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this shall include a description of 

circumstances under which the initial 

notification of the public may be 

delayed beyond four hours of the 

permittee becoming aware of the 

discharge, which shall only include 

circumstances where a physical action 

is needed to limit the public health 

impacts of a CSO discharge by 

controlling the CSO discharge 

(including continuing to implement its 

existing practice of conducting 

inspections of CSO discharge points 

during the discharge), and all available 

staff are required to complete this 

action, and, therefore, are not available 

to initiate the initial notification until 

this action is complete; 

(9) Describe, for each CSO discharge 

point, how the volume and duration of 

CSO discharges shall be either measured 

or estimated for the purposes of 

complying with paragraphs (a)(2)(ii)(A), 

(a)(3)(iii)(A) and (b)(2) and (3) of this 

section. If the Great Lakes Basin CSO 

permittee intends to use a model to 

estimate discharge volumes and 

durations, the plan must summarize the 

model and describe how the model was 

or will be calibrated. CSO permittees 

that are a municipality or sewer district 

with a population of 75,000 or more 

must assess whether re-calibration of 

their model is necessary, and recalibrate 

if necessary, at least once every 5 years; 

(10) Describe protocols for making the 

annual notice described in paragraph (b) 

of this section available to the public 

and to the Director; and 

(11) Describe significant 

modifications to the plan that were 

made since it was last updated. 

(d) Seek input on public notification 

plan. Prior to submitting the public 

notification plan, or resubmitting under 

§ 122.21(j)(8)(iii), the Great Lakes Basin 

CSO permittee must: 

(1) Seek input from the local public 

health department (or if there is no local 

health department, the State health 

department), to: 

(i) Develop recommended protocols 

for providing notification of CSO 

discharges to the public health 

department. The protocols will specify 

which CSO discharges are subject to 

notification, the means of notification, 

timing of notification and other relevant 

factors. 

(ii) Develop recommendations for 

providing notice to the general public of 

CSO discharges electronically and by 

other appropriate means. 

(iii) Develop recommendations for 

areas that would be considered 

‘‘potentially impacted public access 

areas’’ as referenced in § 122.38(a)(1), 

(2), and (3). 

(2) Seek input from other potentially 

affected public entities and Indian 

Tribes whose waters may be impacted 

by a CSO discharge. 

(3) Consider the recommendations of 

the public health department and other 

potentially affected entities in 

developing protocols in its public 

notification plan for providing 

notification of CSO discharges to the 

public health department and 

potentially affected public entities and 

Indian Tribes. 

(e) Extending compliance to avoid 

undue economic hardship. The Director 

may extend the compliance dates in 

paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this 

section for individual communities if 

the Director determines the community 

needs additional time to comply in 

order to avoid undue economic 

hardship. Where the Director extends 

the compliance date of any of these 

requirements for a community, the 

Director shall notify the Regional 

Administrator of the extension and the 

reason for the extension. The Director 

shall post on its website a notice that 

includes the name of the community 

and the new compliance date(s). The 

notice shall remain on the Director’s 

website until the new compliance date. 

■ 5. In § 122.42, add paragraph (f) to 

read as follows: 

§ 122.42 Additional conditions applicable 

to specified categories of NPDES permits 

(applicable to State NPDES programs, see 

§ 123.25). 

* * * * * 

(f) Public notification requirements for 

CSO discharges to the Great Lakes 

Basin. Any permit issued authorizing 

the discharge of a combined sewer 

overflow (CSO) to the Great Lakes Basin 

must: 

(1) Require implementation of the 

public notification requirements in 

§ 122.38(a); 

(2) Specify the information that must 

be included on discharge point signage, 

which, at a minimum, must include 

those elements in § 122.38(a)(1)(ii); 

(3) Specify discharge points and 

public access areas where signs are 

required pursuant to § 122.38(a)(1)(i); 

(4) Specify the timing and minimum 

information required for providing 

initial and supplemental notification to: 

(i) Local public health department 

and other potentially affected entities 

under § 122.38(a)(2); and 

(ii) The public under § 122.38(a)(3). 

(5) Specify the location of CSO 

discharges that must be monitored for 

volume and discharge duration and the 

location of CSO discharges where CSO 

volume and duration may be estimated; 

and 

(6) Require submittal of an annual 

notice in accordance with § 122.38(b); 

(7) Specify protocols for making the 

annual notice under § 122.38(b) 

available to the public. 

PART 123—STATE PROGRAM 

REQUIREMENTS 

■ 6. The authority citation for part 123 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 

1251 et seq. 

■ 7. In § 123.25, add paragraph (a)(47) to 

read as follows: 

§ 123.25 Requirements for permitting. 

(a) * * * 

(47) For a Great Lakes State, § 122.38. 

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47 CFR Part 0 

[FCC 17–172] 

Expansion of Intergovernmental 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Commission adopts revisions to its rules 

governing the Intergovernmental 

Advisory Committee (Committee or 

IAC), which advises the Commission on 

a range of telecommunications issues 

affecting local, county, state, and Tribal 

interests, to expand it from 15 members 

to 30 members. The IAC has been an 

important source of information and 

guidance to the Commission over the 

past 20 years. The rule change will 

enhance the IAC’s role by allowing for 

a greater diversity of viewpoints 

representing our municipal, county, 

state, and Tribal partners throughout the 

country. 

