# Maritime Communications
**AGENCY:**
Final rule; announcement of effective date.
**SUMMARY:**
The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) announces that a certain rule adopted in its Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) proceeding in WT Docket No. 04-344 published in the *Federal Register* of January 29, 2009, to the extent it contained an information collection requirement that required approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was approved, April 8, 2009.
**DATES:**
The amendment adding § 80.231, published January 29, 2009 (74 FR 5117) is effective May 19, 2009.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Jeffrey Tobias, Federal Communications Commission, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, 445 12th St., SW., Washington, DC 20554 at (202) 418-0620.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
1. On January 29, 2009 at 74 FR 5117, the Commission published in the *Federal Register* , the summary of a Second Report and Order ( *2nd R&O* ) in WT Docket No. 04-344; FCC 08-208. In that *2nd R&O,* the Commission stated that, upon OMB approval, it would publish in the *Federal Register* a document announcing the effective date of 47 CFR 80.231.
2. On April 8, 2009, OMB approved the public information collection associated with this rule change under OMB Control No. 3060-1124.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Federal Communications Commission.