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Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov; and 

to Cathy Williams, FCC, via email PRA@

fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. 

Include in the comments the OMB 

control number as shown in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information or copies of the 

information collection, contact Cathy 

Williams at (202) 418–2918. To view a 

copy of this information collection 

request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go 

to the Web page <http://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain>, 

(2) look for the section of the Web page 

called ‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ (3) 

click on the downward-pointing arrow 

in the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box below the 

‘‘Currently Under Review’’ heading, (4) 

select ‘‘Federal Communications 

Commission’’ from the list of agencies 

presented in the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, 

(5) click the ‘‘Submit’’ button to the 

right of the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, (6) 

when the list of FCC ICRs currently 

under review appears, look for the OMB 

control number of this ICR and then 

click on the ICR Reference Number. A 

copy of the FCC submission to OMB 

will be displayed. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of 

its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork burdens, and as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), 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. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0208. 

Title: Section 73.1870, Chief 

Operators. 

Form Number: Not applicable. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business and other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 18,498 respondents; 36,996 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.166– 

26 hours. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping requirement; Third party 

disclosure requirement. 

Total Annual Burden: 484,019 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: None. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. The statutory 

authority for this collection of 

information is contained in Sections 

154(i) of the Communications Act of 

1934, as amended. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality with 

this collection of information. 

Privacy Impact Assessment(s): No 

impact(s). 

Needs and Uses: The information 

collection requirements contained in 47 

CFR 73.1870 require that the licensee of 

an AM, FM, or TV broadcast station 

designate a chief operator of the station. 

Section 73.1870(b)(3) requires that this 

designation must be in writing and 

posted with the station license. Section 

73.1870(c)(3) requires that the chief 

operator, or personnel delegated and 

supervised by the chief operator, review 

the station records at least once each 

week to determine if required entries are 

being made correctly, and verify that the 

station has been operated in accordance 

with FCC rules and the station 

authorization. Upon completion of the 

review, the chief operator must date and 

sign the log, initiate corrective action 

which may be necessary and advise the 

station licensee of any condition which 

is repetitive. The posting of the 

designation of the chief operator is used 

by interested parties to readily identify 

the chief operator. The review of the 

station records is used by the chief 

operator, and FCC staff in 

investigations, to ensure that the station 

is operating in accordance with its 

station authorization and the FCC rules 

and regulations. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Katura Jackson, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23089 Filed 10–24–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–XXXX] 

Information Collection Being 

Submitted for Review and Approval to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

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 Commission 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 November 24, 

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 listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB, via email 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov; and 

to Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@

fcc.gov and to Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. 

Include in the comments the OMB 

control number as shown in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information or copies of the 

information collection, contact Nicole 

Ongele at (202) 418–2991. To view a 

copy of this information collection 

request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go 

to the Web page <http://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain>, 

(2) look for the section of the Web page 

called ‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ (3) 

click on the downward-pointing arrow 

in the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box below the 

‘‘Currently Under Review’’ heading, (4) 


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select ‘‘Federal Communications 

Commission’’ from the list of agencies 

presented in the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, 

(5) click the ‘‘Submit’’ button to the 

right of the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, (6) 

when the list of FCC ICRs currently 

under review appears, look for the OMB 

control number of this ICR and then 

click on the ICR Reference Number. A 

copy of the FCC submission to OMB 

will be displayed. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of 

its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork burdens, and as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), 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. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–XXXX. 

Title: Part 32 Uniform System of 

Accounts. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 1,176 respondents; 2,458 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 20–40 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: One-time, on 

occasion, and annual reporting 

requirements; recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. 10, 201, 219– 

220, 224, 254(k), 272(e)(3), and 403 of 

the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 160, 201, 219–220, 

224, 254(k), 272(e)(3), and 403. 

Total Annual Burden: 103,240 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No cost. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

Respondents are not being asked to 

submit confidential information to the 

Commission. If the Commission 

requests respondents to submit 

information which respondents believe 

is confidential, respondents may request 

confidential treatment of such 

information under 47 CFR 0.459 of the 

Commission’s rules. 

