Agencies and Commissions March 5, 2018 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Commission considered a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks comment on proposed rules that would apply to spectrum above 95 GHz for licensed services, unlicensed operations, and a new class of experimental licenses. 2........................ OFFICE OF Title: Encouraging the ENGINEERING & Provision of New TECHNOLOGY. Technologies and Services to the Public (GN Docket No. 18-22). Summary: The Commission considered a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to provide guidelines and procedures to implement section 7 of the Communications Act, as amended, to improve Commission processes to promote the provision of new technologies and services to the public. 3........................ WIRELESS Title: Connect America TELECOMMUNICATIONS Fund (WC Docket No. 10- AND WIRELINE 90); Universal Service COMPETITION. ReformMobility Fund (WT Docket No. 10-208). Summary: The Commission considered an Order addressing the remaining issues raised by parties in petitions for reconsideration of the Mobility Fund Phase II Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. 4........................ MEDIA.............. Title: Elimination of Obligation to File Broadcast Mid-Term Report (Form 397) Under Section 73.2080(f)(2) (MB Docket No. 18-23); Modernization of Media Regulation Initiative (MB Docket No. 17-105). Summary: The Commission considered a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that proposes to eliminate the requirement in Section 73.2080(f)(2) of the Commission's rules that certain broadcast television and radio stations file the Broadcast Mid-Term Report (Form 397). 5........................ MEDIA.............. Title: Amendment of Parts 74, 76 and 78 of the Commission's Rules Regarding Maintenance of Copies of FCC Rules (MB Docket No. 17-231); Modernization of Media Regulation Initiative (MB Docket No. 17-105). Summary: The Commission considered a Report and Order that would eliminate specific Part 74, 76, and 78 rules that require certain broadcast and cable entities to maintain paper copies of Commission rules, while retaining provisions that require the subject entities to be familiar with the rules governing their operations. 6........................ WIRELINE Title: Modernization of COMPETITION. Payphone Compensation Rules (WC Docket No. 17- 141); Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (CC Docket No. 96-128); 2016 Biennial Review of Telecommunications Regulations (WC Docket No. 16-132). Summary: The Commission considered a Report and Order to (1) eliminate all payphone call tracking system audit and associated reporting requirements, (2) permit a company official, including but not limited to the chief financial officer, to certify that a completing carrier's quarterly compensation payments are accurate and complete, and (3) eliminate expired payphone compensation rules. 7........................ WIRELINE Presentation: COMPETITION. Demonstration of the New National Broadband Map. Summary: The Commission heard a presentation on a new National Broadband Map providing improved access to fixed-broadband deployment.

In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the Ad Hoc Task Force on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC). This Task Force reports to the NAC.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections.

NARA is giving public notice that it has submitted to OMB for approval the information collection described in this notice. We invite you to comment on the proposed information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is making the proposed draft test plan, ``Aluminum High Energy Arc Fault (HEAF) Particle Size Characterization Test PlanDraft Test Plan,'' available for public comment.

The FDIC is adopting a final rule (final rule) to amend its international banking regulations consistent with section 939A (section 939A) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) and the FDIC's authority under section 5(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDI Act). The final rule adopts without change the revisions and amendments that the FDIC proposed in a June 2016 notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR or proposed rule). These revisions and amendments include: Replacing references to credit ratings in the regulation's definition of investment grade with an alternative standard of creditworthiness; and making changes to the eligibility criteria for the types of assets that insured branches of foreign banks may pledge for the benefit of the FDIC.