2560 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 8 / Wednesday, January 13, 2021 / Rules and Regulations 

1Office of Management and Budget, M–21–10, 

Implementation of Penalty Inflation Adjustments 

for 2021, Pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties 

Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 

2015, at 1 (Dec. 23, 2020) (M–21–10). 

State and 

location 

Community 

No. 

Effective date authorization/cancellation of 

sale of flood insurance in community 

Current effective 

map date 

Date certain 

Federal 

assistance 

no longer 

available 

in SFHAs 

Region VI 

Texas: Palacios, City of, Matagorda County 485495 August 7, 1970, Emerg; November 17, 

1970, Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Region VII 

Iowa: 

Ames, City of, Story County .................. 190254 July 25, 1974, Emerg; January 2, 1981, 

Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Cambridge, City of, Story County ......... 190255 July 29, 1974, Emerg; June 15, 1981, Reg; 

January 15, 2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Collins, City of, Story County ................ 190719 N/A, Emerg; December 12, 2007, Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.......do ............... Do. 

Huxley, City of, Story County ................ 190597 N/A, Emerg; May 5, 2008, Reg; January 15, 

2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Maxwell, City of, Story County .............. 190257 July 24, 1975, Emerg; February 15, 1984, 

Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

McCallsburg, City of, Story County ....... 190315 N/A, Emerg; September 6, 2013, Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.......do ............... Do. 

Nevada, City of, Story County ............... 190258 November 25, 1974, Emerg; August 3, 

1981, Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Slater, City of, Story County .................. 190659 N/A, Emerg; February 15, 2008, Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.......do ............... Do. 

Story City, City of, Story County .................. 190259 June 25, 1975, Emerg; January 16, 1981, 

Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Zearing, City of, Story County ............... 190260 September 28, 1976, Emerg; May 1, 1987, 

Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.

January 15, 

2021.

January 15, 

2021. 

Region VIII 

Colorado: 

Arvada, City of, Adams and Jefferson 

Counties.

085072 April 30, 1971, Emerg; June 23, 1972, Reg; 

January 15, 2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Berthoud, Town of, Larimer County ...... 080296 October 28, 1977, Emerg; May 26, 1978, 

Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Jefferson County, Unincorporated 

Areas.

080087 July 5, 1973, Emerg; August 5, 1986, Reg; 

January 15, 2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Johnstown, Town of, Larimer and Weld 

Counties.

080250 August 22, 2003, Emerg; December 19, 

2006, Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

South Dakota: Union County, Unincorporated Areas.460242 April 23, 1975, Emerg; February 1, 1987, 

Reg; January 15, 2021, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

*-do- = Ditto. 

Code for reading third column: Emerg.—Emergency; Reg.—Regular; Susp.—Suspension. 

Katherine B. Fox, 

Assistant Administrator for Mitigation, 

Federal Insurance and Mitigation 

Administration—FEMA Resilience, 

Department of Homeland Security, Federal 

Emergency Management Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2021–00609 Filed 1–12–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–12–P 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

46 CFR Part 506 

[Docket No. 21–01] 

RIN 3072–AC85 

Inflation Adjustment of Civil Monetary 

Penalties 

AGENCY: Federal Maritime Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Maritime 

Commission (Commission) is publishing 

this final rule to adjust for inflation the 

civil monetary penalties assessed or 

enforced by the Commission, pursuant 

to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation 

Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 

2015 (2015 Act). The 2015 Act requires 

that agencies adjust and publish their 

civil penalties by January 15 each year. 

DATES: This rule is effective January 15, 

2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rachel E. Dickon, Secretary; Phone: 

(202) 523–5725; Email: secretary@

fmc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This rule 

adjusts the civil monetary penalties 

assessable by the Commission in 

accordance with the 2015 Act, which 

became effective on November 2, 2015. 

