Notice2025-16287
Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Management and Budget
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August 26, 2025
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Federal Communications Commission
Abstract
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. 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 163 (Tuesday, August 26, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41561-41562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16287]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-1005; FR ID 309662]
Information Collection 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.
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 and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be submitted on or before September 25,
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 Nicole Ongele, FCC,
via email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2b7b796a6b4d4848054c445d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3d6d6f7c7d5b5e5e135a524b">[email protected]</span></a> and to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f7b99e94989b92d9b89990929b92b7919494d9909881"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a4eacdc7cbc8c18aebcac3c1c8c1e4c2c7c78ac3cbd2">[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 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 <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: 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: 3060-1005.
Title: Numbering Resource Optimization-Phase 3.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit and State, Local, or
Tribal Government.
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Number of Respondents and Responses: 31 respondents; 211 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 25-40 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third
party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. 153, 154, 201-205, 207-209, 218, 225-227, 251-252, 271, and 332.
Total Annual Burden: 5,290 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Needs and Uses: The Commission established a safety valve to ensure
that carriers experiencing rapid growth in a given market will be able
to meet customer demand. States may use this safety valve to grant
requests from carriers that demonstrate the following:
(1) The carrier will exhaust its numbering resources in a market or
rate area within three months (in lieu of six months-to-exhaust
requirement); and
(2) Projected growth is based on the carrier's actual growth in the
market or rate area, or in the carrier's actual growth in a reasonably
comparable market, but only if that projected growth varies no more
than 15 percent from historical growth in the relevant market.
The Commission lifted the ban on service-specific and technology-
specific overlays (collectively, specialized overlays or SOs), allowing
state commissions seeking to implement SOs to request delegated
authority to do so on a case-by-case basis. To provide further guidance
to state commissions, the Commission set forth the criteria that each
request for delegated authority to implement a SO should address. This
will enable us to examine the feasibility of SOs in a particular area,
and to determine whether the Commission's stated goals are likely to be
met if the SO is implemented. Specifically, state commissions should
also specifically address the following:
(1) The technologies or services to be included in the SO;
(2) The geographic area to be covered;
(3) Whether the SO will be transitional;
(4) When the SO will be implemented and, if a transitional SO is
proposed, when the SO will become an all-services overlay;
(5) Whether the SO will include take-backs;
(6) Whether there will be 10-digit dialing in the SO and the
underlying area code(s);
(7) Whether the SO and underlying area code(s) will be subject to
rationing; and
(8) Whether the SO will cover an area in which pooling is taking
place.
The Commission uses the information it collects to assist the state
commissions in carrying out their delegated authority over numbering
resources.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-16287 Filed 8-25-25; 8:45 am]
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