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work directly, and enter as a guest). 

Participants should call and connect 15 

minutes prior to the meeting for 

logistics to be set up. If you have never 

attended an Adobe Connect meeting, 

please test your connection using the 

following URL: https://

hrsa.connectsolutions.com/common/ 

help/en/support/meeting_test.htm and 

get a quick overview by following URL: 

http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_

overview. Call (301) 443–2030 or send 

an email to abalingit-wines@hrsa.gov if 

you are having trouble connecting to the 

meeting site. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Narayan Nair, Director, Division of 

Injury Compensation Programs, at 800– 

338–2382 or by email: nnair@hrsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As 

required by statute, the Secretary 

proposes to amend the Vaccine Injury 

Table (Table) by regulation to include 

vaccines recommended by the CDC for 

routine administration in pregnant 

women. The proposed rule, which was 

published in the Federal Register on 

April 4, 2018 (83 FR 14391; https://

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2018-04-04/ 

pdf/2018-06770.pdf), would amend the 

existing language in Item XVII of the 

Table to include ‘‘and/or pregnant 

women’’ after ‘‘children.’’ This 

proposed revision would add to the 

general category of the Table any new 

vaccine recommended by the CDC for 

routine administration in pregnant 

women after imposition of an excise tax 

and publication of a notice of coverage. 

The Secretary is seeking public 

comment on the proposed revision to 

the Table. The public comment period 

for the NPRM closes on October 1, 2018. 

A public hearing on the NPRM will 

take place on September 17, 2018. This 

hearing is to provide an open forum for 

the presentation of information and 

views concerning the proposed revision 

to the Table by interested persons. In 

preparing a final regulation, the 

Secretary will consider the 

administrative record of this hearing 

along with all other written comments 

received during the comment period 

specified in the NPRM. The presiding 

officer, representing the Secretary of 

HHS, will be Dr. Narayan Nair, Director, 

Division of Injury Compensation 

Programs, Healthcare Systems Bureau, 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration. 

Individuals or representatives of 

interested organizations may participate 

in the public hearing in accordance with 

the following schedule and procedures. 

Persons who wish to participate should 

file a notice of participation with the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) on or before September 

3, 2018. The notice should be mailed to 

the Division of Injury Compensation 

Programs, Room 08N146B, 5600 Fishers 

Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857 or 

emailed to abalingit-wines@hrsa.gov. To 

ensure timely handling, any outer 

envelope or the subject line of an email 

should be clearly marked ‘‘VICP NPRM 

Hearing.’’ The notice of participation 

should contain the interested person’s 

name, address, email address, telephone 

number, any business or organizational 

affiliation of the person desiring to make 

a presentation, a brief summary of the 

presentation, and the approximate time 

requested for the presentation. Groups 

that have similar interests should 

consolidate their comments as part of 

one presentation. Time available for the 

hearing will be allocated among the 

persons who properly file notices of 

participation. If time permits, interested 

parties attending the hearing who did 

not submit notice of participation in 

advance will be allowed to make an oral 

presentation at the conclusion of the 

hearing. 

Persons who find that there is 

insufficient time to submit the required 

information in writing may give oral 

notice of participation by calling Ana 

Marie Balingit-Wines, Division of Injury 

Compensation Programs, at (301) 443– 

2030, no later than September 3, 2018. 

After reviewing the notices of 

participation and accompanying 

information, HHS will schedule each 

appearance and notify each participant 

by mail, email, or telephone of the time 

allotted to the person(s) and the 

approximate time the person’s oral 

presentation is scheduled to begin. 

Written comments and transcripts of 

the hearing will be made available for 

public inspection as soon as they have 

been prepared, on weekdays (except 

Federal holidays) between the hours of 

8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (EDT) at the 

Division of Injury Compensation 

Programs, Room 08N146B, 5600 Fishers 

Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857. 

Dated: August 24, 2018. 

Alex M. Azar II, 

Secretary, Department of Health and Human 

Services. 

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47 CFR Part 54 

[WC Docket No. 10–90, WT Docket No. 10– 

208; FCC 18–124] 

Connect America Fund; Universal 

Service Reform—Mobility Fund 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: This document proposes 

modifying the timeframe for collecting 

acceptable speed test data in support of 

Mobility Fund II eligibility challenges, 

such that acceptable data may be 

collected at any time on or after 

February 27, 2018, until November 26, 

2018. 

DATES: Comments are due September 

10, 2018, and reply comments are due 

by September 14, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by WC Docket No. 10–90 and 

WT Docket No. 10–208, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Federal Communications 

Commission’s Website: https://

www.fcc.gov/ecfs/. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• People with Disabilities: Contact the 

FCC to request reasonable 

accommodations (accessible format 

documents, sign language interpreters, 

CART, etc.) by email: FCC504@fcc.gov, 

phone: 202–418–0530 or TTY: 202–418– 

0432. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, 

Auctions and Spectrum Access 

Division, Audra Hale-Maddox, at (202) 

418–0660. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), WC 

Docket No. 10–90 and WT Docket No. 

