[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 135 (Monday, July 14, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40343-40344]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-15843]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Approved by the Office 
of Management and Budget

July 8, 2008.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission has received Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public 
information collection(s) pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520). An agency may not conduct or sponsor a 
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB 
control number, and no person is required to respond to a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. 
Comments concerning the accuracy of the burden estimate(s) and any 
suggestions for reducing the burden should be directed to the person 
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information contact 
Cathy Williams, Performance and Evaluation Records Management Division, 
Office of the Managing Director, at (202) 418-2918 or at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0009.

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    OMB Approval Date: June 23, 2008.
    Expiration Date: June 30, 2011.
    Title: Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station 
Construction Permit or License or Transfer of Control of Corporation 
Holding Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License.
    Form Number: FCC Form 316.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 750 responses; 1-4 hours per response; 855 
hours total per year.
    Annual Cost Burden: $425,150.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in 
154(i) and 310(d) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for 
confidentiality.
    Needs and Uses: On March 17, 2005, the Commission released a Second 
Order on Reconsideration and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 
Creation of a Low Power Radio Service, MB Docket No. 99-25 (FCC 05-75). 
The Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (``FNPRM'') proposed to 
permit the assignment or transfer of control of Low Power FM (LPFM) 
authorizations where there is a change in the governing board of the 
permittee or licensee or in other situations corresponding to the 
circumstances described above. This proposed rule was subsequently 
adopted in a Third Report and Order and Second Further Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking, MB Docket No. 99-25 (FCC 07-204) (Third Report and 
Order), released on December 11, 2007.
    FCC Form 316 has been revised to encompass the assignment and 
transfer of control of LPFM authorizations, as proposed in the FNPRM 
and subsequently adopted in the Third Report and Order, and to reflect 
the ownership and eligibility restrictions applicable to LPFM 
permittees and licensees. Filing of the FCC Form 316 is required when 
applying for authority for assignment of a broadcast station 
construction permit or license, or for consent to transfer control of a 
corporation holding a broadcast station construction permit or license 
where there is little change in the relative interest or disposition of 
its interests; where transfer of interest is not a controlling one; 
there is no substantial change in the beneficial ownership of the 
corporation; where the assignment is less than a controlling interest 
in a partnership; where there is an appointment of an entity qualified 
to succeed to the interest of a deceased or legally incapacitated 
individual permittee, licensee or controlling stockholder; and, in the 
case of LPFM stations, where there is a voluntary transfer of a 
controlling interest in the licensee or permittee entity. In addition, 
the applicant must notify the Commission when an approved transfer of 
control of a broadcast station construction permit or license has been 
consummated.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0920.
    OMB Approval Date: June 23, 2008.
    Expiration Date: June 30, 2011.
    Title: Application for Construction Permit for a Low Power FM 
Broadcast Station.
    Form Number: FCC Form 318.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 23,377 responses; 0.0025-12 hours per 
response; 34,396 hours total per year.
    Annual Cost Burden: $23,850.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in 
154(i), 303, 308 and 325(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for 
confidentiality.
    Needs and Uses: On December 11, 2007, the FCC released a Third 
Report and Order and Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 
Creation of a Low Power Radio Service, MM Docket No. 99-25, FCC 07-204. 
In the Third Report and Order, the FCC extended the local standards for 
rural markets. Under the old Rules, an LPFM applicant was deemed local 
if it was physically headquartered or had a campus within ten miles of 
the proposed LPFM transmitter site, or if 75 percent of its board 
members resided within ten miles of the proposed LPFM transmitter site. 
The Third Report and Order modified the ten-mile requirement to twenty 
miles for all LPFM applicants for proposed facilities in other than the 
top fifty urban markets, for both the distance from transmitter and 
residence of board member standards. We have revised the Form 318 to 
reflect this extension of local standards for rural markets. While the 
overall number of respondents increases because the Rule change expands 
the universe of eligible applicants, there are no new information 
collection requirements with respect to completion of the Form 318.
    In the Third Report and Order, the Commission also delegated to the 
Media Bureau the authority to consider Section 73.807 waiver requests 
from certain LPFM stations. When implementation of a full-service 
station community of license modification would result in an increase 
in interference caused to the LPFM station or its displacement, the 
LPFM station may seek a second-adjacent channel short spacing waiver in 
connection with an application proposing operations on a new channel.
    The Third Report and Order also allows LPFM stations to file waiver 
requests of Section 73.809 of the Rules if: (1) it is at risk of 
displacement by an encroaching full-service station modification 
application and no alternative channel is available, and (2) it can 
demonstrate that it has regularly provided at least eight hours per day 
of locally originated programming. LPFM stations that wish to make a 
showing under this waiver standard must file an informal objection to 
the ``encroaching'' community of license modification application.
    FCC Form 318 is required: (1) To apply for a construction permit 
for a new Low Power FM (LPFM) station; (2) to make changes in the 
existing facilities of such a station; or (3) to amend a pending FCC 
Form 318 application.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-15843 Filed 7-11-08; 8:45 am]
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