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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 59 / Tuesday, March 30, 2021 / Proposed Rules requirements, they will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget OMB for review under section 3507d of the PRA. OMB, the general public, and other federal agencies will be invited to comment on the new or modified information collection requirements contained in this proceeding. In addition, pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, we seek specific comment on how we might further reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.

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Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis As required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980, as amended RFA, the Commission has prepared this Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis IRFA of the possible significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities by the policies and rules proposed in the notice of proposed rulemaking Notice.
Written public comments are requested on this IRFA. Comments must be identified as responses to the IRFA and must be filed by the deadlines for comments on the Notice.
A. Need for, and Objectives of, the Proposed Rules In the Notice, the Commission proposes amending the rules governing Wireless Emergency Alerts WEA and the Emergency Alert System EAS in response to the William M. Mac Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.
Specifically, the Commission seeks comment on proposed rules that would i replace WEAs existing Presidential Alert class with a National Alert class that would ensure that WEA-enabled mobile devices could not opt-out of receiving WEA alerts issued by the President or the Presidents authorized designee or by the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA; ii require participating CMS
providers that use WEA header displays that read Presidential Alert to change those alert headers to read National Alert; iii encourage chief executives of states to form State Emergency Communications Committees SECC if none exist in their states, or if they do, to review their composition and governance; iv incorporate certain processing actions concerning SECCs and the FCCs administration of State EAS Plans; v enable false EAS and WEA alert reporting by the Administrator of FEMA as well as State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments; and vi provide for repeating EAS alerts issued by the President, the Administrator of FEMA

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and any other entity determined appropriate under the circumstances by the Commission, in consultation with the Administrator of FEMA. To the extent this proposed and contemplated action may result in greater participation by state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments in the administration of State EAS Plans, enhanced administration of EAS
alerting, hasten corrective action of any false alerts issued, and better enable alert originators to repeat alerts, they would benefit the public by strengthening national, state, local, Tribal, and territorial alerting activities, minimizing confusion and disruption caused by false alerts, and increase the chances for the public to receive critical alert messages.
B. Legal Basis The proposed action is authorized pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, Public Law 116283, 134 Stat. 3388
2021, sec. 9201.
C. Description and Estimate of the Number of Small Entities to Which the Proposed Rules Will Apply The RFA directs agencies to provide a description of and, where feasible, an estimate of, the number of small entities that may be affected by the proposed rules, if adopted. The RFA generally defines the term small entity as having the same meaning as the terms small business, small organization, and small governmental jurisdiction.
In addition, the term small business has the same meaning as the term small business concern under the Small Business Act. A small business concern is one which: 1 Is independently owned and operated; 2
is not dominant in its field of operation;
and 3 satisfies any additional criteria established by the SBA.
Small Businesses, Small Organizations, and Small Governmental Jurisdictions. Our action may, over time, affect small entities that are not easily categorized at present. We therefore describe here, at the outset, three broad groups of small entities that could be directly affected herein. First, while there are industry specific size standards for small businesses that are used in the regulatory flexibility analysis, according to data from the SBAs Office of Advocacy, in general a small business is an independent business having fewer than 500
employees. These types of small businesses represent 99.9% of all businesses in the United States which translates to 30.7 million businesses.

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Next, the type of small entity described as a small organization is generally any not-for-profit enterprise which is independently owned and operated and is not dominant in its field. Internal Revenue Service IRS
uses a revenue benchmark of $50,000 or less to delineate its annual electronic filing requirements for small exempt organizations. Nationwide, for tax year 2018, there were approximately 571,709
small exempt organizations in the U.S.
reporting revenues of $50,000 or less according to the registration and tax data for exempt organizations available from the IRS.
Finally, the small entity described as a small governmental jurisdiction is defined generally as governments of cities, counties, towns, townships, villages, school districts, or special districts, with a population of less than fifty thousand. U.S. Census Bureau data from the 2017 Census of Governments indicate that there were 90,056 local governmental jurisdictions consisting of general purpose governments and special purpose governments in the United States. Of this number there were 36,931 General purpose governments county, municipal and town or township with populations of less than 50,000 and 12,040 special purpose governments independent school districts with enrollment of less than 50,000.
Accordingly, based on the 2017 U.S.
Census of Governments data, we estimate that at least 48,971 entities fall into the category of small governmental jurisdictions.
Radio Stations. This Economic Census category comprises establishments primarily engaged in broadcasting aural programs by radio to the public. Programming may originate in their own studio, from an affiliated network, or from external sources. The SBA has established a small business size standard for this category as firms having $41.5 million or less in annual receipts. Economic Census data for 2012
show that 2,849 radio station firms operated during that year. Of that number, 2,806 firms operated with annual receipts of less than $25 million per year, 17 with annual receipts between $25 million and $49,999,999
million and 26 with annual receipts of $50 million or more. Therefore, based on the SBAs size standard the majority of such entities are small entities.
In addition to the U.S. Census Bureaus data, based on Commission data we estimate that there are 4,560
licensed AM radio stations, 6,704
commercial FM radio stations and 8,339
FM translator and booster stations. The Commission has also determined that
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