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The additions and revision read as 

follows: 

§ 2.10–25 Definitions. 

* * * * * 

Alternative Compliance Program 

option means the option described in 46 

CFR part 8, subpart D. 

Annual vessel inspection fee means 

the fee charged for inspection and 

related services provided by the Coast 

Guard to determine whether a vessel 

meets the requirements to maintain its 

Certificate of Inspection. 

Coast Guard option means an option 

used by— 

(1) A vessel inspected under a 46 CFR 

subchapter that is not participating in 

the Alternative Compliance Program 

described in 46 CFR part 8, subpart D; 

(2) A vessel inspected under a 46 CFR 

subchapter that is not participating in 

the Streamlined Inspection Program 

described in 46 CFR part 8, subpart E; 

or 

(3) A vessel inspected under 46 CFR 

subchapter M that is not participating in 

the Towing Safety Management System 

option described in 46 CFR part 138. 

* * * * * 

Seagoing towing vessel means a 

commercial vessel 300 gross tons or 

more engaged in or intending to engage 

in the service of pulling, pushing, or 

hauling alongside, or any combination 

of pulling, pushing, or hauling 

alongside, and that makes voyages 

beyond the Boundary Line as defined by 

46 U.S.C. 103, and has been issued a 

Certificate of Inspection under the 

provisions of subchapter I of this 

chapter. 

* * * * * 

Streamlined Inspection Program 

option means the option described in 46 

CFR part 8, subpart E. 

* * * * * 

Towing Safety Management System 

option means the option described in 46 

CFR part 138 for towing vessels subject 

to 46 CFR subchapter M. 

Towing vessel means a commercial 

vessel engaged in or intending to engage 

in the service of pulling, pushing, or 

hauling alongside, or any combination 

of pulling, pushing, or hauling 

alongside. 

* * * * * 

■ 3. Amend § 2.10–101, in Table 2.10– 

101, by: 

■ a. Revising the ‘‘Sea-going Towing 

Vessels’’ entry and, in order, adding the 

subentries ‘‘Coast Guard option’’, 

‘‘Alternative Compliance option’’, and 

‘‘Streamlined Inspection Program 

option’’; and 

■ b. Adding an entry for ‘‘Towing 

Vessels (Inspected under 46 CFR 

Subchapter M)’’ and, in order, adding 

the subentries ‘‘Coast Guard option’’ 

and ‘‘Towing Safety Management 

System option’’. 

The addition and revision read as 

follows: 

§ 2.10–101 Annual vessel inspection fee. 

* * * * * 

TABLE 2.10–101—ANNUAL VESSEL INSPECTION FEES FOR U.S. AND FOREIGN VESSELS REQUIRING A CERTIFICATE OF

INSPECTION

*******

Seagoing Towing Vessels (Inspected under 46 CFR Subchapter I): 

Coast Guard option .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2,747 

Alternative Compliance Program option .................................................................................................................................................................. 1,850 

Streamlined Inspection Program option ................................................................................................................................................................... 2,260 

*******

Towing Vessels (Inspected under 46 CFR Subchapter M): 

Coast Guard option .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2,184 

Towing Safety Management System option ............................................................................................................................................................ 973 

*******

* * * * * 

Dated: December 18, 2023. 

W.R. Arguin, 

Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Assistant 

Commandant for Prevention Policy. 

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COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 1 

[MD Docket Nos. 22–301, 23–159; FCC 23– 

34; FR ID 191170] 

Review of the Commission’s 

Assessment and Collection of 

Regulatory Fees; Assessment and 

Collection of Regulatory Fees for 

Fiscal Year 2023 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final action. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal 

Communications Commission 

(Commission) amends its rules to 

simplify and streamline the 

Commission’s procedures for filing 

waiver, deferral, and reduction requests 

for regulatory fees and the procedures 

for filing installment payment requests 

for all debt owed to the Commission, 

including regulatory fees, to reduce 

administrative expenses and ensure 

more rapid disposition of such requests. 

