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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 208 / Monday, November 1, 2021 / Proposed Rules
must be filed by the deadlines for comments on the FNPRM provided.
A. Need for, and Objectives of, the Proposed Rules 32. Section 6507 of the Tax Relief Act required the Commission to initiate a proceeding to create a specialized DoNot-Call registry for PSAPs to protect them from unwanted or illegal robocalls and to issue associated regulations after providing the public with notice and an opportunity to comment. To fulfill this mandate, in 2012 the Commission adopted rules to establish a Do-Not-Call registry for telephone numbers used by PSAPs and to prohibit the use of automatic dialing equipment to contact those registered numbers for non-emergency purposes.

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B. Legal Basis 33. The proposed rules are authorized under sections 4i, 4j, and 227 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 154i, 154j, 227, and section 6507 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, Public Law 11296, 47 U.S.C. 1473, 47
U.S.C. 6507.
C. Description of Projected Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Other Compliance Requirements 34. The FNPRM proposes that registered PSAP telephone numbers be made available to voice service providers that will be required to block autodialed calls made to those numbers.
Under this proposal, PSAPs will be permitted to register their telephone numbers on the PSAP Do-Not-Call registry. This will necessitate some administrative functions for those PSAPs, such as designating a representative to review, update, and upload their current telephone numbers to the registry. Such PSAPs will need to develop a process to verify on an annual basis that the registered numbers should continue to appear on the registry.
35. In addition, the Commissions rules already require autodialer operators seeking access to the PSAP
Do-Not-Call registry to provide certain information, including all outbound telephone numbers used to place autodialed calls. The FNPRM proposes that autodialer operators continue to upload such numbers into the PSAP DoNot-Call registry and update them regularly.
36. The FNPRM proposes that voice service providers will be provided with the registered PSAP and autodialer telephone numbers contained on the PSAP Do-Not-Call registry and will be required to block any calls that originate from a registered autodialer number
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when made to a registered PSAP
telephone number. This will require voice service providers to develop, if they have not already done so, call blocking programs to ensure that any autodialed calls to PSAP numbers are blocked.
D. Steps Taken To Minimize Significant Economic Impact on Small Entities, and Significant Alternatives Considered 37. The RFA requires an agency to describe any significant alternatives that it has considered in reaching its proposed approach, which may include the following four alternatives among others: 1 The establishment of differing compliance or reporting requirements or timetables that take into account the resources available to small entities; 2 the clarification, consolidation, or simplification of compliance or reporting requirements under the rule for small entities; 3 the use of performance, rather than design, standards; and 4 an exemption from coverage of the rule, or any part thereof, for small entities.
38. The FNPRM considers alternatives to requiring voice service providers to block autodialed calls and, for each alternative, the Commission requested comment on the costs and time frames required to implement the solutions discussed, including how to mitigate the impact on small businesses.
Specifically, the FNPRM seeks comment on whether PSAPs themselves can deploy call blocking solutions and effectively block unwanted autodialed calls. It also considers whether requiring every autodialed caller to identify itself as an automated call using the Caller-ID
information would allow PSAPs to block these calls more effectively.
39. In addition, the FNPRM considers allowing operators of autodialed calls to continue to access registered PSAP
numbers. In that case, however, the Commission considers adopting more robust mechanisms or safeguards to effectively vet the identity of users who seek access to registered PSAP numbers to reduce the likelihood of providing access to those telephone numbers to bad actors that might misuse the numbers. The FNPRM also considers requiring callers to filter their autodialed calls through an app or software platform that would block autodialer equipment from making calls to registered PSAP numbers.
40. Further, the FNPRM proposes as an alternative solution the use of the existing National Do-Not-Call Registry to protect PSAPs from unwanted calls.
The FNPRM seeks comment on whether allowing PSAPs to register their telephone numbers on the National Do-

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Not-Call Registry would afford them a more timely, cost-effective, and secure solution to stop many unwanted calls while shielding the identity of the relatively small number of PSAP
numbers by including them among the hundreds of millions of other telephone numbers already contained in that registry. Finally, the FNPRM seeks comment on whether the Commission should expand the Reassigned Numbers Database RND to include registered PSAP telephone numbers as well as reassigned telephone numbers, and require autodialer operators to query the RND before placing calls.
41. The Commission expects to consider the economic impact of these proposals on small entities, as identified in comments filed in response to the FNPRM and the IRFA, in reaching its final conclusions and taking action in this proceeding.
E. Federal Rules That May Duplicate, Overlap, or Conflict With the Proposed Rules 42. None.
Federal Communications Commission.
Katura Jackson, Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 665
Docket No. 2110260218
RIN 0648BK72

Pacific Island Fisheries; Annual Catch Limit and Accountability Measures;
Main Hawaiian Islands Deep 7
Bottomfish for Fishing Years 2021
2024
National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Proposed rule; request for comments.
AGENCY:

NMFS proposes to implement an annual catch limit ACL of 492,000
lb 223,167 kg for Deep 7 bottomfish in the main Hawaiian Islands MHI for each of the fishing years 202122, 2022
23, and 202324. As an in-season accountability measure AM, if NMFS
projects that the fishery will reach the ACL in any given fishing year, we would close the commercial and noncommercial fisheries in Federal waters
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