13320 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 44 / Tuesday, March 6, 2012 / Notices 

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 estimates; (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 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 (PRA) that 

does not display a valid OMB control 

number. 

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) comments should be 

submitted on or before April 5, 2012. If 

you anticipate that you will be 

submitting PRA comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the FCC contact listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments 

to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), via fax 

at 202–395–5167 or via Internet at 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and 

to Judith B. Herman, Federal 

Communications Commission, via the 

Internet at Judith-b.herman@fcc.gov. To 

submit your PRA comments by email 

send them to: PRA@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing 

Director, FCC, at 202–418–0214. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0718. 

Title: Part 101 Rule Sections 

Governing the Terrestrial Microwave 

Fixed Radio Service. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

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

state, local or tribal government. 

Number of Respondents: 9,500 

respondents; 27,292 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: .25 to 

3 hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and every 10 years reporting 

requirement, recordkeeping requirement 

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), 301, 303(f), 303(g), 303(r), 307, 

308, 309, 310, and 316 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 35,242 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $760,000. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

No questions of a confidential nature are 

asked. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

will submit this expiring information 

collection to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) during this 30 day 

comment period in order to obtain the 

full three year clearance from them. The 

Commission is requesting OMB 

approval for an extension (no change in 

the reporting, recordkeeping and/or 

third party disclosure requirements). 

There is a change in the Commission’s 

previous cost estimates. The 

Commission is reporting a $207,000 

increase in annual costs. This 

adjustment increase reflects an increase 

in the Commission’s estimates of the 

cost of outside consultants. 

Part 101 rule sections require various 

information to be reported to the 

Commission; coordinated with third 

parties; posting requirements; 

notification requirements to the public; 

and recordkeeping requirements 

maintained by the respondent to 

determine the technical, legal and other 

qualifications of applications to operate 

a station in the public and private 

operational fixed services. 

The information is used to determine 

whether the public interest, 

convenience, and necessity are being 

served as required by 47 U.S.C. section 

309. The Commission staff will also use 

this information to ensure that 

applicants and licensees comply with 

ownership and transfer restrictions 

imposed by 47 U.S.C. section 310. 

Without this information, the 

Commission would not be able to carry 

out its statutory responsibilities. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of 

Managing Director. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

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 burden and as 

required b y the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3502– 

3520), the Federal Communications 

Commission invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection(s). 

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 estimates; (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 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 (PRA) that 

does not display a valid OMB control 

number. 

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) comments should be 

submitted on or before April 5, 2012. If 

you anticipate that you will be 

submitting PRA comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the FCC contact listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments 

to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), via fax 

at 202–395–5167 or via Internet at 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and 

to Judith B. Herman, Federal 

Communications Commission, via the 

Internet at Judith-b.herman@fcc.gov. To 

submit your PRA comments by email 

send them to: PRA@fcc.gov. 


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing 

Director, FCC, at 202–418–0214. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0986. 

Title: Competitive Carrier Line Count 

Report and Self-Certification as a Rural 

Carrier. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

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

state, local or tribal government. 

Number of Respondents: 4,934 

respondents; 5,048 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: .50 

hours to 80 hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion, 

annual and quarterly 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, 201–206, 214, 218–220, 251, 252, 

254, 256, 303(r), 332, 403, 405, and 410. 

Total Annual Burden: 163,435 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: N/A. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

The Commission is not requesting that 

respondents submit confidential 

information to the Commission. We note 

that the Universal Service 

Administrative Company (USAC), who 

administers the Universal Service 

program, must preserve the 

confidentiality of all data obtained from 

respondents and contributors to the 

universal service support program 

mechanism; must not use the data 

except for purposes of administering the 

universal service support program; and 

must not disclose data in companyspecific form unless directed to do so by 

the Commission. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

will submit this revised information 

collection to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) during this 30 day 

comment period in order to obtain the 

full three year clearance from them. 

In November 2011, the Commission 

adopted a Report and Order, FCC 11– 

161, Connect America Fund; A National 

Broadband Plan for Our Future; 

Establish Just and Reasonable Rates for 

Local Exchange Carriers; High-Cost 

Universal Service Support; Developing a 

Unified Intercarrier Compensation 

Regime; Federal-State Joint Board on 

Universal Service; Life-line and LinkUp; and Universal Service Reform— 

Mobility Fund. This revision addresses 

several reforms adopted in the Report 

and Order. The Commission plans to 

submit additional revisions or new 

collections for OMB review and 

approval to address other reforms 

adopted in the Order at a later date. 

