NAB: OMB Should Block or Delay FCC Foreign-Sponsored Content Requirements
OMB shouldn’t approve the information-collection requirements associated with the FCC’s most recent foreign-sponsored content rules, said NAB in comments posted Tuesday in docket 20-299 responding to the agency's Paperwork Reduction Act notice on the rules. The rules don’t comport with…
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the PRA, the First Amendment or the Communications Act, said NAB, which has also challenged the rules at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (see 2412100070). Commissioner Brendan Carr, the FCC's incoming chair, partially dissented from the order approving the rules in May (see 2406100063). The FCC “continues to underestimate both the number of respondents and responses and the burdens of compliance, especially in light of the last minute dramatic expansion of the scope of its rules,” NAB said in the comments Tuesday. “Absent disapproval, OMB should at least require the Commission to gather more data and develop more accurate estimates in connection with the proposed information collections and make changes to minimize the burden on affected respondents.”