Needs and Uses: On February 24, 

2017, the Commission released the Part 

32 Order, WC Docket No. 14–130, CC 

Docket No. 80–286, FCC 17–15, which 

minimized the compliance burdens 

imposed by the Uniform System of 

Accounts (USOA) on price cap and rateof-return telephone companies, while 

ensuring that the Commission retains 

access to the information it needs to 

fulfill its regulatory duties. 

The Commission consolidated Class A 

and Class B accounts by eliminating the 

current classification of carriers, which 

divides incumbent LECS into two 

classes for accounting purposes based 

on annual revenues. Carriers subject to 

Part 32’s USOA will now only be 

required to keep Class B accounts. 

Pursuant to the Part 32 Order, price 

cap carriers may elect to use generally 

accepted accounting principles (GAAP) 

for all regulatory accounting purposes if 

they: (1) Establish an ‘‘Implementation 

Rate Difference’’ (IRD) which is the 

difference between pole attachment 

rates calculated under Part 32 and under 

GAAP as of the last full year preceding 

the carrier’s initial opting out of Part 32 

accounting requirements; and (2) adjust 

their annually-computed GAAP-based 

pole attachment rates by the IRD for a 

period of 12 years after the election. 

Alternatively, price cap carriers may 

elect to use GAAP accounting for all 

purposes other than those associated 

with pole attachment rates and continue 

to use the Part 32 accounts and 

procedures applicable to pole 

attachment rates for up to 12 years. 

A price cap carrier may be required to 

submit pole attachment accounting data 

to the Commission for three years 

following the effective date of the rule 

permitting a price cap carrier to elect 

GAAP accounting. If a pole attacher 

informs the Commission of a suspected 

problem with pole attachment rates, the 

Commission will require the price cap 

carrier to file its pole attachment data 

for the state in question. This 

requirement may be extended for an 

additional three years, if necessary. 

The Commission reduced the 

accounting requirements for telephone 

companies with a continuing obligation 

to comply with Part 32 in a number of 

areas. Telephone companies may: (1) 

Carry an asset at its purchase price 

when it was acquired, even if its value 

has increased or declined when it goes 

into regulated service; (2) reprice an 

asset at market value after a merger or 

acquisition consistent with GAAP; (3) 

use GAAP principles to determine 

Allowance-for-Funds-Used-During 

Construction; and (4) employ the GAAP 

standard of materiality. Rate-of-return 

carriers receiving cost-based support 

must determine materiality consistent 

with the general materiality guidelines 

promulgated by the Auditing Standards 

Board. 

Price cap carriers with a continuing 

Part 32 accounting obligation must 

maintain continuing property records 

necessary to track substantial assets and 

investments in an accurate, auditable 

manner. The carriers must make such 

property information available to the 

Commission upon request. Carriers 

subject to Part 32 must continue to 

comply with the USOA’s depreciation 

procedures and its rules for cost of 

removal-and-salvage accounting. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Katura Jackson, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23088 Filed 10–24–17; 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 

on the agreements to the Secretary, 

Federal Maritime Commission, 

Washington, DC 20573, within twelve 

days of the date this notice appears in 

the Federal Register. A copy of each 

agreement is available through the 

Commission’s Web site (www.fmc.gov) 

or by contacting the Office of 

Agreements at (202) 523–5793 or 

tradeanalysis@fmc.gov. 

Agreement No.: 012034–007. 

Title: Hamburg Sud/Maersk Line 

Vessel Sharing Agreement. 

Parties: Hamburg-Sud and Maersk 

Line A/S. 

Filing Party: Wayne Rohde, Esq.; 

Cozen O’Connor; 1200 Nineteenth Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20036. 

Synopsis: The amendment adds Peru 

to the geographic scope of the 

Agreement. The parties request 

expedited review. 

Agreement No.: 012067–022. 

Title: U.S. Supplemental Agreement 

to HLC Agreement. 

Parties: BBC Chartering Carriers 

GmbH & Co. KG and BBC Chartering & 

Logistic GmbH & Co. KG, as a single 


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