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SAB Staff Office should consider in
evaluating candidates.
For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a
balanced subcommittee or review panel
includes candidates who possess the
necessary domains of knowledge, the
relevant scientific perspectives (which,
among other factors, can be influenced
by work history and affiliation), and the
collective breadth of experience to
adequately address the charge. In
forming this expert panel, the SAB Staff
Office will consider public comments
on the List of Candidates, information
provided by the candidates themselves,
and background information
independently gathered by the SAB
Staff Office. Selection criteria to be used
for panel membership include: (a)
Scientific and/or technical expertise,
knowledge, and experience (primary
factors); (b) availability and willingness
to serve; (c) absence of financial
conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an
appearance of a loss of impartiality; (e)
skills working in committees,
subcommittees and advisory panels;
and, (f) for the panel as a whole,
diversity of expertise and scientific
points of view.
The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of
an absence of financial conflicts of
interest will include a review of the
‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure
Form for Special Government
Employees Serving on Federal Advisory
Committees at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’’ (EPA Form 3110–
48). This confidential form allows
government officials to determine
whether there is a statutory conflict
between a person’s public
responsibilities (which include
membership on an EPA federal advisory
committee) and private interests and
activities, or the appearance of a loss of
impartiality, as defined by federal
regulation. The form may be viewed and
downloaded from the following Web
address http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sab
product.nsf/Web/ethics?Open
Document. The EPA provides
information about ethics for advisory
members at the following Web address:
http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/
sabproduct.nsf/Web/ethics?Open
Document.
The approved policy under which the
EPA SAB Office selects subcommittees
and review panels is described in the
following document: Overview of the
Panel Formation Process at the
Environmental Protection Agency
Science Advisory Board (EPA–SAB–EC–
02–010), which is posted on the SAB
Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/
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Dated: March 18, 2014.
Thomas H. Brennan,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board
Staff Office.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information
Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission,
Comments Requested
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:

As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burden and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–
3520), the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection(s).
Comments are requested concerning:
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimate; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on the respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and further
ways to reduce the information burden
for small business concerns with fewer
than 25 employees.
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor
a collection of information unless it
displays a currently 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 (PRA) that
does not display a valid Control
Number.

SUMMARY:

Written Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before May 27, 2014. If
you anticipate that you will be
submitting comments, but find it
difficult to do so within the period of
time allowed by this notice, you should
advise the FCC contact listed below as
soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments
to Leslie F. Smith, Office of Managing
Director (OMD), Federal
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Communications Commission (FCC), via
the Internet at [email protected]. To
submit your PRA comments by email,
send them to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information, contact Leslie F.
Smith at (202) 418–0217, or via the
Internet at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–1081.
Title: Telecommunications Carriers
Eligible to Receive Universal Service
Support.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 20 respondents; 20
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 40
hours.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits, 47 CFR 54.202,
54.209.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Total Annual Burden: 800 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: If
respondents submit information which
respondents believe is confidential,
respondents may request confidential
treatment of such information pursuant
to section 0.459 of the Commission’s
rules, 47 CFR 0.459.
Needs and Uses: Designation as an
Eligible Telecommunications Carrier
(ETC) makes a telecommunications
carrier eligible to participate in the
Universal Service Fund’s high-cost and
low-income programs, which support
the extension of telecommunications
services to underserved rural and lowincome communities. In the absence of
this information collection, the
Commission’s ability to oversee the use
of Federal universal service funds and
to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in the
use of Federal funds would be
compromised. Section 54.202 of the
Commission’s rules requires carriers
seeking designation from the
Commission to submit an application
that certifies that the carrier will comply
with the service requirement applicable
to the support that it receives, 47 CFR
54.202(a)(1)(i), applicants must submit a
five year plan that describes with
specificity proposed improvements or
upgrades to the applicant’s network
throughout its proposed service area,
with estimates of the area and
population that will be served as a
result of the improvements,
§ 54.202(a)(1)(ii), an applicant must

