[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 250 (Monday, December 31, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77015-77016]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-31226]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the emergency provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
(NTIA).
    Title: State and Local Implementation Grant Program Application 
Requirements.
    OMB Control Number: None.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Emergency submission (new information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 56.
    Average Hours per Response: Application, 10 hours; Quarterly 
report, 4 hours.
    Burden Hours: 1,456.
    Needs and Uses: The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 
2012 (Act, Pub. L. 112-96, 126 Stat. 156 (2012).) was signed by the 
President on February 22, 2012. The Act meets a long-standing priority 
of the Administration, as well as a critical national infrastructure 
need, to create a single, nationwide interoperable public safety 
broadband network (PSBN) that will, for the first time, allow police 
officers, fire fighters, emergency medical service professionals, and 
other public safety officials to effectively communicate with each 
other across agencies and jurisdictions. Public safety workers have 
long been hindered in their ability to respond in a crisis situation 
because of incompatible communications networks and often outdated 
communications equipment.
    The Act establishes the First Responder Network Authority 
(FirstNet) as an independent authority within

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National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and 
authorizes it to take all actions necessary to ensure the design, 
construction, and operation of a nationwide PSBN, based on a single, 
national network architecture.
     The Act also charges NTIA with establishing a grant program to 
assist state, regional, tribal, and local jurisdictions with 
identifying, planning, and implementing the most efficient and 
effective means to use and integrate the infrastructure, equipment, and 
other architecture associated with the nationwide PSBN to satisfy the 
wireless broadband and data services needs of their jurisdictions. NTIA 
will use the collection of information to ensure that States applying 
for SLIGP grants meet eligibility and programmatic requirements as well 
as to monitor and evaluate how SLIGP recipients are achieving the core 
purposes of the program established by the Act.
    NTIA is seeking to emergency review of the SLIGP request to begin 
the application process in the first quarter of calendar year 2013 and 
award grants no later than June 1, 2013. In order to meet this 
deadline, NTIA must receive clearance for the application and reporting 
requirements by December 31, 2012 in order to: (1) Ensure applicants 
have reasonable notice of the federal funding opportunity; (2) provide 
applicants sufficient time to complete and submit their applications; 
and (3) allow NTIA adequate time to properly execute the application 
review process and make the awards.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually and quarterly.
    Respondent's Obligation:
    OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas Fraser, (202) 395-5887.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0336, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
[email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent by January 7, 2013 to Nicholas Fraser, OMB 
Desk Officer, FAX number (202) 395-7285, or via the Internet at 
[email protected].

    Dated: December 21, 2012.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-31226 Filed 12-28-12; 8:45 am]
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