Non-substantive Change Request

November, 2018

Federal Communications Commission

Explanation of Non-Substantive Changes to OMB Control Number: 3060-0798:

• Rules governing FCC Form 601.

Purpose of this Submission: The Commission is submitting a non-substantive change request to an existing information collection pursuant to 44 U.S.C. § 3507. On October 22, 2018, the Commission released a Report and Order in WP Docket No. 15-32 which modified the text to Section 90.175(e) of the Commission’s rules. The updated rule section requires applicants seeking to license newly available 12.5 kHz bandwidth interstitial channels in the 809-817 MHz / 854-862 MHz segment of the 800 MHz band (800 MHz Mid-Band) to include a showing of frequency coordination with their application for license.

Applicants include a showing of frequency coordination by completing Schedule H of FCC Form 601. Applicants indicate on Schedule H whether or not their application was successfully coordinated before it was filed with the Commission and, if so, which Commission-approved frequency coordinator performed the coordination.

The Commission now seeks OMB approval to modify its currently approved collection of information under OMB Control Number 3060-0798 to permit the collection of frequency coordination information on Schedule H of FCC Form 601 from applicants seeking to license the newly available 12.5 kHz bandwidth interstitial channels in the 800 MHz Mid-Band. The Commission does not anticipate this update will have any impact on the burden for applicants to complete FCC Form 601 including Schedule H.

The Report and Order makes no change to the questions, instructions or information collected on FCC Form 601. Applicants seeking to license newly available 12.5 kHz bandwidth interstitial channels in the 800 MHz Mid-Band submit the same frequency coordination information on Schedule H that they were required to submit before the Report and Order was released. Consequently, the Commission anticipates no change to the information collection burden or in the total annual costs stemming from the modification to the text of Section 90.175(e) in the Report and Order.

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