Federal Communications Commission: regulatory fee process needs to be updated: report to congressional requesters.

By: Office, U. S. Government Accountability

"FCC must by law assess annual regulatory fees on telecommunications entities to recover its entire appropriation-about $336 million in fiscal year 2011. The entities from which FCC collects fees fall into one of five main industry sectors (broadcast, cable, wireline, wireless, and international) and are assigned to one of 86 fee categories, such as paging services. Recently, FCC stated that it was planning to consider reforms to its regulatory fee process. GAO was asked to examine (1) FCC's process for assessing regulatory fees among industry sectors, (2) FCC's regulatory fee collections over the past 10 years, and (3) alternative approaches to assessing regulatory fees. GAO reviewed FCC data and documents, interviewed officials from FCC and the telecommunications industry, and, to identify alternative approaches to assessing regulatory fees, met with five fee-funded U.S. and Canadian regulatory agencies."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1974197697
• ISBN13: 9781974197699
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
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