Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 161 / Tuesday, August 24, 2021 / Notices 47309 

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–XXXX. 

Title: FCC Authorization for Radio 

Service License—3.45 GHz Band 

Service. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities, state, local, or tribal 

government, and not for profit 

institutions. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 56 respondents, 8,201 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 5–20 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: Third party 

disclosure requirement; on occasion 

reporting requirement and periodic 

reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for these collections are 

contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 154, 

154(i), 155(c), 157, 201, 202, 208, 214, 

301, 302a, 303, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 

314, 316, 319, 324, 331, 332, 333, 336, 

534, 535, and 554 of the 

Communications Act of 1934. 

Total Annual Burden: 9,200 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $10,353,000. 

Needs and Uses: On March 17, 2021, 

the Federal Communications 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘FCC’’) 

adopted a Second Report and Order, 

FCC 21–32, GN Docket No. WT–19–348 

(Second Report and Order) that 

establishes rules for flexible-use 

wireless access to the 100 megahertz in 

the 3450–3550 MHz (3.45 GHz) band, 

creating the new 3.45 GHz Service. The 

rules will create additional capacity for 

wireless broadband allowing full-power 

operations across the band in the entire 

contiguous United States, while also 

ensuring full protection of incumbent 

Federal operations remaining in 

particular locations. As part of this 

process, the Commission also adopted 

rules related to the relocation of 

incumbent non-Federal radiolocation 

operations, the selection of a third-party 

reimbursement clearinghouse, and 

reimbursement of expenses related to 

such relocation. 

Sections 2.016 and 27.1603 require a 

3.45 GHz Service licensee whose license 

area overlaps with a Cooperative 

Planning Area or Periodic Use Area, as 

defined in those sections, to coordinate 

deployments pursuant to those licenses 

in those areas with relevant Federal 

agencies. This coordination may take 

the form of a mutually acceptable 

operator-to-operator coordination 

agreement between the licensee and the 

relevant Federal agency. In the absence 

of such an agreement, this coordination 

will include a formal request for access 

through a Department of Defense online 

portal, which will include the 

submission of information related to the 

technical characteristics of the base 

stations and associated mobile units to 

be used in the covered area. It does not 

require a revision to the FCC Form 601. 

Section 27.1605 provides for the 

selection of a reimbursement 

clearinghouse and requires non-Federal, 

secondary radiolocation operations 

which are relocating from the 3.45 GHz 

band to alternate spectrum to clear the 

band for new flexible-use wireless 

operations to submit certain information 

to the clearinghouse in order to ensure 

their relocation costs are fairly 

reimbursed. It does not require a 

revision to the FCC Form 601. 

Section 27.1607 requires 3.45 GHz 

Service licensees to share certain 

information about their network 

operations in that band with operators 

in the adjacent Citizens Broadband 

Radio Service in order to enable the 

latter to synchronize their operations to 

reduce the risk of harmful interference. 

In response to a request by a Citizens 

Broadband Radio Service operator, a 

3.45 GHz Service licensee must provide 

information to enable Time Division 

Duplex synchronization. The exact 

nature of the information to be provided 

will be determined by a negotiation 

between the two entities, conducted on 

a good faith basis. The 3.45 GHz Service 

licensee must keep the information 

current as its network operations 

change. This does not require a revision 

to the FCC Form 601. 

Section 27.14(w) requires 3.45 GHz 

Service licensees to provide information 

on the extent to which they provide 

service in their license areas. Licensees 

are required to file two such reports: 

The first four (4) years after its initial 

license grant and the second eight (8) 

years after such grant, unless they failed 

to meet the first set of performance 

requirements, in which case the second 

report is due seven (7) years after the 

initial grant. These reports are filed 

alongside the Form 601 and require no 

revisions to it. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Katura Jackson, 

Federal Register Liaison, Office of the 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18181 Filed 8–23–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–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 

Freedom of Information Office at 

https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/ 

request.htm. Interested persons may 

express their views in writing on the 

standards enumerated in the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). 

Comments regarding each of these 

applications must be received at the 

Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of 

the Board of Governors, Ann E. 

Misback, Secretary of the Board, 20th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20551–0001, not later 

than September 23, 2021. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 

(Adam M. Drimer, Assistant Vice 

President) 701 East Byrd Street, 

Richmond, Virginia 23219. Comments 

can also be sent electronically to or 

Comments.applications@rich.frb.org: 

1. First Bancorp, Southern Pines, 

North Carolina; to acquire Select 

Bancorp, Inc., and thereby indirectly 

acquire Select Bank & Trust Company, 

both of Dunn, North Carolina. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, August 19, 2021. 

Michele Taylor Fennell, 

Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18197 Filed 8–23–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 


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