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panels has a different purpose from 

public comment provided to EPA 

program offices. Therefore, the process 

for submitting comments to a federal 

advisory committee is different from the 

process used to submit comments to an 

EPA program office. 

Federal advisory committees and 

panels, including scientific advisory 

committees, provide independent 

advice to EPA. Members of the public 

can submit comments for a federal 

advisory committee to consider as it 

develops advice for EPA. Input from the 

public to the SAB will have the most 

impact if it provides specific scientific 

or technical information or analysis for 

SAB panels to consider or if it relates to 

the clarity or accuracy of the technical 

information. Members of the public 

wishing to provide comment should 

contact the Designated Federal Officer 

directly. Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a teleconference will be 

limited to three minutes. Those 

interested in being placed on the public 

speakers list for the September 7, 2011 

teleconference should contact Dr. 

Nugent at the contact information 

provided above no later than September 

1, 2011. Written Statements: Written 

statements should be supplied to the 

DFO via e-mail at the contact 

information noted above by September 

1, 2011 for the teleconference so that the 

information may be made available to 

the Panel members for their 

consideration. Written statements 

should be supplied in one of the 

following electronic formats: Adobe 

Acrobat PDF, MS Word, MS 

PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM– 

PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format. It is 

the SAB Staff Office general policy to 

post written comments on the Web page 

for the advisory meeting or 

teleconference. Submitters are requested 

to provide an unsigned version of each 

document because the SAB Staff Office 

does not publish documents with 

signatures on its Web sites. Members of 

the public should be aware that their 

personal contact information, if 

included in any written comments, may 

be posted to the SAB Web site. 

Copyrighted material will not be posted 

without explicit permission of the 

copyright holder. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. Nugent 

(202) 564–2218 or 

nugent.angela@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Dr. Nugent preferably at least 

ten days prior to the teleconference to 

give EPA as much time as possible to 

process your request. 

Dated: August 9, 2011. 

Vanessa T. Vu, 

Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20825 Filed 8–15–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Information Collection Being 

Submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget for Review and Approval 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC), as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

burdens, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995. 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, and 

clarity of the information collected; (d) 

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 (e) 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 control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

PRA that does not display a valid Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

control number. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted on or before September 15, 

2011. 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 contacts below as soon as 

possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB, via fax 202– 

395–5167, or via e-mail 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov; and 

to Cathy Williams, FCC, via e-mail 

PRA@fcc.gov and to 

Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. Include in the 

comments the OMB control number as 

shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information or copies of the 

information collection, contact Cathy 

Williams at (202) 418–2918. To view a 

copy of this information collection 

request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go 

to the Web page http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the 

section of the Web page called 

‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ (3) click on 

the downward-pointing arrow in the 

‘‘Select Agency’’ box below the 

‘‘Currently Under Review’’ heading, (4) 

select ‘‘Federal Communications 

Commission’’ from the list of agencies 

presented in the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, 

(5) click the ‘‘Submit’’ button to the 

right of the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, (6) 

when the list of FCC ICRs currently 

under review appears, look for the OMB 

control number of this ICR and then 

click on the ICR Reference Number. A 

copy of the FCC submission to OMB 

will be displayed. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0214. 

Title: Sections 73.3526 and 73.3527, 

Local Public Inspection Files; Sections 

76.1701 and 73.1943, Political Files. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; not for-profit institutions. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 25,422 respondents; 59,833 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour 

to 109 hours. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping and third party 

disclosure requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefit. The statutory 

authority for this collection of 

information is contained in Sections 

154(i), 303 and 308 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 2,176,815 

hours. 

Total Annual Cost: None. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality with 

this collection of information. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

published a 60-day notice on April 18, 

2011 seeking comments from the public 

(see 76 FR 21739). This current 

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additional 30 days of public comment. 

The Commission received the previous 

comments from the 60-day notice and 

has taken them into account. 

The Commission first adopted a 

public inspection file requirement more 

than 40 years ago. The public file 

requirement grew out of Congress’ 1960 

amendment of Sections 309 and 311 of 

the Communications Act of 1934. 

