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November 27, 2024. This extension will 

provide the general public with 

additional time for comment. 

Sharyn Lie, 

Director, Climate Change Division. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21633 Filed 9–20–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–1265; FR ID 245960] 

Information Collection Being 

Submitted for Review and Approval to 

Office of Management and Budget 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, 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. 

Pursuant to the Small Business 

Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC 

seeks specific comment on how it might 

‘‘further reduce the information 

collection burden for small business 

concerns with fewer than 25 

employees.’’ The Commission 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 comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted on or before October 23, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. Your comment must be 

submitted into www.reginfo.gov. per the 

above instructions for it to be 

considered. In addition to submitting in 

www.reginfo.gov also send a copy of 

your comment on the proposed 

information collection to Nicole Ongele, 

FCC, via email to PRA@fcc.gov and to 

Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. Include in the 

comments the OMB control number as 

shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information or copies of the 

information collection, contact Nicole 

Ongele at (202) 418–2991. To view a 

copy of this information collection 

request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) go 

to the web page http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the 

section of the web page called 

‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ (3) click on 

the downward-pointing arrow in the 

‘‘Select Agency’’ box below the 

‘‘Currently Under Review’’ heading, (4) 

select ‘‘Federal Communications 

Commission’’ from the list of agencies 

presented in the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, 

(5) click the ‘‘Submit’’ button to the 

right of the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, (6) 

when the list of FCC ICRs currently 

under review appears, look for the Title 

of this ICR and then click on the ICR 

Reference Number. A copy of the FCC 

submission to OMB will be displayed. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of 

its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork burdens, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), the FCC invited 

the general public and other Federal 

Agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on the following information 

collection. Comments are requested 

concerning: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the 

Commission’s burden estimates; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information collected; and 

(d) 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. 

Pursuant to the Small Business 

Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public 

Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(4), 

the FCC seeks specific comment on how 

it might ‘‘further reduce the information 

collection burden for small business 

concerns with fewer than 25 

employees.’’ 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1265. 

Title: Administrative Order— 

Performance Testing Measures. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 1,705 unique respondents; 

7,681 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 15–23 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: Biennial 

reporting requirements, quarterly 

reporting requirements and annual 

reporting requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151–154, 155, 

201–206, 214, 218–220, 251, 252, 254, 

256, 303(r), 332, 403, 405, 410, and 

1302. 

Total Annual Burden: 170,620 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No cost. 

Needs and Uses: In the USF/ICC 

Transformation Order, the Commission 

laid the groundwork for today’s 

universal service programs providing 

$4.5 billion in support for broadband 

internet deployment in high-cost areas. 

Connect America Fund, et al., WC 

Docket No. 10–90, et al., Report and 

Order and Further Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking, 26 FCC Rcd 17663 (2011) 

(USF/ICC Transformation Order). The 

USF/ICC Transformation Order 

required, among other things, that highcost universal service recipients ‘‘test 

their broadband networks for 

compliance with speed and latency 

metrics and certify to and report the 

results to the Universal Service 

Administrative Company (USAC) on an 

annual basis.’’ Id. at 17705, para. 109. 

Pursuant to the Commission’s direction 

in that Order, the Wireline Competition 

Bureau, the Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau, and the 

Office of Engineering and Technology 

(the Bureaus and OET) adopted more 

specific methodologies for such testing 

in the Performance Measures Order. See 

generally Performance Measures Order. 

See also 47 CFR 54.313(a)(6) (requiring 

that recipients of high-cost support 

provide ‘‘[t]he results of network 

performance tests pursuant to the 

methodology and in the format 

determined by the Wireline Competition 

Bureau, Wireless Telecommunications 

Bureau, and Office of Engineering and 

Technology’’). Addressing petitions for 

reconsideration, the Bureaus and OET 

adopted certain modifications and 

clarifications to the requirements 

pertaining to high-latency bidders in the 

Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase II 

auction, and the Commission refined 

the general testing requirements further. 

See generally Connect America Fund, 

WC Docket No. 10–90, Order on 

Reconsideration, DA 19–911 (WCB/ 

WTB/OET 2019) (Satellite-Related 

Performance Measures Order); 

Performance Measures Reconsideration 

Order. In the High Cost Administrative 

Order, the Commission adopted a 

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schedule, replacing the previous annual 

requirement, such that all carriers 

receiving high-cost support are required 

to report and certify their quarterly 

performance testing results within two 

weeks, rather than within one week, 

after the end of the quarter in which the 

tests are conducted. See High Cost 

Administrative Order, FCC 25–87, para. 