DATES: The revision to the 

Commission’s waiver procedure, 47 CFR 

1.1166, became effective on October 16, 

2023. The revision to 47 CFR 1.1914 is 

delayed indefinitely until after review 

by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB), as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Roland Helvajian, Office of Managing 

Director, at (202) 418–0444. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s Report 

and Order (May Report and Order), in 

MD Docket Nos. 22–301 and 23–159, 

FCC 23–34, adopted on May 12, 2023, 

and released on May 15, 2023, as 

amended by the sua sponte technical 

corrections the Commission made to the 

language of 47 CFR 1.1166 and 1.1914 

in the Commission’s Report and Order, 

FCC 23–66, MD Docket Nos. 22–310 and 

23–159, adopted and released on August 

10, 2023 (August Report and Order), 88 

FR 63694, (Sept. 15, 2023). The full text 

of the Commission’s May Report and 

Order and August Report and Order are 

available for public inspection by 

downloading the text from the 

Commission’s website at https://

www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/ 

regulatory-fees. 

I. Administrative Matters 

A. Final Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 Analysis 

1. The Commission adopted 

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1.1914 in the May Report and Order, 

and made technical corrections to the 

language of those rules in the August 

Report and Order, which may contain 

new or substantively modified 

information collection requirements 

subject to the PRA and new or modified 

information collection burdens for small 

business concerns with fewer than 25 

employees, pursuant to the Small 

Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, 

Public Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(4). The amendments to 47 CFR 

1.1166, as adopted in the May Report 

and Order, and as technically corrected 

in the August Report and Order, were 

approved by OMB on August 17, 2023, 

pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 

Act, as non-substantive modifications to 

an information collection under the 

PRA. The effective date of the amended 

47 CFR 1.1166 was October 16, 2023, 

which was 30 days after it was 

published in the Federal Register on 

September 15, 2023. The amendments 

to 47 CFR 1.1914 will not become 

effective until 30 days after publication 

of a document in the Federal Register 

announcing that the Office of 

Management and Budget has completed 

review of any information collection 

requirements that the Office of 

Managing Director determines are 

required under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. The Commission will 

publish a document in the Federal 

Register announcing the effective date 

of the revisions to 47 CFR 1.1914. 

B. Congressional Review Act 

2. The Commission will not send a 

copy of the May Report and Order to 

Congress and the Government 

Accountability Office pursuant to the 

Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A), because the adopted rule is 

a rule of agency organization, 

procedure, or practice that does not 

‘‘substantially affect the right or 

obligations of non-agency parties.’’ 

II. Discussion 

3. In the May Report and Order, the 

Commission codified several of the 

temporary measures it had implemented 

in FY 2020 through FY 2022 to 

permanently simplify and streamline 

the process for filing waiver, deferral, 

and reduction requests for regulatory 

fees and the process for filing 

installment payment requests for all 

debt owed to the Commission, including 

regulatory fee debt. Specifically, it 

amended 47 CFR 1.1166 and 1.1914 as 

follows: (i) parties seeking multiple 

forms of regulatory fee relief, including 

installment payment of their regulatory 

fees, may file a single pleading in which 

all requested relief is included; (ii) 

parties must submit their requests 

electronically to regfeerelief@fcc.gov; 

and (iii) parties seeking only installment 

payment relief to pay debt owed to the 

Commission, including regulatory fee 

debt, must submit such requests in 

writing, electronically to regfeerelief@

fcc.gov. The Commission received many 

more requests for waiver, reduction, 

deferral, and installment payment relief 

in FYs 2020, 2021, and 2022 than it had 

received in previous years. As in other 

years, many of the requests were 

submitted by regulatory fee payors 

without the assistance of counsel. The 

Commission found that the procedural 

flexibility used during this time eased 

the Commission’s administrative burden 

and thereby reduced administrative 

expenses of collection. The Commission 

made these changes without notice and 

comment because they are rules of 

agency organization, procedure, or 

practice exempt from the general noticeand-comment requirements of the 

Administrative Procedure Act. 

4. On August 10, 2023, the 

Commission adopted the August Report 

and Order, which included sua sponte 

technical corrections to the amended 

language of 47 CFR 1.1166 and 1.1914. 