Finding that Congress, in enacting these 

provisions, was guarding ‘‘the right of 

the general public to be informed, not 

merely the rights of those who have 

special interests,’’ the Commission 

adopted the public inspection file 

requirement to ‘‘make information to 

which the public already has a right 

more readily available, so that the 

public will be encouraged to play a 

more active part in dialogue with 

broadcast licensees.’’ In return for their 

exclusive use of public spectrum, 

broadcasters must operate and program 

their stations in the ‘‘public interest, 

convenience and necessity.’’ This means 

that all stations must be responsive and 

accountable to their local community of 

license. The manner in which 

broadcasters communicate with their 

communities is a core function of their 

role as licensees. Specific items in the 

public file, listed below, include items 

that provide station information to the 

public, like ownership reports, contour 

maps, citizens agreements, EEO reports 

and quarterly lists of programs that the 

stations believe addressed important 

issues in their community. Access to the 

public inspection file allows the public 

to monitor a station’s public interest 

performance. The information provided 

in a station’s public file enables citizens 

to engage in an informed dialog with 

their local stations or to file complaints 

or petitions to deny the renewal of a 

station’s license. Comments, 

complaints, and petitions to deny filed 

by the viewing public have long been a 

part of the regulatory and the renewal 

process. As part of the Commission’s 

license renewal process, the 

Commission does not routinely monitor 

every aspect of stations’ compliance 

with Commission rules; rather, it 

depends on viewers and listeners to 

provide information about whether 

stations are meeting their public interest 

obligations. 

The following Information Collection 

Requirements are part of this collection 

and have been approved by OMB: 

47 CFR 73.3526(a) and 73.3527(a) 

require that licensees and permittees of 

commercial and noncommercial 

educational (NCE) broadcast stations 

maintain a local public inspection file. 

The contents of the file vary according 

to type of service and status. A separate 

file shall be maintained for each station 

for which an application is pending or 

for which an authorization is 

outstanding. The public inspection file 

must be maintained so long as an 

authorization to operate the station is 

outstanding. 

47 CFR 73.3526(b) and 73.3527(b) 

require that the public inspection file be 

maintained at the main studio of the 

station. An applicant for a new station 

or change of community shall maintain 

its file at an accessible place in the 

proposed community of license or at its 

proposed main studio. 

47 CFR 73.3526(c) and 73.3527(c) 

require the licensee/permittee to make 

the file available for public inspection at 

any time during regular business hours. 

All or part of this file may be 

maintained in a computer database as 

long as a computer terminal is made 

available to members of the public. 

Materials in the public file must be 

made available for review, printing or 

reproduction upon request. 

Licensees that maintain their main 

studios and public file outside their 

communities of license are required to 

mail a copy of ‘‘The Public and 

Broadcasting’’ to anyone requesting a 

copy. Licensees shall be prepared to 

assist members of the public in 

identifying the documents they may 

want to be sent to them by mail. 

47 CFR 73.3526(d) and 73.3527(d) 

require an assignor to maintain the 

public inspection file until such time as 

the assignment is consummated. At that 

time, the assignee is required to 

maintain the file. 

47 CFR 73.3526(e) and 73.3527(e) 

specify the contents of the public 

inspection files. Separate rule sections 

not subject to this information 

collection require the creation and 

submission to the Commission of many 

of the items that must be retained in the 

public inspection file. As such, the 

burden estimates for creation and 

submission of these documents are 

calculated in other information 

collections. The burden estimates 

included in this information collection 

pertain only to making these items 

publicly available. We have listed below 

some of the relevant information 

collections pertaining to the creation 

and submission of such documents. The 

documents to be retained in the public 

inspection files are as follows: 

(a) A copy of the current FCC 

authorization to construct or operate the 

station, as well as any other documents 

necessary to reflect any modifications 

thereto or any conditions that the FCC 

has placed on the authorization; 

(b) A copy of any application 

tendered for filing with the FCC, 

together with all related material, and 

copies of Initial Decision and Final 

Decisions in hearing cases. If petitions 

to deny are filed against the application, 

a statement that such a petition has been 

filed shall be maintained in the file 

together with the name and address of 

the party filing the petition [Application 

for Construction Permit for Commercial 

Broadcast Station (OMB control number 

3060–0027, FCC Form 301; Application 

for New Commercial or Noncommercial 

Educational Broadcast Station License 

(OMB control number 3060–0029, FCC 

Form 340); Application for Consent to 

Assignment of Broadcast Station 

Construction Permit or License, FCC 

Form 314; Application for Consent to 

Transfer Control of Entity Holding 

Broadcast Station Construction Permit 

or License, FCC Form 315; Section 

73.3580, Local Public Notice of Filing of 

Broadcast Applications (OMB control 

number 3060–0031)]; 

