98-6658. Public Information Collection Approved by Office of Management and Budget

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 50 (Monday, March 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 12804]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6658]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collection Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

March 6, 1998.
    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public 
information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 
Pub. L. 96-511. An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid control number. Not 
withstanding any other provisions of law, 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. Questions concerning the OMB control numbers and 
expiration dates should be directed to Judy Boley, Federal 
Communications Commission, [phone].

Federal Communications Commission

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0767.
    Expiration Date: 7/31/1998.
    Title: Auction Forms and License Transfer Disclosures Supplement 
for the 2nd R&O, Order on Reconsideration, and 5th NPRM in CC.
    Docket No. 92-297.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 773,000 annual hour; average .5-20 hours 
per response; 180,000 responses.
    Description: The auction rules, among, other things, require small 
business applicants to submit ownership information and gross revenues 
calculations, and all applicants to submit terms of joint bidding 
agreements (if any). Additionally in case a licensee defaults or loses 
its license, the Commission retains the discretion to reauction such 
licenses. This collection was revised to include additional 
requirements that are a result of the Commission adopting a general 
rule to determine the amount of unjust enrichment payments to be 
assessed upon assignment, transfer, partitioning and sisaggregation of 
licenses. The new rule, applicable to all current and future licensees, 
is based upon the unjust enrichment rule applicable to broadband PCS 
licensees. Therefore, transfer disclosure requirements apply in all 
license transactions. The Commission is also amending its general anti-
collusion rules, permitting the holder of a non-controlling 
attributable interest in an applicant to obtain an ownership interest 
in or enter into a consortium arrangement with another applicant for a 
license in the same geographic area provided that the original 
applicant has withdrawn from the auction, is no longer placing bids, 
and has no further eligibility. To meet the requirements of the 
exception, the attributable interest holder will be required to certify 
to the Commission that it did not communicate with the new applicant 
prior to the date the original applicant withdrew from the auction, and 
that it will not convey bidding information.

Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-6658 Filed 3-13-98; 8:45 am]
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