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OMB Control No: 3060-0761	ICR Reference No: 201403-3060-002
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201205-3060-006
Agency/Subagency: FCC	Agency Tracking No: CGB
Title: Section 79.1 Closed Captioning, CG Docket No. 05-231
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 03/13/2014
	Date Received in OIRA: 03/10/2014
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	07/31/2015	07/31/2015	07/31/2015
Responses	67,424	0	67,424
Time Burden (Hours)	130,795	0	130,795
Cost Burden (Dollars)	35,505,816	0	35,505,816

Abstract: Section 713 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the Act), which was added pursuant to section 305 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, required the Commission to prescribe rules and implementation schedules for closed captioning of video programming. In enacting section 713, Congress generally required that video programming be closed captioned, regardless of distribution technology, to ensure access to persons with hearing disabilities. As indicated in more detail in the supporting statement, the Commission initiated a rulemaking in July 2005 to review the current status of the closed captioning rules that were adopted in 1997. On November 7, 2008, the Commission released an Order adopting some changes to the rules, as proposed in the 2005 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The purpose of this submission is to extend the collection for the closed captioning rules (found in 47 C.F.R. § 79.1) and bring current the estimates of existing burdens that were included in the July 2009 Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Commission is submitting this non-substantive change request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to amend the Commission's rules to require the electronic filing of individual closed captioning exemption requests, comments on and oppositions to such requests, and replies to comments or oppositions in a machine readable format. This modification, which will take the place of paper filings, is necessary to increase the efficiency of Commission decision-making and modernize Commission procedures.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 47 USC 613 Name of Law: Communications Act of 1934, as amended

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	77 FR 10522	02/22/2012
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	77 FR 28386	05/14/2012
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? Yes

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 2

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
Section 79.1, Closed Captioning
Section 79.1, Closed Captioning

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses	67,424	67,424
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	130,795	130,795
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	35,505,816	35,505,816

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: This supporting statement contains various adjustments to the collections of information covered under OMB Control Number 3060-0761. Specifically, the Commission generally reevaluated the assumptions underlying the calculation of its total annual burden estimates for the existing final information collections. Accordingly, the Commission has re-evaluated the calculation of its total respondents, annual number of responses, annual burden hours, and annual costs for this information collection. These adjustments are reflected as follows: -1,674 to the annual respondents, -31,640 to the annual number of responses, -22,559 to the annual burden hours and $2,777,184 to the annual cost burden. The Commission has program changes to this information collection. These program changes are due to the removal of the proposed information collection requirements that were approved under OMB Control Number 3060-0761. The Commission will consider those proposed requirements when it considers the remaining pending matters from the 2005 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The program changes are as follows: -12,183 to the total annual number of responses and -73,098 hours to the total annual burden hours.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $206,219

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Is the Supporting Statement intended to be a Privacy Impact Assessment required by the E-Government Act of 2002? No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Eliot Greenwald 202 418-2235

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