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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 comments should be 

submitted on or before February 10, 

2025. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments but find it 

difficult to do so within the time period 

allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contacts below as soon as 

possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Cathy Williams, FCC, via email 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: 3060–0995. 

Title: Section 1.2105(c), Bidding 

Application and Certification 

Procedures; Sections 1.2105(c) and 

1.2205, Prohibition of Certain 

Communications. 

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 governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents 

and Responses: 10 respondents and 10 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1.5 

hours to 2 hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in sections 154(i), 309(j), 

and 1452(a)(3) of the Communications 

Act, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 4(i), 

309(j)(5), 1452(a)(3), and sections 

1.2105(c) and 1.2205 of the 

Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 1.2105(c), 

1.2205. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 50 

hours. 

Total Annual Costs: $9,000. 

Needs and Uses: A request for 

extension of this information collection 

(no change in requirements) will be 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) after this 60-day 

comment period in order to obtain the 

full three year clearance from OMB. 

The Commission’s rules prohibiting 

certain communications in Commission 

auctions are designed to reinforce 

existing antitrust laws, facilitate 

detection of collusive conduct, and 

deter anticompetitive behavior, without 

being so strict as to discourage procompetitive arrangements between 

auction participants. They also help 

assure participants that the auction 

process will be fair and objective, and 

not subject to collusion. The 

information collected under this 

information collection allows the 

Commission to enforce the prohibition 

on auction applicants and other covered 

parties by making clear the 

responsibility of parties who receive 

information that potentially violates the 

rules to promptly report to the 

Commission. It also enables the 

Commission to ensure that no bidder 

gains an unfair advantage over other 

bidders in its auctions, thereby 

enhancing the competitiveness and 

fairness of Commission spectrum 

auctions. The information collected will 

be reviewed and, if warranted, referred 

to the Commission’s Enforcement 

Bureau for possible investigation and 

administrative action. The Commission 

may also refer allegations of 

anticompetitive auction conduct to the 

Department of Justice for investigation. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29298 Filed 12–11–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0174; FR ID 267432] 

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.’’ 

DATES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted on or before January 13, 2025. 

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 Cathy 

Williams, FCC, via email to PRA@

fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@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 Cathy 

Williams at (202) 418–2918. 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: 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. 

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 


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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: 3060–0174. 

Title: Sections 73.1212, 76.1615, and 

76.1715, Sponsorship Identification. 

Form Number: Not applicable. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities and Individuals or 

households. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 52,760 respondents, 

1,939,422 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.0011 

hour–2.166 hours. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping requirement; Third party 

disclosure requirement; On occasion 

reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. The statutory 

authority for this collection of 

information is contained in 47 U.S.C. 

151, 152, 154(i), 154(j), 303(r), 307, 317, 

and 325(c) of the Communications Act, 

as amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 347,851 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $2,010,723. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission, in 

the Second Report and Order, FCC 24– 

61, takes steps to ensure clear and 

reasonable foreign sponsorship 

identification rules. Section 73.1212(j) 

of the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 

73.1212(j), requires radio and television 

broadcast stations to disclose to their 

audiences, at the time of broadcast, 

when material aired pursuant to the 

lease of time on the station has been 

sponsored, paid for, or furnished by a 

foreign governmental entity. Section 

73.1212(k) of the Commission’s rules, 47 

CFR 73.1212(k), imposes corresponding 

obligations on stations with section 

325(c) permits. The Commission’s 

authority to impose these regulations 

stems from section 317 of the 

Communications Act, which requires 

broadcast licensees to inform their 

audiences when the station has been 

paid to air a particular program, in 

furtherance of the longstanding 

broadcasting tenet that the public has a 

right to know the identity of those that 

solicit its support. 

The foreign sponsorship identification 

rules require broadcast licensees, at the 

time of entering or renewing a lease 

agreement (unless a once-a-year 

exception applies), to exercise 

reasonable diligence to ascertain 

whether a programming disclosure is 

required. To ensure that licensees are 

complying with their reasonable 

diligence and disclosure obligations, the 

foreign sponsorship identification rules 

require licensees to memorialize their 

required inquiries of lessees and to 

maintain records of their programming 

disclosures and their reasonable 

diligence efforts. 

In the Second Report and Order, the 

Commission modified the rule’s 

information collection requirements by 

adopting an approach that provides 

licensees with two options for 

demonstrating that they have met their 

duty of inquiry in seeking to obtain the 

information needed to determine 

whether the programming provided by a 

lessee is sponsored by a foreign 

governmental entity. The Commission 

designed this approach to provide 

licensees with as much flexibility as 

possible and to minimize their 

paperwork costs and burdens while still 

ensuring compliance with the 

reasonable diligence requirements. 

One option available to licensees is 

the use of certifications, where both the 

licensee and the lessee complete a 

certification reflecting the 

communications and inquiries required 

under the existing rules. Licensees and 

lessees have the option either to use 

sample certification language set forth 

in simple, one-page, ‘‘check-box’’ 

templates appended to the Second 

Report and Order or to use language of 

the parties’ own choosing. Most licensee 

and lessee employees should be able to 

complete the forms quickly and readily, 

based upon their existing knowledge 

and understanding. It is highly unlikely 

that either the licensee or the lessee 

would need to engage in any type of 

research to respond to the queries 

contained in the certifications. Notably, 

these are the same inquiries the 

Commission adopted in the First Report 

and Order, only formatted now as a 

certification. If licensees and lessees 

prefer not to use the Commission’s 

templates, they may use their own 

certification language, provided that 

language addresses the points listed in 

§ 73.1212(j)(3)(i) through (iii) of the 

rules, which were adopted in the First 

Report and Order. The Commission 

granted this flexibility to alleviate or 

minimize costs for licensees that already 

had developed their own certifications 

based on the existing foreign 

sponsorship identification rules. A 

lessee’s certification should convey the 

information needed to determine 

whether a disclosure is required and the 

information needed for a broadcast 

disclosure if one is required. 

As an alternative to the certification 

option, licensees may choose to ask 

their lessees for screenshots of lessees’ 

search results of two federal government 

websites (the Department of Justice’s 

FARA database and the Commission’s 

U.S.-based foreign media outlet report). 

Licensees choosing this option must 

still comply with all other aspects of the 

current rules, as they have been 

required to do since the compliance 

date of the First Report and Order. 

Licensees are encouraged to include in 

their lease agreements a requirement for 

lessees to provide notice of any change 

in status so as to trigger the need for a 

foreign sponsorship disclosure. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

[OMB No. 3064–0165; –0183] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection 

Renewal; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation (FDIC). 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The FDIC, as part of its 

obligations under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on the request to renew the 

existing information collections 

described below (OMB Control No. 

3064–0165 and –0183). The notices of 

proposed renewal for these information 

collections were previously published 

in the Federal Register on October 10, 

2024, and October 21, 2024, allowing for 

a 60-day comment period. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before January 13, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments to 

the FDIC by any of the following 

methods: 

• Agency website: https://

www.fdic.gov/resources/regulations/ 

federal-register-publications/. 

• Email: comments@fdic.gov. Include 

the name and number of the collection 

in the subject line of the message. 


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