DATES: Effective January 8, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carmen Scanlon, Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau, at: (202) 

418–0544; email: Carmen.Scanlon@

fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s Order, 

FCC 17–172, adopted December 13, 

2017, released December 20, 2017. The 

full text of this document will be 

available for public inspection and 

copying via ECFS, and during regular 

business hours at the FCC Reference 


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Information Center, Portals II, 445 12th 

Street SW, Room CY–A257, 

Washington, DC 20554. The full text of 

this document and any subsequently 

filed documents in this matter may also 

be found by searching ECFS at: http:// 

apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/. 

Final Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

Analysis 

The Order does not contain any new 

or modified information collection 

requirements subject to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104– 

13. In addition, therefore, it does not 

contain any new or modified 

information collection burden for small 

business concerns with fewer than 25 

employees, pursuant to the Small 

Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, 

Public Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(4). 

Congressional Review Act 

The Commission sent a copy of the 

Order to Congress and the Government 

Accountability Office pursuant to the 

Congressional Review Act, see 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A). 

Synopsis 

1. The IAC, formerly known as the 

Local and State Government Advisory 

Committee (LSGAC), was created in 

1997 to provide guidance to the 

Commission on issues of importance to 

state, local, county, and Tribal 

governments, as well as to the 

Commission. The Committee is 

currently composed of 15 elected and 

appointed officials of those 

governmental entities. 

2. The Committee has provided 

ongoing advice and information to the 

Commission on a broad range of 

telecommunications issues in which 

state, local, county, and Tribal 

governments share ‘‘intergovernmental 

responsibilities or administration’’ with 

the Commission, including cable and 

local franchising, public rights-of-way, 

facilities siting, universal service, 

barriers to competitive entry, and public 

safety communications. 

3. The Commission has often found 

over the years that an IAC membership 

of just 15 does not often capture the 

varied perspectives of our regulatory 

partners across the country. The IAC 

works best and its advice helps the 

Commission the most when it fully 

represents perspectives of rural, urban, 

and suburban jurisdictions from various 

geographic areas throughout the United 

States. 

4. By expanding its membership to 30, 

the Commission better enable the IAC’s 

ability to represent perspectives and 

viewpoints from all relevant 

governmental entities and sectors, and 

to further promote valuable, 

comprehensive, and balanced input that 

more comprehensively reflects the 

views and expertise of our regulatory 

partners. The Commission’s experience 

with other advisory committees of 

similar size shows this to be the case. 

5. The Commission continue to 

believe that IAC representation from 

each category of state, local, county, and 

Tribal government is important. Thus, 

the number of members from each 

category set forth in our current rules 

shall now serve as a minimum 

threshold. The Committee will now 

consist of 30 members, of which at least 

four shall be elected municipal officials, 

at least two shall be elected county 

officials, at least one shall be a local 

government attorney, at least one shall 

be an elected state executive, at least 

three shall be elected state legislators, at 

least one shall be a public utilities or 

public service commissioner, and at 

least three shall be Native American 

Tribal representatives. The 

Commission’s approach will give the 

Commission flexibility to expand the 

number and diversity of viewpoints 

from these sectors while ensuring none 

is under-represented. 

Ordering Clauses 

6. The rule modifications adopted 

constitute rules of agency organization, 

procedure and practice. Therefore, the 

modification of § 0.701 of the 

Commission’s rules is not subject to the 

notice and comment and effective date 

provisions of the Administrative 

Procedure Act. See 5 U.S.C. 

553(b)(3)(A), (d). 

7. Pursuant to sections 4(i), 4(j), and 

303(r) of the Communications Act of 

1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 

154(j), and 303(r), subpart G, § 0.701 of 

the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 0.701, 

modified as set forth in the Order, is 

adopted. 

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 0 

Organization and functions 

(Government agencies). 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Katura Jackson, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

Final Rule 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Federal Communications 

Commission amends 47 CFR part 0 as 

follows: 

PART 0—COMMISSION 

ORGANIZATION 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 0 is 

revised to read as follows: 

Authority: Secs. 5, 48 Stat. 1068, as 

amended; 47 U.S.C. 155, unless otherwise 

noted. 

■ 2. Amend § 0.701 by revising 

paragraph (b) to read as follows: 

§ 0.701 Intergovernmental Advisory 

Committee. 

* * * * * 

(b) Membership. The IAC will be 

composed of 30 members (or their 

designated employees), with a 

minimum of: Four elected municipal 

officials (city mayors and city council 

members); two elected county officials 

(county commissioners or council 

members); one elected or appointed 

local government attorney; one elected 

state executive (governor or lieutenant 

governor); three elected state legislators; 

one elected or appointed public utilities 

or public service commissioner; and 

three elected or appointed Native 

American tribal representatives. The 

Chairman of the Commission will 

appoint members through an 

application process initiated by a Public 

Notice, and will select a Chairman and 

a Vice Chairman to lead the IAC. The 

Chairman of the Commission will also 

appoint members to fill any vacancies 

and may replace an IAC member, at his 

discretion, using the appointment 

process. Members of the IAC are 

responsible for travel and other 

incidental expenses incurred while on 

IAC business and will not be 

reimbursed by the Commission for such 

expenses. 

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47 CFR Part 73 

[MB Docket Nos. 14–50, 09–182, 07–294, 04– 

256, and 17–289; FCC 17–156] 

2014 Quadrennial Regulatory Review 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: In this document, an Order on 

Reconsideration repeals and modifies 

several of the Commission’s broadcast 

ownership rules. Specifically, this 

document repeals the Newspaper/ 

Broadcast Cross-Ownership Rule, the 

Radio/Television Cross-Ownership 

Rule, and the attribution rule for 

television joint sales agreements. This 

document also revises the Local 

Television Ownership Rule to eliminate 

the Eight-Voices Test and to modify the 


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