10–208, FCC 18–124, adopted on 

August 14, 2018, and released on 

August 21, 2018. The complete text of 

this document is available for public 

inspection and copying from 8 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) Monday 

through Thursday or from 8 a.m. to 

11:30 a.m. ET on Fridays in the FCC 

Reference Information Center, 445 12th 

Street SW, Room CY–A257, 

Washington, DC 20554. The complete 

text is also available on the 

Commission’s website at http://

wireless.fcc.gov, or by using the search 

function on the ECFS web page at 

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Alternative formats are available to 

persons with disabilities by sending an 

email to fcc504@fcc.gov or by calling the 

Consumer & Governmental Affairs 

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

418–0432 (TTY). 

Comment Filing Procedures 

Pursuant to §§ 1.415 and 1.419 of the 

Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 1.415, 

1.419, interested parties may file 

comments and reply comments on or 

before the dates indicated on the first 

page of this document. Comments may 

be filed using the Commission’s 

Electronic Comment Filing System 

(ECFS). See Electronic Filing of 

Documents in Rulemaking Proceedings, 

63 FR 24121 (1998). 

• Electronic Filers: Comments may be 

filed electronically using the internet by 

accessing the ECFS: https://

www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings. Filers should 

follow the instructions provided on the 

website for submitting comments. In 

completing the transmittal screen, filers 

should include their full name, U.S. 

Postal Service mailing address, and the 

applicable docket numbers WC Docket 

No. 10–90 and WT Docket No. 10–208. 

• Paper Filers: Parties who choose to 

file by paper must file an original and 

three copies of each filing. If more than 

one docket or rulemaking number 

appears in the caption of this 

proceeding, filers must submit two 

additional copies for each additional 

docket or rulemaking number. Filings 

can be sent by hand or messenger 

delivery, by commercial overnight 

courier, or by first-class or overnight 

U.S. Postal Service mail. All filings 

must be addressed to the Commission’s 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary, 

Federal Communications Commission. 

• All hand-delivered or messengerdelivered paper filings for the 

Commission’s Secretary must be 

delivered to FCC Headquarters at 445 

12th St. SW, Room TW–A325, 

Washington, DC 20554. The filing hours 

are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. All hand deliveries 

must be held together with rubber bands 

or fasteners. Any envelopes and boxes 

must be disposed of before entering the 

building. 

• Commercial overnight mail (other 

than U.S. Postal Service Express Mail 

and Priority Mail) must be sent to 9050 

Junction Dr., Annapolis Junction, 

Annapolis, MD 20701. 

• U.S. Postal Service first-class, 

Express, and Priority mail must be 

addressed to 445 12th Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20554. 

People with Disabilities: 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 & Governmental Affairs 

Bureau at 202–418–0530 (voice), 202– 

418–0432 (TTY). 

Ex Parte Presentations 

Pursuant to § 1.1200(a) of the 

Commission’s rules, this NPRM shall be 

treated as a ‘‘permit-but-disclose’’ 

proceeding in accordance with the 

Commission’s ex parte rules. Persons 

making ex parte presentations must file 

a copy of any written presentation or a 

memorandum summarizing any oral 

presentation within two business days 

after the presentation (unless a different 

deadline applicable to the Sunshine 

period applies). Persons making oral ex 

parte presentations are reminded that 

memoranda summarizing the 

presentation must (1) list all persons 

attending or otherwise participating in 

the meeting at which the ex parte 

presentation was made, and (2) 

summarize all data presented and 

arguments made during the 

presentation. If the presentation 

consisted in whole or in part of the 

presentation of data or arguments 

already reflected in the presenter’s 

written comments, memoranda or other 

filings in the proceeding, the presenter 

may provide citations to such data or 

arguments in his or her prior comments, 

memoranda, or other filings (specifying 

the relevant page and/or paragraph 

numbers where such data or arguments 

can be found) in lieu of summarizing 

them in the memorandum. Documents 

shown or given to Commission staff 

during ex parte meetings are deemed to 

be written ex parte presentations and 

must be filed consistent with 

§ 1.1206(b). In proceedings governed by 

§ 1.49(f) or for which the Commission 

has made available a method of 

electronic filing, written ex parte 

presentations and memoranda 

summarizing oral ex parte 

presentations, and all attachments 

thereto, must be filed through the 

electronic comment filing system 

available for that proceeding, and must 

be filed in their native format (e.g., .doc, 

.xml, .ppt, searchable .pdf). Participants 

in this proceeding should familiarize 

themselves with the Commission’s ex 

parte rules. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

The NPRM does not contain any new, 

modified, or proposed information 

collections subject to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). In 

addition, therefore, it does not contain 

any new, modified, or proposed 

information collection burden for 

business concerns with fewer than 25 

employees, pursuant to the Small 

Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002. 

Initial Regulatory Flexibility 

Certification 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 

1980, as amended (RFA), requires that a 

regulatory flexibility analysis be 

prepared for a notice-and-comment 

rulemaking proceeding, unless the 

agency certifies that ‘‘the rule will not, 

if promulgated, have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities.’’ The RFA 

generally defines the term ‘‘small 

entity’’ as having the same meaning as 

the terms ‘‘small business,’’ ‘‘small 

organization,’’ and ‘‘small governmental 

jurisdiction.’’ In addition, the term 

‘‘small business’’ has the same meaning 

as the term ‘‘small business concern’’ 

under the Small Business Act. A small 

business concern is one which: (1) Is 

independently owned and operated; (2) 

is not dominant in its field of operation; 

and (3) satisfies any additional criteria 

established by the SBA. 

