[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 169 (Tuesday, September 1, 1998)] [Notices] [Pages 46444-46445] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 98-23440] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval August 25, 1998. SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13. An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid 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 control number. Comments are requested concerning: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, clarity of the information collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of automated information techniques or other forms of information technology. DATES: Written comments should be submitted on or before October 1, 1998. 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 comments to Les Smith, Federal Communications, Room 234, 1919 M St., NW., Washington, DC 20554 or via internet to [email protected]. [[Page 46445]] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies of the information collections contact Les Smith at 202-418-0217 or via internet at [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Approval Number: 3060-0767. Title: Auction Forms and License Transfer Disclosures--Supplement for the Second R & O, Order on Reconsideration, and Fifth NPRM in CC Docket No. 92-297. Form Number: N/A. Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection. Respondents: Business and other for-profit entities; State, Local or Tribal Government. Number of Respondents: 44,000 (180,000 annual responses). Estimated Time Per Response: 0.5-4.0 hours. Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping; On occasion reporting requirements. Total Annual Burden: 773,000 hours. Cost to Respondents: $47,452,000. Needs and Uses: The auction rules, among other things, require small business applicants to submit ownership information and gross revenue calculations, and all applicants to submit terms of joint bidding agreements (if any). Furthermore, in case a licensee defaults or losses its license, the Commission retains the discretion to reauction such licenses. If licenses are reauctioned, the new license winner would be required at the close of the reauction, to comply with the same disclosure requirements. Finally, licensees who transfer licenses within three years will be required to maintain certain information to ensure compliance with Commission rules. Specifically: (1) Small business license winners (and their successors in interest as licensees) will be required to maintain a file over the license term containing ownership and gross revenues information, necessary to determine their business eligibility as a small business and (2) licensees who transfer licensees within three years are required to maintain a file of all documents and contracts pertaining to the transfer. Applicants that do not obtain the license(s) for which they applied shall maintain such files until the grant of such license(s) is final, or one year from the date of the filing of their short-form, application (FCC Form 175), whichever is earlier. The Commission also adopted rules to determine the amount of unjust enrichment payments to be assessed upon assignment, transfer, partitioning and disaggregation of licenses. This rule, applicable to all current and future licensees, is based upon the unjust enrichment of rule currently applicable to broadband PCS licensees. Additionally, the Commission amended its general anticollusion rules, permitting the holder of a non-controlling attributable interest in an applicant to obtain an ownership interest in or enter into a consortium arrangement with another applicant for a license in the same geographic area provided that the original applicant has withdrawn from the auction, is no longer placing bids, and has no further eligibility. To meet the requirements of the exception, the attributable interest holder will be required to certify to the Commission that it did not communicate with the new applicant prior to the date the original applicant withdrew from the auction, and that it will not convey bidding information, or otherwise serve as a nexus between the previous and the new applicant. Federal Communications Commission. William F. Caton, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 98-23440 Filed 8-31-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712-10-P