Pre-approval
contingent upon no substantive changes to this collection after
adoption of the final rule. Otherwise this collection should be
re-submitted to OMB for review.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
11/30/2014
36 Months From Approved
06/30/2013
648
0
640
26,957
0
23,040
1,749,600
0
1,065,600
On August 1, 2011, the Commission
adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM"), Revision of the
Commission's Program Carriage Rules, MB Docket No. 11-131, FCC
11-119. The Commission seeks comment on the following proposed
revisions to or clarifications of the program carriage rules, which
are intended to further improve the Commission's procedures and to
advance the goals of the program carriage statute: (i) modifying
the program carriage statute of limitations to provide that a
complaint must be filed within one year of the act that allegedly
violated the rules; (ii) revising discovery procedures for program
carriage complaint proceedings in which the Media Bureau rules on
the merits of the complaint after discovery is conducted, including
expanded discovery procedures (also known as party-to-party
discovery) and an automatic document production process, to ensure
fairness to all parties while also ensuring compliance with the
expedited resolution deadlines; (iii) permitting the award of
damages in program carriage cases; (iv) providing the Media Bureau
or administrative law judge ("ALJ") with the discretion to order
parties to submit their best "final offer" for the rates, terms,
and conditions for the programming at issue in a complaint
proceeding to assist in crafting a remedy; (v) clarifying the rule
that delays the effectiveness of a mandatory carriage remedy until
it is upheld by the Commission on review, including codifying a
requirement that the defendant MVPD must make an evidentiary
showing to the Media Bureau or an ALJ as to whether a mandatory
carriage remedy would result in deletion of other programming; (vi)
codifying in the Commission's rules that retaliation by an MVPD
against a programming vendor for filing a program carriage
complaint is actionable as a potential form of discrimination on
the basis of affiliation and adopting other measures to address
retaliation; (vii) adopting a rule that requires a vertically
integrated MVPD to negotiate in good faith with an unaffiliated
programming vendor with respect to video programming that is
similarly situated to video programming affiliated with the MVPD;
(viii) clarifying that the discrimination provision precludes a
vertically integrated MVPD from discriminating on the basis of a
programming vendor's lack of affiliation with another MVPD; and
(ix) codifying in the Commission's rules which party bears the
burden of proof in program carriage discrimination cases.
As a result of the NPRM, FCC
11-119, there are program changes to this collection. They are as
follows: the total number of respondents has increased by +8, the
total number of annual responses has increased by +8 responses, the
total annual burden hours increased by +3,917 and total annual cost
burden increased by +$684,000 for this information collection.
There are no adjustments to this information collection.
$657,153
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
David Konczal
2024182120
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
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with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
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the proposed collection of information, that the certification
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(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
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benefit, or mandatory);
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