(c) For commercial broadcast stations, 

a copy of every written citizen 

agreement; 

(d) A copy of any service contour 

maps, submitted with any application, 

together with any other information in 

the application showing service 

contours and/or main studio and 

transmitter location; 

(e) A copy of the most recent, 

complete Ownership Report (FCC Form 

323) filed with the FCC for the station, 

together with any statements filed with 

the FCC certifying that the current 

Report is accurate [Ownership Report 

for Broadcast Station (OMB control 

number 3060–0010, FCC Form 323); 

Ownership Report for Noncommercial 

Educational TV, FM or Standard 

Broadcast Station (OMB control number 

3060–0084, FCC Form 323–E)]; 

(f) A political file of records required 

by 47 CFR 73.1943 concerning 

broadcasts by candidates for public 

office [Section 73.1942, Candidates 

Rates, 76.206, Candidates Rates, Section 

76.1611, Political Cable Rates and 

Classes of Time (OMB control number 

3060–0501)]; 

(g) An Equal Employment 

Opportunity File required by 47 CFR 

73.2080 [Broadcast EEO Program 

Report, FCC Form 396 (OMB control 

number 3060–0113); Multi-Channel 

Video Program Distributor EEO Program 

Annual Report (OMB control number 

3060–1033, FCC Form 396–C)]. 

(h) A copy of the most recent edition 

of the manual entitled ‘‘The Public and 

Broadcasting;’’ 

(i) For commercial broadcast stations, 

all written comments and suggestions 

(letters and electronic mail) received 

from the public regarding operation of 

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(j) Material having a substantial 

bearing on a matter which is the subject 

of an FCC investigation or complaint to 

the FCC of which the applicant/ 

permittee/licensee has been advised; 

(k) For commercial radio and TV 

broadcast stations and non-exempt NCE 

broadcast stations, a list of programs 

that have provided the station’s most 

significant treatment of community 

issues. This list is kept on a quarterly 

basis and contains a brief description of 

how each issue was treated; 

(l) For commercial TV broadcast 

stations, records sufficient to permit 

substantiation of the station’s 

certification, in its license renewal 

application, of compliance with the 

commercial limits on children’s 

television programming. The records 

must be placed in the public file 

quarterly. The FCC Form 398, 

Children’s Television Programming 

Reports, reflecting efforts made by the 

licensee during the preceding quarter, 

and efforts planned for the next quarter, 

to serve the educational and 

informational needs of children must be 

placed in the public file quarterly 

[Children’s Television Programming 

Report (OMB control number 3060– 

0754, FCC Form 398)]; 

(m) For NCE stations, a list of donors 

supporting specific programs. The list is 

to be retained for two years from the 

date of the broadcast of the specific 

program supported, and will be reserved 

for sponsors/underwriters of specific 

programming; 

(n) Each applicant for renewal of 

license shall place in the public file a 

statement certifying compliance with 

the pre-filing and post-filing local 

public notice announcements. These 

statements shall be placed in the public 

file within 7 days of the last day of 

broadcast [Section 73.3580, Local Public 

Notice of Filing of Broadcast 

Applications (OMB control number 

3060–0031)]; 

(o) Commercial radio and TV 

licensees who provide programming to 

another licensee’s station, pursuant to 

time brokerage agreements, are required 

to keep copies of those agreements in 

their public inspection files, with 

confidential information blocked out 

where appropriate; 

(p) Commercial TV stations must 

make an election between 

retransmission consent and must-carry 

status once every three years. Television 

stations that fail to make an election 

will be deemed to have elected mustcarry status. This statement must be 

placed in the station’s public inspection 

file. This rule codifies Section 

325(b)(3)(B) of the Communications Act 

of 1934, as amended [Section 73.1601, 

Deletion of Repositioning of Broadcast 

Signals; Section 76.1617, Initial MustCarry Notice; and Sections 76.1697 and 

76.1708, Principal Headend (OMB 

control number 3060–0649)]; 

(q) NCE television stations requesting 

mandatory carriage on any cable system 

pursuant to 47 CFR 76.56 shall place in 

its public file the request and relevant 

correspondence; and 

(r) Commercial radio and TV licensees 

who have entered into joint sales 

agreements must place the agreements 

in the public inspection file, with 

confidential and propriety information 

blocked out where appropriate. 

