# 2025-20002: FCC Invites Feedback on Slimming Down Its Paperwork Burden

2025-20002, Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Management and Budget, is a Federal Register notice from Federal Communications Commission published 2025-11-17, effective Written comments and recommendations must be submitted on or before December 17, 2025. (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20002
- As of: 2026-06-08
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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20002
- Title: Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Management and Budget
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Federal Communications Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 51315
- Published: 2025-11-17
- Effective: Written comments and recommendations must be submitted on or before December 17, 2025.
- Comments close: 2025-12-17
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

FCC Invites Feedback on Slimming Down Its Paperwork Burden

## Summary

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking the public and other agencies to comment on their plan to collect information, aiming to cut down paperwork, especially for small businesses with fewer than 25 employees. They want to make sure the process is easy and fair, and no one faces penalties without a valid approval number. Comments are due by December 17, 2025, so now’s the time to speak up!

## 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." The Commission may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject to the PRA that does not display a valid OMB control number.

## Effects PRIA read

- Large Annual Paperwork Burden for IPCS Providers: cost, high. If you are an incarcerated people's communications services (IPCS) provider, the FCC says 35 businesses will file 43 responses and the paperwork will take between 5 and 240 hours per response, totaling 10,565 hours of burden per year. Responding is mandatory and the OMB control number for this coll…
- FCC Seeks Small Business Paperwork Relief Ideas: benefit, low. The FCC specifically asks for comments on how to reduce information collection burdens for small businesses with fewer than 25 employees, per the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act. You can submit comments on these ideas by December 17, 2025 at www.reginfo.gov and to FCC contacts listed in the not…
- Lower IPCS Rates for Incarcerated People: benefit, medium. The FCC says its 2024 IPCS Order reforms IPCS regulation and "significantly lowers the IPCS rates that incarcerated people and their loved ones will pay." Those reforms implement the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022 and cover services regardless of technology used.
- Alternate Pricing Plans Allowed with Consumer Safeguards: benefit, low. The FCC adopted new rules allowing IPCS providers to offer optional alternate pricing plans subject to specific consumer protection and disclosure requirements codified at 47 CFR 64.6140(c)-(f). The rules require the alternate plans to comply with general IPCS rules and include safeguards so provid…

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- [2026-20591](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-20591): Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission Under Delegated Authority, 2026-10-08
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- [2026-20486](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-20486): Information Collections Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission, 2026-10-06

## Sources
- [2025-20002 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/17/2025-20002/information-collection-being-submitted-for-review-and-approval-to-office-of-management-and-budget)
- [2025-20002 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-17/pdf/2025-20002.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20002 (as of 2026-06-08).