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Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04020 Filed 2–26–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–1151; FR ID 204394] 

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 (PRA) of 1995, the Federal 

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. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before April 29, 

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: 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. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1151. 

Title: Sections 1.1411, 1.1412, 1.1415, 

and 1.1416 Pole Attachment Access and 

Dispute Resolution Requirements. 

Form Number: FCC Form 5653. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently-approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 1,380 respondents; 165,009 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.25–5 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: On-occasion 

reporting requirement, recordkeeping 

requirement, and third-party disclosure 

requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory or 

required to obtain or retain benefits. 

Statutory authority for this information 

collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 224. 

Total Annual Burden: 120,980 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $1,800. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission is 

requesting Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval for a revision to 

a currently approved information 

collection. In Accelerating Wireline 

Broadband Deployment by Removing 

Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, 

WC Docket No. 17–84, Fourth Report 

and Order, FCC 23–109 (rel. December 

15, 2023) (Order), the Commission 

adopted rules that implement the pole 

attachment requirements in section 224 

of the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. The Order substantially 

revised 47 CFR 1.1411, redesignated 

existing 47 CFR 1.1415 as 47 CFR 

1.1416, and added a new 47 CFR 1.1415. 

Section 1.1411. In the Order, the 

Commission adopted regulations 

requiring utilities to share information 

about their poles with prospective 

telecommunications and cable attachers. 

The Commission created this 

requirement to help improve the 

attachment process and potentially 

reduce disputes, thus facilitating 

broadband deployment. Specifically, the 

Order requires utilities to provide to 

potential attachers, upon request, the 

information contained in their most 

recent cyclical pole inspection reports, 

or any intervening, periodic reports 

created before the next cyclical 

inspection, for the poles covered by a 

submitted attachment application, 

including whether any of the affected 

poles have been ‘‘red tagged’’ by the 

utility for replacement and the 

scheduled replacement date or 

timeframe (if any). For the purposes of 

this new transparency requirement, a 

cyclical pole inspection report is any 

report that a utility creates in the normal 

course of its business that sets forth the 

results of the routine inspection of its 

poles during the utility’s normal pole 

inspection cycle, while a periodic pole 

inspection report is any report that a 

utility creates in the normal course of its 

business that sets forth the results of the 

inspection of any of its poles outside the 

utility’s normal pole inspection cycle. 

When asking for information about 

the status of a utility’s poles for a 

planned buildout, the attacher must 

submit its information request no earlier 

than contemporaneously with an 

attachment application. The utility will 

have ten business days to respond to the 

request. Where an attacher amends its 

application based on the information it 

receives from the utility, the utility will 

have the option to restart the 45-day 

period for responding to the application 

on the merits and conducting the 

required make-ready survey. Regardless 

of whether the utility elects to restart 

the 45-day response period, any 

additional survey costs necessitated by 

the amended application, such as a 

second survey after a survey for the 

original application has been 

completed, will be borne by the new 

attacher consistent with the new 

attacher’s obligation to pay for makeready costs associated with its 

application. 

The Commission also required 

utilities to retain copies, in whatever 

form they were created, of any such 

cyclical or periodic pole inspection 

reports they conduct in the normal 

course of business, until such time as 

the utility completes a superseding 

cyclical pole inspection report covering 

the poles included in the attachment 

application. The Commission reiterated 

that utilities are required to provide 

only the information they already 

possess and track in the normal course 

of conducting pole inspections at the 

time of the attacher’s request for data. 

The Commission did not require 

utilities to collect or create new 

information for the purpose of 

responding to such requests or to 

provide all information they may 

possess on the affected poles outside 

their pole inspection reports. The 

Commission found that adopting this 

limited requirement achieves a balance 

between a potential attacher’s need for 

more information about the poles that it 

plans to use as part of a broadband 

buildout and the utility’s interest in 

minimizing the burden of mandatory 

disclosures. 

