Rule2021-14724
Establishing a 5G Fund for Rural America
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Published
July 14, 2021
Effective
July 14, 2021
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Federal Communications Commission
Abstract
In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget has approved new information collection requirements associated with a new or amended rule adopted in the Federal Communications Commission's 5G Fund Report and Order, FCC 20- 150. This document is consistent with the 5G Fund Report and Order, which states that the Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date for the new or amended rule section.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 14, 2021)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 37058-37059]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-14724]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 54
[GN Docket No. 20-32; FCC 20-150; FRS 37029]
Establishing a 5G Fund for Rural America
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date.
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SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of
Management and Budget has approved new information collection
requirements associated with a new or amended rule adopted in the
Federal Communications Commission's 5G Fund Report and Order, FCC 20-
150. This document is consistent with the 5G Fund Report and Order,
which states that the Commission will publish a document in the Federal
Register announcing the effective date for the new or amended rule
section.
DATES: The addition of 47 CFR 54.322(c)(4), published at 85 FR 75770 on
November 25, 2020, is effective July 14, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Valerie Barrish, Auctions Division,
Office of Economics and Analytics, at (202) 418-0354 or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#87d1e6ebe2f5eee2a9c5e6f5f5eef4efc7e1e4e4a9e0e8f1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="eeb88f828b9c878bc0ac8f9c9c879d86ae888d8dc0898198">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document announces that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approved the information collection
requirements in 47 CFR 54.322(c)(4), on June 16, 2021. This rule was
adopted in the 5G Fund Report and Order, FCC 20-150. The Commission
publishes this document as an announcement of the effective date for
this new rule. OMB approval for all other new or amended rules adopted
in the 5G Fund Report and Order for which OMB approval is required will
be requested, and the effective date for those rules will be announced
following OMB's approval. See 85 FR 75770 (Nov. 25, 2020). If you have
any comments on the burden estimates listed below, or how the
Commission can improve the collections and reduce any burdens caused
thereby, please contact Cathy Williams, Federal Communications
Commission, Room 3.317, 45 L Street NE, Washington, DC 20554, regarding
OMB Control Number 3060-1289. Please include the OMB Control Number in
your correspondence. The Commission will also accept your comments via
email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a3f3f1e2e3c5c0c08dc4ccd5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="edbdbfacad8b8e8ec38a829b">[email protected]</span></a>. To request materials in accessible formats for
people with disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic files, audio
format), send an email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f2949191c7c2c6b2949191dc959d84"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3a5c59590f0a0e7a5c5959145d554c">[email protected]</span></a> or call the Consumer and
Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432
(TTY).
Synopsis
As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3507), the Commission is notifying the public that it received final
OMB approval on June 16, 2021, for the information collection
requirements contained in 47 CFR 54.322(c)(4). Under 5 CFR part 1320,
an agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless
it displays a current, valid OMB Control Number.
No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply
with a collection of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act
that does not display a current, valid OMB Control Number. The OMB
Control Number for the information collection requirements in 47 CFR
54.322(c)(4) is 3060-1289. The foregoing notice is required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13, October 1, 1995,
and 44 U.S.C. 3507.
The total annual reporting burdens and costs for the respondents
are as follows:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1289.
OMB Approval Date: June 16, 2021.
OMB Expiration Date: June 30, 2024.
Title: Legacy Support Usage Flexibility Certification.
Form Number: N/A.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit
institutions, and state, local or tribal governments.
Number of Respondents and Responses: Up to 110 respondents and 110
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1.75 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 47
U.S.C. 154, 254 and 303(r).
Total Annual Burden: 193 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $16,500.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
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Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The information collected
under this collection will be made publicly available. However, to the
extent that a respondent seeks to have certain information collected in
response to this information collection withheld from public
inspection, the respondent may request confidential treatment of such
information pursuant to Sec. 0.459 of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR
0.459.
Needs and Uses: On October 27, 2020, the Commission adopted the 5G
Fund Report and Order, FCC 20-150, in which it, among other things,
adopted additional public interest obligations and performance
requirements for legacy high-cost support recipients, whose broadband-
specific public interest obligations for mobile wireless services were
not previously detailed. The public interest obligations adopted in the
5G Fund Report and Order for each competitive eligible
telecommunications carrier (ETC) receiving legacy high-cost support for
mobile wireless services require that such a carrier (1) use an
increasing percentage of its legacy support toward the deployment,
maintenance, and operation of voice and broadband networks that support
5G meeting the adopted performance requirements within its subsidized
service area(s), and (2) meet specific 5G broadband service deployment
coverage requirements and service deployment milestone deadlines that
take into consideration the amount of legacy support the carrier
receives. With respect to the requirement to use an increasing
percentage of its legacy support toward the deployment, maintenance,
and operation of voice and broadband networks that support 5G, the
rules adopted in the 5G Fund Report and Order specify that each legacy
support recipient must use at least one-third of the legacy support it
receives in 2021, at least two-thirds of the legacy support it receives
in 2022, and all of the legacy support in 2023 and beyond for these
purposes.
To address a concern that budgets and deployment plans for 2021 are
largely complete, which could make it difficult for some competitive
ETCs to achieve the 2021 support usage requirement, the Commission
adopted a rule that affords such competitive ETCs the flexibility to
use less than one-third of their legacy support in 2021 and make up for
any shortfall in 2021 by proportionally increasing the requirement in
2022 (above the two-thirds of its support the competitive ETC is
required to spend on 5G in that year). See 47 CFR 54.322(c)(4). In
order to take advantage of this flexibility, a competitive ETC
receiving legacy support for mobile wireless services must submit a
certification in which it (1) provides information regarding the
service area(s) for which it and any affiliated mobile competitive
ETC(s) receive legacy support and the annual amount of support they
receive in each area; (2) indicates the total amount of legacy high-
cost support to be spent on the deployment, maintenance, and operation
of mobile networks that provide 5G service in calendar year 2021 across
the identified service areas; and (3) certifies that any 2021 spending
shortfall will be made up in 2022. Only those competitive ETCs
receiving legacy high-cost support for mobile wireless services that
wish to avail themselves of the flexibility concerning their 2021 and
2022 legacy high-cost support usage requirements will be required to
respond to this information collection. The certification will be used
by the Commission to identify how much a competitive ETC that chooses
to avail itself of the flexibility concerning its 2021 and 2022 legacy
high-cost support usage requirements will spend on 5G in 2021 and the
spending shortfall it must make up in 2022, and to confirm the
competitive ETC's commitment to make up its 2021 spending shortfall in
2022 in accordance with its certification and the Commission's rules.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-14724 Filed 7-13-21; 8:45 am]
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