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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0773, OMB 3060–1044; FR ID 

66174] 

Information Collections 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 February 9, 2022. 

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: 3060–0773. 

Title: Sections 2.803, 2.803(c)(2), and 

2.1204(a)(11), Marketing and Importing 

of RF Devices Prior to Equipment 

Authorization. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Businesses or other forprofit. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 10,000 respondents and 

10,000 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping, third-party disclosure 

requirement, on occasion and one-time 

reporting requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 301, 

302a, 303(c), 303(f), and 303(r). 

Total Annual Burden: 10,000 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No Cost. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

will submit this revised information 

collection to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) after this 60-day 

comment period in order to obtain the 

full three-year clearance from them. 

On September 20, 2021, the 

Commission published a final rule, ET 

Docket No. 20–382, FCC 21–72, 

‘‘Allowing Earlier Equipment Marketing 

and Importation Opportunities,’’ 86 FR 

52088. Among other adopted rules 

intended to target enhancements to our 

marketing and importation rules, the 

Commission amended the 47 CFR part 

2 rules that allow equipment 

manufacturers to better gauge consumer 

interest and prepare for new product 

launches. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1044. 

Title: Review of the Section 251 

Unbundling Obligations of Incumbent 

Local Exchange Carriers, CC Docket No. 

01–338 and WC Docket No. 04–313, 

Order on Remand. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities, Not-for-profit institutions 

and State, Local or Tribal government. 

Number of Respondents and 

Reponses: 645 respondents; 645 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 8 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping requirement, third party 

disclosure requirement and on occasion 

reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. Section 251 of 

the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 5,160 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No Cost. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

The Commission is not requesting 

respondents to submit or disclose 

confidential information. However, in 

certain circumstances, respondents may 

voluntarily choose to submit 

confidential information pursuant to 

applicable confidentiality rules. 

Needs and Uses: In the Order on 

Remand, the Commission imposed 


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1See 12 U.S.C. 1424(a), 1430(a). 

2See 12 U.S.C. 1422(10)(A); 12 CFR 1263.1. 

3See 12 U.S.C. 1422(10)(B); 12 CFR 1263.1 

(defining the term ‘‘CFI asset cap’’). 4See 86 FR 6650 (Jan. 22, 2021). 

unbundling obligations in a more 

targeted manner where requesting 

carriers have undertaken their own 

facilities-based investments and will be 

using UNEs (unbundled network 

elements) in conjunction with selfprovisioned facilities. The Commission 

also eliminated the subdelegation of 

authority to state commissions adopted 

in the previous order. Prior to the 

issuance of the Order, the Commission 

sought comment on issues relating to 

combinations of UNEs, called 

‘‘enhanced extended links’’ (EELs), in 

order to effectively tailor access to EELs 

to those carriers seeking to provide 

significant local usage to end users. In 

the Order, the Commission adopted 

three specific service eligibility criteria 

for access to EELs in accordance with 

Commission rules. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Katura Jackson, 

Federal Register Liaison, Office of the 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00141 Filed 1–7–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 

Thursday, January 13, 2022 at 10:00 

a.m. 

PLACE: 

Virtual meeting. Note: because of the 

COVID–19 pandemic, we will conduct 

the open meeting virtually. If you would 

like to access the meeting, see the 

instructions below. 

STATUS: 

This meeting will be open to the 

public. To access the virtual meeting, go 

to the commission’s website 

www.fec.gov and click on the banner to 

be taken to the meeting page. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Welcoming Remarks 

Motion to Instruct Staff to Prepare an 

Amended Form 1 Acknowledging 

Independent Expenditure-Only and 

Hybrid Committees 

Draft Advisory Opinion 2021–13: 

Matthew P. Hoh 

Management and Administrative 

Matters 

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, 

Acting Secretary and Clerk of the 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00350 Filed 1–6–22; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6715–01–P 

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE 

AGENCY 

[No. 2022–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 $1,323,000,000, 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 took effect on January 1, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Janna Bruce, Division of Federal Home 

Loan Bank Regulation, (202) 649–3202, 

Janna.Bruce@fhfa.gov; or Lindsay 

Spadoni, Senior Counsel, (202) 649– 

3634, Lindsay.Spadoni@fhfa.gov, (not 

toll-free numbers), Federal Housing 

Finance Agency, Constitution Center, 

400 Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC 

20219. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Statutory and Regulatory Background 

The Federal Home Loan Bank Act 

(Bank Act) confers upon insured 

depository institutions that meet the 

statutory definition of a CFI certain 

advantages over non-CFI insured 

depository institutions in qualifying for 

Bank membership, and in the purposes 

for which they may receive long-term 

advances and the collateral they may 

pledge to secure advances.1 Section 

2(10)(A) of the Bank Act and § 1263.1 of 

FHFA’s regulations define a CFI as any 

Bank member the deposits of which are 

insured by the Federal Deposit 

Insurance Corporation and that has 

average total assets below the statutory 

cap.2 The Bank Act was amended in 

2008 to set the statutory cap at $1 

billion and to require FHFA to adjust 

the cap annually to reflect the 

percentage increase in the CPI–U, as 

published by the DOL.3 For 2021, FHFA 

set the CFI asset cap at $1,239,000,000, 

which reflected a 1.2 percent increase 

over 2020, based upon the increase in 

the CPI–U between 2019 and 2020.4

II. The CFI Asset Cap for 2022 

As of January 1, 2022, FHFA 

increased the CFI asset cap to 

$1,323,000,000, which reflects a 6.8 

percent increase in the unadjusted CPI– 

U from November 2020 to November 

2021. Consistent with the practice of 

other Federal agencies, FHFA bases the 

annual adjustment to the CFI asset cap 

on the percentage increase in the CPI– 

U from November of the year prior to 

the preceding calendar year to 

November of the preceding calendar 

year, because the November figures 

represent the most recent available data 

as of January 1st of the current calendar 

year. The new CFI asset cap was 

obtained by applying the percentage 

increase in the CPI–U to the unrounded 

amount for the preceding year and 

rounding to the nearest million, as has 

been FHFA’s practice for all previous 

adjustments. 

In calculating the CFI asset cap, FHFA 

uses CPI–U data that have not been 

seasonally adjusted (i.e., the data have 

not been adjusted to remove the 

estimated effect of price changes that 

normally occur at the same time and in 

about the same magnitude every year). 

The DOL encourages use of unadjusted 

CPI–U data in applying ‘‘escalation’’ 

provisions such as that governing the 

CFI asset cap, because the factors that 

are used to seasonally adjust the data 

are amended annually, and seasonally 

adjusted data that are published earlier 

are subject to revision for up to five 

years following their original release. 

Unadjusted data are not routinely 

subject to revision, and previously 

published unadjusted data are only 

corrected when significant calculation 

errors are discovered. 

Louis M. Scalza, 

Acting Deputy Director, Division of Federal 

Home Loan Bank Regulation, Federal Housing 

Finance Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00197 Filed 1–7–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8070–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or 

Bank Holding Company 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (Act) (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and 

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 

CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank 

or bank holding company. The factors 


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