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Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act 

(codified as amended at 5 U.S.C. 601– 

612) provides that whenever an agency 

promulgates a final rule after being 

required to publish a notice of proposed 

rulemaking under the APA (5 U.S.C. 

553), the agency must prepare and make 

available a final regulatory flexibility 

analysis describing the impact of the 

rule on small entities or the head of the 

agency must certify that the rule will 

not have a significant economic impact 

on a substantial number of small 

entities. 5 U.S.C. 604–605. As indicated 

above, this final rule is not subject to the 

APA’s notice and comment 

requirements, and the Commission is 

not required to either conduct a 

regulatory flexibility analysis or certify 

that the final rule would not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3521) requires an 

agency to seek and receive approval 

from the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) before collecting 

information from the public. 44 U.S.C. 

3507. The agency must submit 

collections of information in rules to 

OMB in conjunction with the 

publication of the notice of proposed 

rulemaking. 5 CFR 1320.11. This final 

rule does not contain any collection of 

information, as defined by 44 U.S.C. 

3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c). 

Regulation Identifier Number 

The Commission assigns a regulation 

identifier number (RIN) to each 

regulatory action listed in the Unified 

Agenda of Federal Regulatory and 

Deregulatory Actions (Unified Agenda). 

The Regulatory Information Service 

Center publishes the Unified Agenda in 

April and October of each year. The 

public may use the RIN contained in the 

heading at the beginning of this 

document to find this action in the 

Unified Agenda, available at http://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

eAgendaMain. 

List of Subjects in 46 CFR Part 506 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Claims, Penalties. 

For the reasons stated in the 

preamble, 46 CFR part 506 is amended 

as follows: 

PART 506—CIVIL MONETARY 

PENALTY INFLATION ADJUSTMENT 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 506 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 28 U.S.C. 2461. 

■ 2. Amend § 506.4 by revising 

paragraph (d) to read as follows: 

§ 506.4 Cost of living adjustments of civil 

monetary penalties. 

* * * * * 

(d) Inflation adjustment. Maximum 

civil monetary penalties within the 

jurisdiction of the Federal Maritime 

Commission are adjusted for inflation as 

follows: 

TABLE 1 TO PARAGRAPH (d) 

United States Code citation Civil monetary penalty description 

Maximum 

penalty as 

of 

January 15, 2023 

Maximum 

penalty as 

of 

January 15, 2024 

46 U.S.C. 42304 ......................... Adverse impact on U.S. carriers by foreign shipping practices ..... $2,479,282 $2,559,636

46 U.S.C. 41107(a) .................... Knowing and Willful violation/Shipping Act of 1984, or Commission regulation or order.70,752 73,045 

46 U.S.C. 41107(a) .................... Violation of Shipping Act of 1984, Commission regulation or 

order, not knowing and willful.

14,149 14,608 

46 U.S.C. 41108(b) .................... Operating in foreign commerce after tariff suspension .................. 141,506 146,092 

46 U.S.C. 42104 ......................... Failure to provide required reports, etc./Merchant Marine Act of 

1920.

11,162 11,524 

46 U.S.C. 42106 ......................... Adverse shipping conditions/Merchant Marine Act of 1920 ........... 2,232,281 2,304,629 

46 U.S.C. 42108 ......................... Operating after tariff or service contract suspension/Merchant 

Marine Act of 1920.

111,614 115,231 

46 U.S.C. 44102, 44104 ............. Failure to establish financial responsibility for non-performance of 

transportation.

28,194 

941 

29,108 

971 

46 U.S.C. 44103, 44104 ............. Failure to establish financial responsibility for death or injury ....... 28,194 

941 

29,108 

971 

31 U.S.C. 3802(a)(1) .................. Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act/making false claim ................. 13,508 13,946 

31 U.S.C. 3802(a)(2) .................. Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act/giving false statement ........... 13,508 13,946 

By the Commission. 

David Eng, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00354 Filed 1–9–24; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Parts 1 and 4 

[GN Docket No. 15–206; FCC 16–81, FCC 

19–138; FR ID 195876] 

Improving Outage Reporting for 

Submarine Cables and Enhanced 

Submarine Cable Outage Data 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule; announcement of 

effective and compliance dates. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Commission announces that the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

approved the information collection 

associated with the Commission’s 

Report and Order and subsequent Order 

on Reconsideration. This document, 

consistent with those documents, 

fulfills the Commission’s commitment 

that it would publish a document in the 

Federal Register announcing the 

effective date of those rules. 