Specifically, the Commission deleted 

‘‘or installment payment’’ in the 

introductory paragraph of 47 CFR 

1.1166 and in 47 CFR 1.1166(a), made 

grammatical changes to move the word 

‘‘or’’ twice, and deleted ‘‘and 1.1914’’ in 

47 CFR 1.1166(a). The Commission also 

restored the following text (bolded) that 

was inadvertently deleted from 47 CFR 

1.1166(a) in the May Report and Order: 

‘‘All requests for waiver, reduction and 

deferral shall be acted upon by the 

Managing Director with the concurrence 

of the General Counsel.’’ The 

Commission also (1) modified the 

heading of section 1.1166 to delete ‘‘and 

installment payment’’ and to add ‘‘and’’ 

before the word ‘‘deferrals’’; (2) revised 

the final sentence of the introductory 

paragraph of section 1.1166 to delete the 

phrase ‘‘interest charges or penalties’’; 

and (3) revised section 1.1166(b) to 

delete a comma and the phrase ‘‘from 

the date of the filing of the deferral 

request’’. 

5. The Commission also made 

technical corrections to 47 CFR 1.1914 

to clarify the language of the rule. 

Specifically, the third sentence of 47 

CFR 1.1914(a) was revised to read as 

follows: ‘‘Requests for installment 

payment of non-regulatory fee debt shall 

be filed electronically, by submission to 

the following email address: 

installmentplanrequest@fcc.gov.’’ The 

Commission explained that it made this 

change to ensure that, for administrative 

simplicity purposes, installment 

payment requests that are nonregulatory fee in nature are submitted to 

a different email address than the email 

address to which all regulatory fee relief 

requests, including for installment 

payment of regulatory fees, are to be 

submitted. The Commission also revised 

the fourth sentence of 47 CFR 1.1914(a) 

to more clearly state that requests for 

installment payment of regulatory fees 

may be combined with other regulatory 

fee relief requests that are filed pursuant 

to 47 CFR 1.1166. Additionally, the 

Commission revised the fifth sentence 

of section 1.1914(a) to delete the phrase 

‘‘their debt to the Commission.’’ 

Further, the Commission stated that the 

amendments to 47 CFR 1.1914 in the 

May Report and Order will continue as 

temporary measures until such time as 

they become effective. 

6. On August 17, 2023, OMB 

approved the amendments to 47 CFR 

1.1166, including the technical language 

corrections the Commission made in the 

August Report and Order. On September 

15, 2023, the August Report and Order 

was published in the Federal Register, 

including 47 CFR 1.1166 and 1.1914, as 

fully amended and technically 

corrected. The effective date of 47 CFR 

1.1166 was October 16, 2023, which was 

30 days after it was published in the 

Federal Register. The Commission will 

publish a document in the Federal 

Register to announce the effective date 

for the revisions to 47 CFR 1.1914, once 

OMB has approved the rule. 

III. Ordering Clauses 

7. Accordingly, it is ordered that, 

pursuant to sections 4(i), 4(j), 9, 9A, and 

303(r) of the Communications Act of 

1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 

154(j), 159, 159a, 303(r), this May 

Report and Order is hereby adopted. 

8. It is further ordered that the 

amendments to section 1.1914 of the 

Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 1.1914, 

which were technically corrected by the 

Commission on August 10, 2023, WILL 

BECOME EFFECTIVE 30 days after 

publication of a document in the 

Federal Register announcing that the 

Office of Management and Budget has 

completed review of any information 

collection requirements that the Office 

of Managing Director determines as 

required under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. The Commission will 

publish a document in the Federal 

Register announcing the effective date 

of the amendments to 47 CFR 1.1914. 

The amendments to section 1.1166 of 

the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 1.1166, 

which were technically corrected by the 

Commission on August 10, 2023, and 

approved by the Office of Management 

and Budget, pursuant to the Paperwork 


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Reduction Act, on August 17, 2023, 

became effective on October 16, 2023. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 74 

[MB Docket No. 03–185; FCC 23–58; FR ID 

192560] 

Digital Low Power Television and 

Television Translator Stations 

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 the information collection 

requirements associated with the 

Commission’s rules in a Report and 

Order which adopts rules to clarify for 

all stakeholders the status of LPTV FM6 

service and codify that these services 

may be provided by a group of 14 

existing FM6 stations, and only by those 

stations. This document is consistent 

with the Commission’s Report and 

Order, which stated that the 

Commission would publish a document 

in the Federal Register announcing the 

effective date of those rules. 

