109, at 116 (1999).
The Commission received information
on November 19, 2024, indicating that
Spain is denying entry into Spanish
ports to certain vessels. Spain appears to
have denied docking privileges to the
Maersk Denver in early November.
Maersk Line Vessel Diverts to Morocco
Due to Allegations in Spain, The
Maritime Executive, November 11, 2024
(available at https://maritimeexecutive.com/article/maersk-linevessel-diverts-to-morocco-due-to-
Investigation Into Conditions Affecting
Shipping in the Foreign Trade and
Denial of Entry of Vessels Into Spanish
Ports
Federal Maritime Commission.
Notice of investigation and
request for comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Federal Maritime
Commission has initiated an
investigation into reports that the
Government of Spain (Spain) is creating
conditions unfavorable to shipping in
the foreign trade of the United States by
denying entry to its ports to certain
vessels, including those participating in
the Maritime Security Program.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
December 26, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. FMC–2024–
0022, by the following method:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Your
comments must be written and in
English. You may submit your
comments electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. To submit
comments on that site, search for Docket
No. FMC–2024–0022 and follow the
instructions provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions regarding submitting
comments or the treatment of any
confidential information, contact David
Eng, Secretary; Phone: (202) 523–5725;
Email: Secretary@fmc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Introduction
On November 19, 2024, the Federal
Maritime Commission (Commission)
was informed that Spain had denied
entry to its ports to at least three vessels,
including some that are participants in
the United States Maritime
Administration’s (MARAD) Maritime
Security Program (MSP). The
Commission is concerned that this
apparent policy of denying entry to
certain vessels will create conditions
unfavorable to shipping in the foreign
trade, whether in a particular route or in
commerce generally. Chapter 421 of
U.S. Code Title 46, section 42101,
authorizes the Commission to
investigate and, if necessary, adopt
regulations to adjust or meet such
conditions. Remedies under Chapter
421 include, but are not limited to,
refusal of entry to vessels of a country
that is named in the Commission’s
regulations and fines of up to
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1 The Commission may also investigate whether
a foreign government or carrier’s practices result in
adverse impacts on United States carriers or United
States oceanborne trade or creates conditions that
do not exist for foreign carriers in the United States
under the laws of the United States. 46 U.S. Code,
Chapter 423. At this time, the Commission is not
initiating an investigation pursuant to Chapter 423.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-1207; FR ID 266289]
Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal
Communications Commission Under Delegated Authority
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 collection. 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 February
4, 2025. 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: 3060-1207.
Title: Sections 25.701, Other DBS Public Interest Obligations, and
25.702, Other SDARS Public Interest Obligations.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension of an existing collection.
Respondents: Business or other for profit entities.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 3 respondents and 3 responses.
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Estimated Hours per Response: 18 hrs.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement,
Recordkeeping requirement, Third party disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 54 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $592.
Obligation to Respond: Required to be obtained or retained for
benefits. The statutory authority for this information collection is
contained in sections 154, 301, 302, 303, 307, 309, 319, 332, 605, and
721 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Needs and Uses: In 2012, the Commission replaced the decades-old
requirement that commercial and noncommercial television stations
maintain public files at their main studios with a requirement to post
most of the documents in those files to a central, online public file
hosted by the Commission. On January 28, 2016, the Commission adopted a
Report and Order (``R&O'') in MB Docket No. 14-127, FCC 16-4, In the
Matter of Expansion of Online Public File Obligations to Cable and
Satellite TV Operators and Broadcast and Satellite Radio Licensees,
expanding the requirement that public inspection files be posted to the
FCC-hosted online public file database to satellite TV (also referred
to as ``Direct Broadcast Satellite'' or ``DBS'') providers and to
satellite radio (also referred to as ``satellite Digital Audio Radio
Services'' or ``SDARS'') licensees, among other entities. The
Commission stated that its goal is to make information that these
entities are already required to make publicly available more
accessible while also reducing costs both for the government and the
public sector. The Commission took the same general approach to
transitioning these entities to the online file that it took with
television broadcasters in 2012, tailoring the requirements as
necessary to the different services. The Commission also took similar
measures to minimize the effort and cost entities must undertake to
move their public files online. Specifically, the Commission required
entities to upload to the online public file only documents that are
not already on file with the Commission or that the Commission
maintains in its own database. The Commission also exempted existing
political file material from the online file requirement and required
that political file documents be uploaded only on a going-forward
basis.
