[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 215 (Monday, November 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68756-68757]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-28681]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collections Approved by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission has received Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public
information collection(s) pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520). The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number, and no person is required to respond to a collection of
information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the
information collection contact Leslie Haney, [email protected],
(202) 418-1002.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FCC obtained approval of this revision
to the previously approved information collection to establish a
voluntary electronic method of complying with the reporting that EAS
participants must complete as part of their participation in the
national EAS test.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0207.
OMB Approval Date: 10/14/2011.
Effective Date: 10/17/2011.
OMB Expiration Date: 04/30/2012.
Title: Part 11--Emergency Alert System (EAS).
Form No.: Not applicable.
Estimated Annual Burden: 82,008 hours.
Obligation to Respond: Voluntary. Statutory authority for this
collection of information is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 154(i) and
606.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission will treat
submissions pursuant to 47 CFR 11.61(a)(3) as confidential.
Needs and Uses: On March 10, 2010, OMB authorized the collection of
information set forth in the Second FNPRM in EB Docket No. 04-296, FCC
09-10. Specifically, OMB authorized the Commission to require entities
required to participate in EAS (EAS Participants) to gather and submit
the following *52663 information on the operation of their EAS
equipment during a national test of the EAS: (1) Whether they received
the alert message during the designated test; (2) whether they
retransmitted the alert; and (3) if they were not able to receive and/
or transmit the alert, their `best effort' diagnostic analysis
regarding the cause or causes for such failure. OMB also authorized the
Commission to require EAS Participants to provide it with the date/time
of receipt of the EAN message by all stations; and the date/time of
receipt of the EAT message by all stations; a description of their
station identification and level of designation (PEP, LP-1, etc.); who
they were monitoring at the time of the test, and the make and model
number of the EAS equipment that they utilized.
In the Third Report and Order in EB Docket No. 04-296, FCC 09-10,
the Commission adopted the foregoing rule requirements. In addition,
the Commission decided that test data will be presumed confidential and
disclosure of test data will be limited to FEMA, NWS and EOP at the
Federal level. At the State level, test data will be made available
only to State government emergency management agencies that have
confidential treatment protections at least equal to FOIA. The process
by which these agencies would receive test data will comport with those
used to provide access to the Commission's NORS and DIRS data. We seek
comment on this revision of the approved collection.
In the Third Report and Order, the Commission also indicated that
it would establish a voluntary electronic reporting system that EAS
test participants may use as part of their participation in the
national EAS test. The Commission noted that using this system, EAS
test participants could input the same information that they were
already required to file manually via a web-based interface into a
confidential database that the Commission would use to monitor and
assess the test. This information would include identifying information
such as station call letters, license identification number, geographic
coordinates, EAS assignment (LP, NP, etc), EAS monitoring assignment,
as well as a 24/7 emergency contact for the EAS Participant. The only
difference, other
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than the electronic nature of the filing, would the timing of the
collection. On the day of the test, EAS Test participants would be able
to input immediate test results, (e.g., was the EAN received and did it
pass) into a web-based interface. Test participants would submit the
identifying data prior to the test date, and the remaining data called
for by our reporting rules (e.g. the detailed test results) within the
45 day period. The Commission believes that structuring an electronic
reporting system in this fashion would allow the participants to
populate the database with known information well prior to the test,
and thus be able to provide the Commission with actual test data, both
close to real-time and within a reasonable period in a minimally
burdensome fashion.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-28681 Filed 11-4-11; 8:45 am]
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