DATES: The amendments to 47 CFR 

74.790(o)(9) and (10) are published at 88 

FR 59455, August 29, 2023, are effective 

as of December 28, 2023, except for the 

portion of OMB Control No. 3060–0386 

that approves the one-time requirement 

that FM6 LPTV stations notify the 

Media Bureau via letter filing as to 

whether they will continue FM6 

operations and confirm their precise 

FM6 operational parameters. We 

establish January 29, 2024 as the 

deadline for filing this notification with 

the Bureau. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shaun Maher, Video Division, Media 

Bureau at (202) 418–2324 or, Mark 

Colombo, Video Division, Media Bureau 

at (202) 418–7611 or Mark.Colombo@

fcc.gov. For additional information 

concerning the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) information collection 

requirements contained in this 

document, contact Cathy Williams at 

202–418–2918, or Cathy.Williams@

fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document announces that, on December 

5, 2023, OMB approved the information 

collection requirements contained in 

§§ 74.790(o)(9) and 74.790(o)(10) of the 

Commission’s rules. The OMB Control 

Numbers are 3060–0110, 3060–0214, 

and 3060–0386. The Commission 

publishes this document as an 

announcement of the effective date of 

these rules. 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 Cathy 

Williams, Federal Communications 

Commission, Room 3–317, 45 L Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20554. Please 

include the OMB Control Number, 

3060–0110, or 3060–0214, or 3060– 

0386, 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 FCC is notifying the public that it 

received final OMB approval on 

December 5, 2023, for the information 

collection requirements contained in 

§§ 74.790(o)(9) and 74.790(o)(10) of the 

Commission’s rules. 

Under 5 CFR 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 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: 3060–0110. 

OMB Approval Date: December 5, 

2023. 

OMB Expiration Date: December 31, 

2026. 

Title: FCC Form 2100, Application for 

Renewal of Broadcast Station License, 

LMS Schedule 303–S. 

Form Number: FCC 2100, LMS 

Schedule 303–S. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; Not for profit institutions; 

State, Local or Tribal Governments. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 5,140 respondents, 5,140 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.5 

hours-12 hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirement; Every eight-year 

reporting requirement; Third party 

disclosure requirement. 

Total Annual Burden: 14,868 hours. 

Total Annual Costs: $3,994,164. 

Obligation of Response: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. The statutory 

authority for the collection is contained 

sections 154(i), 303, 307 and 308 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, and section 204 of the 

Telecommunications Act of 1996. 

Needs and Uses: On July 20, 2023, the 

Commission adopted Amendment of 

Parts 73 and 74 of the Commission’s 

Rules to Establish Rules for Digital Low 

Power Television and Television 

Translator Stations, Fifth Report and 

Order, FCC 23–58 (rel. July 20, 2023) 

(FM6 Report and Order). The 

Commission adopted a new requirement 

that FM6 LPTV stations certify in their 

license renewal application that they 

have continued to provide FM6 

operations in accordance with the FM6 

rules during their prior license term. 

The Commission delegated authority to 

the Media Bureau to determine the most 

appropriate means for these stations to 

make such certification, be it by an 

attachment to the renewal application or 

some other reasonable means. This 

requirement is contained in 47 CFR 

74.790(o)(10). 

This submission is being made to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for approval of the renewal 

certification requirement for FM6 LPTV 

stations as adopted in the FM6 Report 

and Order. Since the certification will 

be included as an additional exhibit to 

the existing form, it did not necessitate 

changes to LMS Form 2100 Schedule 

303–S. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0214. 

OMB Approval Date: December 5, 

2023. 

OMB Expiration Date: December 31, 

2026. 

Title: Sections 73.3526 and 73.3527, 

Local Public Inspection Files; Sections 

73.1212, 76.1701 and 73.1943, Political 

Files. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Respondents: Business or other for 

profit entities; Not for profit institutions; 

State, Local or Tribal government; 

Individuals or households. 

Number of Respondents: 23,819 

respondents; 66,392 responses. 


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