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submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. EPA will generally not consider 

comments or comment contents located 

outside of the primary submission (i.e. 

on the web, cloud, or other file sharing 

system). For additional submission 

methods, the full EPA public comment 

policy, information about CBI or 

multimedia submissions, and general 

guidance on making effective 

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about submitting information identified 

as CBI, please contact the person listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. Note 

that written comments containing CBI 

and submitted by mail may be delayed 

and deliveries or couriers will be 

received by scheduled appointment 

only. 

If you submit an electronic comment, 

EPA recommends that you include your 

name, mailing address, and an email 

address or other contact information in 

the body of your comment. This ensures 

that you can be identified as the 

submitter of the comment and allows 

EPA to contact you in case EPA cannot 

read your comment due to technical 

difficulties or needs further information 

on the substance of your comment. Any 

identifying or contact information 

provided in the body of a comment will 

be included as part of the comment that 

is placed in the official public docket 

and made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. 

Use of the https://

www.regulations.gov website to submit 

comments to EPA electronically is 

EPA’s preferred method for receiving 

comments. The electronic public docket 

system is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ 

system, which means EPA will not 

know your identity, email address, or 

other contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

Please ensure that your comments are 

submitted within the specified comment 

period. Comments received after the 

close of the comment period will be 

marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not required to 

consider these late comments. 

Gautam Srinivasan, 

Associate General Counsel. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0484, OMB 3060–1003; FR ID 

80736] 

Information Collections 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 (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. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

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; 

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 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 Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

control number. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before June 10, 2022. 

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 

Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@

fcc.gov and to nicole.ongele@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Nicole 

Ongele, (202) 418–2991. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0484. 

Title: Amendments to Part 4 of the 

Commission’s Rules Concerning 

Disruptions to Communications. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions; State, 

Local or Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 1,065 respondents; 27,395 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1 

hour–2 hours (average per response). 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and annual reporting requirements and 

recordkeeping requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory 

and Voluntary. Statutory authority for 

this collection is contained in sections 

1, 4(i), 4(j), 4(o), 251(e)(3), 254, 301, 

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

316, 332, and 403 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, and section 706 of the 

Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 

U.S.C. 151, 154(i)–(j) & (o), 251(e)(3), 

254, 301, 303(b), 303(g), 303(r), 332, 

403, and 1302. 

Total Annual Burden: 54,215 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No Cost. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

In accordance with 47 CFR 4.2, reports 

and information contained in the 

underlying NORS filings are presumed 

confidential. The filings are shared with 

the Department of Homeland Security 

through password-protected real time 

access to NORS. Other persons seeking 

disclosure must follow the procedure 

delineated in 47 CFR 0.457 and 0.459 of 

the Commission’s Rules for requests for 

and disclosure of information. The 

modified collection proposed here will 

allow ‘‘need to know’’ agencies acting 

on behalf of the federal government, the 

50 states, the District of Columbia, 

Tribal Nations, and the U.S. territories 

access to confidential information 

derived from NORS filings based on 

events occurring within an agency’s 

jurisdiction, provided those agencies 

maintain the confidentiality of the 

information and report any breach of 

that confidentiality. 

The Commission has adopted 

procedures allowing state, federal, local, 


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and Tribal agencies with a demonstrated 

‘‘need to know’’ to apply for ‘‘readonly’’ access to NORS reports impacting 

locations where the agency has 

jurisdiction. To protect the 

confidentiality of the NORS and DIRS 

information disclosed to these 

Participating Agencies, the Commission 

limited the access to only those agencies 

who complete the registration process 

and then limits by geographic area the 

reports available to each Participating 

Agency. The Commission also adopted 

safeguards to protect the data accessed 

by Participating Agencies from 

manipulation and from distribution to 

unauthorized recipients. 

Needs and Uses: The general purpose 

of the Commission’s Part 4 rules is to 

gather sufficient information regarding 

disruptions to telecommunications to 

facilitate FCC monitoring, analysis, and 

investigation of the reliability and 

security of voice, paging, and 

interconnected Voice over Internet 

Protocol (interconnected VoIP) 

communications services, and to 

identify and act on potential threats to 

our Nation’s telecommunications 

infrastructure. The Commission uses 

this information collection to identify 

the duration, magnitude, root causes, 

and contributing factors with respect to 

significant outages, and to identify 

outage trends; support service 

restoration efforts; and help coordinate 

with public safety officials during times 

of crisis. The Commission also 

maintains an ongoing dialogue with 

reporting entities, as well as with the 

communications industry at large, 

generally regarding lessons learned from 

the information collection in order to 

foster a better understanding of the root 

causes of significant outages and to 

explore preventive measures in the 

future so as to mitigate the potential 

scale and impact of such outages. 

