3060-0783
March 2009
SUPPORTING STATEMENT
A. Justification:
The Commission is requesting an extension (no change in the reporting and/or third party disclosure requirements) from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in order to obtain the three year clearance from them. There is no change in the estimated number of respondents/responses and burden hours.
1. Section 90.176 requires each Private Land Mobile frequency coordinator to provide, within one business day, a listing of their frequency recommendations to all other frequency coordinators in their respective pool, and, if requested, an engineering analysis. Any method can be used to ensure this compliance with the “one business day requirement” and must provide, at a minimum, the name of the applicant; frequency or frequencies recommended; antenna locations and heights; the effective radiated power; the type(s) of emissions; the description of the service area; and the date and time of the recommendation. If a conflict in recommendations arises, the affected coordnators are jointly responsible for taking action to resolve the conflict, up to and including notifying the Commission that an application may have to be returned.
Statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in Sections 4(i), 11, 303(g), 303(r), and 332(c)(7) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 161, 303(g), 303(r), 332(c)(7) unless otherwise noted.
As noted on the Form OMB 83-I, this information collection does not affect individuals or households; thus, there are no impacts under the Privacy Act.
This requirement seeks to avoid situations where harmful interference is created because two or more coordinators recommend the same frequency in the same area at approximately the same time to different applicants.
Prior to finalizing rule makings the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau conducts an analysis to insure that improved information technology cannot be used to reduce the burden on the public. This analysis considers the possibility of obtaining and/or computer‑generating the required data from existing data bases in the Commission or other federal agencies.
This agency does not impose a similar information collection on the respondents. There are no similar data available.
In conformance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Commission is making an effort to minimize the burden on all respondents, regardless of size. The Commission has limited the information requirements to those absolutely necessary fore evaluating and processing each application and to deter against possible abuses of the processes.
This information is collected only once—when the frequency coordinators arrive at consensus concerning which entity is to receive which frequency(s). Accordingly, less frequent collections are not feasible.
Current data collection is consistent with 5 CFR Section 1320.6.
The Commission published a 60-day notice to solicit public comment which appeared in the Federal Register on December 22, 2008 (73 FR 78356). No comments were received as a result of the notice.
Respondents will not receive any payments.
There is no need for confidentiality.
There are no requests of a sensitive nature considered or those considered a private matter being sought from the applicants on this collection.
The information is required daily from each frequency coordinator.
Although the R&O has added the 1400 MHz frequency bands to those that the frequency coordinators must address, we estimate that the time required resolving these frequency coordination issues will remain 0.5 hours.
Approximately 15 Privacy Land Mobile frequency coordinators will take 0.5 hours daily to respond to these coordination efforts. These coordination efforts will occur, on average each business day, every week of the year.
Total Hourly Burden:
15 coordinators x 0.5 hours/daily x 5 business days/week x 52 weeks/year = 1,950 hours
Estimate of cost to respondents:
a. There are no capital or start-up costs.
b. There are no operational or maintenance costs
Estimate of cost to Federal Government: none
There is no change in the estimated burden.
The data will not be published for statistical use.
We do not seek approval to not display the expiration date for OMB approval of the information collection.
There were no exceptions to Certification Statement in Item 19.
B. Collections of Information Employing Statistical Methods:
No statistical methods are employed.
| File Type | application/msword |
| File Title | 3060-0259 |
| Author | JSHAFFER |
| Last Modified By | Judith-B.Herman |
| File Modified | 2009-03-13 |
| File Created | 2009-03-13 |