[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 250 (Tuesday, December 31, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72361-72362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-28181]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-0754; FRS 16357]


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 (FCC) has received 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public 
information collections 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 control number. 
Comments concerning the accuracy of the burden estimates and any 
suggestions for reducing the burden should be directed to the person 
listed below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathy Berthot, Policy Division, Media 
Bureau, at (202) 418-7454, or email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0754.
    OMB Approval Date: 12/18/2019.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2022.
    Title: FCC Form 2100, Application for Media Bureau Audio and Video 
Service Authorization, Schedule H.
    Form Number: FCC Form 2100, Schedule H.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 1,758 respondents; 1,758 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement: Annual reporting 
requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for these collections is contained in Sections 
54(i) and 303 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 17,580 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $1,054,800.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for 
confidentiality with respect to this collection of information.
    Needs and Uses: Commercial full-power and Class A television 
broadcast stations are required to file FCC Form 2100, Schedule H 
(formerly FCC Form 398) (Children's Television Programming Report) 
within 30 days after the end of each calendar year. FCC Form 2100, 
Schedule H is a standardized form that: (a) Provides a consistent 
format for reporting the children's educational television programming 
aired by licensees to meet their obligation under the Children's 
Television Act of 1990 (CTA), and (b) facilitates efforts by the public 
and the FCC to monitor compliance with the CTA.
    Commercial full-power and Class A television stations are required 
to complete FCC Form 2100, Schedule H within 30 days after the end of 
each calendar year and file the form with the Commission. The 
Commission places the form in the station's online public inspection 
file maintained on the Commission's database (www.fcc.gov). Stations 
use FCC Form 2100, Schedule H to report, among other things, the Core 
Programming (i.e., children's educational and informational 
programming) the station aired the previous calendar year. FCC Form 
2100, Schedule H also includes a ``Preemption Report'' that must be 
completed for each Core Program that was preempted during the year. 
This ``Preemption Report'' requests information on the reason for the 
preemption, the date of each preemption, the reason for the preemption 
and, if the program was rescheduled, the date and time the program was 
re-aired.
    On July 10, 2019, the Commission adopted a Report and Order in MB 
Docket Nos. 18-202 and 17-105, FCC 19-67, In the Matter of Children's 
Television Programming Rules; Modernization of Media Regulation 
Initiative, which modernizes the children's television programming 
rules in light of changes to the media landscape that have occurred 
since the rules were first adopted. Among other revisions, the Report 
and Order revises the children's television programming rules to expand 
the Core Programming hours to 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.; modify the safe 
harbor processing guidelines for determining compliance with the 
children's programming rules; require that broadcast stations air the 
substantial majority of their Core Programming on their primary program 
streams, but permit broadcast stations to

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air up to 13 hours per quarter of regularly scheduled weekly 
programming on a multicast stream; eliminate the additional processing 
guideline applicable to stations that multicast; and modify the rules 
governing preemption of Core Programming. In addition, the Report and 
Order revises the children's television programming reporting 
requirements by requiring that Children's Television Programming 
Reports (FCC Form 2100, Schedule H) be filed on an annual rather than 
quarterly basis, within 30 days after the end of the calendar year; 
eliminating the requirements that the reports include information 
describing the educational and informational purpose of each Core 
Program aired during the current reporting period and each Core Program 
that the licensee expects to air during the next reporting period; 
eliminating the requirement to identify the program guide publishers 
who were sent information regarding the licensee's Core Programs; and 
streamlining the form by eliminating certain fields. The Report and 
Order also eliminates the requirement to publicize the Children's 
Television Programming Reports. The Report and Order directs the Media 
Bureau to make modifications to FCC Form 2100, Schedule H as needed to 
conform the form with the revisions to the children's programming 
rules, including the changes to the processing guidelines and 
preemption policies.

Federal Communications Commission.
Cecilia Sigmund,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-28181 Filed 12-30-19; 8:45 am]
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