[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 151 (Monday, August 6, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46760-46761]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-19066]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Information Collections Approved by the Office of Management and 
Budget

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice of public information collection approved by the Office 
of Management and Budget.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission has received the 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, please 
contact Cathy Williams on (202) 418-2918 or via email at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-1173.
    OMB Approval Date: July 24, 2012.
    OMB Expiration Date: July 31, 2015.
    Title: Creation of a Low Power Radio Service and Amendment of 
Service and Eligibility Rules for FM Broadcast Translator Stations, 
Fourth Report and Order and Third Order on Reconsideration (``Fourth 
Report and Order''), MM Docket 99-25, MB Docket No. 07-172, RM-11338; 
Implementation of Application Caps.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 300 respondents; 300 
responses.
    Frequency of Response: One-time reporting requirement.
    Estimated Time per Response: 2 hours.
    Total Annual Burden: 600 hours.
    Total Annual Costs: None.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this collection is contained in Sections 154(i) 
of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for 
confidentiality with this collection of information.
    Privacy Impact Assessment(s): No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: On March 19, 2012, the Commission adopted a Fourth 
Report and Order and Third Order on Reconsideration (``Fourth Report 
and Order''), FCC 12-29. In the Fourth Report and Order, the Commission 
adopts the national and market-specific caps proposed in the Third 
Further Notice, FCC 11-105, and requires parties with more than 50 
pending applications and/or more than one pending application in the 
markets identified in Appendix A of the Fourth Report and Order (the 
top 150 Arbitron markets plus markets with more than 4 pending 
translator applications) to request the dismissal of applications to 
comply with these limits. Applicants may request such dismissal by 
filing a letter with the Commission (``Dismissal Letter'') identifying 
the applications they wish to be dismissed. In the event that an 
applicant does not timely comply with these dismissal procedures, the 
Commission staff will first apply the national cap, retaining on file 
the first 50 filed applications and dismissing those that were 
subsequently filed. The staff will then dismiss all but the first filed 
application in each of the markets identified in Appendix A.

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    OMB Control Number: 3060-1172.
    OMB Approval Date: July 24, 2012.
    OMB Expiration Date: July 31, 2015.
    Title: Creation of a Low Power Radio Service and Amendment of 
Service and Eligibility Rules for FM Broadcast Translator Stations, 
Fourth Report and Order and Third Order on Reconsideration (``Fourth 
Report and Order''), MM Docket 99-25, MB Docket No. 07-172, RM-11338; 
Translator Amendments and Top 50 Market Preclusion Showings.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 500 respondents; 1,300 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 2 hours.
    Total Annual Burden: 2,600 hours.
    Total Annual Costs: None.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this collection is contained in Sections 154(i) 
of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for 
confidentiality with this collection of information.
    Privacy Impact Assessment(s): No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: On March 19, 2012, the Commission adopted a Fourth 
Report and Order and Third Order on Reconsideration (``Fourth Report 
and Order''), FCC 12-29. It adopts the market-based dismissal policy 
proposed in the Third Further Notice, FCC 11-105, with certain 
modifications. Among other things, it gives all translator applicants a 
limited opportunity to amend their proposals. It holds that translator 
applicants in ``spectrum available'' markets may modify their proposals 
so long as they do not preclude any LPFM channel/point combination 
identified in the Bureau's study (``Spectrum Available Amendments''). 
It further holds that translator applicants with proposals in 
``spectrum limited'' markets will be allowed to modify their proposals 
to eliminate their preclusive impact on any of the LPFM point/channel 
combinations that would be available within the grid if all translator 
window applications in that market were dismissed (``Spectrum Limited 
Amendments'') (``Spectrum Available Amendments'' and ``Spectrum Limited 
Amendments'' are collectively referred to herein as, ``Amendments''). 
In addition, any translator applicant in any top 50 spectrum limited 
market must demonstrate that its out-of-grid proposal would not 
preclude the only LPFM station licensing opportunity at that location 
(``Top 50 Market Preclusion Showing''). Specifically, it needs to 
demonstrate either that no LPFM station could be licensed at the 
proposed transmitter site or, if an LPFM station could be licensed at 
the site, that an additional channel remains available for a future 
LPFM station at the same site.

Federal Communications Commission.
Bulah P. Wheeler,
Deputy Manager, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
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