[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4874-4875]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00850]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[3060-1126]


Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to 
the 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, 
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;

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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 techniques or 
other forms of information technology; and ways to further reduce the 
information 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 comments should be submitted on or before February 16, 
2017. 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 contacts below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB, via 
email [email protected]; and to Nicole Ongele, FCC, via 
email [email protected] and to [email protected]. Include in the comments 
the OMB control number as shown in the Supplementary Information 
section 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 <http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain>, (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 OMB 
control number of this ICR and then click on the ICR Reference Number. 
A copy of the FCC submission to OMB will be displayed.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control Number: 3060-1126.
    Title: Testing and Logging Requirements for Wireless Emergency 
Alerts (WEA).
    Form Number: Not applicable.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 80 Participating CMS 
Providers; 451,600 Responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.000694 hours (2.5 seconds) to 
generate each alert log; 2 hours to respond to each request for alert 
log data or information about geo-targeting
    Frequency of Response: Monthly and on occasion reporting 
requirements and recordkeeping requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. 151, 152, 154(i) and (o), 301, 301(r), 303(v), 307, 309, 335, 
403, 544(g), 606 and 615 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 
as well as by sections 602(a), (b), (c), (f), 603, 604 and 606 of the 
WARN Act.
    Total Annual Burden: 125,390 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: No cost.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Participating CMS Providers 
shall make available upon request to the Commission and FEMA, and to 
emergency management agencies that offer confidentiality protection at 
least equal to that provided in the federal Freedom of Information Act 
(FOIA) their alert logs and information about their approach to geo-
targeting insofar as the information pertains to alerts initiated by 
that emergency management agency.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission adopted revisions to Wireless 
Emergency Alert (WEA) rules to take advantage of the significant 
technological changes and improvements experienced by the mobile 
wireless industry since the passage of the Warning, Alert and Response 
Network (WARN) Act, and deployment of Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) 
to improve utility of WEA as a life-saving tool. This action will 
improve alert content, delivery and testing. With respect to 
information collection, in particular, the Commission adopted 
requirements for Participating CMS Providers to log the basic 
attributes of alerts they receive at their Alert Gateway, to maintain 
those logs for at least 12 months, and to make those logs available 
upon request to the Commission and FEMA, and to emergency management 
agencies that offer confidentiality protection at least equal to that 
provided by federal FOIA. The Commission also required Participating 
CMS Providers to disclose information regarding their capabilities for 
geo-targeting Alert Messages upon request to such emergency management 
agencies insofar as it would pertain to Alert Messages initiated by 
that emergency management agency.
    These recordkeeping and reporting requirements have potential to 
increase emergency managers' confidence that WEA will work as intended 
when needed. This increased confidence in system availability will 
encourage emergency managers that do not currently use WEA to become 
authorized. These reporting and recordkeeping requirements also help to 
ensure a fundamental component of system integrity. Alert logs are 
necessary to establish a baseline for system integrity against which 
future iterations of WEA can be evaluated. Without records that can be 
used to describe the quality of system integrity, and the most common 
causes of message transmission failure, it will be difficult to 
evaluate how any changes to WEA that we may adopt subsequent to this 
Report and Order affect system integrity.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-00850 Filed 1-13-17; 8:45 am]
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