[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 204 (Friday, October 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65297-65298]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-26564]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
(NTIA).
    Title: BroadbandMatch Web Site Tool.
    OMB Control Number: 0660-0033.
    Form Number: None.
    Type of Request: Regular Submission (Extension of a currently 
approved information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 4,500.
    Average Time per Response: 15 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 1,125.
    Needs and Uses: The Department of Commerce's National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the 
Department of Agriculture's Rural Utility Service (RUS) are 
administering an initiative of the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
Act (Recovery Act) to expand access to and adoption of broadband 
services. NTIA is utilizing that funding for its Broadband Technology 
Opportunities Program (BTOP), to support broadband infrastructure 
deployment, enhanced and expanded public computer centers, and projects 
encouraging sustainable adoption of broadband service. To help 
potential applicants to BTOP and the RUS' Broadband Initiatives Program 
(BIP), the agencies developed BroadbandMatch during the second funding 
round as an online tool for applicants to identify prospective partners 
with needed expertise and resources to strengthen their BTOP and BIP 
proposals.
    The long-term success and sustainability of these projects require 
wide stakeholder support and coordination. Therefore, NTIA will 
continue BroadbandMatch as an ongoing resource for communities pursuing 
broadband projects and programs to advance the Presidential goal of 
universal, affordable broadband access for all Americans. The 
information collected through BroadbandMatch will facilitate 
collaboration among interested stakeholders. The online tool is also a 
useful means for businesses, non-profits, and state and local 
governments, and others to find potential partners to support their 
broadband initiatives, including alternative funding sources for 
projects that did not receive Recovery Act awards and additional 
resources for those projects that did.
    Further, BroadbandMatch will complement other Administration 
efforts to promote ubiquitous broadband deployment and adoption in the 
United States. Significantly, the Recovery Act obligates NTIA to 
release publicly by February 17, 2011 a National Broadband Map 
developed from data collected and verified through grants from NTIA's 
State Broadband Data and Development grant program. The interactive 
national map will help educate consumers and businesses about broadband 
availability, enable broadband providers and investors to make better-
informed decisions regarding the use of their private capital, and 
allow federal, state, and local policy-makers to make more data-driven 
decisions on behalf of their constituents. BroadbandMatch can help 
community residents and leaders identify interested partners to improve 
broadband availability and adoption in their localities.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; business and other for-

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profit organizations; not-for-profit institutions; and state or local 
government entities.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas Frazer, (202) 395-5887.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal are available 
by contacting Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, 
(202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 or via the Internet at 
[email protected].
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Nicholas Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, Fax number (202) 395-7285 or at 
[email protected].

    Dated: October 18, 2010.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-26564 Filed 10-21-10; 8:45 am]
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