In a Second Report and Order adopted 

on March 18, 2021, as FCC 21–34, the 

Commission adopted rules allowing 

certain federal, state, and Tribal Nation 

agencies 10 (Participating Agencies) to 

access to certain geographically relevant 

outage reports filed in the Commission’s 

Network Outage Reporting System 

(NORS). The information collections 

and record keeping provisions adopted 

will allow federal, state and Tribal 

Nation agencies (Participating Agencies) 

to apply for, and receive access to, 

NORS report in the areas where they 

have jurisdiction. The collection will 

further enable these Participating 

Agencies, at their election, to share 

NORS reports with qualified local 

agencies whose jurisdiction is affected 

by an outage, while still maintaining the 

confidentiality of the substantive data. 

The changes to the data collections 

fields in the NORS filings made by 

service providers will further facilitate 

the ability of Participating Agencies to 

access those reports relevant to their 

specific geographies. Finally, the 

changes to the information collection 

and associated recordkeeping 

requirements, including retention by 

participating agencies of qualification 

forms submitted by local agency seeking 

access to NORS data, as well as a list of 

which local agencies receive 

information from the Participating 

Agency, training materials setting clear 

parameters for the use of NORS data, 

and a list of those persons granted 

NORS account access, will enable 

auditing functions to ensure 

accountability in the use of NORS 

information and immediate reporting of 

breaches of access or confidentiality 

protocols. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1003. 

Title: Communications Disaster 

Information Reporting System (DIRS). 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions; State, 

Local or Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 400 respondents; 104,000 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1 

hour–1.5 hours (average per response). 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and annual reporting requirements and 

recordkeeping requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Voluntary. 

Statutory authority for this collection is 

contained in sections 1, 4(i), 4(j), 4(o), 

251(e)(3), 254, 301, 303(b), 303(g), 

303(r), 307, 309(a), 309(j), 316, 332, and 

403 of the Communications Act of 1934, 

as amended, and section 706 of the 

Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 

U.S.C. 151, 154(i)–(j) & (o), 251(e)(3), 

254, 301, 303(b), 303(g), 303(r), 332, 

403, and 1302. 

Total Annual Burden: 16,320 hours. 

Total Annual Costs: No Cost. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

The Commission provides respondents 

with assurances that their collected 

filings reports will be treated with a 

presumption of confidentiality. As 

noted in the DIRS User Manual, 

‘‘[b]ecause the information that 

communications companies input to 

[their collected filings] is sensitive for 

national security and/or commercial 

reasons, [the collected filings] shall be 

treated as presumptively confidential 

upon filing.’’ 

In accordance with 47 CFR 4.2, 

reports and information contained in 

the underlying DIRS filings are 

presumed confidential. The filings are 

shared with the Department of 

Homeland Security through passwordprotected real time access to NORS. 

Other persons seeking disclosure must 

follow the procedure delineated in 47 

CFR 0.457 and 0.459 of the 

Commission’s Rules for requests for and 

disclosure of information. The modified 

collection proposed here will allow 

‘‘need to know’’ agencies acting on 

behalf of the federal government, the 50 

states, the District of Columbia, Tribal 

Nations, and the U.S. territories access 

to confidential information derived from 

DIRS filings based on events occurring 

within an agency’s jurisdiction, 

provided those agencies maintain the 

confidentiality of the information and 

report any breach of that confidentiality. 

The Commission has adopted 

procedures allowing state, federal, local, 

and Tribal agencies with a demonstrated 

‘‘need to know’’ to apply for ‘‘readonly’’ access to DIRS reports impacting 

locations where the agency has 

jurisdiction. To protect the 

confidentiality of the NORS and DIRS 

information disclosed to these 

Participating Agencies, the Commission 

limited the access to only those agencies 

who complete the registration process 

and then limits by geographic area the 

reports available to each Participating 

Agency. The Commission also adopted 

safeguards to protect the data accessed 

by Participating Agencies from 

manipulation and from distribution to 

unauthorized recipients. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

launched the Disaster Information 

Reporting System (DIRS) in 2007 

pursuant to its mandate to promote the 

safety of life and property through the 

use of wire and radio communication as 

required by the Communications Act of 

1934, as amended. DIRS is a voluntary, 

efficient, and web-based system that 

communications companies may use to 

report their infrastructure status during 

times of crisis (e.g., related to a disaster). 