138. Accordingly, this collection 

includes the requirements for testing 

speed and latency, and reporting and 

certifying such performance measures 

within two weeks after the end of each 

quarter to ensure that carriers are 

meeting the public interest obligations 

associated with their receipt of high-cost 

universal service support. 

Carriers will identify, from among the 

locations they have already submitted 

and certified in USAC’s High Cost 

Universal Broadband (HUBB) portal, the 

locations where they have an active 

subscriber (deployment locations are 

reported under OMB Control Number 

3060–1228, and active locations will be 

reported under this control number). 

From those subscriber locations, USAC 

will then select a random sample from 

which the carrier will be required to 

perform testing for speed and latency. 

Carriers that do not provide location 

information in the HUBB will use a 

randomization tool provided by USAC 

to select a random sample of locations 

for testing. Due to the rule changes that 

the Commission adopted on the High 

Cost Administrative Order, the carrier 

will then be required to submit to USAC 

the results of the testing on a quarterly 

basis. The quarterly filing will include 

the testing results from the prior quarter. 

The carrier’s sample for each service tier 

(e.g. 10 Mbps/1 Mbps, 25 Mbps/3 Mbps) 

shall be regenerated every two years. 

During the two-year cycle, carriers will 

have the ability to add and remove 

subscriber locations if necessary, e.g., as 

subscribership changes. Also, in July 

2023, the Commission adopted the 

Enhanced Alternative-Connect America 

Cost Model (E–ACAM) support 

mechanism, a new model-based offer to 

existing Alternative-Connect America 

Cost Model (A–CAM) I, A–CAM II, and 

Connect America Fund Broadband Loop 

Support (CAF BLS) carriers. See 

Connect America Fund: A National 

Broadband Plan for Our Future HighCost Universal Service Support et al., 

WC Docket No. 10–90 et al., Report and 

Order, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 

and Notice of Inquiry, FCC 23–60, at 

23–24, para. 49 (July 24, 2023) 

(Enhanced A–CAM Order). Revisions 

proposed include (1) a process for E– 

ACAM carriers to get a performance 

measures testing sample from nonHUBB reported locations, and (2) and 

reporting and certifying such 

performance measures within two 

weeks after the end of each quarter. The 

proposed revisions also include the 

retitling of this collection from 

‘‘Connect America Fund—Performance 

Testing Measures’’ to ‘‘Administrative 

Order—Performance Testing Measures.’’ 

The Commission therefore proposes to 

revise this information collection to 

reflect these modified requirements. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary,Office of the Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION NOTICE OF

PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT: 

89 FR 75540. 

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF

THE MEETING: 

Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 

10:00 a.m. 

Hybrid Meeting: 1050 First Street NE, 

Washington, DC (12th Floor) and 

Virtual. 

CHANGE IN THE MEETING: 

The following item was also 

discussed: 

Proposed Referral of Questions on 

Dependent Care to Regulations 

Committee 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: 

(202) 694–1220. 

(Authority: Government in the Sunshine Act, 

5 U.S.C. 552b) 

Laura E. Sinram, 

Secretary and Clerk of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21846 Filed 9–19–24; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6715–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The public portions of the 

applications listed below, as well as 

other related filings required by the 

Board, if any, are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

This information may also be obtained 

on an expedited basis, upon request, by 

contacting the appropriate Federal 

Reserve Bank and from the Board’s 

Freedom of Information Office at 

https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/ 

request.htm. Interested persons may 

express their views in writing on the 

standards enumerated in the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). 

Comments received are subject to 

public disclosure. In general, comments 

received will be made available without 

change and will not be modified to 

remove personal or business 

information including confidential, 

contact, or other identifying 

information. Comments should not 

include any information such as 

confidential information that would not 

be appropriate for public disclosure. 

Comments regarding each of these 

applications must be received at the 

Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of 

the Board of Governors, Ann E. 

Misback, Secretary of the Board, 20th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20551–0001, not later 

than October 23, 2024. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 

(Brent B. Hassell, Assistant Vice 

President) P.O. Box 27622, Richmond, 

Virginia 23261. Comments can also be 

sent electronically to 

Comments.applications@rich.frb.org: 

1. Varn Financial Corporation, 

Ehrhardt, South Carolina; to become a 

bank holding company by acquiring 

Enterprise Bank of South Carolina, also 

of Ehrhardt, South Carolina. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414. 

Comments can also be sent 

electronically to 

Comments.applications@chi.frb.org: 

1. Security Midwest Bancorp, Inc., 

Springfield, Illinois; to become a bank 

holding company by acquiring Security 

Bank, S.B. (Bank), Springfield, Illinois, 

upon the conversion of Bank from 

mutual to stock form. 


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