77092 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 215 / Wednesday, November 8, 2023 / Notices 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–1281; FR ID 183731] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission Under Delegated 

Authority 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

Commission) invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collections. 

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 Commission’s 

burden estimate; 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 Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 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 OMB 

control number. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before January 8, 

2024. 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 PRA comments to 

Cathy Williams, FCC, via email to PRA@

fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Cathy 

Williams at (202) 418–2918. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Control No.: 3060–1281. 

Title: 3.7 GHz Service Licensee and 

Earth Station Operator Agreements; 3.7 

GHz Service Licensee Engineering 

Analysis. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

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

State, Local or Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 30 respondents and 30 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 2 

hours–5 hours. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping requirement; on 

occasion reporting requirement; third 

party disclosure requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. The statutory 

authority for this collection of 

information is contained in sections 1, 

2, 4(i), 4(j), 5(c), 201, 302, 303, 304, 

307(e), 309, and 316 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 154(i), 

154(j), 155(c), 201, 302, 303, 304, 307(e), 

309, and 316. 

Total Annual Burden: 120 hours. 

Annual Cost Burden: No cost. 

Needs and Uses: Under this new 

information collection, the Commission 

will collect information that will be 

used to ensure that 3.7–4.2 GHz band 

stakeholders adopt practices to ensure 

the effective and efficient use of the 

band in a manner that protects 

incumbent C-band operations. This 

collection will support the efficient and 

expeditious clearing of the lower 

portion of the band while minimizing 

the risk of harmful interference to 

incumbent operations. This information 

collection must be renewed as the Cband transition relocation process is 

still underway. 

The transition relocation process 

began in 2020. Initial Transition Plans 

were filed on June 19, 2020 with final 

Transition Plans due August 14, 2020. 

Throughout this process, the Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) 

opened limited windows to amend their 

Transition Plans on several occasions. 

In addition to submitting and modifying 

Transition Plans during these periods, 

eligible space station operators were 

required to file quarterly status reports 

with the Commission beginning on 

December 31, 2020 to demonstrate their 

efforts to ensure a timely transition. 

On May 15, 2023, the Bureau 

announced procedures for filing C-band 

Phase II Certifications of Accelerated 

Relocation and implementation of the 

Commission’s incremental reduction 

plan for Phase II Accelerated Relocation 

Payments as part of the ongoing 

transition. The C-Band Relocation 

Payment Clearinghouse (RPC) is 

responsible for disbursing the 

Accelerated Relocation Payments within 

a certain time period. On June 1, 2023, 

space station operators began submitting 

their Phase II certifications. Also on 

June 1, 2023, the Bureau opened a 

limited, final window for eligible space 

station operators to file modified 

Transition Plans to accurately account 

for any updates since the last filing 

window in 2021. 

Phase II’s deadline to complete the 

transition of space station operations to 

the upper 200 megahertz of the band 

was originally set for December 5, 2023. 

Instead, on August 10, 2023, the last of 

the Phase II Certifications was deemed 

granted. Even though Phases I and II of 

the satellite transition are complete, the 

Commission continues to work through 

the C-band relocation process. Most 

recently, on October 13, 2023, the 

Bureau released a Public Notice seeking 

comment on proposed deadlines for 

claimants to submit reimbursement 

claims. The Public Notice stated that the 

RPC’s operations are currently 

scheduled to conclude on June 30, 2025, 

which is still more than a year and a 

half away. The relocation of the fixed 

service licensees is also ongoing. 

As mentioned in the initial request for 

this information collection, it is 

important to continue to collect 

information to promote safety of 

operations in the band and guarantee 

access to important coordination and 

technical aspects of the transition. 

Because this process remains ongoing, 

this information collection should be 

renewed to ensure that a complete set of 

information is maintained for 

stakeholders to understand coordination 

measures necessary to protect band 

operations. If this collection were to 

expire now, stakeholders would be 

missing ongoing information about the 

transition process. Renewing this 

collection will provide stakeholders 

with complete information instead of an 

information collection that ends before 

the entire transition process is officially 

accomplished in 2025. 

The Commission now seeks approval 

for renewal of its currently approved 

collection of information under OMB 

Control Number 3060–1281. While the 

majority of the collection required onetime filings that are already complete, 

there is an ongoing requirement that 3.7 

GHz Service Licensees maintain a copy 

of private agreements to modify any 

earth station operations in the 4000– 

4200 MHz in their station files. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 215 / Wednesday, November 8, 2023 / Notices 77093 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24646 Filed 11–7–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0484; FR ID 183694] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

the Commission) invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection. 

