Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 14 / Thursday, January 23, 2025 / Notices 8023 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

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interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

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Project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs 

at (866) 208–FERC or on the FERC 

website (www.ferc.gov). Using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link, select ‘‘General Search’’ 

from the eLibrary menu, enter the 

selected date range and ‘‘Docket 

Number’’ excluding the last three digits 

(i.e., CP25–19), and follow the 

instructions. For assistance with access 

to eLibrary, the helpline can be reached 

at (866) 208–3676, TTY (202) 502–8659, 

or at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. The 

eLibrary link on the FERC website also 

provides access to the texts of formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and rule 

makings. 

Dated: January 16, 2025. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01583 Filed 1–22–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

FEDERAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS 

ADVISORY BOARD 

Notice of December 2025 Federal 

Accounting Standards Advisory Board 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Accounting Standards 

Advisory Board. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Federal Accounting Standards 

Advisory Board (FASAB) has changed 

the date of its December 2025 meeting. 

DATES: The December 2025 meeting is 

no longer scheduled for December 9–10, 

2025. The new date is December 16–17, 

2025. 

ADDRESSES: Agendas, briefing materials, 

and other meeting information will be 

available at https://www.fasab.gov/ 

briefing-materials/ approximately one 

week before the meeting. Any interested 

person may attend the meeting as an 

observer. The meeting will be in-person. 

Board discussion and reviews are open 

to the public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Monica R. Valentine, Executive 

Director, 441 G Street NW, Suite 1155, 

Washington, DC 20548, or call (202) 

512–7350. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the meetings is to discuss 

issues related to the following topics: 

Accounting and Reporting of 

Government Land 

Climate-Related Financial Reporting 

Commitments 

Direct Loans and Loan Guarantees 

Federal GAAP Hierarchy 

Intangible Assets 

Leases 

Omnibus Amendments 

Public-Private Partnerships 

Reexamination of Existing Standards 

Omnibus Concepts Amendments 

Management’s Discussion and Analysis 

Revenue 

Software Technology 

Appointments Panel 

Any other topics as needed 

Notice is hereby given that a portion 

of each scheduled meeting may be 

closed to the public. The Appointments 

Panel, a chartered subcommittee of 

FASAB that makes recommendations 

regarding appointments for non-federal 

member positions, is expected to meet 

during each meeting. A portion of each 

Appointments Panel meeting will be 

closed to the public. The reason for the 

closures is that matters covered by 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(2) and (6) will be 

discussed. Any such discussions will 

involve matters that relate solely to 

internal personnel rules and practices of 

the sponsor agencies and the disclosure 

of information of a personal nature 

where disclosure would constitute a 

clearly unwarranted invasion of 

personal privacy. Such discussions will 

be segregated into separate discussions 

so that a portion of each meeting will be 

open to the public. 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), 5 U.S.C. 1009(d), portions of 

advisory committee meetings may be 

closed to the public where the head of 

the agency to which the advisory 

committee reports determines that such 

portion of such meeting may be closed 

to the public in accordance with 

subsection (c) of section 552b of title 5, 

United States Code. The determination 

shall be in writing and shall contain the 

reasons for the determination. A 

determination has been made in writing 

by the U.S. Government Accountability 

Office, the U.S. Department of the 

Treasury, and the Office of Management 

and Budget, as required by section 10(d) 

of FACA, that such portions of the 

meetings may be closed to the public in 

accordance with subsection (c) of 

section 552b of title 5, United States 

Code. 

Unless otherwise noted, FASAB 

meetings begin at 9 a.m. and conclude 

before 5 p.m. Meetings are either inperson at the U.S. Government 

Accountability Office (GAO) building at 

441 G St. NW or virtual. Regardless of 

whether the Board meeting is virtual or 

in-person, you may observe the meeting 

virtually. 

Authority: 31 U.S.C. 3511(d); Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. 

1001–1014. 

Dated: January 16, 2025. 

Monica R. Valentine, 

Executive Director. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01533 Filed 1–22–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1610–02–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB Control Number 3060–xxxx; FR ID 

275222] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

Commission) invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collections. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

whether the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the Commission, 

including whether the information shall 

have practical utility; the accuracy of 

the Commission’s burden estimate; 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information collected; 

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; 

and ways to further reduce the 

information collection burden on small 

business concerns with fewer than 25 

employees. The FCC may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid 

Office of Management and Budget 


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8024 Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 14 / Thursday, January 23, 2025 / Notices 

(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 PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before March 24, 

2025. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contact listed 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–xxxx. 