Public Law 114–74, section 701. The 

2015 Act further amended the Federal 

Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act 

of 1990 (FCPIAA), Public Law 101–410, 

104 Stat. 890 (codified as amended at 28 

U.S.C. 2461 note), in order to improve 

the effectiveness of civil monetary 

penalties and to maintain their deterrent 

effect. 

The 2015 Act requires agencies to 

adjust civil monetary penalties under 

their jurisdiction by January 15 each 

year, based on changes in the consumer 

price index (CPI–U) for the month of 

October in the previous calendar year. 

On December 23, 2020, the Office of 

Management and Budget published 

guidance stating that the CPI–U 

multiplier for October 2020 is 1.01182.1

In order to complete the adjustment for 

Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 8 / Wednesday, January 13, 2021 / Rules and Regulations 2561 

2FCPIAA section 4(b)(2); M–21–10 at 3. 

January 2021, the Commission must 

multiply the most recent civil penalty 

amounts in 46 CFR part 506 by the 

multiplier, 1.01182. 

Rulemaking Analyses and Notices 

Notice and Effective Date 

Adjustments under the FCPIAA, as 

amended by the 2015 Act, are not 

subject to the procedural rulemaking 

requirements of the Administrative 

Procedure Act (APA) (5 U.S.C. 553), 

including the requirements for prior 

notice, an opportunity for comment, and 

a delay between the issuance of a final 

rule and its effective date.2 As noted 

above, the 2015 Act requires that the 

Commission adjust its civil monetary 

penalties no later than January 15 of 

each year. 

Congressional Review Act 

The rule is not a ‘‘major rule’’ as 

defined by the Congressional Review 

Act, codified at 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq. The 

rule will not result in: (1) An annual 

effect on the economy of $100,000,000 

or more; (2) a major increase in costs or 

prices; or (3) significant adverse effects 

on competition, employment, 

investment, productivity, innovation, or 

the ability of United States-based 

companies to compete with foreignbased companies. 5 U.S.C. 804(2). 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act 

(codified as amended at 5 U.S.C. 601– 

612) provides that whenever an agency 

promulgates a final rule after being 

required to publish a notice of proposed 

rulemaking under the APA (5 U.S.C. 

553), the agency must prepare and make 

available a final regulatory flexibility 

analysis describing the impact of the 

rule on small entities or the head of the 

agency must certify that the rule will 

not have a significant economic impact 

on a substantial number of small 

entities. 5 U.S.C. 604–605. As indicated 

above, this final rule is not subject to the 

APA’s notice and comment 

requirements, and the Commission is 

not required to either conduct a 

regulatory flexibility analysis or certify 

that the final rule would not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3521) requires an 

agency to seek and receive approval 

from the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) before collecting 

information from the public. 44 U.S.C. 

3507. The agency must submit 

collections of information in rules to 

OMB in conjunction with the 

publication of the notice of proposed 

rulemaking. 5 CFR 1320.11. This final 

rule does not contain any collection of 

information, as defined by 44 U.S.C. 

3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c). 

Regulation Identifier Number 

The Commission assigns a regulation 

identifier number (RIN) to each 

regulatory action listed in the Unified 

Agenda of Federal Regulatory and 

Deregulatory Actions (Unified Agenda). 

The Regulatory Information Service 

Center publishes the Unified Agenda in 

April and October of each year. The 

public may use the RIN contained in the 

heading at the beginning of this 

document to find this action in the 

Unified Agenda, available at http://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

eAgendaMain. 

List of Subjects in 46 CFR Part 506 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Claims, Penalties. 

For the reasons stated in the 

preamble, 46 CFR part 506 is amended 

as follows: 

PART 506—CIVIL MONETARY 

PENALTY INFLATION ADJUSTMENT 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 506 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 28 U.S.C. 2461. 

■ 2. Amend § 506.4 by revising 

paragraph (d) to read as follows: 

§ 506.4 Cost of living adjustments of civil 

monetary penalties. 