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demonstrate its ability to remain
functional in emergency situations,
including a demonstration that it has a
reasonable amount of back-up power to
ensure functionality without an external
power source, is able to reroute traffic
around damaged facilities, and is
capable of managing traffic spikes
resulting from emergency situations,
§ 54.202(a)(2), demonstrate that it will
satisfy applicable consumer protection
and service quality standards,
§ 54.202(a)(3), A common carrier
seeking designation as an ETC for
purposes of receiving support only
under subpart E of Part 54 of the
Commission’s rules (Universal Service
Support for Low-Income Consumers)
must demonstrate that it is financially
and technically capable of providing the
Lifeline service in compliance with
subpart E, § 54.202(a)(4), applicants
must submit information describing the
terms and conditions of any voice
telephony service plans offered to
Lifeline subscribers, including details
on the number of minutes provided as
part of the plan, additional charges, if
any, for toll calls, and rates for each
such plan, § 54.202(a)(5). If the common
carrier is seeking designation as an
eligible telecommunications carrier
under section 214(e)(6) for any part of
Tribal lands shall provide a copy of its
petition to the affected tribal
government and tribal regulatory
authority, as applicable, at the time it
files its petition with the Federal
Communications Commission. In
addition, the Commission shall send
any public notice seeking comment on
any petition for designation as an
eligible telecommunications carrier on
Tribal lands, at the time it is released,
the affected tribal government and tribal
regulatory authority, as applicable, by
the most expeditious means available,
§ 54.202(c).
Federal Communications Commission.
Gloria J. Miles,
Federal Register Liaison, Office of the
Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
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Information Collection Being
Submitted for Review and Approval to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB)
Federal Communications
Commission (FCC).

AGENCY:
ACTION:

Notice; request for comments.

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As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burden and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3502–
3520), the FCC invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection.
Comments are requested concerning:
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimates; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on the respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and ways to
further reduce the information
collection burden on small business
concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor
a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB Control
Number. No person shall be subject to
any penalty for failing to comply with
a collection of information subject to the
PRA that does not display a valid OMB
Control Number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should
be submitted on or before April 28,
2014. If you anticipate that you will be
submitting PRA comments, but find it
difficult to do so within the period of
time allowed by this notice, you should
advise the FCC contact listed below as
soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments
to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), via fax
at 202–395–5167, or via the Internet at
[email protected] and
to Leslie Smith, Office of Managing
Director (OMD), Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), via
the Internet at [email protected]. To
submit your PRA comments by email,
send them to: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Leslie Smith, Office of Managing
Director (OMD), Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), at
202–418–0217, or via the Internet at:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0823.
Title: Part 64, Pay Telephone
Reclassification.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
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Number of Respondents and
Responses: 400 respondents; 16,820
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 2.66
hours (average).
Frequency of Response: On occasion,
quarterly and monthly reporting
requirements and third party disclosure
requirements.
Obligation To Respond: Mandatory.
Statutory authority for this information
collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151,
154, 201–205, 218, 226 and 276.
Total Annual Burden: 44,700 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $652,000.
Privacy Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
Confidentiality concerns are not
relevant to these types of disclosures.
The Commission is not requesting
carriers or providers to submit
confidential information to the
Commission. If the Commission
requests that carriers or providers
submit information which they believe
is confidential, the carriers or providers
may request confidential treatment of
their information under 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
established a plan to ensure that
payphone service providers (PSPs) were
compensated for certain non-coin calls
originated from their payphones. As
part of this plan, the Commission
required that by October 7, 1997, local
exchange carriers were to provide
payphone-specific coding digits to PSPs,
and that PSPs were to provide those
digits from their payphones to
interexchange carriers. The provision of
payphone-specific coding digits was a
prerequisite to payphone per-call
compensation payments by IXCs to
PSPs for subscriber 800 and access code
calls. The Commission’s Wireline
Competition Bureau subsequently
provided a waiver until March 9, 1998,
for those payphones for which the
necessary coding digits were not
provided to identify calls. The Bureau
also on that date clarified the
requirements established in the
Payphone Orders for the provision of
payphone-specific coding digits and for
tariffs that LECs must file pursuant to
the Payphone Orders.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of
Managing Director.
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