38306 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 126 / Thursday, June 30, 2011 / Rules and Regulations 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

37 CFR Part 201 

[Docket No. RM 2009–5] 

Fees for Special Handling of 

Registration Claims 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Extension of temporary rule. 

SUMMARY: The Copyright Office is 

extending for one year the interim rule 

relating to fees for special handling of 

registration claims that have been 

pending for at least six months. 

Currently, the interim rule is set to 

expire on July 1, 2011, and this 

extension will change the expiration 

date to July 1, 2012. 

DATES: The effective period of 37 CFR 

201.15, published August 10, 2009 

(74 FR 39900) is extended through July 

1, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTRACT: 

David O. Carson, General Counsel, or 

Kent Dunlap, Assistant General 

Counsel, Copyright GC/I&R, P.O. Box 

70400, Southwest Station, Washington, 

DC 20024. Telephone: (202) 707–8380. 

Telefax: (202) 707–8366. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 

10, 2009, the Copyright Office published 

a notice of an interim rule relating to 

fees for special handling of registration 

claims that have been pending for at 

least six months. 74 FR 39900 (August 

10, 2009). Under this interim rule, the 

Copyright Office waived the normal 

special handling charges for conversion 

of a pending copyright application that 

had been pending for more than six 

months without any action by the 

Copyright Office in instances where the 

applicant satisfied the Office that 

special handling of the registration was 

needed because the applicant was about 

to file a suit for copyright infringement. 

The interim rule § 201.15, was set to 

expire on July 1, 2011. 

As was noted in the Federal Register 

notice announcing this interim rule, at 

that time the pendency rates for 

applications for registration had risen to 

unacceptably high levels due to issues 

relating to the transition to the Office’s 

new electronic filing system, especially 

with respect to paper applications. 

Since that time, much progress has been 

made in reducing the pendency rates. 

The average time to complete claims 

that are submitted electronically is now 

3 months, but for paper applications the 

average is now 13 months, with 30% of 

paper applications being processed 

within 6 months. Therefore, the Office 

has concluded that there remains a need 

to permit special handling without an 

additional fee in cases where 

applications have been pending for 

more than 6 months, without any action 

by the Copyright Office, and prompt 

registration is needed to permit the 

filing of a copyright infringement suit. 

The Office will reevaluate whether 

there is a continuing need for this 

interim rule to remain in place as the 

new expiration date approaches next 

year. 

Persons wishing to take advantage of 

this accommodation must continue to 

comply with the requirements set forth 

in section 201.15 of the Copyright Office 

regulations, including the requirement 

to submit an affidavit or declaration 

under penalty of perjury providing the 

information and documents required by 

that section of the regulations. 

Dated: June 22, 2011. 

Maria A. Pallante, 

Register of Copyrights. 

Approved by: 

James H. Billington, 

The Librarian of Congress. 

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47 CFR Part 73 

[ET Docket No. 06–94; FCC 10–195] 

Digital Television Signals Pursuant to 

the Satellite Home Viewer Extension 

and Reauthorization Act of 2004 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rules; announcement of 

effective date. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Commission announces that the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) has 

approved, for a period of three years, the 

information collection requirements 

contained in the regulations in the 

Satellite Home Viewer Extension Act of 

2004. The information collection 

requirements were approved on June 14, 

2011 by OMB. 

DATES: The amendments to 47 CFR 

73.686(e), published at 75 FR 81491, 

December 28, 2010, are effective on June 

30, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information contact Cathy 

Williams on (202) 418–2918 or via email to: cathy.williams@fcc.gov 

mailto:cathy.williams@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document announces that on June 14, 

2011, OMB approved, for a period of 

three years, the information collection 

requirements contained in 47 CFR 

73.686(e). The Commission publishes 

this document to announce the effective 

date of this rule section. See, In the 

Matter of Measurement Standards for 

Digital Television Signals pursuant to 

the Satellite Home Viewer Extension 

and Reauthorization Act of 2004, ET 

Docket No. 06–94; FCC 10–195, 75 FR 

81491, December 28, 2010. 

Synopsis 

As required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, (44 U.S.C. 3507), 

the Commission is notifying the public 

that it received OMB approval on June 

14, 2011, for the information collection 

requirement contained in 47 CFR 

73.686(e). Under 5 CFR 1320, an agency 

may not conduct or sponsor a collection 

of information unless it displays a 

current, 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 that does not 

display a valid OMB Control Number. 

The OMB Control Number is 3060– 

0863 and the total annual reporting 

burdens for respondents for this 

information collection are as follows: 

Title: Satellite Delivery of Network 

Signals to Unserved Households for 

Purposes of the Satellite Home Viewer 

Act. 

Form Number: Not applicable. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0863. 

OMB Approval Date: 06/14/2011. 

OMB Expiration Date: 06/30/2014. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents: Responses 

848 respondents; 250,000 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.50 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping requirement; on 

occasion reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. The statutory 

authority for this collection is the 

Satellite Home Viewer Act, 17 U.S.C. 

119. 

Total Annual Burden: 125,000 hours. 

Annual Cost Burden: None. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality with 

this information collection. 

Needs and Uses: On November 23, 

2010, the Commission’s Office of 

Engineering and Technology, released a 

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