[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 4, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25807-25808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-11533]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-1262]
Information Collection Approved by the Office of Management and
Budget
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) has
received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval, for a new,
one-time information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995. 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 control number. Comments
concerning the accuracy of the burden estimates 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: Contact Cathy Williams,
[email protected], (202) 418-2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The total annual reporting burdens and costs
for the respondents are as follows:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1262.
OMB Approval Date: May 23, 2019.
OMB Expiration Date: May 31, 2022.
Title: Incumbent 39 GHz Licensee Short-Form Application.
Form Number: FCC Form 175-A.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit
institutions, and state, local or tribal governments.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 16 respondents; 16 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 30 minutes.
Frequency of Response: One-time reporting requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 8 hours.
Total Annual Cost: None.
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Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for the currently approved information collection
is contained in sections 154, 254, and 303(r) of the Communications
Act, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 4, 254, 303(r).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Information collected
pursuant this information collection will be made available for public
inspection, and the Commission is not requesting that respondents
submit confidential information in response to this information
collection. To the extent a respondent seeks to have information
collected pursuant to this information collection withheld from public
inspection, the respondent may request confidential treatment of such
information pursuant to section 0.459 of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR
0.459.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
Needs and Uses: In its 2016 Spectrum Frontiers Report and Order
(FCC 16-89), the Commission adopted Upper Microwave Flexible Use
Service (UMFUS) rules for the 28 GHz, Upper 37 GHz, and 39 GHz bands to
make available millimeter wave spectrum for 5G. In its 2017 Spectrum
Frontiers Second Report and Order (FCC 17-152), the Commission expanded
the UMFUS rules to cover the 24 GHz and 47 GHz bands. In its December
2018 Fourth Report and Order (FCC 18-180), the Commission established
an incentive auction that promotes the flexible-use wireless service
rules that the Commission has adopted for the Upper 37 GHz, 39 GHz, and
47 GHz bands and, among other things, adopted modified band plans for
these bands.
There are currently a number of existing licenses in the 39 GHz
band that do not fit geographically into the Commission's new 39 GHz
band plan, resulting in ``encumbered'' licenses in this band. The
Commission will use the incentive auction process to resolve the
difficulties presented by these encumbrances and the need for existing
39 GHz licenses to be transitioned efficiently to the new band plan and
possibly to new service areas. Pursuant to the reconfiguration process
adopted in the Fourth Report and Order, prior to the incentive auction,
the Commission will offer each incumbent 39 GHz licensee a
reconfiguration of its existing 39 GHz licenses that conforms more
closely with the Commission's new band plan and service areas. Each
incumbent can then choose to commit to (1) have its existing 39 GHz
licenses modified based on the Commission's reconfiguration proposal;
or (2) have its licenses modified based on an alternative
reconfiguration proposed by the incumbent (provided it satisfies
certain specified conditions); or (3) relinquish its existing spectrum
usage rights in exchange for an incentive payment. An incumbent 39 GHz
licensee will submit contact and related information and certifications
on FCC Form 175-A which will be used by the Commission to enable the
incumbent licensee to make its commitment to either accept modification
of its 39 GHz spectrum holdings (either as proposed by the Commission
or an acceptable alternate) or to relinquish its existing spectrum
usage rights in exchange for an incentive payment.
The Commission received approval from OMB for the information
collection requirements contained in OMB 3060-1262 on May 23, 2019.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-11533 Filed 6-3-19; 8:45 am]
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