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27846 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 115 / Thursday, June 14, 2018 / Proposed Rules FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 65, MD Docket No. 18–175 adopted on presentations, and all attachments COMMISSION May 21, 2018 and released on May 22, thereto, must be filed through the 2018. The full text of this document is electronic comment filing system 47 CFR Part 1 available for inspection and copying available for that proceeding, and must [MD Docket Nos. 18–175; FCC 18–65] during normal business hours in the be filed in their native format (e.g., .doc, FCC Reference Center, 445 12th Street .xml, .ppt, searchable .pdf). Participants Assessment and Collection of SW, Room CY–A257, Portals II, in this proceeding should familiarize Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2018 Washington, DC 20554, and may also be themselves with the Commission’s ex purchased from the Commission’s copy parte rules. AGENCY: Federal Communications contractor, BCPI, Inc., Portals II, 445 B. Comment Filing Procedures Commission. 12th Street SW, Room CY–B402, ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. Washington, DC 20554. Customers may 2. Comments and Replies. Pursuant to contact BCPI, Inc. via their website, sections 1.415 and 1.419 of the SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal http://www.bcpi.com, or call 1–800– Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 1.415, Communications Commission 378–3160. This document is available in 1.419, interested parties may file (Commission) will revise its Schedule of alternative formats (computer diskette, comments and reply comments on or Regulatory Fees in order to recover an large print, audio record, and braille). before the dates indicated on the first amount of $322,035,000 that Congress Persons with disabilities who need page of this document. Comments may has required the Commission to collect documents in these formats may contact be filed using: (1) The Commission’s for fiscal year 2018, as amended, the FCC by email: [email protected] or Electronic Comment Filing System provides for the annual assessment and phone: 202–418–0530 or TTY: 202–418– (ECFS), (2) the Federal Government’s collection of regulatory fees under and 0432. eRulemaking Portal, or (3) by filing respectively, for annual ‘‘Mandatory paper copies. See Electronic Filing of Adjustments’’ and ‘‘Permitted I. Procedural Matters Documents in Rulemaking Proceedings, Amendments’’ to the Schedule of A. Ex Parte Rules Permit-But-Disclose 63 FR 24121 (1998). Regulatory Fees. Proceeding • Electronic Filers: Comments may be DATES: filed electronically using the internet by Submit comments on or before 1. This Notice of Proposed accessing the ECFS: http:// June 21, 2018, and reply comments on Rulemaking (FY 2018 NPRM) shall be fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/ or the Federal or before July 6, 2018. treated as a ‘‘permit-but-disclose’’ eRulemaking Portal: http:// ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, proceeding in accordance with the identified by MD Docket No. 18–175, by www.regulations.gov. Commission’s ex parte rules. Persons • Paper Filers: Parties who choose to any of the following methods: making ex parte presentations must file • file by paper must file an original and Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// a copy of any written presentation or a www.regulations.gov. Follow the four copies of each filing. If more than memorandum summarizing any oral one docket or rulemaking number instructions for submitting comments. presentation within two business days • Federal Communications appears in the caption of this after the presentation (unless a different proceeding, filers must submit two Commission’s website: http:// deadline applicable to the Sunshine www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs. Follow the additional copies for each additional period applies). Persons making oral ex docket or rulemaking number. instructions for submitting comments. parte presentations are reminded that • Filings can be sent by hand or People With Disabilities: Contact memoranda summarizing the the FCC to request reasonable messenger delivery, by commercial presentation must list all persons overnight courier, or by first-class or accommodations (accessible format attending or otherwise participating in documents, sign language interpreters, overnight U.S. Postal Service mail. All the meeting at which the ex parte filings must be addressed to the CART, etc.) by email: [email protected] presentation was made, and summarize or phone: 202–418–0530 or TTY: 202– Commission’s Secretary, Office of the all data presented and arguments made Secretary, Federal Communications 418–0432. during the presentation. If the • Email: [email protected]. Include MD Commission. presentation consisted in whole or in D All hand-delivered or messenger- Docket No. 15–121 in the subject line of part of the presentation of data or delivered paper filings for the the message. arguments already reflected in the • Mail: Commercial overnight mail Commission’s Secretary must be presenter’s written comments, delivered to FCC Headquarters at 445 (other than U.S. Postal Service Express memoranda, or other filings in the Mail, and Priority Mail, must be sent to 12th St. SW, Room