47 CFR 73.1212(e), 73.1943 and 

76.1701 require licensees of broadcast 

stations and every cable television 

system to keep and permit public 

inspection of a complete record 

(political file) of all requests for 

broadcast and cablecast time made by or 

on behalf of candidates for public office, 

together with an appropriate notation 

showing the disposition made by the 

system of such requests, and the charges 

made, if any, if the request is granted. 

The disposition includes the schedule 

of time purchased, when the spots 

actually aired, the rates charged, and the 

classes of time purchased. Also, when 

free time is provided for use by or on 

behalf of candidates, a record of the free 

time provided is to be placed in the 

political file as soon as possible and 

maintained for a period of two years. 47 

CFR 73.1212(e) and 76.1701 also require 

that, when an entity sponsors broadcast 

or cablecast material that concerns a 

political matter or a discussion of a 

controversial issue of public 

importance, a list must be maintained in 

the public file of the system that 

includes the sponsoring entity’s chief 

executive officers, or members of its 

executive committee or of its board of 

directors [Sections 73.1212, 76.1615 and 

76.1715, Sponsorship Identification 

(OMB control number 3060–0174); 

Section 73.1942, Candidates Rates, 

76.206, Candidates Rates, Section 

76.1611, Political Cable Rates and 

Classes of Time (OMB control number 

3060–0501)]. 

The Commission is requesting an 

extension of this information collection 

for a three year period from OMB. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of 

Managing Director. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20719 Filed 8–15–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Radio Broadcasting Services; AM or 

FM Proposals To Change the 

Community of License 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The following applicants filed 

AM or FM proposals to change the 

community of license: ALELUYA 

BROADCASTING NETWORK, Station 

NEW, Facility ID 123270, BMPED– 

20110629BPM, From BAY CITY, TX, To 

LOUISE, TX; DAVID L. SMITH, Station 

WGRL, Facility ID 170939, BMPH– 

20110718ABP, From FREDERIC, MI, To 

TUSCARORA TOWNSHIP, MI; L. 

TOPAZ ENTERPRISES, INC., Station 

NEW, Facility ID 189562, BNPH– 

20110624ADA, From MCCALL, ID, To 

UNION, OR; M&M BROADCASTERS, 

LTD., Station KHHG, Facility ID 170991, 

BPH–20110620AGF, From HAMILTON, 

TX, To HICO, TX; NORMIN 

BROADCASTING CO., Station NEW, 

Facility ID 189577, BNPH– 

20110630AIA, From RED LAKE, MN, To 

RED LAKE FALLS, MN; S & S 

VENEGAS, LLC, Station KRBN, Facility 

ID 170993, BPH–20110627ABP, From 

BURNEY, CA, To MANTON, CA; 

SOUTH SOUND BROADCASTING, 

LLC, Station KOMO–FM, Facility ID 

51167, BMPH–20110630AGT, From 

OAKVILLE, WA, To BELFAIR, WA; 

SUNNYLANDS BROADCASTING LLC, 

Station NEW, Facility ID 189496, 

BNPH–20110630AGJ, From ILWACO, 

WA, To OAKVILLE, WA; THRESHOLD 

COMMUNICATIONS, Station NEW, 

Facility ID 189494, BNPH– 

20110630AHJ, From CLATSKANIE, OR, 

To FORDS PRAIRIE, WA; TLAPEK, 

DON J, Station NEW, Facility ID 189525, 

BNPH–20110628ABN, From 

GUNNISON, CO, To OLATHE, CO. 

DATES: The agency must receive 

comments on or before October 17, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, 445 Twelfth Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tung Bui, 202–418–2700. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The full 

text of these applications is available for 

inspection and copying during normal 

business hours in the Commission’s 

Reference Center, 445 12th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20554 or electronically 

via the Media Bureau’s Consolidated 

Data Base System, http:// 

svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/ 

prod/cdbs_pa.htm. A copy of this 


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