FCC Submits Standard Paperwork Collection for Public Comment
Published Date: 3/21/2025
Notice
Summary
The FCC is asking the public and other agencies to help reduce paperwork, especially for small businesses with fewer than 25 employees. They want your comments on a new information collection by April 21, 2025. This effort aims to make things easier and less costly for everyone involved.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
FCC estimates total paperwork hours and costs
The FCC estimates 52,760 respondents making 1,939,422 responses, with average time per response ranging from 0.0011 hour to 2.166 hours, totaling 347,851 annual burden hours and $2,010,723 in total annual costs for this information collection (OMB Control No. 3060-0174).
Broadcasters must disclose foreign-sponsored leased programming
Radio and television broadcast licensees must disclose at the time of broadcast when leased-time material was sponsored, paid for, or furnished by a foreign governmental entity. Licensees also must exercise reasonable diligence when entering or renewing leases and must memorialize their inquiries and keep records of disclosures and diligence efforts.
Small businesses invited to request less paperwork
The FCC is asking for public comments on this information collection and specifically requests ideas to "further reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees." You can submit written comments by April 21, 2025 at www.reginfo.gov and by email to the FCC addresses listed in the notice.
Two compliance routes: certifications or website screenshots
To show they met their duty of inquiry, licensees may either use one-page, check-box certification forms (FCC templates or their own language) completed by both licensee and lessee, or ask lessees for screenshots of search results from two federal websites (the Department of Justice's FARA database and the FCC's U.S.-based foreign media outlet report). Licensees are encouraged to include lease clauses requiring lessees to notify any change in status.
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