TW–A325, proceeding, the presenter may provide Washington, DC 20554. The filing hours 9300 East Hampton Drive, Capitol citations to such data or arguments in Heights, MD 20743. U.S. Postal Service are 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. All hand his or her prior comments, memoranda, deliveries must be held together with first-class, Express, and Priority mail or other filings (specifying the relevant should be addressed to 445 12th Street rubber bands or fasteners. Any page and/or paragraph numbers where envelopes must be disposed of before SW, Washington, DC 20554. such data or arguments can be found) in For detailed instructions for entering the building. lieu of summarizing them in the D Commercial overnight mail (other submitting comments and additional memorandum. Documents shown or than U.S. Postal Service Express Mail information on the rulemaking process, given to Commission staff during ex and Priority Mail) must be sent to 9300 see the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION parte meetings are deemed to be written East Hampton Drive, Capitol Heights, section of this document. ex parte presentations and must be filed MD 20743. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: consistent with section 1.1206(b). In D U.S. Postal Service first-class, Roland Helvajian, Office of Managing proceedings governed by section 1.49(f) Express, and Priority mail must be Director at (202) 418–0444. or for which the Commission has made addressed to 445 12th Street SW, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a available a method of electronic filing, Washington, DC 20554. summary of the Commission’s Notice of written ex parte presentations and People With Disabilities: To request Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), FCC 18– memoranda summarizing oral ex parte materials in accessible formats for VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:24 Jun 13, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4701 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\14JNP3.SGM 14JNP3 daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with PROPOSALS3 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 115 / Thursday, June 14, 2018 / Proposed Rules 27847 people with disabilities (braille, large be expected to equal the amount of its each fee category includes the direct print, electronic files, audio format), appropriation.1 Regulatory fees, FTEs associated with that category, plus send an email to [email protected] or call mandated by Congress, are collected ‘‘to a proportional allocation of indirect the Consumer & Governmental Affairs recover the costs of . enforcement FTEs.10 The Commission then allocates Bureau at 202–418–0530 (voice), 202– activities, policy and rulemaking the total amount to be collected among 418–0432 (tty). activities, user information services, and the various regulatory fee categories 3. Availability of Documents. international activities.’’ 2 Regulatory within each of the core bureaus. Each Comments, reply comments, and ex fees are to ‘‘be derived by determining regulatee within a fee category pays its parte submissions will be available for the full-time equivalent number of proportionate share based on an public inspection during regular employees performing’’ these activities, objective measure (e.g., revenues or business hours in the FCC Reference ‘‘adjusted to take into account factors number of subscribers).11 These Center, Federal Communications that are reasonably related to the calculations are illustrated in Table 1. Commission, 445 12th Street SW, CY– benefits provided to the payer of the fee The sources for the unit estimates that A257, Washington, DC 20554. These by the Commission’s activities . .’’ 3 are used in these calculations are listed documents will also be available free Regulatory fees recover direct costs, in Table 3. online, via ECFS. Documents will be such as salary and expenses; indirect 10. The Commission annually reviews available electronically in ASCII, Word, costs, such as overhead functions; and the regulatory fee schedule, proposes and/or Adobe Acrobat. support costs, such as rent, utilities, and changes to the schedule to reflect 4. Accessibility Information. To equipment.4 Regulatory fees also cover changes in the amount of its request information in accessible the costs incurred in regulating entities appropriation, and proposes increases formats (computer diskettes, large print, that are statutorily exempt from paying or decreases to the schedule of audio recording, and Braille), send an regulatory fees,5 entities whose regulatory fees.12 The Commission will email to [email protected] or call the regulatory fees are waived,6 and entities make changes to the regulatory fee Commission’s Consumer and providing services for which we do not schedule ‘‘if the Commission Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) assess regulatory fees. determines that the schedule requires 418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432 9. Congress sets the amount of amendment to comply with the (TTY). This document can also be regulatory fees the Commission must requirements’’ 13 of section 9(b)(1)(A) of downloaded in Word and Portable collect each year in the Commission’s the Act.14 The Commission may also Document Format (‘‘PDF’’) at: http:// fiscal year appropriations.