DATES: 

Effective date: The amendments to 47 

CFR 1.767 and 4.15, published at 81 FR 


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52354 on August 8, 2016, are effective 

January 10, 2024. 

Compliance date: Compliance with 47 

CFR 1.767 and 4.15, published at 81 FR 

52354 on August 8, 2016, began on 

October 28, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Scott Cinnamon, Cybersecurity and 

Communications Reliability Division, 

Public Safety and Homeland Security 

Bureau, at (202) 418–2319, or email: 

scott.cinnamon@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document announces that, on March 25, 

2021, OMB approved, for a period of 

three years, the information collection 

requirements relating to mandatory 

submarine outage reporting rules 

contained in the Commission’s Order, 

FCC 16–81, published at 81 FR 52354, 

August 8, 2016. The OMB Control 

Number is 3060–1283. The Commission 

publishes this document as an 

announcement of the effective date of 

the 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 Nicole 

Ongele Federal Communications 

Commission, 45 L Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20554. Please include 

the OMB Control Number, 3060–1283, 

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 March 

25, 2021, for the information collection 

requirements contained in the 

modifications to the Commission’s rules 

in 47 CFR parts 1 and 4. Notice of that 

approval was published in the Federal 

Register on April 28, 2021 (see 86 FR 

22360). 

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 

3060–1283. 

The foregoing notification 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: 3060–1283. 

OMB Approval Date: March 25, 2021. 

OMB Expiration Date: March 31, 

2024. 

Title: Improving Outage Reporting for 

Submarine Cables and Enhanced 

Submarine Outage Data. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Total Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 74 respondents; 336 

respondents. 

Estimated Time per Response: 2 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: On-occasion 

reporting requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: The statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in in 47 U.S.C. 34 through 

39, 151, 154, 155, 157, 201, 251, 254, 

301, 303(b), 303(g), 303(r), 307, 309(a), 

309(j), 316, 332, 403, 615a–1, 615c, 

1302(a), and 1302(b); 5 U.S.C. 301, and 

Executive Order No. 10530. 

Total Annual Burden: 2,016 hours. 

Total Annual Costs: No costs. 

Needs and Uses: On July 12, 2016, the 

Commission released the Order, FCC 

16–81, published at 81 FR 52355, 

August 8, 2016, adopting final rules— 

containing information collection 

requirements—establishing mandatory 

outage reporting requirements for 

submarine cable licensees. The rules 

replaced a voluntary outage reporting 

system that was in place for submarine 

cable operators with a mandatory outage 

reporting requirement similar to the 

requirements places on other part 4 

licensees identified in 47 CFR 4.3. For 

outages of a certain scope and duration, 

a submarine cable licensee must file a 

Notification, Interim Report, and Final 

Report in the manner prescribed in 47 

CFR 4.15. The outage reports are 

submitted to the Commission through 

its Network Outage Reporting System 

(NORS). This mandatory reporting 

system provides the Commission greater 

visibility into the availability and 

resiliency of submarine cable systems. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 73 

[MB Docket No. 23–126; FCC 23–112; FR 

ID 192684] 

Low Power Protection Act 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal 

Communications Commission 

(Commission) adopts rules to 

implement the Low Power Protection 

Act (LPPA or Act), which was enacted 

on January 5, 2023. The LPPA provides 

certain low power television (LPTV) 

stations with a limited window of 

opportunity to apply for primary 

spectrum use status as Class A 

television stations. With limited 

exceptions, the rules adopted herein are 

consistent with the Commission’s 

proposals in the Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (NPRM) in this proceeding. 

In this Order, we further the 

implementation of the LPPA by 

establishing the period during which 

eligible stations may file applications 

for Class A status, eligibility and 

interference requirements, and the 

process for submitting applications. 

DATES: Effective February 9, 2024; 

except for 47 CFR 73.6030(c) and 

73.6030(d) which are delayed. The 

Federal Communications Commission 

will publish a document announcing 

the effective dates of the delayed 

amendments in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim 

Matthews, Media Bureau, Policy 

Division, 202–418–2154, 

kim.matthews@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s Report 

and Order (Report and Order), in MB 

Docket No. 23–126; FCC 23–112, 

adopted on December 11, 2023 and 

released on December 12, 2023. The full 

text of this document is available for 

download at https://docs.fcc.gov/public/ 

attachments/FCC-23-112A1.pdf. 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). 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

Analysis 

This document contains new or 

modified information collection 

requirements. The Commission, as part 


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