DIRS uses a number of template forms 

tailored to different communications 

sectors (i.e., wireless, wireline, 

broadcast, and cable) to facilitate the 

entry of this information. To use DIRS, 

a company first inputs its emergency 

contact information. After this, they 

submit information using the template 

form appropriate for their 

communications sector. In a Second 

Report and Order adopted on March 18, 

2021, as FCC 21–34, the Commission 

adopted rules allowing certain federal, 

state, and Tribal Nation agencies 

(Participating Agencies) to access to 


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certain geographically relevant reports 

filed in the Commission’s Disaster 

Information Reporting System (DIRS). 

The information collections and record 

keeping provisions adopted will allow 

Participating Agencies to apply for, and 

receive access to, DIRS report in the 

areas where they have jurisdiction. The 

collection will further enable these 

Participating Agencies, at their election, 

to share DIRS reports with qualified 

local agencies whose jurisdiction is 

affected by a disaster, while still 

maintaining the confidentiality of the 

substantive data. The changes to the 

data collections fields in the DIRS 

filings made by service providers will 

further facilitate the ability of 

Participating Agencies to access those 

reports relevant to their specific 

geographies. Finally, the changes to the 

information collection and associated 

recordkeeping requirements, including 

retention by participating agencies of 

qualification forms submitted by local 

agency seeking access to DIRS data, as 

well as a list of which local agencies 

receive information from the 

Participating Agency, training materials 

setting clear parameters for the use of 

DIRS data, and a list of those persons 

granted DIRS account access, will 

enable auditing functions to ensure 

accountability in the use of DIRS 

information and immediate reporting of 

breaches of access or confidentiality 

protocols. 

The Commission notes that the 

information sharing framework 

established in the Second Report and 

Order allows for access to be granted not 

only for DIRS, but also to the 

Commission’s Network Outage 

Reporting System (NORS). We note that 

the process and requirements for 

Participating Agencies under this 

framework is identical, regardless of 

whether they seek access to NORS, 

DIRS, or both. Because the Commission 

anticipates that NORS and DIRS access 

will be requested together in most cases, 

it believes that the estimated burden 

hours and costs for Participating 

Agencies associated with DIRS access 

are fully included in the estimates that 

it has separately submitted as part of its 

collection on Part 4 of the Commission’s 

Rules Concerning Disruptions to 

Communications, OMB Control No. 

3060–0484. To avoid double-counting 

the estimated burden hours and costs 

associated with both collections, the 

Commission estimates the marginal cost 

of the Participating Agency aspect of 

this collection to be zero. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–07630 Filed 4–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–1271; FR ID 81140] 

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 (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. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

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; 

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 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 Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

control number. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before June 10, 2022. 

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 

Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@

fcc.gov and to nicole.ongele@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Nicole 

Ongele, (202) 418–2991. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB 

Control Number: 3060–1271. 

Title: Promoting Telehealth for LowIncome Consumers, COVID–19 

Telehealth Program. 

Form Numbers: FCC Forms 460, 461, 

462, and 463. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

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

Federal Government; and State, Local, 

or Tribal governments. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 7,210 respondents; 34,553 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.30– 

25 hours. 

Frequency of Response: One-time, 

annual, and on occasion reporting 

requirements; recordkeeping 

requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this collection of 

information is contained in sections 1– 

4, 201–205, 214, 254, 303(r), and 403 of 

the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 151–154, 201–205, 

214, 254, 303(r), and 403, and DIVISION 

B of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and 

Economic Security Act, Public Law 

116–136, 134 Stat. 281. 

Total Annual Burden: 197,787 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No cost. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

Impact(s). 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

The Name, Address, DUNS Number and 

Business Type will be disclosed in 

accordance with the FFATA/DATA Act 

reporting requirements as part of the 

COVID–19 Telehealth Program. Also, 

the COVID–19 Telehealth Program 

award and disbursement amounts will 

be made public. We intend to keep other 

information submitted under the 

COVID–19 Telehealth Program 

confidential to the extent permitted by 

law. There is no assurance of 

confidentiality provided to respondents 

as part of the Connected Care Pilot 

Program, the selected applicants and 

estimated funding will be made public. 

Respondents under both programs may 

request materials or information 

submitted to the Commission to be 

withheld from public inspection under 

47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission’s rules. 

Needs and Uses: On March 31, 2020, 

the Commission adopted a Report and 

Order entitled Promoting Telehealth for 

Low-Income Consumers; COVID–19 

Telehealth Program, WC Docket No. 18– 


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