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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 108 / Tuesday, June 8, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
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Washington, DC 20554. Please include the OMB Control Number, 30600986, in your correspondence. The Commission will also accept your comments via email at PRA@fcc.gov.
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Synopsis As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 44 U.S.C. 3507, the Commission is notifying the public that it received OMB approval on May 10, 2021, for the information collection requirements contained in 47 CFR
54.313e introductory text, e2
introductory text and paragraphs n and o published at 84 FR 59937, November 7, 2019. Under 5 CFR part 1320, an agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a current, valid OMB Control Number.
No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act that does not display a current, valid OMB Control Number. The OMB Control Number is 30600986.
The foregoing notification is required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 10413, October 1, 1995, and 44 U.S.C. 3507.
The total annual reporting burdens and costs for the respondents are as follows:
OMB Control Number: 30600986.
OMB Approval Date: May 10, 2021.
OMB Expiration Date: May 31, 2024.
Title: High-Cost Universal Service Support.
Form Number: FCC Form 481 and FCC Form 525.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit, Not-for-profit institutions and State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 2,049 unique respondents;
14,358 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.115
hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, quarterly and annual reporting requirements, recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151154, 155,
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201206, 214, 218220, 251, 252, 254, 256, 303r, 332, 403, 405, 410, and 1302.
Total Annual Burden: 53,955 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No Cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
The Commission notes that the Universal Service Administrative Company USAC must preserve the confidentiality of all data obtained from respondents and contributors to the universal service support program mechanism; must not use the data except for purposes of administering the universal service program; must not use the data except for purposes of administering the universal support program; and must not disclose data in company-specific form unless directed to do so by the Commission. Parties may submit confidential information in relation to the Privately Held Rate-ofReturn Carrier Financial Information requirement pursuant to a protective order. Also, respondents may request materials or information submitted to the Commission or to the Administrator believed confidential to be withheld from public inspection under 47 CFR
0.459 of the FCCs rules.
Needs and Uses: On November 18, 2011, the Commission adopted an order reforming its high-cost universal service support mechanisms. Connect America Fund; A National Broadband Plan for Our Future; Establish Just and Reasonable Rates for Local Exchange Carriers; High-Cost Universal Service Support; Developing a Unified Intercarrier Compensation Regime;
Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service; Lifeline and Link-Up; Universal Service ReformMobility Fund, WC
Docket Nos. 1090, 07135, 05337, 03
109; GN Docket No. 0951; CC Docket Nos. 0192, 9645; WT Docket No. 10
208, Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 26 FCC Rcd 17663 2011 USF/ICC Transformation Order, and the Commission and Wireline Competition Bureau have since adopted a number of orders that implement the USF/ICC Transformation Order; see also Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket No. 1090 et al., Third Order on Reconsideration, 27 FCC Rcd 5622 2012; Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket No. 1090 et al., Order, 27 FCC Rcd 605 Wireline Comp. Bur.
2012; Connect America Fund et al., WC
Docket No. 1090 et al., Fifth Order on Reconsideration, 27 FCC Rcd 14549
2012; Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket No. 1090 et al., Order, 28
FCC Rcd 2051 Wireline Comp. Bur.
2013; Connect America Fund et al., WC
Docket No. 1090 et al., Order, 28 FCC

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Connect America Fund, WC Docket No.
1090, Report and Order, 28 FCC Rcd 7766 Wireline Comp. Bur. 2013;
Connect America Fund, WC Docket No.
1090, Report and Order, 28 FCC Rcd 7211 Wireline Comp. Bur. 2013;
Connect America Fund, WC Docket No.
1090, Report and Order, 28 FCC Rcd 10488 Wireline Comp. Bur. 2013;
Connect America Fund et al., WC
Docket No. 1090 et al., Report and Order, Order and Order on Reconsideration and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 31 FCC Rcd 3087
2016; Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket Nos. 1090, 16271; WT
Docket No. 10208, Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 31 FCC Rcd 10139 2016;
Connect America Fund; ETC Annual Reports and Certifications, WC Docket Nos. 1090, 1458, Order, 32 FCC Rcd 968 2017; Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket No. 1090 et al., Report and Order, Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and Order on Reconsideration, 33 FCC Rcd 11893
2018; Connect America Fund; ETC
Annual Reports and Certifications, WC
Docket Nos. 1090, 1458, Report and Order, 32 FCC Rcd 5944 2017. The Commission has received OMB
approval for most of the information collections required by these orders. At a later date, the Commission plans to submit additional revisions for OMB
review to address other reforms adopted in the orders.
More recently, the Commission adopted the Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund and Connect USVI Fund Order, which allocated nearly a billion additional dollars to United States territories that had suffered extensive infrastructure damage due to Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund and the Connect USVI Fund, et al., WC Docket No. 18143, et al., Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration, 34 FCC Rcd 9109
2019 Puerto Rico and USVI Stage 2
Order. The Commission adopted similar accountability measures for recipients of this support as required of other high-cost support recipients to ensure that providers receive support only for the provision, maintenance, and upgrading of facilities and services for which the support is intended.
Puerto Rico and USVI Stage 2 Order, 34
FCC Rcd at 9149, para. 72.
In the 2019 Supply Chain Order, the Commission also adopted a rule prohibiting the use of USF support to purchase or obtain any equipment or services produced or provided by a covered company posing a national security threat to the integrity of
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