Title: Reporting Requirements for 

Commercial Television Broadcast 

Station Blackouts. 

Form Number: N/A. Information will 

be collected via a FCC-hosted reporting 

portal. Respondents will be given notice 

of the specific reporting procedures by 

public notice before being required to 

submit information via the reporting 

portal. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 22 respondents; 264 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.5 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this collection of 

information is contained in Sections 1, 

4, 303, 325, and 403, of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 154, 303, 325, 

and 403, and section 401 of RAY 

BAUM’S Act of 2018, 47 U.S.C. 163. 

Total Annual Burden: 132 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No cost. 

Needs and Uses: On January 3, 2025, 

the Commission released a Report and 

Order (Order), FCC 24–138, in MB 

Docket No. 23–427, in which the 

Commission adopts a rule requiring that 

it be notified when a blackout of a 

broadcast television station, or stations, 

occurs on a video programming service 

offered by a multichannel video 

programming distributor (MVPD) for 24 

hours or more due to a breakdown in 

retransmission consent negotiations 

between broadcasters and MVPDs. 

Blackouts are the unfortunate result of 

failed retransmission consent 

negotiations. The Order concludes that 

a reporting requirement is necessary to 

provide information that will enable the 

Commission to assess the functioning of 

the retransmission consent process, 

including the effects of blackouts on 

competition and consumers, and inform 

Congress. Currently, there is no official, 

public source that aggregates and 

reports information on such blackouts. 

As a result, the Commission and the 

public do not always have access to this 

important information through a 

consistent, reliable, and systematic 

means. To close this information gap, 

the Order concludes that obtaining 

blackout information from MVPDs 

would be the most effective method for 

the Commission to gain timely and 

reliable information about broadcast 

station blackouts occurring across the 

country and allow us to better assess the 

functioning of the retransmission 

consent process consistent with our 

statutory obligations and the 

consequences of breakdowns, and to 

better advise Congress on the state of the 

retransmission consent regime and its 

effectiveness with respect to relevant 

policy goals. Blackout reports will also 

provide data that, when combined with 

other information, can inform empirical 

analysis of competition and consumer 

access to programming. In addition, the 

reporting will enable the Commission to 

provide better information on the state 

of the video programming markets as 

part of the statutorily required 

Communications Marketplace Report 

and thus will facilitate a more informed 

assessment of marketplace 

developments. The Order contains the 

following information collection 

requirements which require OMB 

approval. 

Reporting Portal. The Order provides 

that the blackout information be 

collected through an online reporting 

portal that is hosted and administered 

by the Commission. The Order delegates 

to the Media Bureau the authority to 

issue a public notice giving Reporting 

Entities notice of the specific reporting 

procedures to submit blackout 

information via the reporting portal and 

identifying the date on which the 

reporting requirement would become 

effective. Public blackout information 

collected through the portal would then 

be available on the Commission’s 

website. 

Initial Blackout Notification. The new 

information collection in rule 47 CFR 

76.68(a) requires Reporting Entities to 

submit an Initial Blackout Notification 

in the event of a reportable Broadcast 

Station Blackout lasting over 24 hours. 

Reporting Entities must submit the 

Notification within two business days 

after 24 hours have elapsed since the 

initiation of a Broadcast Station 

Blackout. This Notification will be 

available to the public and shall 

identify: (i) the name of the Reporting 

Entity; (ii) the commercial television 

broadcast station or stations no longer 

being retransmitted, including the call 

sign, Facility ID, the network 

affiliation(s), if any, of each affected 

primary and multicast stream, and the 

unaffected streams, if any; (iii) the 

Designated Market Area(s) in which 

affected subscribers reside; and (iv) the 

date and time of the initial interruption 

to programming. In addition, the new 

information collection in rule 47 CFR 

76.68(b) requires Reporting Entities to 

submit an estimate of the number of 

subscribers affected as part of the Initial 

Blackout Notification. This information 

will be treated as presumptively 

confidential and will not be routinely 

available for public inspection. 

