2224 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 9 / Friday, January 12, 2024 / Notices 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

the Commission) invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

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; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; 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 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 control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

PRA that does not display a valid Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

control number. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before March 12, 

2024. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@

fcc.gov and to nicole.ongele@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Nicole 

Ongele, (202) 418–2991. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0952. 

Title: Proposed Demographic 

Information and Notifications, Second 

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

(FNPRM), CC Docket No. 98–147 and 

Fifth NPRM (NPRM), CC Docket No. 96– 

98. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 589 respondents; 1,178 

responses. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirements and third party 

disclosure requirement. 

Estimated Time per Response: 2 

hours. 

Total Annual Burden: 2,356 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No cost. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151–154, 201, 

202, 251–254, 256 and 271 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

asked whether physical collocation in 

remote terminals presents technical or 

security concerns, and if so, whether 

these concerns warrant modification of 

its collocation rules. The Commission 

asked whether incumbent LECs should 

be required to provide requesting 

carriers with demographic and other 

information regarding particular remote 

terminals similar to the information 

available regarding incumbent LEC 

central offices. Requesting carriers use 

demographic and other information 

obtained from incumbent LECs to 

determine whether they wish to 

collocate at particular remote terminals. 

This proposed information collection in 

the Second Further Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking, FCC 98–147, will be used 

by the Commission, state commissions, 

and competitive carriers to facilitate the 

deployment of advanced services and 

other telecommunications services in 

implementation of section 251(c)(6) of 

the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. The number of respondents, 

annual responses, and annual burden 

hours have decreased due to a decrease 

in the current total number of active 

incumbent local exchange carriers who 

may have to respond to this information 

collection. This decrease in the number 

of respondents accounts for a 

concomitant reduction in both total 

annual responses and total annual 

burden hours. There are no program 

changes to this information collection. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00581 Filed 1–11–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–1272; FR ID 196129] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

Commission) invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collections. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

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; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; 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 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 Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

PRA that does not display a valid OMB 

control number. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before March 12, 

2024. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Cathy Williams, FCC, via email to PRA@

fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Cathy 

Williams at (202) 418–2918. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1272. 

Title: 3.7 GHz Band Space Station 

Operator Accelerated Relocation 

Elections and Transition Plans; 3.7 GHz 

Band Earth Station Lump Sum Payment 

Elections. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Estimated Number of Respondents 

and Responses: 3,010 respondents and 

3,010 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 16 

hours per response for accelerated 

relocation elections, 2,720 hours per 

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hours per response for lump sum 

payment elections. 

Frequency of Response: One time 

reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in sections 1, 2, 4(i), 4(j), 

5(c), 201, 302, 303, 304, 307(e), and 

309of the Communications Act of 1934, 

as amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 154(i), 

154(j), 155(c), 201, 302, 303, 304, 307(e), 

309. 

Total Annual Burden: 109,680 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $900,000. 

Needs and Uses: Under this 

information collection, the Commission 

will collect information that will be 

used to determine when, how, and at 

what cost existing operations in the 

lower portion of the 3.7–4.2 GHz band 

will be relocated to the upper portion of 

the band. This collection will serve as 

the starting point for planning and 

managing the process of efficiently and 

expeditiously clearing of the lower 

portion of the band, so that this 

spectrum can be auctioned for flexibleuse service licenses. 

The transition relocation process 

began in 2020. Initial Transition Plans 

were filed on June 19, 2020 with final 

Transition Plans due August 14, 2020. 

Throughout the relocation process, the 

Wireless Telecommunications Bureau 

(Bureau) opened limited windows to 

amend their Transition Plans on several 

occasions. In addition to submitting and 

modifying Transition Plans during these 

periods, eligible space station operators 

were required to file quarterly status 

reports with the Commission beginning 

on December 31, 2020 to demonstrate 

their efforts to ensure a timely 

transition. 

The 3.7 GHz band auction, Auction 

107, took place from December 8, 2020 

to February 17, 2021, and, on February 

24, 2021, the Commission announced 

the winning bidders of the C-band 

auction for all 5,684 licenses. In the 

same year, the Bureau directed eligible 

space station operators to submit 

updates for their final Transition Plans 

during limited windows opened for 

operators to provide these updates. 