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 Commission’s 

burden estimate; 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. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before January 8, 

2024. 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 PRA comments to 

Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@

fcc.gov and to nicole.ongele@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Nicole 

Ongele, (202) 418–2991. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0484. 

Title: Part 4 of the Commission’s 

Rules Concerning Disruptions to 

Communications. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit; not-for-profit institutions; State, 

local or Tribal government. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 3,224 respondents; 201,848 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1 

hour–2 hours (average per response). 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and annual reporting requirements and 

recordkeeping requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory 

and Voluntary. Statutory authority for 

this collection is contained in sections 

1, 4(i), 4(j), 4(n), 4(o), 201(b), 214, 218, 

251(e)(3), 251(e)(4), 254, 301, 303(b), 

303(g), 303(r), 307, 309(a), 309(j), 316, 

332, and 403 of the Communications 

Act of 1934, as amended, and section 

706 of the Telecommunications Act of 

1996, 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i)–(j), (n), & (o), 

201(b), 214, 218, 251(e)(3), 251(e)(4), 

254, 301, 303(b), 303(g), 303(r), 307, 

309(a), 332, 403, 615, 615a–1, and 1302. 

Total Annual Burden: 170,802 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No cost. 

Needs and Uses: The general purpose 

of the Commission’s Part 4 rules is to 

gather sufficient information regarding 

disruptions to telecommunications to 

facilitate FCC monitoring, analysis, and 

investigation of the reliability and 

security of voice, paging, and 

interconnected Voice over Internet 

Protocol (interconnected VoIP) 

communications services, and to 

identify and act on potential threats to 

our Nation’s telecommunications 

infrastructure. The Commission uses 

this information collection to identify 

the duration, magnitude, root causes, 

and contributing factors with respect to 

significant outages, and to identify 

outage trends; support service 

restoration efforts; and help coordinate 

with public safety officials during times 

of crisis. The Commission also 

maintains an ongoing dialogue with 

reporting entities, as well as with the 

communications industry at large, 

generally regarding lessons learned from 

the information collection in order to 

foster a better understanding of the root 

causes of significant outages and to 

explore preventive measures in the 

future so as to mitigate the potential 

scale and impact of such outages. 

In a Second Report and Order adopted 

on November 18, 2022, as FCC 22–88, 

the Commission adopted rules 

harmonizing its 911 special facility 

notifications rules such that outage 

notifications from covered 911 service 

providers and originating service 

providers (OSPs) will include the same 

notification content, be transmitted by 

the same means, and with the same 

timing and frequency. In addition, in a 

Report and Order adopted on July 20, 

2023, as FCC 23–57. the Commission 

extended outage reporting and 

notification requirements to outages 

affecting 988 special facilities in order 

to ensure that officials responsible for 

overseeing the 988 Suicide & Crisis 

Lifeline (988 Lifeline), which is a 24/7 

hotline available to people in suicidal 

crisis and mental health distress, receive 

timely and actionable information about 

988 service outages. The Commission’s 

existing Part 4 rules allow certain 

federal, state, and Tribal Nation 

agencies (Participating Agencies) to 

access to certain geographically relevant 

outage reports filed in the Commission’s 

Network Outage Reporting System 

(NORS). 

The information collections and 

record keeping provisions adopted in 

the 2022 Second Report and Order will 

harmonize and standardize 911 outage 

reporting, which assists 911 special 

facilities in receiving and responding to 

service outage notification, and the 

information we are requiring to be 

contained in the reports will improve 

the speed and accuracy of responses to 

service outages by 911 service 

providers, which promotes public 

safety. 

The information collections adopted 

in the 2023 988 Report and Order will 

allow the Department of Health and 

Human Services’ Substance Abuse and 

Mental Health Services Administration 

(SAMHSA), the Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA), and the 988 Lifeline 

administrator, which are the entities 

responsible for overseeing the 988 

Lifeline, to provide the public with 

notice of outages impacting 988 

services, and information how they can 

access the 988 Lifeline despite the 

outage. SAMHSA, the VA, and the 988 

Lifeline administrator can also take 

steps to reroute 988 calls to available 

crisis centers and take other steps to 

reduce the amount of time that 

individuals would need to wait before 

they receive assistance. Notice about 

outages will allow SAMHSA, the VA, 

and the Lifeline administrator to 

continue meeting the immediate health 

needs of people in suicidal crisis and 

mental health distress. The Commission 

will also be able to improve 988 


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