FCC Wants Your Tips to Tame Paperwork for Tiny Businesses
Published Date: 9/24/2025
Notice
Summary
The FCC is asking everyone, especially small businesses with fewer than 25 employees, to share ideas on how to make paperwork easier and less time-consuming. They want to make sure all info collections have proper approval and no one gets penalized unfairly. This is a chance to help cut red tape and improve how the FCC collects info, with deadlines coming soon.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
No Penalty Without Valid OMB Number
Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. The notice states that no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information that does not display a valid OMB control number.
Small Businesses: Comment to Cut Paperwork
The FCC is asking the public—especially small businesses with fewer than 25 employees—to submit ideas on how to reduce paperwork burdens. This request cites the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002 and invites comments on ways to make information collections easier and less time-consuming.
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