Control of Paperwork Burdens on the Public; Delegation of Review and Approval Authority to the Managing Director of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Résumé

This Rule delegates to the Managing Director of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) the authority, under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, as amended (the Act), and 5 CFR 1320.9, to reauthorize information collection requests, information collection requirements, and collections of information in current rules conducted or sponsored by the Commission. This delegation applies to collections of information that have been initially approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and have an annual total public burden that is 5,000 hours or less and an estimated burden per respondent of less than 500 hours. In exercising this delegated authority, the Commission is to afford the public an opportunity to participate in the reauthorization review process. Commission- reauthorized collections of information will be incorporated into the official OMB inventory of currently approved collections of information. A report of delegated approval for each information collection reauthorized by the Commission will be placed in OMB's public docket files when that approval is made. Under the Act, OMB may limit, condition, or rescind this delegation at any time, but it is inten