Final Blackout Notification. The new 

information collection in rule 47 CFR 

76.68(a) also requires Reporting Entities 

to submit a Final Blackout Notification, 

no later than two business days after the 

resumption of carriage to subscribers. 

This Notification will be available to the 

public and shall state, with respect to 

each station identified in the Initial 

Blackout Notification, the extent to 

which retransmission has resumed and 

include the date on which 

retransmission resumed. 

Supplemental Reporting. Under rule 

47 CFR 76.68(c), the licensee of a 

commercial television broadcast station 

may seek correction of a Reporting 

Entity’s Initial or Final Blackout 

Notification if the Notification involves 

the station and contains a substantive 

error. The licensee must submit any 

correction notice electronically in 

accordance with procedures specified 

by the Media Bureau by public notice. 

Definitions. Section 47 CFR 76.68(d) 

of the rule defines a ‘‘Reporting Entity’’ 

as ‘‘the multichannel video 

programming distributor reporting a 

Broadcast Station Blackout.’’ A 

‘‘Broadcast Station Blackout’’ is defined 

as ‘‘any time an MVPD ceases 

retransmission of a commercial 

television broadcast station’s signal due 

to a lapse of the broadcast station’s 

consent for such retransmission.’’ A 

‘‘reportable Broadcast Station Blackout’’ 

is defined as a ‘‘Broadcast Station 

Blackout lasting over 24 hours but less 

than three years from the Initial 

Blackout Notification.’’ For the purposes 

of this rule, a ‘‘commercial television 

broadcast station’’ is defined to include 

all commercial full power, Class A, and 

low power television broadcast stations. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 14 / Thursday, January 23, 2025 / Notices 8025 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01528 Filed 1–22–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–1088 and OMB 3060–1209; FR 

ID 274842] 

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.’’ 

DATES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted on or before February 24, 

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 

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: 3060–1088. 

Title: Rules and Regulations 

Implementing the Telephone Consumer 

Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991, Report 

and Order and Third Order on 

Reconsideration, CG Docket No. 05–338, 

FCC 06–42. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; Not-for-profit 

institutions; and Individuals or 

households. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 5,341,080 respondents; 

6,050,735 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 3 

minutes (.05 hours) to 30 minutes (.50 

hours). 

Frequency of Response: Annual, 

monthly, and on occasion reporting 

requirements; Recordkeeping 

requirement; and Third party disclosure 

requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. The 

authorizing statutes for this information 

collection are: Telephone Consumer 

Protection Act of 1991, Public Law 102– 

243. 105 Stat. 2394 (1991); Junk Fax 

Prevention Act, Public Law 109–21, 119 

Stat. 359 (2005). 

Total Annual Burden: 3,670,540 

hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $1,062,142. 

Needs and Uses: On April 5, 2006, the 

Commission adopted a Report and 

Order and Third Order on 

Reconsideration, In the Matter of Rules 

and Regulations Implementing the 

Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 

1991; Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005, 

CG Docket Nos. 02–278 and 05–338, 

FCC 06–42, which modified the 

Commission’s facsimile advertising 

rules to implement the Junk Fax 

Prevention Act. The Report and Order 

and Third Order on Reconsideration 

contained information collection 

requirements pertaining to: (1) Opt-out 

Notice and Do-Not-Fax Requests 

Recordkeeping in which the rules 

require senders of unsolicited facsimile 

advertisements to include a notice on 

the first page of the facsimile that 

informs the recipient of the ability and 

means to request that they not receive 

future unsolicited facsimile 

advertisements from the sender; (2) 

Established Business Relationship 

Recordkeeping whereas the Junk Fax 

Prevention Act provides that the sender, 

e.g., a person, business, or a nonprofit/ 

institution, is prohibited from faxing an 

unsolicited advertisement to a facsimile 

machine unless the sender has an 

‘‘established business relationship’’ 

(EBR) with the recipient; (3) Facsimile 

Number Recordkeeping in which the 

Junk Fax Prevention Act provides that 

an EBR alone does not entitle a sender 

to fax an advertisement to an individual 

or business. The fax number must also 

be provided voluntarily by the recipient; 

and (4) Express Invitation or Permission 

Recordkeeping where in the absence of 

an EBR, the sender must obtain the prior 

express invitation or permission from 

the consumer before sending the 

facsimile advertisement. 

On October 14, 2008, the Commission 

released an Order on Reconsideration, 


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