Non-substantive Change Request

NON-SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE REQUEST JUSTIFICATION

OMB CONTROL NO. 3060-0031

Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License, FCC Form 314; Application for Consent to Transfer Control of Entity Holding Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License, FCC Form 315

The Commission submits this non-substantive change request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval of a minor, non-substantive change to the supporting statement associated with the information collection for FCC Form 314, Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License, and for FCC Form 315, Application for Consent to Transfer Control of Entity Holding Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License.

On March 15, 2019, the Commission adopted the Streamlined Reauthorization Procedures for Assigned or Transferred Television Satellite Stations; Modernization of Media Regulation Initiative, MB Docket Nos. 18-63 & 17-105, Report and Order, FCC 19-17 (rel. Mar. 12, 2019). The Commission adopted streamlined procedures for reauthorizing television satellite stations when they are assigned or transferred. The streamlined procedures allow the applicants to the transaction to attach as an exhibit to the relevant form (i.e., FCC Form 314 or 315) a certification that no material changes have occurred in the underlying circumstances warranting the station’s existing satellite authorization and a copy of the most recent written Commission decision granting the authorization. Waivers of the media ownership rules already are submitted as exhibits to the forms and are accounted for in the burden estimates for the rules. Therefore, these streamlined procedures for satellite exceptions to the rule do not necessitate edits either to FCC Forms 314 and 315 or to the annual burden estimates in the associated supporting statement due to the very small number of satellite stations that are assigned or transferred annually. The change, which is listed below, does not affect the substance, burden hours, or costs of completing the forms.

Change – Addition of a reference to the reauthorization of a television satellite station:

A reference to the reauthorization of a television satellite station is added to the paragraph that is numbered 13 of the supporting statement.