[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 116 (Monday, June 17, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36186-36188]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-14283]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for Review and Approval
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the
Federal Communications Commission invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following
information collection(s). 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
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Commission's burden estimates; 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 OMB control number. No person
shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection
of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that does
not display a valid OMB control number.
DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before July 17, 2013. If you anticipate that you will
be submitting PRA comments, but find it difficult to do so within the
period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the FCC
contact listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), via fax at 202-395-5167 or via Internet at
[email protected] and to Judith B. Herman, Federal
Communications Commission, via the Internet at [email protected].
To submit your PRA comments by email send them to: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing
Director, FCC, at 202-418-0214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0261.
Title: Section 90.215, Transmitter Measurements.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit, not-for-profit
institutions and state, local or tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 174,661 respondents; 369,495 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .33 hours.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. section 303(f) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 12,193 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for
confidentiality.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
during this 30 day comment period in order to obtain the full three
year clearance from them. The Commission is requesting OMB approval for
an extension (no change in the recordkeeping requirement).
There is a change in the Commission's previous burden estimates.
Accordingly to the Commission's Universal Licensing System (ULS), a
total of 174,661 licensees are required to make 369,495 transmitter
measurements.
Section 90.215 requires station licensees to measure the carrier
frequency, output power, and modulation of each transmitter authorized
to operate with power in excel of two watts when the transmitter is
initially installed and when any changes are made which would likely
affect the modulation characteristics. Such measurements, which help
ensure proper operation of transmitters, are to be made by a qualified
engineering measurement service, and are required to be retained in the
station records, along with the name and address of the engineering
measurement service, and the name of the person making the
measurements.
The information is normally used by the licensee to ensure that
equipment is operating within prescribed tolerances. Prior technical
operation of transmitters helps limit interference to other users and
provides the licensee with the maximum possible utilization of
equipment.
OMB Control Number: 3060-XXXX.
Title: Section 87.287, Aeronautical Advisory Stations (Unicoms)--
``Squitters''.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: New collection.
Respondents: Individuals or households, business or other for-
profit, not-for-profit institutions and state, local or tribal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 200 respondents; 200 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third
party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. section 151, 154(i), 154(j), 155, 157, 225, 303[supreg] and 309
of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 200 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $28,750.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: Yes. The Commission has a system of
records for this information collection, FCC/WTB-1, ``Wireless Services
Licensing Records'', which covers the personally identifiable
information (PII) that individual applicants may include in their
submissions for licenses or grants of equipment authorization. At such
time as the Commission revises this System of Records Notice (SORN),
the Commission will conduct a Privacy Act Impact Assessment (PIA) and
publish the revised SORN in the Federal Register. In addition, the
Commission will post a copy of both the PIA and the SORN on the FCC's
Privacy Web page.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is a need for
confidentiality with respect to filers who are individuals in this
collection. Pursuant to section 208(b) of the E-Government Act of 1002,
44 U.S.C. 3501, in conformance with the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C.
552(a), the Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau instructs
licensees to use the FCC's Universal Licensing System (ULS), Antenna
Structure Registration (ASR), Commission Registration System (CORES)
and related systems and subsystems to submit information.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this new information
collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during this 30
day comment period in order to obtain the full three year clearance
from them. The Commission is requesting OMB approval for a new
information collection resulting in a minor increase in burden on the
public.
On March 1, 2013, the Commission released a Report and Order, FCC
13-30, which amended its Part 87 rules to authorize new ground station
technologies that will promote aviation safety, and allow use of
frequency 1090 MHz by aeronautical utility mobile stations for airport
surface detection equipment, commonly referred to as vehicle
``squitters'', to help reduce collisions between aircraft and the
airport ground vehicles. ``Squitter'' refers to random output pulses
from a transponder caused by ambient noise or by an international
random triggering system, but not by the interrogation pulses. Further,
the Commission establishes service rules for audio visual warning
systems to help aircraft in flight avoid antenna structures and other
obstacles, and adopts rules to permit ground testing of aviation data
link test systems. However, in this R&O, the Commission declined to
authorize remote monitoring of certain automated ground stations.
Section 87.287(b) requires that before submitting an application
for an aircraft data link land test station, an applicant
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must obtain written permission from the licensee of the aeronautical
enroute stations serving the areas in which the aircraft data link land
test station will operate on a co-channel basis. The Commission may
request an applicant to provide documentation to that fact.
The written permission will aid the Commission in ensuring that
licensees are complying with its policies and rules, while allowing the
owners of antenna structures and other aviation obstacles to use Audio
Visual Warning Systems (AVWS) stations, thereby helping aircraft avoid
potential collisions and enhancing aviation safety, without causing
harmful interference to other communications.
