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(3) Persons and vessels permitted to 

enter this safety zone must transit at 

their slowest safe speed and comply 

with all lawful directions issued by the 

COTP or the designated representative. 

(d) Information broadcasts. The COTP 

or a designated representative will 

inform the public of the enforcement 

times and date for this safety zone 

through Broadcast Notices to Mariners 

(BNMs), Local Notices to Mariners 

(LNMs), and/or Marine Safety 

Information Broadcasts (MSIBs) as 

appropriate. 

Dated: August 10, 2018. 

K.M. Luttrell, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the 

Port Sector New Orleans. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 54 

[WC Docket No. 10–90; FCC 14–54, 16–64, 

and 18–5] 

Connect America Fund 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule; announcement of 

effective date. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal 

Communications Commission 

(Commission) announces that the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) has 

approved, for a period of three years, an 

information collection associated with 

the rules for the Connect America Fund 

Phase II auction contained in the 

Commission’s Connect America Fund 

Orders, FCC 14–54, FCC 16–64, and 

FCC 18–5. This document is consistent 

with the Connect America Fund Orders, 

which stated that the Commission 

would publish a document in the 

Federal Register announcing the 

effective date of the new information 

collection requirements. 

DATES: The amendment to 

§ 54.315(c)(1)(ii) published at 83 FR 

15982, April 13, 2018 is effective 

August 15, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexander Minard, Wireline 

Competition Bureau at (202) 418–7400 

or TTY (202) 418–0484. For additional 

information concerning the Paperwork 

Reduction Act information collection 

requirements contact Nicole Ongele at 

(202) 418–2991 or via email at 

Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Commission submitted new information 

collection requirements for review and 

approval by OMB, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, on June 7, 2018. OMB approved 

the new information collection 

requirements on July 31, 2018. The 

information collection requirements are 

contained in the Commission’s Connect 

America Fund Orders, FCC 14–54, 

published at 79 FR 39164, July 9, 2014, 

FCC 16–64, published at 81 FR 44414, 

July 7, 2016 and FCC 18–5, published at 

83 FR 15982, April 13, 2018. The OMB 

Control Number is 3060–1256. The 

Commission publishes this document as 

an announcement of the effective date of 

the rules published on July 7, 2016 and 

April 13, 2018. If you have any 

comments on the burden estimates 

listed below, or how the Commission 

can improve the collections and reduce 

any burdens caused thereby, please 

contact Nicole Ongele, Federal 

Communications Commission, Room 1– 

A620, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, 

DC 20554. Please include the OMB 

Control Number, 3060–1256, in your 

correspondence. The Commission will 

also accept your comments via email at 

PRA@fcc.gov. To request materials in 

accessible formats for people with 

disabilities (Braille, large print, 

electronic files, audio format), send an 

email to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the 

Consumer and Governmental Affairs 

Bureau at (202) 418–0530 (voice), (202) 

418–0432 (TTY). 

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 July 

31, 2018, for the information collection 

requirements contained in 47 CFR 

54.315(b) and (c) and the amendment to 

47 CFR 54.315(c)(1)(ii) published at 81 

FR 44414, July 7, 2016 and 83 FR 15982, 

April 13, 2018. Under 5 CFR part 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 current, valid OMB Control 

Number. The OMB Control Number is 

3060–1256. The foregoing notice is 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13, 

October 1, 1995, and 44 U.S.C. 3507. 

The total annual reporting burdens 

and costs for the respondents are as 

follows: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1256. 

OMB Approval Date: July 31, 2018. 

OMB Expiration Date: July 31, 2021. 

Title: Application for Connect 

America Fund Phase II Auction 

Support—FCC Form 683. 

Form Number: FCC Form 683. 

Type of Review: New information 

collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities, Not-for-profit 

institutions, and State, Local or Tribal 

Governments. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 400 respondents; 800 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 2–12 

hours (on average). 

Frequency of Response: Annual 

reporting requirements, on occasion 

reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

47 U.S.C. 154, 254 and 303(r) of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 5,600 hours. 

Total Annual Cost(s): No Cost. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

Although most of the information 

collected in FCC Form 683 will be made 

available for public inspection, the 

Commission will withhold certain 

information collected in FCC Form 683 

from routine public inspection. 

Specifically, the Commission will treat 

certain financial and technical 

information submitted in FCC Form 683 

as confidential. In addition, an 

applicant may use the abbreviated 

process under 47 CFR 0.459(a)(4) to 

request confidential treatment of the 

audited financial statements that are 

submitted during the post-selection 

review process. However, if a request for 

public inspection for this technical or 

financial information is made under 47 

CFR 0.461, and the applicant has any 

objections to disclosure, the applicant 

will be notified and will be required to 

justify continued confidential treatment. 

To the extent that an applicant seeks to 

have other information collected in FCC 

Form 683 or during the post-selection 

review process withheld from public 

inspection, the applicant may request 

confidential treatment pursuant to 47 

CFR 0.459. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

will use the information collected under 

this information collection to determine 

whether Connect America Fund Phase II 

auction winning bidders are eligible to 

receive Phase II auction support. In its 

USF/ICC Transformation Order and 

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 

FCC 11–161, 76 FR 78385, December 16, 

2011, the Commission comprehensively 

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program within the universal service 

fund to focus support on networks 

capable of providing voice and 

broadband services. The Commission 

created the Connect America Fund and 

concluded that support in price cap 

areas would be provided through a 

combination of ‘‘a new forward-looking 

model of the cost of constructing 

modern multi-purpose networks’’ and a 

competitive bidding process (the 

Connect America Fund Phase II auction 

or Phase II auction). The Commission 

also sought comment on proposed rules 

governing the Connect America Fund 

Phase II auction, including basic auction 

design and the application process. 

