[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 47 (Thursday, March 11, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11535-11536]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5150]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for
Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB),
Comments Requested
March 8, 2010.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection(s), as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520. Comments are requested
concerning: (a) whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; (c) ways
to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on the respondents, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology, and (e)
ways of further reduce the information collection burden for small
business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid control number. No person shall be
subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of
information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that does not
display a currently valid OMB control number.
DATES: Persons wishing to comments on this information collection
should submit comments on or before April 12, 2010. If you anticipate
that you will be
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submitting comments, but find it difficult to do so within the period
of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the contact listed
below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), via fax at (202) 395-5167, or via the
Internet at [email protected] and to Judith B. Herman,
Federal Communications Commission (FCC). To submit your PRA comments by
e-mail send them to: [email protected]. To view a copy of this information
collection request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go to web page: http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the section of the web
page called ''Currently Under Review'', (3) click on the downward-
pointing arrow in the ''Select Agency'' box below the ''Currently Under
Review'' heading, (4) select ''Federal Communications Commission'' from
the list of agencies presented in the ''Select Agency'' box, (5) click
the ''Submit'' button to the right of the ''Select Agency'' box, and
(6) when the FCC list appears, look for the title of this ICR (or its
OMB Control Number, if there is one) and then click on the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith B. Herman, OMD, 202-418-0214.
For additional information about the information collection(s) send an
e-mail to [email protected] or contact Judith B. Herman, 202-418-0214,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No: 3060-1044.
Title: Review of the Section 251 Unbundling Obligations of
Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers, CC Docket No. 03-338 and WC Docket
No. 04-313, FCC 04-290, Order on Remand.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit; not-for-profit
institutions, and state, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 645 respondents; 645 responses.
Estimated Time Per Response: 8 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement,
recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in
47 U.S.C. section 251 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Total Annual Burden: 5,160 hours.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting respondents to submit or disclose confidential information.
However, in certain circumstances, respondents may voluntarily choose
to submit confidential information pursuant to applicable Commission
confidentiality rules.
Need and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
during this comment period in order to obtain the full three year
clearance from them. There is no change in the reporting, recordkeeping
and/or third party disclosure requirements. There is no change in the
Commission's burden estimates.
Section 251 is designed to accelerate private sector and deployment
of telecommunications technologies and services by spurring
competition. In order to foster competition in the local telephone
market, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires incumbent local
exchange carriers (incumbent LECs) to share certain elements of their
local telephone networks, providing them to other carriers at
reasonable prices on an unbundled basis. These ``unbundled network
elements (UNEs)'' are necessary for competition because the only
alternative, building entire new telephone networks, would be
prohibitively expensive for new entrants.
In Order FCC 03-36, the Commission adopted rules and regulation
designed to eliminate operation barriers to competition in the
telecommunications services market and implement certain provisions of
section 251, including the UNE obligations of incumbent LECs.
In the Order on Remand, FCC 04-290, the Commission responded to a
decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia that vacated the ``sub-delegation'' of authority to state
commissions and vacated and remanded certain nationwide impairment
findings, including mass market switching and dedicated transport.
The information collection requirements in this submission to the
OMB is to implement the requirements of section 251 of the Act.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary,
Office of the Secretary,
Office of Managing Director.
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