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4The estimated hourly cost (salary plus benefits) 

provided in this section is based on the salary 

figures for May 2017 posted by the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics for the Utilities sector (available at http:// 

www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm) and 

benefits May 2017 (available at https://www.bls.gov/ 

oes/current/naics2_22.htm): 

Legal (Occupation Code: 23–0000): $143.68. 

Consulting (Occupation Code: 54–1600): $89.00. 

Management Analyst (Occupation Code: 13– 

1111): $63.49. 

Office and Administrative Support (Occupation 

Code: 43–000): $40.89. 

Electrical Engineer (Occupation Code: 17–2071): 

$68.12. 

Information Security Analyst (Occupation Code: 

15–1122): $66.34. 

File Clerk (Occupation Code: 43–4071): $32.74. 

The skill sets are assumed to contribute equally, 

so the hourly cost is an average [($143.68 + $89.00 

+ $63.49 + $40.89 + $68.12 + $66.34 + 32.74) ÷ 7 

= $72.04]. The figure is rounded to $72.00 per hour. 

5ATC-related standards. 

FERC–917 (NON-DISCRIMINATORY OPEN ACCESS TRANSMISSION TARIFF) AND FERC–918 (INFORMATION TO BE POSTED

ON OASIS & AUDITING TRANSMISSION SERVICE INFORMATION)—Continued 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Annual 

number of 

responses 

Average burden hours 

and cost 4 per 

response 

($) 

Total annual burden hour 

and total 

annual cost 

($) 

Cost per 

respondent 

($) 

(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (3) (4) (3) * (4) = (5) (5) ÷ (1) = (6) 

Posting of metrics for System Impact Studies (Reporting).134 1 134 100 hrs., $7,200.00 ......... 13,400 hrs.; $964,800.00 7,200.00 

Post all rules to OASIS (Record Keeping) ... 134 1 134 5 hrs., $163.70 ................ 670 hrs., $21,935.80 ....... 163.22 

FERC–918, Sub-Total of Record Keeping 

Requirements.

...................... ...................... ...................... .......................................... 6,030 hrs., $1,197,694.68 ......................

FERC–918, Sub-Total of Reporting Requirements....................... ...................... ...................... .......................................... 50,384.00 hrs., 

$3,627,648.

......................

FERC–918, Sub Total of Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Requirements.

...................... ...................... ...................... .......................................... 56,414 hrs., 

$4,825,342.68.

......................

Total FERC–917 and FERC–918 (Reporting 

and Recordkeeping Requirements).

...................... ...................... ...................... .......................................... 124,888 hrs., 

$9,702,862.28.

......................

Off-site storage cost ..................................... ...................... ...................... ...................... .......................................... $7,400,000 ....................... ......................

Dated: June 5, 2018. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12466 Filed 6–11–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0999] 

Information Collection Approved by 

the Office of Management and Budget 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC) has received Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for a revision of a currently 

approved public information collection 

pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. An agency may not conduct 

or sponsor a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number, and no person is 

required to respond to a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid control number. 

Comments concerning the accuracy of 

the burden estimates and any 

suggestions for reducing the burden 

should be directed to the person listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cathy Williams, Office of the Managing 

Director, at (202) 418–2918, or email: 

Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The total 

annual reporting burdens and costs for 

the respondents are as follows: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0999. 

OMB Approval Date: June 5, 2018. 

OMB Expiration Date: June 30, 2021. 

Title: Hearing Aid Compatibility 

Status Report and Section 20.19, 

Hearing Aid-Compatible Mobile 

Handsets (Hearing Aid Compatibility 

Act). 

Form Number: FCC Form 655. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 934 respondents; 934 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 13 

hours per response (average). 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and annual reporting requirements and 

third-party disclosure requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. Sections 151, 

154(i), 157, 160, 201, 202, 208, 214, 301, 

303, 308, 309(j), 310 and 610 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 12,140 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No costs. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

Information requested in the reports 

may include confidential information. 

