Non-substantive Change Request

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

OMB Control Number: 3060-1213

ICR Reference Number 201510-3060-013

Request: No material/non-substantive change request.

On November 19, 2015, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provided emergency approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) a new information collection by the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) on FCC Form 177, which will used by the public to apply to participate in reverse incentive auctions, including by broadcast television licensees seeking to establish their eligibility to participate in the reverse component of the Commission’s upcoming broadcast incentive auction. The supporting statement and application screenshots accompanying the Commission’s PRA approval request for the new FCC Form 177 stated that an applicant would be required to indicate on its FCC Form 177: (1) whether the station has a present intent to enter into a channel sharing agreement for a given station after the incentive auction, and (2) whether the applicant has entered into one or more executed channel sharing agreements for a given station. To provide clarification to applicants in responding to these questions, the Commission has made minor editorial changes on the Station Selection/Channel Sharing Agreement and Station Selection/Station Attachments pages of FCC Form 177 to indicate that the questions and associated fields on these pages should be answered based on channel sharing agreements with respect to which the applicant’s station is a channel sharee, not a channel sharer.

The Commission has updated its earlier-filed supporting statement to reflect the editorial changes associated with this clarification, and has included the updated supporting statement and screenshots of the two affected pages of FCC Form 177 as part of this non-substantive change request.

This change request does not have an impact on the burden hours or costs for this collection.