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between hearing aids and wireless 

handsets and made other corresponding 

and implementation changes. In 

addition, the Commission revised the 

information that handset manufacturers 

and service providers must include on 

hearing aid-compatible wireless handset 

package labels and in the related 

package inserts or user manuals. The 

Commission revised the labeling rule in 

order to streamline the rule and remove 

outdated requirements. The new rule 

requires that the package label provide 

the volume control capabilities of a 

hearing aid-compatible handset that 

meets volume control requirements, and 

it maintains the requirement that a 

hearing aid-compatible handset’s 

package label state that the handset is 

hearing aid-compatible. The new rule 

still requires hearing aid-compatible 

handsets to list the handset’s hearing 

aid-compatible rating, but moves the 

location in which it is required to be 

listed from the package label to the 

package insert or user manual. The 

other requirements for package inserts 

and user manuals have not changed, but 

the requirements have been reorganized 

to make them easier to follow. The 

Commission’s labeling revisions 

continue to allow consumers to access 

the information that they need to 

understand the hearing aid 

compatibility of handsets they are 

considering for purchase. At the same 

time, the labeling revisions give handset 

manufacturers and service providers 

flexibility in designing package labels 

and conveying supplemental 

information. 

The Report and Order also revised 

website posting requirements for 

handset manufacturers and service 

providers. The revised rule requires 

handset manufacturers and service 

providers to post to their publicly 

accessible websites the technical 

standard used to determine hearing aid 

compatibility in addition to the 

information that handset manufacturers 

and service providers are presently 

required to post. Since handset 

manufacturers and service providers are 

already required to include the 

technical standard used to determine 

hearing aid compatibility in package 

inserts or user manuals for hearing aidcompatible handsets, this change will 

not substantially impact the existing 

paperwork burden estimates that OMB 

has already approved for this 

information collection. Further, the 

website posting requirement has been 

revised to eliminate the requirement 

that service providers post to their 

publicly accessible websites the 

different levels of functionality of the 

hearing aid-compatible handsets that 

they offer to the public. This change 

offsets any burden added by the 

requirement that service providers post 

the technical standard used to 

determine hearing aid compatibility. 

Finally, the Report and Order 

addressed the status reporting and 

certification requirements for handset 

manufacturers and service providers. 

The Report and Order revised the dates 

that service providers must file their 

FCC Form 855 certifications and 

handset manufacturers must file their 

FCC Form 655 status reports. The forms 

were due January 15 and July 15 each 

year, respectfully, and now are due by 

January 31 and July 31. These changes 

were made to accommodate Federal 

holidays at the start of January and July 

and to make sure the forms contain 

information for the full preceding 12- 

month periods. The Commission uses 

these forms as the principal way to 

ensure compliance with its wireless 

hearing aid compatibility requirements. 

The Commission is also revising the 

forms to reflect the Commission’s 

current hearing aid compatibility de 

minimis provisions and to reflect the 

Commission’s new mailing address. 

The changes the Commission is 

making will not affect the number of 

respondents or responses, burden hours, 

or costs presently approved by OMB for 

this information collection. The 

Commission requests that OMB approve 

the proposed revisions to the currently 

approved information collection in 

order to implement the changes the 

Commission adopted in the Report and 

Order. These changes benefit handset 

manufacturers and service providers by 

reducing regulatory burden while 

continuing to ensure that the 

Commission can fulfill its statutory 

obligation to monitor compliance with 

its hearing aid compatibility rules and 

make more complete and accessible 

information available to consumers. All 

other paperwork burden requirements 

previously approved by OMB for this 

information collection remain 

unchanged. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–16636 Filed 8–3–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Notice of Agreements Filed 

The Commission hereby gives notice 

of the filing of the following agreements 

under the Shipping Act of 1984. 

Interested parties may submit 

comments, relevant information, or 

documents regarding the agreements to 

the Secretary by email at Secretary@

fmc.gov, or by mail, Federal Maritime 

Commission, Washington, DC 20573. 

Comments will be most helpful to the 

Commission if received within 12 days 

of the date this notice appears in the 

Federal Register. Copies of agreements 

are available through the Commission’s 

website (www.fmc.gov) or by contacting 

the Office of Agreements at (202)-523– 

5793 or tradeanalysis@fmc.gov. 

Agreement No.: 201366. 

Agreement Name: Hoegh Autoliners/ 

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean/EUKOR 

Car Carriers Space Charter Agreement. 

Parties: Hoegh Autoliners, Inc.; 

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean AS; and 

EUKOR Car Carriers, Inc. 

Filing Party: Wayne Rohde; Cozen 

O’Connor. 

Synopsis: The Agreement authorizes 

Hoegh and WWO/EUKOR to charter 

space to and from each other in all U.S. 

trades. 

Proposed Effective Date: 9/6/2021. 

Location: https://www2.fmc.gov/ 

FMC.Agreements.Web/Public/ 

AgreementHistory/48502. 

Dated: July 30, 2021. 

Rachel E. Dickon, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–16596 Filed 8–3–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6730–02–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The public portions of the 

applications listed below, as well as 

other related filings required by the 

Board, if any, are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

This information may also be obtained 

on an expedited basis, upon request, by 

contacting the appropriate Federal 

Reserve Bank and from the Board’s 


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