* * * * * 

(d) Inflation adjustment. Maximum 

civil monetary penalties within the 

jurisdiction of the Federal Maritime 

Commission are adjusted for inflation as 

follows: 

TABLE 1 TO PARAGRAPH (d) 

United States Code citation Civil monetary penalty description 

Maximum 

penalty as of 

January 15, 

2020 

Maximum 

penalty as of 

January 15, 

2021 

46 U.S.C. 42304 ............................. Adverse impact on U.S. carriers by foreign shipping practices ............. $2,140,973 $2,166,279 

46 U.S.C. 41107(a) ........................ Knowing and Willful violation/Shipping Act of 1984, or Commission 

regulation or order.

61,098 61,820 

46 U.S.C. 41107(a) ........................ Violation of Shipping Act of 1984, Commission regulation or order, not 

knowing and willful.

12,219 12,363 

46 U.S.C. 41108(b) ........................ Operating in foreign commerce after tariff suspension .......................... 122,197 123,641 

46 U.S.C. 42104 ............................. Failure to provide required reports, etc./Merchant Marine Act of 1920 9,639 9,753 

46 U.S.C. 42106 ............................. Adverse shipping conditions/Merchant Marine Act of 1920 ................... 1,927,676 1,950,461 

46 U.S.C. 42108 ............................. Operating after tariff or service contract suspension/Merchant Marine 

Act of 1920.

96,384 97,523 

46 U.S.C. 44102, 44104 ................. Failure to establish financial responsibility for non-performance of 

transportation.

24,346 

812 

24,634 

822 

46 U.S.C. 44103, 44104 ................. Failure to establish financial responsibility for death or injury ............... 24,346 

812 

24,634 

822 

31 U.S.C. 3802(a)(1) ...................... Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act/making false claim ......................... 11,665 11,803 

31 U.S.C. 3802(a)(2) ...................... Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act/giving false statement ................... 11,665 11,803 

2562 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 8 / Wednesday, January 13, 2021 / Rules and Regulations 

By the Commission. 

Rachel Dickon, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–00323 Filed 1–12–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6730–02–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 64 

[CG Docket No. 20–93; FCC 20–171; FRS 

17291] 

Protecting Consumers From One-Ring 

Scams 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

Commission) implements section 12 of 

the TRACED Act in order to enable 

voice service providers to block calls 

from numbers associated with a type of 

illegal robocall known as a one-ring 

scam. The Commission also, pursuant to 

the TRACED Act, expands collaborative 

law enforcement and consumer 

education activities to stop one-ring 

scams and other fraudulent and abusive 

robocalling practices. The measures 

adopted by the Commission empower 

voice service providers to stop these 

illegal robocalls and will give 

consumers substantial additional 

protection from these scams. 

DATES: Effective February 12, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mika Savir of the Consumer Policy 

Division, Consumer and Governmental 

Affairs Bureau, at mika.savir@fcc.gov or 

(202) 418–0384. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s Report 

and Order, FCC 20–171, CG Docket No. 

20–93, adopted on November 24, 2020, 

and released on November 30, 2020. 

The full text of this document is 

available online at https://docs.fcc.gov/ 

public/attachments/FCC-20- 

171A1.docx. To request this document 

in accessible formats for people with 

disabilities (e.g., Braille, large print, 

electronic files, audio format) or to 

request reasonable accommodations 

(e.g., accessible format documents, sign 

language interpreters, CART), send an 

email to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the 

FCC’s Consumer and Governmental 

Affairs Bureau at (202) 418–0530 

(voice), (202) 418–0432 (TTY). 

Congressional Review Act 

The Commission sent a copy of 

document FCC 20–171 to Congress and 

the Government Accountability Office 

pursuant to the Congressional Review 

Act, 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A). 

Final Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

Analysis 

The Report and Order does not 

contain any new or modified 

information collection requirements 

subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995, Public Law 104–13. It, 

therefore, does not contain any new or 

modified information collection burden 

for small business concerns with fewer 

than 25 employees, pursuant to the 

Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 

2002, Public Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(4). 

