Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 176 / Tuesday, September 11, 2012 / Proposed Rules 55783 

1The NCTA is a trade association that represents 

cable operators. Many of the NCTA’s members file 

Statements of Account with and pay royalties to the 

Copyright Office under the statutory license set 

forth in Section 111 of the Copyright Act, which 

allows them to retransmit television and radio 

programs that are embodied in local and distant 

broadcast transmissions. 

2Both the Joint Sports Claimants and the Program 

Suppliers represent copyright owners who are the 

beneficiaries of the royalties that are paid under the 

Section 111 and 119 statutory licenses. Generally 

speaking, the Joint Sports Claimants represent 

copyright owners that produce professional and 

college sports programming, while the Program 

Suppliers represent copyright owners that produce 

and/or syndicate movies, programs, and specials 

that are broadcast by television stations. 

date, that recommending even 

preliminary routing measures is not 

appropriate at this time. The WG has 

concluded that modeling and analysis, 

as described in the Phase 3 of the 

ACPARS interim report, is critical to 

determine if routing measures are 

appropriate and to evaluate the change 

in navigational safety risk resulting from 

different siting and routing scenarios. 

The CG is working with BOEM to 

develop a project to perform the Phase 

3 modeling and analysis. This project is 

scheduled to begin in late summer 2012. 

The Coast Guard is also contracting the 

services of a Geographic Information 

System (GIS) analyst to support efforts 

to better characterize vessel traffic and 

further explore creating initial proposals 

for routing measures independent of the 

Phase 3 modeling and analysis. 

This notice is issued under authority 

of 33 U.S.C. 1223(c) and 5 U.S.C. 552. 

Dated: August 31, 2012. 

Robert C. Parker, 

Vice Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, 

Atlantic Area. 

[FR Doc. 2012–22295 Filed 9–10–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

37 CFR Part 201 

[Docket No. 2012–5] 

Verification of Statements of Account 

Submitted by Cable Operators and 

Satellite Carriers 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking: 

Extension of reply comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Copyright Office is 

extending the deadline for filing reply 

comments in response to its Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking concerning the 

verification of Statements of Account 

and royalty payments that are deposited 

with the Office by cable operators and 

satellite carriers. Initial comments are 

available for review on the Copyright 

Office Web site. 

DATES: Reply comments on the 

proposed regulation must be received in 

the Office of the General Counsel of the 

Copyright Office no later than 5 p.m. 

Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on October 

3, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: The Copyright Office 

strongly prefers that comments be 

submitted electronically. A comment 

submission page is posted on the 

Copyright Office Web site at http:// 

www.copyright.gov/docs/soaaudit. The 

Web site interface requires submitters to 

complete a form specifying name and 

other required information, and to 

upload comments as an attachment. To 

meet accessibility standards, all 

comments must be uploaded in a single 

file in either the Adobe Portable 

Document File (PDF) format that 

contains searchable, accessible text (not 

an image); Microsoft Word; 

WordPerfect; Rich Text Format (RTF); or 

ASCII text file format (not a scanned 

document). The maximum file size is 6 

megabytes (MB). The name of the 

submitter and organization should 

appear on both the form and the face of 

the comments. All comments will be 

posted publicly on the Copyright Office 

Web site exactly as they are received, 

along with names and organizations if 

provided. If electronic submission of 

comments is not feasible, please contact 

the Copyright Office at (202) 707–8380 

for special instructions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tanya Sandros, Deputy General 

Counsel, or Erik Bertin, Attorney 

Advisor, Copyright GC/I&R, P.O. Box 

70400, Washington, DC 20024. 

Telephone: (202) 707–8380. Telefax: 

(202) 707–8366. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 

14, 2012, the Copyright Office published 

a notice of proposed rulemaking and 

request for comments concerning a new 

regulation that will allow copyright 

owners to audit the Statements of 

Account and royalty fees that cable 

operators and satellite carriers deposit 

with the Copyright Office under 

Sections 111 and 119 of the Copyright 

Act. The Office received comments on 

the proposed regulation from groups 

representing copyright owners, cable 

operators, and satellite carriers, which 

have been posted on the Copyright 

Office Web site at http:// 

www.copyright.gov/docs/soaaudit/ 

comments/index.html. The notice of 

proposed rulemaking stated that reply 

comments would be due on September 

12, 2012. 

On August 24, 2012, the Office 

received a joint motion to extend the 

reply comment period by three weeks 

[http://www.copyright.gov/docs/ 

soaaudit/soa_audit.html]. The motion 

was filed by the National Cable & 

Telecommunications Association 

(‘‘NCTA’’),1 the Joint Sports Claimants, 

and the Program Suppliers.2

Specifically, the moving parties asked 

the Office to extend the deadline for 

reply comments until October 3, 2012 in 

order to determine whether there is any 

common ground among the NCTA, the 

Joint Sports Claimants, and the Program 

Suppliers concerning certain aspects of 

the proposed regulation. If so, the 

moving parties stated that they may be 

able to narrow the issues that they 

discuss in their reply comments, which 

in turn, may narrow the issues that need 

to be resolved in this rulemaking. The 

NCTA, the Joint Sports Claimants, and 

the Program Suppliers stated that they 

have been in contact with each other, 

but due to prior commitments, they will 

not be able to engage in meaningful 

negotiations until shortly before the 

current deadline. 

In the interest of giving the NCTA, the 

Joint Sports Claimants, the Program 

Suppliers, and any other interested 

parties an opportunity to discuss the 

proposed regulation amongst 

themselves and to determine if the 

parties are able to narrow the issues that 

the Office needs to consider, the Office 

has decided to extend the deadline for 

filing reply comments by a period of 

three weeks, making reply comments 

due by October 3, 2012. 

Dated: September 6, 2012. 

Tanya Sandros, 

Deputy General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2012–22320 Filed 9–10–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1410–30–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

37 CFR Part 201 and 210 

[Docket No. 2012–7] 

Mechanical and Digital Phonorecord 

Delivery Compulsory License 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking: 

Extension of comment and reply 

comment periods. 

SUMMARY: The Copyright Office is 

extending the deadline for filing 

comments and reply comments 


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