Rule2024-28172
Single Network Future: Supplemental Coverage From Space; Space Innovation
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Published
December 2, 2024
Effective
December 5, 2024
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Federal Communications Commission
Abstract
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, information collections associated with certain rules adopted in the 2024 Single Network Future: Supplemental Coverage from Space; Space Innovation Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Report and Order), FCC 24-28. The Commission also announces the effective date for these rules.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 231 (Monday, December 2, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 95136-95138]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28172]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 1
[GN Docket No. 23-65, IB Docket No. 22-271, FCC 24-28; FR ID 264974]
Single Network Future: Supplemental Coverage From Space; Space
Innovation
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date.
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SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission
(Commission) announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
has approved, for a period of three years, information collections
associated with certain rules adopted in the 2024 Single Network
Future: Supplemental Coverage from Space; Space Innovation Report and
Order and Further Notice of
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Proposed Rulemaking (Report and Order), FCC 24-28. The Commission also
announces the effective date for these rules.
DATES: The amendments to 47 CFR 1.9047(d)(2), published at 89 FR 34148
on April 30, 2024, are effective on December 5, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information, please
contact Christine Parola, Attorney Advisor, Mobility Division, Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau at (202) 418-7851 or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6d2e051f041e19040308433d0c1f02010c2d0b0e0e430a021b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c083a8b2a9b3b4a9aea5ee90a1b2afaca180a6a3a3eea7afb6">[email protected]</span></a>. For additional information concerning the
Paperwork Reduction Act information collection requirements, contact
Cathy Williams at (202) 418-2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document announces that OMB approved,
for a period of three years, the information collection requirements in
47 CFR 1.9047(d)(2) on October 30, 2024.
To request materials in accessible formats for people with
disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic files, audio format),
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Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice).
Synopsis
As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3507), the FCC is notifying the public that it received OMB approval on
October 30, 2024, for the information collection requirements contained
in the Commission's rules at 47 CFR 1.9047(d)(2) under OMB control
number 3060-1058.
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 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: 3060-1058.
OMB Approval Date: October 30, 2024.
OMB Expiration Date: October 31, 2027.
Title: FCC Application or Notification for Spectrum Leasing
Arrangement or Private Commons Arrangement: WTB and PSHS Bureaus.
Form Number: FCC Form 608.
Respondents: Individual and households; Businesses or other for-
profit entities; State, local, or tribal government, and Not for profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 1,697 respondents; 1,697 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.05 hours-3 hours.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement, third party
disclosure requirement, on occasion reporting requirement, one-time
reporting requirement and periodic reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. 1, 4(i), 157, 301, 303, 307, 308, 309, and 310 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 2,878 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,763,375.
Needs and Uses: FCC Form 608 is a multi-purpose form. It is used to
provide notification or request approval for any spectrum leasing
arrangement (``Lease'') entered into between an existing licensee in
certain Wireless and/or Public Safety Radio Services and a spectrum
lessee. This form also is required to notify or request approval for
any spectrum subleasing arrangement (``Sublease''). The data collected
on the form is used by the FCC to determine whether the public interest
would be served by the Lease or Sublease. The form is also used to
provide notification for any Private Commons Arrangement entered into
between a licensee, lessee, or sublessee and a class of third-party
users (as defined in section 1.9080 of the Commission's Rules).
The Commission is revising this form to collect information in
order to confirm that satellite service operators and terrestrial
service providers who seek to enter lease agreements in order to offer
supplemental coverage from space (SCS) do so in compliance with the
rules that govern SCS operations. On March 15, 2024, the Commission
released the Report and Order, which adds new Sec. 1.9047(d)(2) to the
Commission's rules requiring the spectrum lessee or sublessee seeking
to engage in spectrum leasing under this section to provide certain
information within the Commission Form 608 when seeking a leasing
agreement to provide SCS. Applicants will file Form 608 into the
Commission's Universal Licensing System (ULS) database.
The Commission anticipates that SCS will enable consumers in areas
not covered by terrestrial networks to be connected using their
existing devices via satellite-based communications. SCS is a crucial
component of the Commission's vision for a ``single network future,''
in which satellite and terrestrial networks work seamlessly together to
provide coverage that neither network can achieve on its own. In order
to ensure that prospective SCS operators will be able to comply with
the applicable rules, that the public interest will be served by
granting their applications, and that harmful interference will be
avoided to the greatest extent possible thereafter, the Commission
seeks to collect the following information from prospective SCS
spectrum lessees.
The Commission has adopted new requirements in its part 1 rules
that obligate lessees to provide the following on FCC Form 608: a
certification that they are entering a leasing agreement in order to
provide SCS; a description of the type of permitted arrangement the
parties will enter (e.g., is there a single terrestrial licensee or
multiple terrestrial licensees that together hold the required
licenses); and, if there are multiple terrestrial licensees, a further
description of the leasing arrangement and explanation of how those
licensees together hold all of the relevant licenses in a particular
geographically independent area (GIA). Entities completing FCC Form 608
for the purposes of providing SCS must also indicate that the
application is for SCS by checking a box on Form 608.
This information collection is designed to allow Commission staff
to carry out its statutory duties to regulate satellite communications
in the public interest; namely, to ensure that prospective providers of
SCS will operate in compliance with the applicable regulatory
framework. This process utilizes an existing Commission form, which
will remove confusion by employing the procedures that are already in
place. The modifications for Form 608 covered herein will enable the
Commission to more accurately track filings related to the provision of
SCS, a critical component of application review given the interplay
between part 1 lease filings and part 25 license applications inherent
in the SCS framework. This is especially crucial where multiple
entities together hold all co-channel licenses in a particular band
throughout a geographically independent area (GIA) and wish to deploy a
leasing agreement with a satellite operator to provide SCS. Such
arrangements are only permitted in the circumstances described in Sec.
1.9047(d)(1)(ii)(A) through (B); specifically, the Commission must be
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able to confirm that the multiple licensees in fact cover the entirety
of the GIA in question and that, when reviewing related part 25 license
applications, the entire area of the proposed service is covered by the
associated leases. This collection will thereby enable the Commission
to monitor and enforce the entry criteria that SCS providers must
satisfy, and which are designed to minimize the possibility of harmful
interference. Finally, the collection will play a critical role in the
Commission's effort to review and track leasing arrangements that will
result in entities providing SCS.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-28172 Filed 11-29-24; 8:45 am]
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