Notice2025-03564
Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission
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Published
March 5, 2025
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Federal Communications Commission
Abstract
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.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11318-11319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03564]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-0678; FR ID 283097]
Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal
Communications Commission
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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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 May 5, 2025.
If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments but find it
difficult to do so within the time period 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
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5f0f0d1e1f393c3c71383029"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bdedeffcfddbdede93dad2cb">[email protected]</span></a> and to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#84c7e5f0ecfdaad3ede8e8ede5e9f7c4e2e7e7aae3ebf2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="febd9f8a9687d0a9979292979f938dbe989d9dd0999188">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the
information collection, contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418-2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No.: 3060-0678.
Title: Part 25 of the Federal Communications Commission's Rules
Governing the Licensing of, and Spectrum Usage by, Commercial Earth
Stations and Space Stations.
Form Nos.: FCC Form 312, FCC Form 312-EZ, FCC Form 312-R and
Schedules A, B and S.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved information
collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities and not-for-
profit institutions.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 3,539 respondents; 3,591
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.5-80 hours per response.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, one time, and annual reporting
requirements; third-party disclosure requirements; recordkeeping
requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The
Commission has statutory authority for the information collection
requirements under 47 U.S.C. 154, 301, 302, 303, 307, 309, 310, 319,
332, 605, and 721.
Total Annual Burden: 27,748 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: $4,154,267.
Needs and Uses: On April 21, 2023, the Commission released a Report
and Order, FCC 23-29, IB Docket No. 21-456, titled ``Revising Spectrum
Sharing Rules for Non-Geostationary Orbit, Fixed-Satellite Service
Systems.'' In this Report and Order, the Commission revised its rules
governing spectrum sharing among a new generation of broadband
satellite constellations to promote market entry, regulatory certainty,
and spectrum efficiency through good-faith coordination. As relevant to
this information collection, the Commission adopted rules clarifying
protection obligations between non-geostationary satellite orbit,
fixed-satellite service (NGSO FSS) systems authorized through different
processing rounds by using a degraded throughput methodology.
Specifically, the Commission required that, prior to commencing
operations, an NGSO FSS licensee or market access recipient must either
certify that it has completed a coordination agreement with any
operational NGSO FSS system licensed or granted U.S. market access in
an earlier processing round, or submit for Commission approval a
compatibility showing which demonstrates by use of a degraded
throughput methodology that it will not cause harmful interference to
any such system with which coordination has not been completed. If an
earlier-round system becomes operational after a later-round system has
commenced operations, the later-round licensee or market access
recipient must submit a certification of coordination or a
compatibility showing with respect to the earlier-round system no later
than 60 days after the earlier-round system commences operations.
Further, on November 15, 2024, the Commission released a Second
Report and Order in the same rulemaking proceeding, FCC 24-117, IB
Docket No. 21-456, titled ``Revising Spectrum Sharing Rules for Non-
Geostationary Orbit, Fixed-Satellite Service Systems.'' In this Second
Report and Order, the Commission revised the NGSO FSS sharing rules to
clarify certain details of the degraded throughput methodology that, in
the absence of a coordination agreement, must be used in compatibility
analyses by NGSO FSS system grantees authorized through later
processing rounds to show they can operate compatibly with, and
protect, NGSO FSS systems authorized through earlier processing rounds.
The Commission adopted a 3% time-weighted average throughput
degradation as a long-term interference protection criterion and a 0.4%
absolute
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increase in link unavailability as a short-term interference protection
criterion.
The relevant rule for purposes of this revised information
collection is 47 CFR 25.261(d).
The new information collection requirements in this collection are
needed to determine the technical qualifications of licensees and
market access grantees to operate an NGSO FSS space station and to
determine whether operations under an NGSO FSS authorization serve the
public interest, convenience and necessity. Without such information,
the Commission could not determine whether to permit respondents to
provide communications services in the United States because it could
not assure that incumbent NGSO FSS licensees and market access grantees
are adequately protected from radiofrequency interference that could be
caused by NGSO FSS satellite systems authorized through a later
processing round. Therefore, the Commission would not be able to
fulfill its statutory responsibilities in accordance with the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and the obligations imposed on
parties to the World Trade Organization Basic Telecom Agreement.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-03564 Filed 3-4-25; 8:45 am]
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