Notice2025-12500
Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Management and Budget
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July 3, 2025
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As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, 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. Pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC seeks specific comment on how it might "further reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees."
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 126 (Thursday, July 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29543-29545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12500]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-0316, OMB 3060-0750; FR ID 301036]
Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval
to Office of Management and Budget
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,
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. Pursuant to the Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC seeks specific comment on how it
might ``further reduce the information collection burden for small
business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.''
DATES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be submitted on or before August 4, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information collection by selecting
``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using
the search function. Your comment must be submitted into
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a> per the above instructions for it to be considered. In
addition to submitting in <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a> also send a copy of your
comment on the proposed information collection to Cathy Williams, FCC,
via email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f1a1a3b0b1979292df969e87"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d080829190b6b3b3feb7bfa6">[email protected]</span></a> and to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#581b392c3021760f3134343139352b183e3b3b763f372e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3073514458491e67595c5c59515d43705653531e575f46">[email protected]</span></a>. 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 <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>, (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 Title of this ICR and
then click on the ICR Reference Number. A copy of the FCC submission to
OMB will be displayed.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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.
As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-
3520), the FCC invited the general public and other Federal Agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on the following information
collection. Comments are requested concerning: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's
burden estimates; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information collected; and (d) 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. Pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of
2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(4), the FCC seeks
specific comment on how it might ``further reduce the information
collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25
employees.''
OMB Control Number: 3060-0316.
Title: 47 CFR 76.5, Definitions, 76.1700, Records to Be Maintained
Locally by Cable System Operators; 76.1702, Equal Employment
Opportunity; 76.1703, Commercial Records on Children's Programs;
76.1707, Leased Access; 76.1711, Emergency Alert System (EAS) Tests and
Activation.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 3,000 respondents; 3,000
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 14 hours.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The
statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. 151, 152, 153, 154, 301, 302, 302a, 303, 303a, 307, 308, 309,
312, 315, 317, 325, 338, 339, 340, 341, 503, 521, 522, 531, 532, 534,
535, 536, 537, 543, 544, 544a, 545, 548, 549, 552, 554, 556, 558, 560,
561, 562, 571, 572, 573.
Total Annual Burden: 42,000 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Needs and Uses: The Commission is seeking Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval for the extension of a currently approved
collection. The information collection requirements for this
information collection are as follows: 47 CFR 76.1700 requires cable
system operators to place the public inspection file materials required
to be retained by the following rules in the online public file hosted
by the Commission: Sections 76.1701 (political file); 76.1702 (EEO);
76.1703 (commercial records for children's programming); 76.1707
(leased access); 76.1709 (availability of signals); 76.1715
(sponsorship identification); and 76.630 (compatibility with consumer
electronics equipment.
47 CFR 76.1700(b) requires cable system operators to make the
records required to be retained by the following rules available to
local franchising authorities: Sections 76.1704 (proof-of-performance
test data) and 76.1713 (complaint resolution).
47 CFR 76.1700(c) requires cable system operators to make the
records required to be retained by the following rules available to the
Commission: Sections 76.1704 (proof-of-performance test data); 76.1706
(signal leakage logs and repair records); 76.1711 (emergency alert
system and activations); 76.1713 (complaint resolution); and 76.1716
(subscriber records).
47 CFR 76.1700(d) exempts cable television systems having fewer
than 1,000 subscribers from the online public file and the public
inspection requirements contained in 47 CFR 76.1701 (political file);
76.1702 (equal employment opportunity); 76.1703 (commercial records for
children's programming); 76.1704 (proof-of-performance test data);
76.1706 (signal leakage logs and repair records); and 76.1715
(sponsorship identifications).
47 CFR 76.1700(e) requires, for cable systems exempt from the
online public file requirement, that public file material that
continues to be retained at the system be retained in a public
inspection file maintained at the office which the system operator
maintains for the ordinary collection of subscriber
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charges, resolution of subscriber complaints, and other business or at
any accessible place in the community served by the system unit(s)
(such as a public registry for documents or an attorney's office).
Public files must be available for public inspection during regular
business hours.
47 CFR 76.1700(f) requires cable systems to provide a link to the
public inspection file hosted on the Commission's website from the home
page of its own website, if the system has a website, and provide
contact information on its website for a system representative who can
assist any person with disabilities with issues related to the content
of the public files. A system also is required to include in the online
public file the address of the system's local public file, if the
system retains documents in the local file that are not available in
the Commission's online file, and the name, phone number, and email
address of the system's designated contact for questions about the
public file. In addition, a system must provide on the online public
file a list of the five digit ZIP codes served by the system.
47 CFR 76.1700(g) requires that cable operators make any material
in the public inspection file that is not also available in the
Commission's online file available for machine reproduction upon
request made in person, provided the requesting party shall pay the
reasonable cost of reproduction. Requests for machine copies must be
fulfilled at a location specified by the system operator, within a
reasonable period of time, which in no event shall be longer than seven
days. The system operator is not required to honor requests made by
mail but may do so if it chooses.