OMB Control Number: 3060-XXXX.
Title: Signal Boosters--Sections 1.1307(b)(1), 20.3, 20.21(a)(2),
20.29(a)(5), 20.21(e)(2), 20.21(e)(8)(i)(G), 20.21(e)(9)(i)(H),
20.21(f), 20.21(h), 22.9, 24.9, 27.9, 90.203, 90.219(b(1)(i) and
90.219(e)(5).
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: New collection.
Respondents: Individuals or households; business or other for-
profit, not-for-profit institutions..
Number of Respondents: 632,444 respondents; 632-444 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .5 hours to 40 hours.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement, third party
disclosure requirement and on occasion and annual reporting
requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. sections 154(i), 303(g), 303(r) and 332(a) of the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 324,370 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is a need for
confidentiality with respect to filers who are individuals in this
collection. Pursuant to Section 208(b) of the E-Government Act of 2002,
44 U.S.C. section 3501, in conformance with the Privacy Act of 1974, 5
U.S.C. 552(a), the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau instructs
licensees to use the FCC's Universal Licensing System (ULS), Antenna
Structure Registration (ASR), Commission Registration System (CORES)
and related systems and subsystems to submit information.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this new information
collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during this 30
day comment period in order to obtain the full three year clearance
from them. The Commission is reporting a 324,370 hour increase in
burden (program change increase).
The Commission adopted a Report and Order, FCC 13-21, which adopts
new technical, operational, and registration requirements for signal
boosters. The new rules create two new classes of signal boosters--
consumer and industrial--with distinct regulatory requirements.
Consumer Signal Boosters are designed to be used ``out of the box''
by individuals to improve their wireless coverage within a limited area
such as a home, car, boat, or recreational vehicle. Consumer Signal
Boosters will be authorized under provider licenses subject to certain
requirements. Specifically, subscribers must obtain some form of
licensee consent to operate the booster; register the booster with
their provider; use a booster that meets the Network Protection
Standard and is FCC certified; and operate the booster on a secondary,
non-interference basis and shut it down if it causes harmful
interference. Consumers may continue to use existing signal boosters
provided they are: (1) Have the consent of their provider; and (2)
register the booster with that provider. The Commission will conduct
consumer outreach to educate consumers, public safety entities, small
businesses, and other about the new regulatory framework.
Industrial Signal Boosters include a wide variety of devices that
are designed for installation by licensees or qualified installers.
These devices are typically designed to serve multiple users
simultaneously and cover large areas such as stadiums, airports, office
buildings, hospitals, tunnels, and educational campuses. Industrial
Signal Boosters require a FCC license or express licensee consent to
operate, and must be appropriately labeled.
The Commission established a two-step transition process for
equipment certification for Consumer and Industrial Signal Boosters
sold and marketed in the United States. First, as of the release date
of the Report and Order, the Commission stopped accepting applications
for equipment certification of Consumer and Industrial Signal Boosters
that do not comply with the new rules and ceased certification of
devices that do not comply with the new rules. Second, on or after
March 1, 2014, all Consumers and Industrial Signal Boosters sold and
marketed in the United States must meet the new requirement.
Finally, the Commission has created an on-line database with screen
shots for the Registration Requirements. Screen shots are included in
the submission to the OMB and can be viewed in ROCIS (OMB's electronic
PRA system).
The Commission will use the information collected from the provider
reporting requirement to assess providers' treatment of Consumer Signal
Boosters, including the level of consumer access. This information will
inform the Commission's decision whether it is necessary to revisit the
Consumer Signal Booster authorization mechanism. The provider-based
registration requirement will facilitate licensee control over Consumer
Signal Boosters, help providers rapidly resolve interference issues,
and assist in consumer outreach. The labeling and marketing
requirements will inform signal booster operators of their legal
responsibilities, facilitate coordination with providers, and assist in
interference prevention. The Part 90 registration requirement will help
resolve interference should it occur. The RF labeling requirement will
inform consumers about the potential RF safety hazards and reference
the applicable FCC-adopted limits for RF exposure. The certification
requirements will ensure that manufacturers comply with our new
technical rules for Consumer and Industrial Signal Boosters. The
antenna kitting documentation requirement will aid consumers in the
correct installation and use of their devices so as to mitigate
interference. The consent documentation requirement will ensure that
signal booster operators have the proper authority to operate their
devices.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
[FR Doc. 2013-14283 Filed 6-14-13; 8:45 am]
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