However, covered entities are allowed 

to request that such materials submitted 

to the Commission be withheld from 

public inspection. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Needs and Uses: The revision of this 

collection implements the final rules 

promulgated in the 2015 Fourth Report 

and Order, FCC 15–155 (Fourth Report 

and Order), which expanded the scope 

of the rules due to a shift from 

Commercial Mobile Radio Services 

(CMRS) to digital mobile service. We 

estimate that there will be a small 

increase in the number of respondents/ 

responses, total annual burden hours, 

and total annual cost from the 

previously approved estimates. 

This collection is necessary to 

implement certain disclosure 

requirements that are part of the 

Commission’s wireless hearing aid 

compatibility rule. In a Report and 

Order in WT Docket No. 01–309, FCC 

03–168, adopted and released in 

September 2003, implementing a 

mandate under the Hearing Aid 

Compatibility Act of 1988, the 

Commission required digital wireless 

phone manufacturers and service 

providers to make certain digital 

wireless phones capable of effective use 

with hearing aids, label certain phones 

they sold with information about their 

compatibility with hearing aids, and 

report to the Commission (at first every 

six months, then on an annual basis) on 

the numbers and types of hearing aidcompatible phones they were producing 

or offering to the public. These reporting 

requirements were subsequently 

amended on several occasions, and the 

previous OMB-approved collection 

under this OMB control number 

included these modifications. 


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On November 19, 2015, the 

Commission adopted final rules in a 

Fourth Report and Order, FCC 15–155 

(Fourth Report and Order), that, among 

other changes, expanded the scope of 

the Commission’s hearing aid 

compatibility provisions to cover 

handsets used with any digital 

terrestrial mobile service that enables 

two-way real-time voice 

communications among members of the 

public or a substantial portion of the 

public, including through the use of preinstalled software applications. Prior to 

2018, the hearing aid compatibility 

provisions were limited only to 

handsets used with two-way switched 

voice or data services classified as 

Commercial Mobile Radio Service, and 

only to the extent they were provided 

over networks meeting certain 

architectural requirements that enable 

frequency reuse and seamless handoff. 

As a result of the Fourth Report and 

Order, beginning January 1, 2018, all 

device manufacturers and Tier I carriers 

that offer handsets falling under the 

expanded scope of covered handsets are 

required to comply with the 

Commission’s hearing aid compatibility 

provisions, including annual reporting 

requirements on FCC Form 655. For 

other service providers that are not Tier 

I carriers, the expanded scope of the 

Commission’s hearing aid compatibility 

provisions applies beginning April 1, 

2018. 

Following release of the Fourth 

Report and Order, the Commission was 

required to amend FCC Form 655 to 

reflect the newly expanded scope of 

handsets covered by the hearing aid 

compatibility provisions, as well as to 

capture information regarding existing 

disclosure requirements clarified by the 

Commission in the Fourth Report and 

Order. As a consequence of the Fourth 

Report and Order, FCC Form 655 filing 

and other requirements will apply to 

those newly-covered handsets offered 

by device manufacturers and service 

providers that have already been 

reporting annually on their compliance 

with the Commission’s hearing aid 

compatibility provisions, as well to any 

device manufacturers and service 

providers that were previously exempt 

because they did not offer any covered 

handsets or services prior to 2018. 

As a result, the Commission requested 

a revision of this collection in order to 

implement the final rules promulgated 

in the Fourth Report and Order, which 

expanded the scope of the rules due to 

a shift from Commercial Mobile Radio 

Services (CMRS) to digital mobile 

service. We estimate that the expanded 

scope will increase the potential 

number of respondents subject to this 

collection and correspondingly increase 

the responses and burden hours. The 

minor language changes to the 

instructions to FCC Form 655 and to the 

form itself clarifying this expanded 

scope will help the Commission 

compile data and monitor compliance 

with the current version of the hearing 

aid compatibility rules while making 

more complete and accessible 

information available to consumers. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12627 Filed 6–11–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0819] 

Information Collection Being 

Submitted for Review and Approval to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

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. 

The Commission 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 comments should be 

submitted on or before July 12, 2018. 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 listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB, via email 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov; and 

to Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@

fcc.gov and to Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. 

Include in the comments the OMB 

control number as shown in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information or copies of the 

information collection, contact Nicole 

Ongele at (202) 418–2991. 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: As part of 

its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork burdens, and as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), 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. 


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