# 2025-11053: FCC Invites Suggestions for Making Small-Business Paperwork Less Painful 2025-11053, Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Management and Budget, is a Federal Register notice from Federal Communications Commission published 2025-06-16, effective Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be submitted on or before July 16, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-02). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11053 - As of: 2026-11-02 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Document number: 2025-11053 - Title: Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Management and Budget - Type: Notice - Agencies: Federal Communications Commission - Citation: 90 FR 25264 - Published: 2025-06-16 - Effective: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be submitted on or before July 16, 2025. - Comments close: not stated - Significant: no - Touches household money: yes - Regulation identifier numbers: none - Last updated: 2026-11-02 ## In one line FCC Invites Suggestions for Making Small-Business Paperwork Less Painful ## Summary The FCC is asking for public feedback on its paperwork rules to make things easier, especially for small businesses with fewer than 25 employees. They want to reduce the hassle of filling out forms and are open to ideas before July 16, 2025. If you’re affected by FCC paperwork, now’s your chance to speak up and help shape simpler rules! ## Abstract As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the general public and other Federal Agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection. Pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC seeks specific comment on how it might "further reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees." ## Effects PRIA read - New FCC paperwork to use 5040–5060 MHz: cost, low. If you operate uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and want to use the 5040–5060 MHz Non-networked Access (NNA) spectrum, you must register once with a Commission-approved dynamic frequency management system (DFMS) and submit short-term frequency assignment requests limited to a single submitted UAS fl… - FAA certification required for frequency assignment: cost, low. For each frequency assignment request, you must certify that you have Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight authorization covering the flight and that any remote pilots have required FAA remote pilot authorization when such authorization is required. This certification requirement appears in… - Interim access before DFMS starts — FAA OK + FCC registration: benefit, low. An Interim Access Mechanism lets NNA users access the 5040–5060 MHz band before the first DFMS administrator begins operation, but you must first obtain concurrence from the FAA and submit an online registration form to the FCC with required certifications; for operations inside the National Radio… - DFMS administrators must keep and transfer records for 60 months: cost, low. DFMS administrators are required to maintain all records for at least 60 months and, if they do not continue as the DFMS administrator at the end of their term, must securely transfer all DFMS information to another approved entity; protective DFMS administrators must apply for and be approved by t… - DFMS notification for operations near radio astronomy sites: cost, low. A DFMS must immediately notify the National Science Foundation (NSF) when it approves a frequency assignment that will support UAS operation within 25 miles of one of sixteen specified radio astronomy sites, as required by section 88.135(x). ## Related documents - [2026-22338](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-22338): Information Collections Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission Under Delegated Authority, 2026-11-02 - [2026-22334](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-22334): Reducing Barriers to Network Improvements and Service Changes, Accelerating Network Modernization; Correction, 2026-11-02 - [2026-22337](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-22337): Unleashing the Power of Unlicensed Ultra-Wideband Devices; Petition of Robert Bosch LLC for Amendment of the Part 15 Subpart F Ultra-Wideba…, 2026-11-02 - [2026-22092](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-22092): Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission, 2026-10-29 - [2026-22081](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-22081): Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Management and Budget, 2026-10-29 - [2026-22080](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-22080): Sunshine Act Meeting; Open Commission Meeting Thursday, October 29, 2026, 2026-10-29 ## Sources - [2025-11053 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/16/2025-11053/information-collection-being-submitted-for-review-and-approval-to-office-of-management-and-budget) - [2025-11053 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-16/pdf/2025-11053.pdf) ## Related - [Previous: 2025-11052, Ceramic Tile From India: Countervailing Duty Order](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11052) - [Next: 2025-11054, Release of Waybill Data](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11054) - [All Federal Register documents](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11053 (as of 2026-11-02).