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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 108 / Tuesday, June 8, 2021 / Rules and Regulations page. OEA and WTB believe that these materials are sufficient to ensure that Auction 110 applicants can certify truthfully that they have read the auction procedures and familiarized themselves with the relevant rules and requirements.
17. RWA does not provide evidence that outside consultants are needed to enable an entity to certify truthfully that it has read the public notice adopting the procedures for the auction and that it has familiarized itself both with the auction procedures and with the requirements for obtaining a license and operating facilities in the 3.453.55 GHz band. Instead, RWA claims that small entity bidders cannot make complex decisions on the future impacts of auction bidding, participation, and winning bidder compliance requirements without outside counsel.
In doing so, RWA appears to conflate compliance with auction procedures in this case, certifying that they have read the public notice adopting procedures for Auction 110 and familiarized themselves with those procedures and the service rules for the 3.453.55 GHz band with the development of bidding strategies and compliance with the relevant service rules. The Commission does not believe that outside consultants of this sort are necessary for an applicant to comply with this certification requirement.
18. Steps Taken to Minimize the Significant Economic Impact on Small Entities, and Significant Alternatives Considered. The RFA requires an agency to describe any significant, specifically small business, alternatives that it has considered in reaching its 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 and reporting requirements under the rule for such 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 such small entities.
19. The Commission has taken steps to minimize any economic impact of its auction procedures on small entities through, among other things, the many free resources the Commission provides to potential auction participants.
Consistent with the past practices in prior auctions, small entities that are potential participants will have access to the public notice adopting the procedures for Auction 110 prior to the opening of the application window, and
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already have access to the 3.45 GHz Second Report and Order on both the Commissions main website and the Auction 110 web page. The Commission makes this information publicly available and easily accessible and without charge to benefit all potential Auction 110 applicants, including small entities, thereby lowering their administrative costs to comply with the Commissions competitive bidding rules.
20. Small entities and other auction participants may seek clarification of, or guidance regarding, the Auction 110
procedures and the service rules for the 3.453.55 GHz band rules prior to the Auction 110 application window.
Additionally, an FCC Auctions Hotline will provide small entities one-on-one access to Commission staff for information about the auction process and procedures. The FCC Auctions Technical Support Hotline is another resource that provides technical assistance to applicants, including small entities, on issues such as access to or navigation within the electronic FCC
Form 175 and use of the bidding system.
21. The Commission also makes various databases and other sources of information, including the auctions program web pages and copies of Commission decisions, available to the public without charge, providing a lowcost mechanism for small entities to conduct research prior to and throughout the auction.
22. These procedures for the conduct of Auction 110 constitute the more specific implementation of the competitive bidding rules contemplated by parts 1 and 27 of the Commissions rules and the underlying rulemaking decisions regarding the 3.453.55 GHz band, including the 3.45 GHz Second Report and Order and relevant competitive bidding decisions, and are fully consistent therewith.
23. Report to Congress. The Commission will send a copy of the Auction 110 Certification Requirement Public Notice, including the Supplemental FRFA, in a report to Congress pursuant to the Congressional Review Act. In addition, the Commission will send a copy of the Auction 110 Certification Requirement Public Notice, including the Supplemental FRFA, to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the SBA.
Federal Communications Commission.
Erik Salovaara, Assistant Chief, Auctions Division, Office of Economics and Analytics.
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The Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund and the Connect USVI Fund, Connect America Fund, ETC Annual Reports and Certifications Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date.
AGENCY:

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget OMB has approved, for a period of three years, an information collection associated with the rules for the Connect America Fund contained in the Commissions Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund and Connect USVI
Fund Order, FCC 1995. This document is consistent with the Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund and Connect USVI Fund Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of the new information collection requirements.
DATES: The amendments to 54.313e introductory text, e2 introductory text and paragraphs n and o published at 84 FR 59937, November 7, 2019 are effective June 8, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Suzanne Yelen, Wireline Competition Bureau at 202 4187400 or TTY 202
4180484. For additional information concerning the Paperwork Reduction Act information collection requirements contact Nicole Ongele at 202 4182991
or via email: Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Commission submitted revised information collection requirements for review and approval by OMB, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act PRA of 1995, on March 8, 2021, which were approved by OMB on May 10, 2021. The information collection requirements are contained in the Commissions Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund and Connect USVI Fund Order, FCC 1995 published at 84 FR 59937, November 7, 2019. The OMB Control Number is 30600986. If you have any comments on the burden estimates listed in the following, or how the Commission can improve the collections and reduce any burdens caused thereby, please contact Nicole Ongele, Federal Communications Commission, 45 L Street NE, SUMMARY:

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