In the Connect America Fund Phase II 

auction, service providers will compete 

to receive support of up to $1.98 billion 

over 10 years to offer voice and 

broadband service in unserved high-cost 

areas. The Commission adopted new 

rules to implement the reforms, conduct 

the Phase II auction, and determine 

whether Phase II auction winning 

bidders are eligible to receive Phase II 

support. In its April 2014 Connect 

America Order, FCC 14–54, the 

Commission adopted various rules 

regarding participation in the Phase II 

auction, the term of support, and the 

eligible telecommunications carrier 

(ETC) designation process. In its Phase 

II Auction Order, FCC 16–64, the 

Commission adopted rules to govern the 

Phase II auction, including a two-stage 

application process that includes a preauction short-form application to be 

submitted by parties interested in 

bidding in the Phase II auction and a 

post-auction long-form application that 

must be submitted by winning bidders 

seeking to become authorized to receive 

Phase II auction support. In its Phase II 

Auction Procedures Public Notice, FCC 

18–6, 83 FR 13590, March 29, 2018, the 

Commission adopted the final 

procedures for the Phase II auction, 

including the long-form application 

disclosure and certification 

requirements for winning bidders 

seeking to become authorized to receive 

Phase II auction support. In its Phase II 

Auction Order on Reconsideration, FCC 

18–5, the Commission modified its 

previously-adopted letter of credit rules 

to provide some additional relief for 

Phase II auction support recipients by 

reducing the costs of maintaining a 

letter of credit. Based on the 

Commission’s experience with auctions 

and consistent with the record, this twostage application process balances the 

need to collect information essential to 

conducting a successful auction and 

authorizing Phase II support with 

administrative efficiency. 

Under this information collection, the 

Commission will collect information 

from Connect America Fund Phase II 

auction winning bidders to determine 

the recipients of Phase II auction 

support. To aid in collecting this 

information, the Commission has 

created FCC Form 683, which the public 

will use to provide the disclosures and 

certifications that must be made by 

Phase II auction winning bidders in the 

Connect America Fund Phase II auction 

seeking to become authorized for Phase 

II support. Commission staff will review 

the information collected in FCC Form 

683 as part of the post-selection review 

process to determine whether a longform applicant is eligible to receive 

Phase II support. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 622 

[Docket No. 121004518–3398–01] 

RIN 0648–XG421 

Reef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of 

Mexico; 2018 Recreational 

Accountability Measure and Closure 

for Gulf of Mexico Gray Triggerfish 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; closure. 

SUMMARY: NMFS implements an 

accountability measure (AM) for the 

gray triggerfish recreational sector in the 

exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the 

Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) for the 2018 

fishing year through this temporary rule. 

NMFS has projected that the 2018 

recreational annual catch target (ACT) 

for Gulf gray triggerfish has been met. 

Therefore, NMFS closes the recreational 

sector for Gulf gray triggerfish on 

August 17, 2018, and it will remain 

closed through the end of the fishing 

year on December 31, 2018. This closure 

is necessary to protect the Gulf gray 

triggerfish resource. 

DATES: This temporary rule is effective 

at 12:01 a.m., local time, on August 17, 

2018, until 12:01 a.m., local time, on 

January 1, 2019. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lauren Waters, NMFS Southeast 

Regional Office, telephone: 727–824– 

5305, email: lauren.waters@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS 

manages the Gulf reef fish fishery, 

which includes gray triggerfish, under 

the Fishery Management Plan for the 

Reef Fish Resources of the Gulf of 

Mexico (FMP). The Gulf of Mexico 

Fishery Management Council (Council) 

prepared the FMP and NMFS 

implements the FMP under the 

authority of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) by 

regulations at 50 CFR part 622. All gray 

triggerfish weights discussed in this 

temporary rule are in round weight. 

The 2018 recreational annual catch 

limit (ACL) for Gulf gray triggerfish 

specified in 50 CFR 622.41(b)(2)(iii) is 

241,200 lb (109,406 kg) and the 

recreational ACT is 217,100 lb (98,475 

kg). 

As specified by 50 CFR 

622.41(b)(2)(i), NMFS is required to 

close the recreational sector for gray 

triggerfish when the recreational ACT is 

reached, or is projected to be reached, 

by filing a notification to that effect with 

the Office of the Federal Register. NMFS 

has determined the 2018 recreational 

ACT for Gulf gray triggerfish was 

reached. Accordingly, this temporary 

rule closes the recreational sector for 

Gulf gray triggerfish effective at 12:01 

a.m., local time, August 17, 2018, and it 

will remain closed through the end of 

the fishing year on December 31, 2018. 

During the recreational closure, the 

bag and possession limits for gray 

triggerfish in or from the Gulf EEZ are 

zero. The prohibition on possession of 

Gulf gray triggerfish also applies in Gulf 

state waters for a vessel issued a valid 

Federal charter vessel/headboat permit 

for Gulf reef fish. 

As specified in 50 CFR 622.34(f), 

there is a seasonal closure for Gulf gray 

triggerfish at the beginning of each 

fishing year from January 1 through the 

end of February; therefore, after the 

closure implemented by this temporary 

rule is effective on August 17, 2018, the 

recreational harvest or possession of 

Gulf gray triggerfish will not again be 

permitted until March 1, 2019. 

Classification 

The Regional Administrator for the 

NMFS Southeast Region has determined 

this temporary rule is necessary for the 

conservation and management of Gulf 

gray triggerfish and is consistent with 

the Magnuson-Stevens Act and other 

applicable laws. 

This action is taken under 50 CFR 

622.41(b)(2)(i) and is exempt from 

review under Executive Order 12866. 


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