Notice2025-16788
Information Collections Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission Under Delegated Authority
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September 2, 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) of 1995, 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 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 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 167 (Tuesday, September 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42408-42409]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16788]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-0740 and OMB 3060-0881; FR ID 310683]
Information Collections Being Reviewed by the Federal
Communications Commission Under Delegated Authority
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) of 1995, 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 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 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 PRA comments should be submitted on or before November
3, 2025. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments but
find it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this
notice, you should advise the contact listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Cathy Williams, FCC, via email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#74242635341217175a131b02"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b8e8eaf9f8dedbdb96dfd7ce">[email protected]</span></a> and to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#92d1f3e6faebbcc5fbfefefbf3ffe1d2f4f1f1bcf5fde4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="622103160a1b4c350b0e0e0b030f11220401014c050d14">[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.: 3060-0740.
Title: Section 95.2109, AMTS Notifications; 95.2195, LPRS
Disclosures.
Form No.: Not applicable.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 26 respondents and 26
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement, and
third-party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The
statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in
47 U.S.C. 154 and 303.
Total Annual Burden: 26 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: $1,300.
Needs and Uses: Manufacturers of Low Power Radio Service (LPRS)
used for auditory assistance, health care assistance, and law
enforcement tracking purposes must include with each transmitting
device the following statement: ``This transmitter is authorized by
rule under the Low Power Radio Service (47 CFR part 95) and must not
cause harmful interference to TV reception or United States Navy SPASUR
installations. You do not need an FCC license to operate this
transmitter. This transmitter may only be used to provide: Auditory
assistance to persons with disabilities, persons who require language
translation, or persons in educational settings; health care services
to the ill; law enforcement tracking services under agreement with a
law enforcement agency; or automated maritime telecommunications system
(AMTS) network control communications. Two-way voice communications and
all other types of uses not mentioned above are expressly prohibited.''
The reporting requirement contained in section 95.2109 states that
Prior to operating a LPRS transmitter with an AMTS, the AMTS licensee
must notify, in writing, each television station that may be affected
by such operations, as defined in section 80.215(h). The notification
provided with the station's license application is sufficient to
satisfy this requirement if no new television stations would be
affected.
The information collection requirement contained in section 95.2195
requires that manufacturers of LPRS transmitters used for auditory
assistance, health care assistance, and law enforcement tracking
purposes must include with each transmitting device the following
statement:
This transmitter is authorized by rule under the Low Power Radio
Service (47 CFR part 95) and must not cause harmful interference to TV
reception or to the United States Air Force Space
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Surveillance System operating in the 216.88-217.08 MHz band. With the
exception of automated maritime telecommunications system (AMTS)
devices, you do not need an FCC license to operate this transmitter.
This transmitter may only be used to provide: Auditory assistance to
persons with disabilities, persons who require language translation, or
persons in educational settings; health care services to the ill; law
enforcement tracking services under agreement with a law enforcement
agency; or AMTS network control communications. Two-way voice
communications and all other types of uses not mentioned above are
expressly prohibited.
Please note that sections 95.1015(a) and (b) were renumbered to
sections 95.2195 and 95.2109 via FCC 17-57.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0881.
Title: Section 95.1961, Interference.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 18 respondents; 18 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement, third party
disclosure requirement, and on occasion reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The
statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in
47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i) and 157, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 18 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: $4,500.
Needs and Uses: On May 19, 2017, the Commission reformed its Part
95 rules. See Review of the Commission's Part 95 Personal Radio Service
Rules, Report and Order, WT Docket 10-119, 32 FCC Rcd 4292 (2017). In
that proceeding, the Commission renumbered certain Part 95 rules
subject to this information collection without making substantive rule
changes. For example, former rule Sec. 95.861 is currently Sec.
95.1961. With this submission to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), we renumbered the rule sections accordingly.
Section 95.1961(c) requires that licensees in the 218-219 MHz
service must provide a copy of its plan to every TV Channel 13 station
whose Grade B predicted contour overlaps the licensed service area as
required by Sec. 95.1915(a) of the Commission's rules. This plan must
include an analysis of the co- and adjacent channel interference
potential of proposed systems in the 218-219 MHz service, identify
methods being used to minimize interference, and show how the proposed
systems will meet the service requirements set forth in Sec. 95.1931
of the Commission's rules. This plan must be sent to the TV Channel 13
licensee(s) within 10 days from the date the 218-219 MHz service
licensee submits the plan to the Commission. Updates to this plan must
be sent to the TV Channel 13 licensee(s) within 10 days from the date
that such updates are filed with the Commission pursuant to Sec.
95.1915.
Section 95.1961(e) requires that each 218-219 MHz service licensee
investigate and eliminate harmful interference to television
broadcasting and reception, from its component cell transmitter
stations (CTSs) and response transmitter units (RTUs) within 30 days of
the time it is notified in writing, by either an affected television
station, an affected viewer, or the Commission, of an interference
complaint.
Federal Communications Commission.
Aleta Bowers,
Information Management Specialist, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-16788 Filed 8-29-25; 8:45 am]
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