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make a request for access to your 

records under § 1516.4. 

(b) In your appeal, you must include 

a copy of CEQ’s decision denying your 

request and explain exactly why you 

believe the decision was wrong. 

(c) The General Counsel of CEQ (or 

the General Counsel’s designee) will 

review your appeal, decide whether to 

grant or deny it, and inform you of the 

decision within 30 working days. If it is 

necessary to extend the time for making 

a decision, the Chair of CEQ (or the 

Chair’s designee) will explain why in 

writing. 

(d) If CEQ’s General Counsel (or 

designee) denies your appeal, you may 

provide CEQ with a concise statement 

that explains your disagreement with 

the decision, and you may bring a civil 

lawsuit against CEQ. 

(1) If CEQ subsequently discloses the 

disputed record under § 1516.4, we will 

clearly identify the disputed portion of 

the record and attach a copy of your 

statement of disagreement. 

(2) For more information about filing 

a civil lawsuit, see 5 U.S.C. 552a(g)(1). 

§ 1516.8 Will CEQ charge me a fee for a 

copy of my records? 

If you request a copy of CEQ’s records 

about you, CEQ may charge you a fee of 

no more than 10 cents per page, which 

you must pay before CEQ provides you 

with a copy of your records. 

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COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 4 

[PS Docket Nos. 21–346, 15–80; ET Docket 

No. 04–35; FCC 24–5; FR ID 272202] 

Resilient Networks; Disruptions to 

Communications 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule, announcement of 

compliance date. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal 

Communications Commission 

(Commission) announces that the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) has 

approved the information collection 

associated with the rule adopted in a 

Second Report and Order and Second 

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

(Resilient Networks Second Report and 

Order) requiring cable communications, 

wireless, wireline, and interconnected 

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) 

providers to report their infrastructure 

status information in the Disaster 

Information Reporting System (DIRS) 

daily when the Commission activates 

DIRS in geographic areas in which they 

provide service, even when their 

reportable infrastructure has not 

changed compared to the prior day. It 

also codifies, in the Commission’s 

outage reporting rules, that a subject 

provider’s Networks Outage Reporting 

System reporting obligations are waived 

while they report in DIRS and requires 

that subject providers who report in 

DIRS provide a single, final DIRS report 

to the Commission, within 24 hours of 

the Commission’s deactivation of DIRS, 

that provides the status of their 

infrastructure identified to the 

Commission during the DIRS reporting 

period that has not yet been fully 

restored at the time of the deactivation. 

This document is consistent with the 

Resilient Networks Second Report and 

Order, which states the Commission 

will publish a document in the Federal 

Register announcing a compliance date 

for the rule section and revise the rule 

accordingly. 

DATES: Effective February 20, 2025. 

Compliance with 47 CFR 4.18, 

published at 89 FR 25535, on April 11, 

2024, and 89 FR 32373 on April 26, 

2024, is required as of February 20, 

2025. In addition, this document 

removes 47 CFR 4.18(c), which advised 

that compliance with the new rules 

would not be required until § 4.18(c) is 

removed or the Commission announces 

a compliance date. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Logan Bennett, Attorney Advisor, 

Cybersecurity and Communications 

Reliability Division, Public Safety and 

Homeland Security Bureau, at (202) 

418–7790 or logan.bennett@fcc.gov. For 

additional information concerning the 

Paperwork Reduction Act information 

collection requirements contact Nicole 

Ongele at (202) 418–2991 or via email: 

Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document announces that OMB 

approved the information collection 

requirement in § 4.18 on December 5, 

2024. 

The Commission publishes this 

document as an announcement of the 

compliance date of the rules. 

If you have any comments on the 

burden estimates listed in the following, 

or how the Commission can improve the 

collections and reduce any burdens 

caused thereby, please contact Nicole 

Ongele, Federal Communications 

Commission, 45 L Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20554. Please include 

OMB Control Number, 3060–1033, in 

your correspondence. The Commission 

will also accept your comments via 

email at PRA@fcc.gov. To request 

materials in accessible formats for 

people with disabilities (Braille, large 

print, electronic files, audio format), 

send an email to fcc504@fcc.gov or call 

the Consumer and Governmental Affairs 

Bureau at (202) 418–0530 (voice). 

