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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 181 / Wednesday, September 22, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
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FY 2020 INTERNATIONAL BEARER CIRCUITSSUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEMSContinued Submarine cable systems capacity as of December 31, 2019

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250 Gbps or greater, but less than 1,500 Gbps
1,500 Gbps or greater, but less than 3,500 Gbps
3,500 Gbps or greater, but less than 6,500 Gbps
6,500 Gbps or greater

IV. Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 1. As required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980, as amended RFA, an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis IRFA was included in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking NPRM
for fiscal year 2021. The Commission sought written public comment on these proposals including comment on the IRFA. This Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis FRFA conforms to the IRFA.
A. Need for, and Objectives of, the Report and Order 2. In the Report and Order, the Commission adopts a regulatory fee schedule to collect $374,000,000 in congressionally required regulatory fees for fiscal year FY 2021. Under section 9 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, Communications Act or Act, regulatory fees are mandated by Congress and collected to recover the regulatory costs associated with the Commissions enforcement, policy and rulemaking, user information, and international activities in an amount that can be reasonably expected to equal the amount of the Commissions annual appropriation. The objective in the Report for adopting the regulatory fee schedule is to comply with the Congressional mandate to recover the total amount of the Commissions annual appropriation, from the various industries for which the Commission provides oversight or regulation, based on the number of full time employees FTEs involved in such oversight and regulation in the licensing bureaus.
B. Summary of the Significant Issues Raised by the Public Comments in Response to the IRFA
3. None.
C. Response to Comments by the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration 4. No comments were filed by the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration.

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D. Description and Estimate of the Number of Small Entities to Which the Rules Will Apply 5. 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 and policies, 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.
6. Small Businesses, Small Organizations, Small Governmental Jurisdictions. Small Businesses, Small Organizations, Small Governmental Jurisdictions. Our actions, over time, may 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 Small Business Administrations SBA
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.
7. 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. The 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

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8. 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 90,075 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 populations of less than 5ll governmental jurisdictions.
9. Wired Telecommunications Carriers. The U.S. Census Bureau defines this industry as establishments primarily engaged in operating and/or providing access to transmission facilities and infrastructure that they own and/or lease for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound, and video using wired communications networks.
Transmission facilities may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies. Establishments in this industry use the wired telecommunications network facilities that they operate to provide a variety of services, such as wired telephony services, including Voice over internet Protocol VoIP services, wired cable and IPTV audio and video programming distribution, and wired broadband internet services. By exception, establishments providing satellite television distribution services using facilities and infrastructure that they operate are included in this industry. The SBA has developed a small business size standard for Wired Telecommunications Carriers, which consists of all such companies having 1,500 or fewer employees. U.S. Census Bureau data for 2012 show that there were 3,117 firms that operated that year.
Of this total, 3,083 operated with fewer
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