28824 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 97 / Monday, May 19, 2008 / Notices 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit. 

Number of Respondents: 18 

respondents; 18 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Voluntary. 

Total Annual Burden: 18 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: N/A. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

In general, there is no need for 

confidentiality. 

Needs and Uses: The Federal 

Communications Commission (‘‘FCC’’) 

proposes to establish a new information 

collection (IC) titled ‘‘International 

Special Projects (ISP) Petitions for 

Declaratory Ruling.’’ The purpose of this 

information collection is to facilitate the 

public’s voluntary filing of 

miscellaneous requests with the FCC, 

such as a waiver of the Commission’s 

rules or foreign ownership matters, in 

an electronic module in the 

International Bureau’s Filing System 

(IBFS). Filers have the option to upload 

paper copies of documents in IBFS in 

lieu of mailing documents to the FCC 

Secretary’s Office. However, they may 

file documents in the FCC Secretary’s 

Office by postal mail instead of filing 

them electronically in IBFS. The filing 

of documents in IBFS saves time and 

costs for the general public since they 

would save the cost of postage to mail 

the documents to the FCC. It also 

guarantees that when the respondents 

‘‘submit’’ their documents in IBFS, 

those documents are received at the FCC 

on the same day. 

Furthermore, FCC staff and members 

of the public can track the receipt and 

status of documents received 

electronically in the IBFS. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–11018 Filed 5–16–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting; Deletion of 

Agenda Item From May 14, 2008, Open 

Meeting 

May 13, 2008. 

The following has been deleted from 

the list of Agenda items scheduled for 

consideration at the May 14, 2008, Open 

Meeting and previously listed in the 

Commission’s Notice of May 7, 2008, 73 

FR 26991, May 12, 2008. This item has 

been adopted by the Commission. 

Item No. Bureau Subject 

1 ............... Wireless Telecommunications .................... Title: Implementation of Sections 309(j) and 337 of the Communications Act of 1934 

as Amended (WT Docket No. 99–87); Promotion of Spectrum Efficient Technologies on Certain Part 90 Frequencies (RM–9332). 

Summary: The Commission will consider a Fourth Memorandum Opinion and Order 

addressing a petition for reconsiderations and a request for clarification of the Third 

Report and Order. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 08–1273 Filed 5–15–08; 12:34 pm] 

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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Information 

Collection; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation (FDIC). 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The FDIC, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to comment on a proposed new 

collection of information, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. chapter 35). The collection is 

related to a mandate under section 7 of 

the Federal Deposit Insurance Reform 

Conforming Amendments Act of 2005 

(‘‘Reform Act’’) (Pub. L. 109–173), 

which calls for the FDIC to conduct 

ongoing surveys ‘‘on efforts by insured 

depository institutions to bring those 

individuals and families who have 

rarely, if ever, held a checking account, 

a savings account or other type of 

transaction or check cashing account at 

an insured depository institution 

(hereafter in this section referred to as 

the ‘unbanked’) into the conventional 

finance system.’’ Section 7 further 

instructs the FDIC to consider several 

factors in its conduct of the surveys, 

including: (1) ‘‘What cultural, language 

and identification issues as well as 

transaction costs appear to most prevent 

‘unbanked’ individuals from 

establishing conventional accounts’’; 

and (2) ‘‘what is a fair estimate of the 

size and worth of the ‘unbanked’ market 

in the United States.’’ To satisfy the 

Congressional mandate, the FDIC 

intends to conduct two complementary 

surveys. One is a survey of FDICinsured depository institutions on their 

efforts to serve underbanked, as well as 

unbanked, populations (underbanked 

populations include individuals who 

have an account with an insured 

depository but also rely on non-bank 

alternative financial service providers 

for transaction services or high-cost 

credit products). The FDIC has already 

obtained OMB approval for this survey 

and the survey effort is currently in 

process. The other is a survey of U.S. 

households to estimate the size and 

worth of the unbanked and 

underbanked markets and to identify 

the factors that inhibit their 

participation in the mainstream banking 

system. The household survey would be 

conducted for the FDIC by the U.S. 

Bureau of the Census, as a supplement 

to its monthly Current Population 

Survey (CPS) in January 2009. This 

notice addresses the household survey. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before July 18, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments by 

any of the following methods. All 

comments should refer to ‘‘National 

Unbanked and Underbanked Household 

Survey’’: 

• http://www.FDIC.gov/regulations/ 

laws/federal/. 

• E-mail: comments@fdic.gov. 

Include the name and number of the 

collection in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: Leneta Gregorie (202–898–

3719), Counsel, Legal Division, Federal 

Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20429. 

• Hand Delivery: Comments may be 

hand-delivered to the guard station at 

the rear of the 550 17th Street Building 

(located on F Street), on business days 

between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Interested members of the public may 

obtain a copy of the survey and related 

instructions by clicking on the link for 

the National Unbanked and 


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