During the review process, it was 

determined that the reporting 

requirements under OMB Control 

Number 3060–0894 should be 

eliminated. The Order eliminated the 

rate comparability review and 

certification, as well as the certification 

letter accounting for receipt of federal 

support in OMB Control Number 3060– 

0894 was duplicative of the certification 

pursuant to section 254(e) of the Act. 

Upon OMB approval of this revised 

information collection, the Commission 

will voluntarily discontinue OMB 

Control Number 3060–0894. 

The Order also moved the 

recordkeeping requirement from 47 CFR 

section 54.202(e) to new 47 CFR section 

54.320. The Commission is deleting this 

recordkeeping requirement from the 

information collections in OMB Control 

Numbers 3060–1081 and 3060–0774. 

The Order provides: 

(1) That existing high-cost support for 

price cap incumbent local exchange 

carriers will be frozen at the 2011 levels. 

(2) Adopts a rule to reduce, dollar-fordollar, a carrier’s high-cost loop support 

(for rate of return carriers) or Connect 

America Fund Phase I frozen high-cost 

support (for price cap carriers) to the 

extent that the carrier’s local end user 

rate plus state regulated fees do not 

meet a specified urban rate floor. 

(3) Modifies section 54.307; 

(4) Revises the certifications that 

states (or ETCs that are not subject to 

state jurisdiction) are required to file 

annually with the Commission and 

USAC to ensure that carriers use 

universal service support ‘‘only for the 

provision, maintenance and upgrading 

of facilities and services for which the 

support is intended’’ consistent with 

section 254(e) of the Act; 

(5) Eliminates the eligibility for Safety 

Net Additive support for costs incurred 

after 2009; 

(6) Eliminates the distinction between 

‘‘rural’’ and ‘‘non-rural’’ carriers. 

(7) Moves the recordkeeping 

requirement from 47 CFR 54.202(e) to 

new section 47 CFR 54.320. 

(8) Extends current federal annual 

reporting requirements to all ETCs, 

including those designated by states. 

The Commission will use the 

information requirements to determine 

whether and to what extent incumbent 

LECs and competitive ETCs providing 

the data are eligible to receive universal 

service support. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of 

Managing Director. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[DA 12–212] 

Notice of Debarment 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Enforcement Bureau (the 

‘‘Bureau’’) debars Mr. Jeremy R. Sheets 

from the schools and libraries universal 

service support mechanism (or ‘‘E-Rate 

Program’’) for a period of three years. 

The Bureau takes this action to protect 

the E-Rate Program from waste, fraud 

and abuse. 

DATES: Debarment commences on the 

date Mr. Jeremy R. Sheets receives the 

debarment letter or April 5, 2012, 

whichever date comes first, for a period 

of three years. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joy 

M. Ragsdale, Federal Communications 

Commission, Enforcement Bureau, 

Investigations and Hearings Division, 

Room 4–A236, 445 12th Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20554. Joy Ragsdale 

may be contacted by phone at (202) 

418–1697 or by email at 

Joy.Ragsdale@fcc.gov. If Ms. Ragsdale is 

unavailable, you may contact Ms. Terry 

Cavanaugh, Acting Chief, Investigations 

and Hearings Division, by telephone at 

(202) 418–1420 and by email at 

Theresa.Cavanaugh@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Bureau debarred Mr. Jeremy R. Sheets 

from the schools and libraries universal 

service support mechanism for a period 

of three years pursuant to 47 CFR 54.8. 

Attached is the debarment letter, DA 

12–212, which was mailed to Mr. 

Jeremy R. Sheets and released on 

February 14, 2012. The complete text of 

the notice of debarment is available for 

public inspection and copying during 

regular business hours at the FCC 

Reference Information Center, Portal II, 

445 12th Street SW., Room CY–A257, 

Washington, DC 20554. In addition, the 

complete text is available on the FCC’s 

Web site at http://www.fcc.gov. The text 

may also be purchased from the 

Commission’s duplicating inspection 

and copying during regular business 

hours at the contractor, Best Copy and 

Printing, Inc., Portal II, 445 12th Street 

SW., Room CY–B420, Washington, DC 


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