FCC Reviews Paperwork Burden for Space Stations and Earth Stations
Published Date: 3/5/2025
Notice
Summary
The FCC is checking in on its paperwork rules for companies and nonprofits that use space and earth stations for communication. They want your thoughts on how to make forms easier and less time-consuming, especially for small businesses. If you have ideas, send them in by May 5, 2025—this could save time and hassle for thousands of folks!
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
Annual paperwork time and cost burden
The revised information collection covers 3,539 respondents and 3,591 responses and imposes an estimated 0.5 to 80 hours per response. The total annual burden is 27,748 hours and the annual cost burden is $4,154,267.
Pre-operation coordination or compatibility showing requirement
Before starting operations, a non-geostationary orbit fixed-satellite service (NGSO FSS) licensee or market access recipient must either certify that it completed a coordination agreement with any earlier-round operational NGSO FSS system or submit a compatibility showing using a degraded throughput methodology. If an earlier-round system becomes operational after a later-round system has started, the later-round licensee must submit the certification or compatibility showing within 60 days after the earlier-round system begins operations.
New interference protection thresholds for compatibility analyses
The Commission adopted a 3% time-weighted average throughput degradation as a long-term interference protection criterion and a 0.4% absolute increase in link unavailability as a short-term interference protection criterion for NGSO FSS compatibility analyses.
Opportunity to request paperwork relief
The FCC is asking for public comments on its information collection rules and ways to reduce paperwork burdens, especially for small businesses with fewer than 25 employees. You can submit written comments by May 5, 2025 to suggest ways to make forms easier or shorter.
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