Later that year, on August 4, 2021, the 

Bureau issued a Public Notice 

implementing filing procedures for 

Phase I Certifications. Originally, Phase 

I’s deadline was set for December 5, 

2021, but the deadline was met eleven 

days earlier than anticipated. On 

November 24, 2021, the Commission 

validated the certification of Phase I. 

The C-band transition continued into 

2023. On May 15, 2023, the Bureau 

announced procedures for filing C-band 

Phase II Certifications of Accelerated 

Relocation and implementation of the 

Commission’s incremental reduction 

plan for Phase II Accelerated Relocation 

Payments as part of the ongoing 

transition. The C-Band Relocation 

Payment Clearinghouse (RPC) is 

responsible for disbursing the 

Accelerated Relocation Payments within 

a certain time period. 

On June 1, 2023, all eligible space 

station operators were permitted to 

submit their Phase II certifications. Also 

on June 1, 2023, the Bureau opened a 

limited, final window for eligible space 

station operators to file modified 

Transition Plans to accurately account 

for any updates since September 30, 

2021. 

Phase II’s deadline to complete the 

transition of space station operations to 

the upper 200 megahertz of the band 

was originally set for December 5, 2023. 

Instead, on August 10, 2023, the last of 

the Phase II Certifications was deemed 

granted. Even though Phases I and II of 

the satellite transition are complete, the 

Commission continues to work through 

the C-band relocation process. On 

October 13, 2023, the Bureau released a 

Public Notice seeking comment on 

proposed deadlines for claimants to 

submit reimbursement claims. The 

Public Notice stated that the RPC’s 

operations are currently scheduled to 

conclude on June 30, 2025, which is 

still more than a year and a half away. 

The relocation of the fixed service 

licensees is also ongoing. 

On December 5, 2023, the 

Commission issued a Public Notice 

adopting two final reimbursement 

claims submission deadlines for eligible 

incumbents and other eligible 

stakeholders to submit any outstanding 

transition-related claims to the RPC for 

processing as part of this ongoing 

transition. The two deadlines are: (1) 

February 5, 2024 as the submission 

deadline to the RPC for all 

reimbursement claims for costs incurred 

and paid by claimants as of December 

31, 2023, and (2) July 1, 2024 as the 

submission deadline to the RPC for all 

reimbursement claims for costs incurred 

and paid by claimants after December 

31, 2023. In the Public Notice, the 

Commission stated that these adopted 

dates are important because they will 

aid in facilitating a timely conclusion of 

the C-band reimbursement program. 

Furthermore, the Commission 

highlighted the fact that all lump sum 

electees and many other eligible 

claimants and eligible stakeholders have 

had ample time within which to submit 

their claims to the RPC. 

It is important to continue to collect 

information because it is crucial to 

ensure that managing this process is 

efficiently and quickly done, and that 

transition is still underway. Because 

this process remains ongoing, this 

information collection should be 

renewed to ensure that a complete set of 

information is maintained. If this 

collection were to expire now, 

stakeholders would be missing ongoing 

information about the transition 

process. Renewing this collection will 

provide stakeholders with complete 

information instead of an information 

collection that ends before the entire 

transition process is officially 

accomplished in 2025. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00495 Filed 1–11–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE 

AGENCY 

[No. 2024–N–1] 

Notice of Annual Adjustment of the 

Cap on Average Total Assets That 

Defines Community Financial 

Institutions 

AGENCY: Federal Housing Finance 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Housing Finance 

Agency (FHFA) has adjusted the cap on 

average total assets that is used in 

determining whether a Federal Home 

Loan Bank (Bank) member qualifies as 

a ‘‘community financial institution’’ 

(CFI) to $1,461,000,000, based on the 

annual percentage increase in the 

Consumer Price Index for all urban 

consumers (CPI–U), as published by the 

Department of Labor (DOL). These 

changes are effective as of January 1, 

2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Janna Bruce, Division of Federal Home 

Loan Bank Regulation, (202) 649–3202, 

Janna.Bruce@fhfa.gov; or Carly 

Malamud, Counsel, Office of General 

Counsel, (202) 649–3098, 

Carly.Malamud@fhfa.gov, (these are not 

toll-free numbers), Federal Housing 

Finance Agency, Constitution Center, 

400 Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC 

20219. For TTY/TRS users with hearing 

and speech disabilities, dial 711 and ask 

to be connected to any of the contact 

numbers above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Statutory and Regulatory Background 

The Federal Home Loan Bank Act 

(Bank Act) confers upon insured 

depository institutions that meet the 


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