FCC Reviews Information Collections to Ease Burden on Small Businesses
Published Date: 7/10/2025
Notice
Summary
The FCC is asking the public and other agencies to help review some paperwork rules to make sure they’re useful and not too much work. They want to hear ideas on how to make forms clearer and easier, especially for small businesses with fewer than 25 employees. This is a chance to shape how the FCC collects info, with no penalties if forms don’t have the right approval number.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Small businesses invited to reduce paperwork
The FCC is asking for suggestions to make its forms clearer and easier to use, and it specifically asks for ways to reduce the burden on small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees. Small businesses can submit comments to try to shape how the FCC collects information under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
No penalties without valid OMB number
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor an information collection unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. No person will be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information that does not display a valid OMB control number.
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