47 CFR 76.1702(a) requires that every employment unit with six or
more full-time employees shall maintain for public inspection a file
containing copies of all EEO program annual reports filed with the
Commission and the equal employment opportunity program information
described in 47 CFR 76.1702(b). These materials shall be placed in the
Commission's online public inspection file for each cable system
associated with the employment unit. These materials must be placed in
the Commission's online public inspection file annually by the date
that the unit's EEO program annual report is due to be filed and shall
be retained for a period of five years. A headquarters employment unit
file and a file containing a consolidated set of all documents
pertaining to the other employment units of a multichannel video
programming distributor that operates multiple units shall be
maintained in the Commission's online public file for every cable
system associated with the headquarters employment unit.
47 CFR 76.1702(b) requires that the following equal employment
opportunity program information shall be included annually in the
unit's public file, and on the unit's website, if it has one, at the
time of the filing of its FCC Form 396-C: (1) A list of all full-time
vacancies filled by the multichannel video programming distributor
employment unit during the preceding year, identified by job title; (2)
For each such vacancy, the recruitment source(s) utilized to fill the
vacancy (including, if applicable, organizations entitled to
notification, which should be separately identified), identified by
name, address, contact person and telephone number; (3) The recruitment
source that referred the hiree for each full-time vacancy during the
preceding year; (4) Data reflecting the total number of persons
interviewed for full-time vacancies during the preceding year and the
total number of interviewees referred by each recruitment source
utilized in connection with such vacancies; and (5) A list and brief
description of the initiatives undertaken during the preceding year, if
applicable.
47 CFR 76.1703 requires that cable operations airing children's
programming must maintain records sufficient to verify compliance with
47 CFR 76.225 and make such records available to the public. Such
records must be maintained for a period sufficient to cover the
limitation period specified in 47 U.S.C. 503(b)(6)(B). Cable television
operators must file their certifications of compliance with the
commercial limits in children's programming annually within 30 days
after the end of the calendar year.
47 CFR 76.1707 requires that if a cable operator adopts and
enforces a written policy regarding indecent leased access programming
pursuant to Sec. 76.701, such a policy will be considered published
pursuant to that rule by inclusion of the written policy in the
operator's public inspection file.
47 CFR 76.1711 requires that records be kept of each test and
activation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) procedures pursuant to
the requirements of 47 CFR part 11 and the EAS Operating Handbook.
These records shall be kept for three years.
47 CFR 76.5 defines certain terms covered in the cable industry.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0750.
Title: 47 CFR 73.671, Educational and Informational Programming for
Children; 47 CFR 73.673, Public Information Initiatives Regarding
Educational and informational Programming for Children.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,767 respondents; 1,123,812
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.017-0.084 hours.
Frequency of Response: Third-party disclosure requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The
statutory authority for this collection is contained in Sections 4(i),
303, and 336 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 57,463 hours.
Total Annual Cost: None.
Needs and Uses: On July 10, 2019, the Commission adopted a Report
and Order in MB Docket Nos. 18-202 and 17-105, FCC 19-67, In the Matter
of Children's Television Programming Rules; Modernization of Media
Regulation Initiative, which modernizes the children's television
programming rules in light of changes to the media landscape that have
occurred since the rules were first adopted. The Report and Order
revises the following information collection requirements:
Pursuant to 47 CFR 73.671(c)(5), each commercial television
broadcast station must identify programming as specifically designed to
educate and inform children by the display on the television screen
throughout the program of the symbol E/I. This requirement is intended
to assist parents in identifying educational and informational
programming for their children. Noncommercial television broadcast
stations are no longer required to identify Core Programming by
displaying the E/I symbol throughout the program.
Pursuant to 47 CFR 73.671(e), each television broadcast station
that preempts an episode of a regularly scheduled weekly Core Program
on its primary stream will be permitted to count the episode toward the
Core Programming processing guidelines if it reschedules the episode on
its primary stream in accordance with the requirements of 47 CFR
73.671(e). Similarly, each television broadcast station that preempts
an episode of a regularly scheduled weekly Core Program on a multicast
stream will be permitted to count the episode toward the Core
Programming processing guidelines if it reschedules the episode
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on the multicast stream in accordance with the requirements of 47 CFR
73.671(e). Among other requirements, the station must make an on-air
notification of the schedule change during the same time slot as the
preempted episode. The on-air notification must include the alternate
date and time when the program will air. This requirement will help to
ensure that parents and children are able to locate the rescheduled
program.
Pursuant to 47 CFR 73.673, each commercial television broadcast
station licensee must provide information identifying programming
specifically designed to educate and inform children to publishers of
program guides. This requirement is intended to improve the information
available to parents regarding programming specifically designed for
children's educational and informational needs. Commercial television
broadcast station licensees are no longer be required to provide
program guide publishers an indication of the age group for which the
programming is intended. The Report and Order finds that very few
program guides include this information.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-12500 Filed 7-2-25; 8:45 am]
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