Synopsis 

As required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507), 

the FCC is notifying the public that it 

received final OMB approval as 

approved with changes on December 5, 

2024, for the information collection 

requirement contained in § 4.18. 

Under 5 CFR part 1320, an agency 

may not conduct or sponsor a collection 

of information unless it displays a 

current, valid OMB Control Number. 

No person shall be subject to any 

penalty for failing to comply with a 

collection of information subject to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act that does not 

display a current, valid OMB Control 

Number. 

The foregoing notice is required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13, October 1, 1995, 

and 44 U.S.C. 3507. 

The total annual reporting burdens 

and costs for the respondents are as 

follows: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1003. 

OMB Approval Date: December 5, 

2024. 

OMB Expiration Date: December 31, 

2027. 

Title: Communications Disaster 

Information Reporting System (DIRS). 

Form Number: N/A. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities, and State, local or tribal 

governments, and Federal Government. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 18,306 respondents; 292,896 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.166 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: Annual and 

on occasion reporting requirements and 

recordkeeping requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. 

Statutory authority for this collection of 

information is contained in sections 1, 

4(i), 4(j), 4(n), 201, 214, 218, 251(e)(3), 

301, 303(b), 303(g), 303(j), 303(r), 307, 

309 316, 332, and 403 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, and 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i)–(j) 

& (n), 201, 214, 218, 251(e)(3), 301, 

303(b), 303(g), 303(r), 307, 309(a), 309(j), 

316, 332, 403; sections 2, 3(b), and 6– 

7 of the Wireless Communications and 

Public Safety Act of 1999, 47 U.S.C. 615 

note, 615, 615a–1, 615b, section 106 of 

the Twenty First Century 

Communications and Video 

Accessibility Act of 2010, 47 U.S.C. 


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615c, section 506(a) of the Repack 

Airways Yielding Better Access for 

Users of Modern Services Act of 2018 

(RAY BAUM’S Act), and section 6206 of 

the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job 

Creation Act of 2012, 47 U.S.C. 1426. 

Total Annual Burden: 48,816 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No Cost. 

Needs and Uses: Using DIRS, 

participating communications 

companies provide the Commission 

with their emergency contact 

information and can subsequently 

inform the Commission of damage to 

their infrastructure and facilities, as 

well as request resources for restoration 

from the Commission. DIRS respondents 

provide this information using webbased electronic forms tailored to their 

types of networks and facilities. 

In the Mandated Disaster Information 

Reporting System Order, 89 FR 32373, 

April 26, 2024 (previously 89 FR 25535, 

April 11, 2024), the Commission is 

requiring cable communications, 

wireless, wireline and interconnected 

VoIP providers (Subject Providers) to 

report their infrastructure status 

information in DIRS on a daily basis 

while DIRS is activated. During that 

time, Subject Providers will not be 

required to file reports of system outages 

in the FCC’s Network Outage Reporting 

System (NORS) that arise during the 

DIRS activation and that are timely 

reported in DIRS. 

The new rules also require Subject 

Providers to provide a final report to the 

Commission within 24 hours of the 

Commission’s deactivation of DIRS and 

the termination of required daily 

reporting that details the state of their 

infrastructure at the time of DIRS 

deactivation and provides an estimated 

date of resolution of any remaining 

outages. This mandatory reporting 

requirement replaces the former 

voluntary DIRS reporting framework 

because, after almost two decades of 

observation, the Commission notes that 

the United States has been experiencing 

an increasing number of perilous floods, 

hurricanes, winter storms, tornados, and 

wildfires necessitating a more regular 

activation of DIRS. 

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 4 

Communications equipment, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Telecommunications. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

Final Rules 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Federal Communications 

Commission amends 47 CFR part 4 as 

follows: 

PART 4—DISRUPTIONS TO 

COMMUNICATIONS 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 4 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 34–39, 151, 154, 155, 

157, 201, 251, 307, 316, 615a–1, 1302(a), and 

1302(b); 5 U.S.C. 301, and Executive Order 

no. 10530. 

§ 4.18 [Amended] 

■ 2. Amend § 4.18 by removing 

paragraph (c). 

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