Section 1.1415. To expedite the 

resolution of pole attachment disputes 

that impede or delay active broadband 


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deployment projects, the Commission 

established the Rapid Broadband 

Assessment Team (RBAT), which will 

consist of one or more staff from the 

Commission’s Enforcement Bureau and 

one or more staff from the Commission’s 

Wireline Competition Bureau. The 

Commission created the RBAT in an 

effort to make the Commission’s pole 

attachment dispute resolution process 

more responsive and adaptable with the 

goal of facilitating broadband 

deployment. The Order charged the 

RBAT with expediting the resolution of 

such disputes by swiftly engaging key 

stakeholders, gathering relevant 

information, distilling issues in dispute, 

and recommending to the parties, where 

appropriate, an abbreviated mediation 

process, placement of a complaint (or 

portion of a complaint) on the 

Commission’s Accelerated Docket based 

on consideration of specified criteria, 

and/or any other action that the RBAT 

determines will help the parties resolve 

their dispute. 

To request RBAT review and 

assessment of a dispute that a party to 

the dispute contends is impeding or 

delaying deployment of broadband 

facilities, the party must first notify the 

Chief of the Enforcement Bureau’s 

Market Disputes Resolution Division 

(MDRD) of the request by phone and in 

writing. The MDRD Chief will direct the 

party to FCC Form 5653—Request for 

RBAT Review and Assessment—on the 

MDRD website and to instructions for 

completing and electronically 

transmitting the form to the RBAT. The 

form will elicit information relevant to 

the scope and nature of the dispute, and 

to whether the dispute is appropriate for 

expedited mediation and/or placement 

on the Accelerated Docket. The 

information submitted by a party on the 

FCC Form 5653 will assist the RBAT in 

efficiently reviewing and assessing the 

party’s dispute and in providing 

guidance on the most effective means of 

resolving it. The RBAT also may request 

that one or both parties provide the 

RBAT with documentation or other 

information relevant to the dispute. 

After reviewing the parties’ 

submissions, the RBAT will provide 

guidance and advice to the parties on 

the most effective means of resolving 

their dispute, including staff-supervised 

mediation, use of the Accelerated 

Docket, and/or other action. 

Should the RBAT recommend staffsupervised mediation, it shall be 

conducted pursuant to 47 CFR 1.737, 

the requirements of which may be 

modified or waived as appropriate in 

this context or as needed in light of the 

facts or circumstances of a particular 

case. In the event that the parties are 

unable to settle their dispute, and a 

prospective complainant seeks 

placement of its complaint on the 

Accelerated Docket, the RBAT will 

decide whether the complaint or a 

portion of the complaint is suitable for 

inclusion on the Accelerated Docket 

based on a totality of the factors listed 

in 47 CFR 1.1415(e). 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04019 Filed 2–26–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0854; FR ID 204523] 

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 April 29, 

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: 3060–0854. 

Title: Section 64.2401, Truth-inBilling Format, CC Docket No. 98–170 

and CG Docket No. 04–208. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 4,165 respondents; 26,711 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 2 to 

230 hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirement; Third party 

disclosure requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. The statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is found at section 201(b) of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 201(b), and section 

258, 47 U.S.C. 258, Public Law 104–104, 

110 Stat. 56. The Commission’s 

implementing rules are codified at 47 

CFR 64.2400. 

Total Annual Burden: 1,872,245 

hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $10,000,000. 

Needs and Uses: In 1999, the 

Commission released the Truth-inBilling and Billing Format, CC Docket 

No. 98–170, First Report and Order and 

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 

(1999 TIB Order); published at 64 FR 

34488, June 25, 1999, which adopted 

principles and guidelines designed to 

reduce telecommunications fraud, such 

as slamming and cramming, by making 

bills easier for consumers to read and 

understand, and thereby, making such 

fraud easier to detect and report. In 

2000, Truth-in-Billing and Billing 

Format, CC Docket No. 98–170, Order 

on Reconsideration, (2000 

Reconsideration Order); published at 65 

FR 43251, July 13, 2000, the 

Commission, granted in part petitions 

for reconsideration of the requirements 

that bills highlight new service 

providers and prominently display 

inquiry contact numbers. On March 18, 

2005, the Commission released Truthin-Billing and Billing Format; National 


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