The Commission first adopted a public inspection file requirement
for broadcasters more than 40 years ago. The public file requirement
grew out of Congress' 1960 amendment of Sections 309 and 311 of the
Communications Act of 1934. Finding that Congress, in enacting these
provisions, was guarding ``the right of the general public to be
informed, not merely the rights of those who have special interests,''
the Commission adopted the public inspection file requirement to ``make
information to which the public already has a right more readily
available, so that the public will be encouraged to play a more active
part in dialogue with broadcast licensees.'' The information provided
in the public file enables citizens to engage in an informed dialog
with their local video provider or to file complaints regarding
provider operations. Satellite TV (also known as ``Direct Broadcast
Satellite'' or ``DBS'') providers and satellite radio (also referred to
as ``Satellite Digital Audio Radio Services'' or ``SDARS'') licensees
have public and political file requirements modeled, in large part, on
the longstanding broadcast requirements. With respect to DBS providers,
the Commission adopted public and political inspection file
requirements in 1998 in conjunction with the imposition of certain
public interest obligations, including political broadcasting
requirements, on those entities. DBS providers were required to ``abide
by political file obligations similar to those requirements placed on
terrestrial broadcasters and cable systems'' and were also required to
maintain a public file with records relating to other DBS public
interest obligations. The Commission imposed equal employment
opportunity and political broadcast requirements on SDARS licensees in
1997, noting that the rationale behind imposing these requirements on
broadcasters also applies to satellite radio.
The information collection requirements contained in 47 CFR
25.701(d) require each DBS provider to keep and permit public
inspection of a complete and orderly record (political file) of all
requests for DBS origination time made by or on behalf of candidates
for public office, together with an appropriate notation showing the
disposition made by the provider of such requests, and the charges
made, if any, if the request is granted. The disposition includes the
schedule of time purchased, when the spots actually aired, the rates
charged, and the classes of time purchased. Also, when free time is
provided for use by or on behalf of candidates, a record of the free
time provided is to be placed in the political file. All records
required to be retained by this section must be placed in the political
file as soon as possible and retained for a period of two years. DBS
providers must make available, by fax, email, or by mail upon telephone
request, copies of documents in their political files and assist
callers by answering questions about the contents of their political
files. If a requester prefers access by mail, the DBS provider must pay
for postage but may require individuals requesting documents to pay for
photocopying. If a DBS provider places its political file on its
website, it may refer the public to the website in lieu of mailing
copies.
Any material required to be maintained in the political file must
be made available to the public by either mailing or website access or
both.
The information collection requirements contained in 47 CFR
25.701(d) require DBS providers to place all new political file
material required to be retained by this section in the online file
hosted by the Commission.
47 CFR 25.701(f)(6) information collection requirements require
each DBS provider to maintain a public file containing a complete and
orderly record of quarterly measurements of: Channel capacity and
yearly average calculations on which it bases its four percent
reservation, as well as its responses to any capacity changes; a record
of entities to whom noncommercial capacity is being provided, the
amount of capacity being provided to each entity, the conditions under
which it is being provided and the rates, if any, being paid by the
entity; and a record of entities that have requested capacity,
disposition of those requests and reasons for the disposition. All
records required by this provision must be placed in a file available
to the public as soon as possible and be retained for a period of two
years.
47 CFR 25.701(f)(6) to require DBS providers to place all public
file material required to be retained by this section in the online
file hosted by the Commission. Each DBS provider must place in the
online file the records required to be placed in the public inspection
file by 47 CFR 25.701(e)(commercial limits in children's programs) and
by 47 CFR 25.601 and Part 76, Subpart E (equal employment opportunity
requirements) and retain those records for the period required by those
rules. In addition, each DBS provider is required to provide a link to
the public inspection file hosted on the Commission's website from the
home page of its own website, if the provider has a website, and
provide on its website contact information for a representative who can
assist any person with disabilities
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with issues related to the content of the public files. Each DBS
provider is also required to include in the online public file the
name, phone number, and email address of the licensee's designated
contact for questions about the public file, and include in the online
public file the address of the provider's local public file if the
provider retains documents in the local public file that are not
available in the Commission's online file.
47 CFR 25.702(b) requires each SDARS licensee to maintain a
complete and orderly record (political file) of all requests for SDARS
origination time made by or on behalf of candidates for public office,
together with the disposition made by the provider of such requests,
and the charges made, if any, if the request is granted. The
disposition must include the schedule of time purchased, when the spots
actually aired, the rates charged, and the classes of time purchased.
Also, when free time is provided for use by or on behalf of candidates,
a record of the free time provided is to be placed in the political
file. SDARS licensees are required to place all records required by
this section in the political file as soon as possible and retain the
record for a period of two years.
The information collection requirements contained in 47 CFR
25.702(c) require each SDARS applicant or licensee to place in the
online file hosted by the Commission the records required to be placed
in the public inspection file by 47 CFR 25.601 and 73.2080 (equal
employment opportunities) and to retain those records for the period
required by those rules. Each SDARS licensee must provide a link to the
public inspection file hosted on the Commission's website from the home
page of its own website, if the licensee has a website, and provide on
its website contact information for a representative who can assist any
person with disabilities with issues related to the content of the
public files. Each SDARS licensee is also required to include in the
online public file the name, phone number, and email address of the
licensee's designated contact for questions about the public file, and
include in the online public file the address of the provider's local
public file if the provider retains documents in the local public file
that are not available in the Commission's online file.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-28705 Filed 12-5-24; 8:45 am]
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