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Total Annual Burden: 35 hours. 

Annual Cost Burden: $18,800. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

In general, there is no need for 

confidentiality with this collection of 

information. 

Needs and Uses: This collection will 

be submitted as an extension after the 

60-day comment period to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) in order 

to obtain the full three-year clearance. 

The Commission requests this 

information in order to make 

recommendations to the U.S. 

Department of State for granting 

recognized private operating agency 

(RPOA) status to requesting entities. The 

Commission does not require entities to 

request RPOA status. Rather, this is a 

voluntary application process for use by 

companies that believe that obtaining 

RPOA status will be beneficial in 

persuading foreign governments to 

allow them to conduct business abroad. 

RPOA status also permits companies to 

join the International 

Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) 

Telecommunications Sector, which is 

the standards-setting body of the ITU. 

The information furnished in RPOA 

requests is collected pursuant to 47 CFR 

63.701 of the Commission’s rules. 

Entities submit these applications on a 

voluntary basis. The collection of 

information is a one-time collection for 

each respondent. Without this 

information collection, the 

Commission’s policies and objectives 

for assisting unregulated providers of 

enhanced services to enter the market 

for international enhanced services 

would be thwarted. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22184 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–1242] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission Under Delegated 

Authority 

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), 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 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 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. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted on or before December 12, 

2017. 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 contacts 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: As part of 

its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork burdens, and as required by 

the PRA of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), 

the FCC 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 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. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1242. 

Title: Qualified 4G LTE Coverage Data 

Collection for Mobility Fund Phase II. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities, not-for-profit institutions, 

and state, local or tribal governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents 

and Responses: 50 respondents and 50 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 64 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: One-time 

reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in sections 154, 254, and 

303(r) of the Communications Act, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 4, 254, 303(r). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

3,200 hours. 

Total Annual Costs: None. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

To information collected under this 

collection is confidential and will not be 

made publicly available. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Needs and Uses: A request for 

approval of this new information 

collection will be submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) after this 60-day comment period 

in order to obtain the full three-year 

clearance from OMB. In its November 

2011 USF/ICC Transformation Order 

(FCC 11–161), the Commission 

established the Mobility Fund, which 

consists of two phases. Mobility Fund 

Phase I (MF–I) provided one-time 

universal service support payments to 

immediately accelerate deployment of 

mobile broadband services. MF–II will 

use a reverse auction to provide ongoing 

universal service support payments to 

continue to advance deployment of such 

services. The Commission adopted the 

rules and framework for MF–I in the 

USF/ICC Transformation Order, and 

sought comment in an accompanying 

further notice of proposed rulemaking 

on the proposed framework for MF–II. 

In its February 2017 Mobility Fund II 

Report and Order (MF–II Report and 

Order) (FCC 17–11), the FCC adopted 

the rules and framework for moving 

forward expeditiously with the MF–II 

auction. Among other things, the 

Commission stated in the MF–II Report 


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and Order that, prior to the auction, it 

would establish a map of areas 

presumptively eligible for MF–II 

support based on the most recently 

available FCC Form 477 mobile wireless 

coverage data, and provide a limited 

timeframe for parties to challenge those 

initial determinations during the preauction process. 

The Commission received serval 

petitions for reconsideration of the 

MF–II Report and Order, including one 

asking it to reconsider the decision to 

use existing FCC Form 477 data as the 

basis for determining the map of areas 

presumptively eligible for MF–II 

support, and offering an industry 

consensus proposal asking the 

Commission to undertake a new, onetime data collection with specified data 

parameters tailored to MF–II to 

determine the areas in which there is 

deployment of qualified Long Term 

Evolution (LTE). On August 4, 2017, the 

Commission released an Order on 

Reconsideration and Second Report and 

Order (FCC 17–102) in which it, among 

other things, reconsidered its earlier 

decision to use FCC Form 477 data to 

compile the map of areas presumptively 

eligible for MF–II support. The 

Commission decided it would instead 

conduct a new, one-time data collection 

of 4G LTE coverage data that will be 

used for this purpose, concluding that 

for purposes of implementing MF–II 

expeditiously, this approach will 

provide the Commission and interested 

parties with the best available starting 

point for the challenge process and 

should result in fewer and more 

narrowly-focused challenges regarding 

representations of coverage. 

Only those providers that have 

previously reported 4G LTE coverage in 

FCC Form 477 and have qualified 4G 

LTE coverage (defined by download 

speeds of 5 Mbps at the cell edge with 

80 percent probability and a 30 percent 

loading factor) will be required to 

submit data under this new, one-time 

information collection. Such providers 

will be required to file propagation 

maps and model details with the 

Commission indicating their current 4G 

LTE coverage in accordance with a 

public notice that will be issued in 

advance of the start of period within 

which providers must make their filings 

that provides instructions for how to file 

the data submission, including a data 

specification, formatting information, 

and any other technical parameters that 

may be necessary for such filings. The 

Commission will use the new coverage 

data, in conjunction with subsidy data 

available from the Universal Service 

Administrative Company (USAC), to 

create the map of areas presumptively 

eligible for MF–II support. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22185 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Notice of Proposals To Engage in or 

To Acquire Companies Engaged in 

Permissible Nonbanking Activities 

The companies listed in this notice 

have given notice under section 4 of the 

Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C. 

1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation Y, (12 

CFR part 225) to engage de novo, or to 

acquire or control voting securities or 

assets of a company, including the 

companies listed below, that engages 

either directly or through a subsidiary or 

other company, in a nonbanking activity 

that is listed in § 225.28 of Regulation Y 

(12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has 

determined by Order to be closely 

related to banking and permissible for 

bank holding companies. Unless 

otherwise noted, these activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Each notice is available for inspection 

at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. 

The notice also will be available for 

inspection at the offices of the Board of 

Governors. Interested persons may 

express their views in writing on the 

question whether the proposal complies 

with the standards of section 4 of the 

BHC Act. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding the applications must be 

received at the Reserve Bank indicated 

or the offices of the Board of Governors 

not later than October 26, 2017. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of 

Minneapolis (Brendan S. Murrin, 

Assistant Vice President) 90 Hennepin 

Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 

55480–0291: 

1. Tradition Bancshares, Inc., Edina, 

Minnesota; acquire 24 percent of the 

voting shares of Rock Creek Advisors, 

LLC, Rapid City, South Dakota, and 

thereby engage in investment advisory 

services pursuant to section 

225.28(b)(6). 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, October 6, 2017. 

Ann Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22138 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or 

Bank Holding Company 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and 

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 

CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank 

or bank holding company. The factors 

that are considered in acting on the 

notices are set forth in paragraph 7 of 

the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). 

The notices are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices 

also will be available for inspection at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

Interested persons may express their 

views in writing to the Reserve Bank 

indicated for that notice or to the offices 

of the Board of Governors. Comments 

must be received not later than October 

26, 2017. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of 

Minneapolis (Brendan S. Murrin, 

Assistant Vice President) 90 Hennepin 

Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 

55480–0291: 

1. Edward Massee and Andrew 

Schmidt, both of Appleton, Minnesota; 

to acquire voting shares of MPS 

Investment Company, Appleton, 

Minnesota, and thereby indirectly 

acquire voting shares of Farmers & 

Merchants State Bank, Appleton, 

Minnesota. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, October 6, 2017. 

Ann Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22137 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 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 applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 


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