Synopsis 

1. In the Report and Order, the 

Commission implements section 12 of 

the Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall 

Abuse Criminal Enforcement Act 

(TRACED Act), Public Law 116–105, 12, 

December 30, 2019, 133 Stat. 3286 

(codified at 47 U.S.C. 227 note). Section 

12 of the TRACED Act directs the 

Commission to consider taking 

additional steps to protect called parties 

from a type of illegal call known as the 

one-ring scam. In the Report and Order, 

the Commission adopts the proposal in 

the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

(NPRM), published at 85 FR 30672, May 

20, 2020, with some minor 

modifications. The Commission adds a 

new paragraph (k)(2)(iv) to 47 CFR 

64.2400 to allow voice service providers 

to block all calls from a telephone 

number that the provider identifies, 

based on reasonable analytics, as highly 

likely to be associated with a one-ring 

scam. The Commission also adopts a 

definition of one-ring scam in paragraph 

(f)(8) that is consistent with the 

definition set forth in the proposed rule: 

The term one-ring scam means a scam 

in which a caller makes a call and 

allows the call to ring the called party 

for a short duration, in order to prompt 

the called party to return the call, 

thereby subjecting the called party to 

charges. 

2. Based on the record, the 

Commission concludes that these rule 

changes will help protect consumers 

from the scam and, consistent with 

section 12(b)(4) of the TRACED Act, will 

incentivize voice service providers to 

stop calls made to perpetrate one-ring 

scams from being received by called 

parties. This rule amendment is also 

consistent with the congressional 

directive in the same section of the 

statute regarding the addition of 

identified one-ring scam type numbers 

to the Commission’s existing list of 

permissible categories for carrierinitiated blocking. In addition, pursuant 

to section 12(b)(5) of the TRACED Act, 

this rule takes into account and relies, 

in part, on the work of entities that 

provide call-blocking services to address 

one-ring scams. 

3. One-ring scam calls serve no 

beneficial purpose, and thus no 

reasonable consumer would want to 

receive them. Accordingly, the 

Commission does not require 

terminating providers to give their 

customers an opportunity to opt out of 

the blocking of such calls. The 

Commission encourages voice service 

providers to implement call-blocking 

measures that will help eliminate or 

reduce the number of one-ring scam 

calls that reach consumers. 

4. The Commission also extends to 

one-ring scam blocking the safe harbor 

for inadvertent blocking of wanted 

robocalls using reasonable analytics. 

This safe harbor gives voice service 

providers assurance that blocking of 

one-ring scam calls based on reasonable 

analytics will not result in liability if 

they inadvertently block wanted calls, 

and it thus strengthens their ability and 

incentive to protect consumers from 

such scams. For this reason, the 

Commission is adding a reference to 

reasonable analytics—a term that was 

not included in the rule text proposed 

in the NPRM—to paragraph (k)(2)(iv) of 

the final rule. 

5. While voice service providers 

already have authority to block illegal 

one-ring scam calls, the rule adopted 

herein will remove any doubt that voice 

service providers may lawfully use 

reasonable analytics to identify and 

block calls that appear to be one-ring 

scam calls, even if such identification 

proves to be erroneous in any particular 

instance; that they may do so without 

fear of liability for inadvertently 

blocking wanted calls; and that they 

may do so on a network-wide basis. The 

Commission believes this will strongly 

encourage voice service providers to 

take a more aggressive approach to 

blocking one-ring scam calls and thus 

will further protect consumers from 

such scams. 

6. Some commenters recommended 

that the Commission focus on 

combatting one-ring scam calls that 

fraudulently induce consumers to place 

calls to premium-rate numbers under a 

foreign government’s national 

numbering plan, subject to analytics 

that suggest reasonable cause to treat 

such inbound calls as scam calls. The 

Commission agrees that voice service 

providers could block such inbound 

calls if they satisfy the applicable 

criteria in the rules.