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FCC 0.101
Revised as of October 1, 2014
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2015
§ 0.101 Functions of the office.
(a) The Office of Communications Business Opportunities (OCBO), as a
staff office to the Commission, develops, coordinates, evaluates, and
recommends to the Commission, policies, programs, and practices that
promote participation by small entities, women, and minorities in the
communications industry. A principal function of the Office is to lead,
advise, and assist the Commission, including all of its component
Bureau/Office managers, supervisors, and staff, at all levels, on ways
to ensure that the competitive concerns of small entities, women, and
minorities, are fully considered by the agency in notice and comment
rulemakings. In accordance with this function, the Office:
(1) Conducts independent analyses of the Commission's policies and
practices to ensure that those policies and practices fully consider
the interests of small entities, women, and minorities.
(2) Advises the Commission, Bureaus, and Offices of their
responsibilities under the Congressional Review Act provisions
regarding small businesses; the Report to Congress regarding Market
Entry Barriers for Small Telecommunications Businesses (47 U.S.C. 257);
and the Telecommunications Development Fund (47 U.S.C. 614).
(b) The Office has the following duties and responsibilities:
(1) Through its director, serves as the principal small business policy
advisor to the Commission;
(2) Develops, implements, and evaluates programs and policies that
promote participation by small entities, women and minorities in the
communications industry;
(3) Manages the Regulatory Flexibility Analysis process pursuant to the
Regulatory Flexibility Act and the Small Business Regulatory
Enforcement Fairness Act to ensure that small business interests are
fully considered in agency actions;
(4) Develops and recommends Commission-wide goals and objectives for
addressing the concerns of small entities, women, and minorities and
reports of achievement;
(5) Acts as the principal channel for disseminating information
regarding the Commission's activities and programs affecting small
entities, women, and minorities;
(6) Develops, recommends, coordinates, and administers objectives,
plans and programs to encourage participation by small entities, women,
and minorities in the decision-making process;
(7) Promotes increased awareness within the Commission of the impact of
policies on small entities, women, and minorities;
(8) Acts as the Commission's liaison to other federal agencies on
matters relating to small business.
[ 69 FR 7376 , Feb. 17, 2003]
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