As required by the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act of 1980, as amended 

(RFA), the Commission prepared Initial 

Regulatory Flexibility Analyses (IRFAs) 

in connection with the USF/ICC 

Transformation FNPRM, 76 FR 78384, 

December 16, 2011, the 2014 CAF 

FNPRM, 79 FR 39195, July 9, 2014, and 

the MF–II FNPRM, 82 FR 13413, March 

13, 2017, (collectively, MF–II FNPRMs). 

The Commission sought written public 

comment on the proposals in the MF–II 

FNPRMs and comments on the IRFAs 

and Supplemental IRFA. The 

Commission included Final Regulatory 

Flexibility Analyses (FRFAs) in 

connection with the CAF Report & 

Order and Further Notice, 79 FR 39163, 

July 9, 2014, the MF–II Report & Order, 

82 FR 15422, March 28, 2017, the MF– 

II Challenge Process Order, 82 FR 

42473, September 8, 2017, and the MF– 

II Second Order on Reconsideration, 83 

FR 17934, April 25, 2018 (collectively, 

the MF–II Orders). Therefore, the 

Commission certifies that the 

requirements of the Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking will not have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. 

I. Synopsis 

On August 21, 2018, the Federal 

Communications Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) released an Order, 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and 

Memorandum Opinion and Order, FCC 

18–124. A summary of the final actions 

from that document is published 

elsewhere in this issue of the Federal 

Register. In that document, the 

Commission extended the previously 


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announced deadline for the close of the 

Mobility Fund Phase II (MF–II) 

challenge window by an additional 90 

days until November 26, 2018, during 

which period challengers may submit 

speed test data in support of a 

challenge. The Commission adopted 

this extension to ensure that interested 

parties can initiate and submit speed 

test data for areas they wish to 

challenge. Given this extension, the 

Commission proposed to make 

modifications to the speed test data 

specifications regarding the relevant 

timeframes for valid speed tests. 

II. Notice of Proposed Rulemaking To 

Modify the Data Timing Requirements 

1. In the MF–II Challenge Process 

Order, the Commission stated that speed 

test measurements taken before the 

submission of updated coverage maps 

might not accurately reflect current 

network deployment and accordingly 

adopted a requirement that speed test 

measurements from challengers must be 

taken after the publication of the initial 

eligible areas map and within six 

months of the scheduled close of the 

challenge window. Similarly, the 

Commission stated it would only accept 

measurements from challenged parties 

that were collected after the publication 

of the initial eligibility map and within 

six months of the scheduled close of the 

response window. 

2. To ensure that the extension of the 

challenge filing deadline does not 

inadvertently create hardships for those 

challengers that have already conducted 

speed tests, and to provide similar 

testing parameters for both the 

challengers and the challenged parties, 

the Commission tentatively concludes 

that it would be in the public interest to 

modify the initially-adopted 

requirements that speed test data be 

collected within six months of the 

scheduled close of the relevant 

challenge or response window. 

Accordingly, the Commission proposes 

to accept speed test data in support of 

challenges collected at any time on or 

after February 27, 2018, the date of the 

publication of the map of presumptively 

eligible areas, through the new close of 

the challenge window, November 26, 

2018. This would provide challengers 

with an additional three months (for a 

total of nine months) to conduct speed 

tests. Consistent with the MF–II 

Challenge Process Order’s generally 

parallel standards for challengers and 

respondents, the Commission proposes 

to make a corresponding change to 

afford respondents at least the same 

amount of time as challengers to collect 

data. Accordingly, a respondent would 

have at least nine months to collect 

speed test data of their own network, 

and respondent speed tests collected on 

or after April 29, 2018, would be 

considered valid. 

3. The Commission tentatively 

concludes that the extension of the 

filing deadline warrants a modification 

of the current data timing requirements 

for challengers and respondents. The 

Commission tentatively concludes that 

modifying these requirements will serve 

the public interest by preventing 

challengers from having to repeat speed 

tests, and it should permit more 

effective implementation of Commission 

policy. In contrast, the Commission 

tentatively concludes that failing to 

modify this timing requirement would 

prohibit challengers from using the 

speed tests conducted between February 

27 and May 28 (i.e., tests conducted 

more than six months before the new 

November 26 deadline), thereby forcing 

such challengers to engage in more 

testing than they would otherwise have 

had to conduct. Further, the 

Commission believes that providing 

respondents (i.e., the ‘‘challenged 

parties’’) with a similar data timing 

requirement appropriately balances the 

interests of respondents with the 

Commission’s interest in receiving data 

collected recently, after the one-time 4G 

LTE data collection that initiated the 

challenge process. The Commission 

seeks comment on its tentative 

conclusions and these proposed 

modifications of the timing 

requirements. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary. 

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