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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 35 / Wednesday, February 24, 2021 / Rules and Regulations and comment rulemaking proceedings.
See 5 U.S.C. 603a. As we are adopting these rules without notice and comment, no regulatory flexibility analysis is required.

requirements in paragraphs a1
through 5 of this section.
11. Revise 2540.207 to read as follows:
2540.207

Waiver.

CNCS may waive provisions of 2540.200 through.2540.206 for good cause, or for any other lawful basis. To request a waiver, submit a written request to NSCHC Waiver Requests, 250
E Street SW, Washington DC 20525, or send your request to NSCHCWaiverRequest@cns.gov.
Dated: February 12, 2021.
Lisa Guccione, Deputy Chief of Staff.
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B. Final Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 Analysis 2. This document does not contain new or modified information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 PRA, Public Law 10413. In addition, therefore, it does not contain any new or modified information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25
employees, pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 107198, see 44 U.S.C.
3506c4.
C. Congressional Review Act
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 1
MD Docket No. 2064; FCC 20172; FRS
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Closure of FCC Lockbox 979089 Used To File Fees for Services Provided by the Media Bureau Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission FCC or Commission adopts an Order that closes Lockbox 979089 and modifies the relevant rule provisions to require electronic filing and fee payments.
DATES: Effective March 26, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Warren Firschein, Office of Managing Director at 202 4182653 or Roland Helvajian, Office of Managing Director at 202 4180444.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commissions Order, FCC 20172, MD Docket No. 2064, adopted on December 7, 2020 and released on December 10, 2020, which is the subject of this rulemaking. The full text of this document is available for public inspection and copying by downloading the text from the Commissions website at https
www.fcc.gov/document/closurelockbox-used-collect-fee-paymentsmedia-bureau.

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SUMMARY:

A. Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 1. Section 603 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, as amended, requires a regulatory flexibility analysis in notice
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II. Introduction 4. In the Order, we reduce expenditures by the Commission and modernize procedures by amending 1.1104 of our rules, 47 CFR 1.1104, which sets forth the application fees for services administered by the FCCs Media Bureau MB. The rule amendment reflects the closure of the lockbox P.O. Box 1 used for such manual payment of filing fees for nine types of IB services: 1 Commercial TV
Services; 2 Commercial AM Radio Stations; 3 Commercial FM Radio Stations; 4 FM Translators; 5 TV
Translators and LPTV Stations; 6 FM
Booster Stations; 7 TV Booster Stations; 8 Class A TV Services; and 9 Cable Television Services. We discontinue the option of manual fee payments and instead require the use of an electronic payment for each service listed above.
5. Section 1.1104 of the Commissions rules, 47 CFR 1.1104, provides a schedule of application fees for proceedings handled by MB. The rule had also directed filers that do not utilize the Commissions on-line filing 1A

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3. The Commission will not send a copy of the Order pursuant to the Congressional Review Act, see 5 U.S.C.
801a1A, because the adopted rules are rules of agency organization, procedure, or practice that do not substantially affect the rights or obligations of non-agency parties. See 5
U.S.C. 8043C.

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P.O. Box used for the collection of fees is referred to as a lockbox in our rules and other Commission documents. The FCC collects application processing fees using a series of P.O.
Boxes located at U.S. Bank in St. Louis, Missouri.
See 47 CFR 1.11011.1109 setting forth the fee schedule for each type of application remittable to the Commission along with the correct lockbox.

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and fee payment systems to send manual payments to P.O. Box 979089 at U.S. Bank in St. Louis, Missouri. In recent years, there have been a decreasing number of lockbox filers, and it now is rare that the Commission receives a lockbox payment.
6. The Commission has begun to reduce its reliance on P.O. Boxes for the collection of fees, instead encouraging the use of electronic payment systems for all application and regulatory fees and closing certain lockboxes. We find that electronic payment of fees for the services processed by MB reduces the agencys expenditures including eliminating the annual fee for the banks services and the cost of manually processing each transaction, with little or no inconvenience to the Commissions regulatees, applicants, and the public.
7. As part of this effort, we are now closing P.O. Box 979089 and modifying the relevant rule provision that requires payment of fees via the closed P.O. Box.
The rules changes are contained in the Appendix of the Order and the Final Rules of this document. We make these changes without notice and comment because they are rules of agency organization, procedure, or practice exempt from the general notice-andcomment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act, see 5
U.S.C. 553bA.
8. Implementation. As a temporary transition measure, for 90 days after publication of this document in the Federal Register, U.S. Bank will continue to process payments to P.O.
Box 979089. After that date, payments for these MB services must be made in accordance with the procedures set forth on the Commissions website, https www.fcc.gov/licensingdatabases/fees/application-processingfees Media Bureau Fee Filing Guide.
For now, such payments will be made through the Fee Filer Online System Fee Filer, accessible at https
www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/
fee-filer. As we assess and implement U.S. Treasury initiatives toward an allelectronic payment system, we may transition to other secure payment systems with appropriate public notice and guidance.
III. Ordering Clauses 9. Accordingly, it is ordered, that pursuant to sections 4i, 4j, 158, 208, and 224 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 154i, 154j, 158, 208, and 224, the Order is hereby adopted and the rules set forth in the Appendix of the Order are hereby amended effective March 26, 2021.

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