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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 26 / Wednesday, February 10, 2021 / Notices the 3.7 GHz Report and Order titled Adjacent Channel Protection Criteria the Commission sets out the following requirements:
Pursuant to paragraph 388 of the 3.7
GHz Report and Order, the Commission requires that the TT&C operators make available certain pertinent technical information about their systems upon request by licensees in the 3.7 GHz Service to ensure the protection of TT&C operations. In addition, paragraph 389 of the 3.7 GHz Report and Order includes the requirement that, in the event of a claim by a TT&C earth station operating in 4.04.2 GHz of harmful interference by a 3.7 GHZ operator, the earth station operator must demonstrate that that have installed a filter that complies with the mask requirement prescribed by the Commission. This requirement will facilitate an efficient and safe transition by requiring earth station operators to demonstrate their compliance with the mask requirements, thereby minimizing the risk of interference.
OMB Control Number: 30601166.
Title: Section 1.21001, Participation in Competitive Bidding for Support;
Section 1.21002, Prohibition of Certain Communications During the Competitive Bidding Process.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities, not-for-profit institutions, and state, local or tribal governments.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 750 respondents and 750
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1.5
hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. Statutory authority for this information collection 47 U.S.C. 154, 254 and 303r.
Total Annual Burden: 1,125 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
Information collected in each application to participate in an auction for universal service support will be made available for public inspection, and the Commission is not requesting that respondents submit confidential information to the Commission as part of the pre-auction application process.
However, to the extent that a respondent seeks to have certain information collected in an application to participate in an auction for universal service support or in a report of a prohibited communication withheld from public inspection, the respondent may request confidential treatment of such
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information pursuant to section 0.459 of the Commissions rules, 47 CFR Section 0.459.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
Needs and Uses: The information required by section 1.21001 of the Commissions rules that is collected under this information collection is used by the Commission to determine whether applicants are eligible to participate in auctions for Universal Service Fund support. The reports of prohibited communications made or received by an auction applicant required by section 1.21002 of the Commissions rules that are collected under this information collection enable the Commission to ensure that no bidder gains an unfair advantage over other bidders in its auctions for universal service support and thus enhance the competitiveness and fairness of Commissions auctions for universal service support.
On November 18, 2011, the Commission released an order comprehensively reforming and modernizing the universal service and intercarrier compensation systems to ensure that robust, affordable voice and broadband service, both fixed and mobile, are available to Americans throughout the nation. Connect America Fund et al., Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, FCC 11161
USF/ICC Transformation Order. In the USF/ICC Transformation Order, the Commission, among other things, created 1 the Connect America Fund CAF, to help make broadband available to homes, businesses, and community anchor institutions in areas that do not, or would not otherwise, have broadband, 2 the Mobility Fund, to ensure the availability of mobile broadband networks in areas where a private-sector business case, 3 the Remote Areas Fund RAF, to ensure that Americans living in the most remote areas in the nation, where the cost of deploying traditional terrestrial broadband networks is extremely high, can obtain affordable access through alternative technology platforms, including satellite and unlicensed wireless services. The USF/ICC
Transformation Order directed that support under CAF Phase II, the Mobility Fund, and the RAF be awarded by competitive bidding. The Commission adopted rules to implement the reforms it adopted in the USF/ICC Transformation Order, including rules in Part 1, Subpart AA of the Commissions rules governing competitive bidding for universal service support generally. See 47 CFR
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On October 27, 2020, the Commission adopted a Report and Order in which it, among other things, amended its existing Part 1, Subpart AA general universal service competitive bidding rules to codify policies and procedures applicable to the universal service auction application process that have been adopted in its recent universal service auctions, better align provisions in the universal service competitive bidding rules with like provisions in the Commissions spectrum auction rules, and make other updates for consistency, clarification, and other purposes that would apply in all universal service auctions. Establishing a 5G Fund for Rural America, Report and Order, FCC
20150 5G Fund Report and Order.
The amended Part 1, Subpart AA rules adopted in the 5G Fund Report and Order apply to applicants seeking to participate in future Commission auctions for universal service support.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch, Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
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Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Management and Budget Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
AGENCY:

As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act PRA of 1995, the Federal Communications Commission FCC or the Commission invites the general public and other Federal Agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection.
Pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC
seeks specific comment on how it can further reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
DATES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be submitted on or before March 12, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
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