[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 90 (Tuesday, May 10, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27052-27053]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-11376]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Information Collection Being Submitted for Review by the Federal 
Communication Commission

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice and Request for comments.

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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden 
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission invites the general 
public and other Federal agencies to comment on the following 
information collection. 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 to 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 OMB 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 valid OMB control number.

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be 
submitted on or before July 11, 2011. If you anticipate that you will 
be submitting PRA comments, but find it difficult to do so within the 
period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the FCC 
contact listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 
Management and Budget, via fax at 202-395-5167 or via Internet at 
[email protected] and to Benish Shah, Federal 
Communications Commission, via the Internet at [email protected]. To 
submit your PRA comments by e-mail send them to: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Benish Shah, Office of Managing 
Director, (202) 418-7866.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Control Number: 3060-0291.
    Title: Section 90.477(a), (b)(2), (d)(2), and (d)(3), 
Interconnected Systems.
    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: 10,294 respondents; 10,294 responses.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .25 hours for 9,768 responses and 2 
hours for 526 responses.
    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 information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. section 332(a).
    Total Annual Burden: 3,494 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: No questions of a 
confidential nature are asked.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring 
information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
after this comment period to obtain the regular three year clearance. 
There is no change in the Commission's reporting, recordkeeping and/or 
third party disclosure requirements. There is no change in the 
Commission's burden estimates (since this information collection was 
approved by OMB in 2008).
    This rule section governs interconnection of private land mobile 
radio service stations with the public switched telephone network as 
follows:
    (1) Pursuant to 47 CFR section 90.477(a), licensees of 
interconnected land stations must maintain as part of their station 
records a detailed description of how interconnection is accomplished.
    (2) Pursuant to 47 CFR section 90.477(b)(2) and (d)(2), at least 
one licensee participating in any cost sharing arrangement for 
telephone service must maintain cost sharing records, the costs must be 
distributed at least once a year, and a report of the distribution must 
be placed in the licensee's station records and made available to 
participants in the sharing arrangement and the Commission upon 
request.
    (3) Pursuant to 47 CFR 90.477(d)(3), licensees in the Industrial/
Business Pool and those licensees who establish eligibility pursuant to 
90.20(a)(2), other than persons or organizations charged with specific 
fire protection activities,

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persons or organizations charged with specific forestry-conservation 
activities, or medical emergency systems in the 450-470 MHz band, and 
who seek to connect within 120 km (75 miles) of 25 cities specified in 
90.477(d)(3), must obtain the consent of all co-channel licensees 
located both within 120 km of the center of the city, and with 120 km 
of the interconnected base station transmitter. Consensual agreements 
must specifically state the terms agreed upon and a statement must be 
submitted to the Commission indicating that all co-channel licensees 
have consented to the use of interconnection.
    In a December 1998 Report and Order in WT Docket Nos. 98-20 and 96-
188, the Commission consolidated, revised and streamlined the 
Commission's rules governing the licensing application procedures for 
radio services licensed by the Commission's Wireless Telecommunications 
Bureau in order to fully implement the Universal Licensing System 
(ULS). As a result of the ULS rule conversions in connection with this 
information collection, 47 CFR section 90.477(a), interconnected 
systems now file all information (100 percent) electronically via ULS. 
Pursuant to 47 CFR sections 90.477(d)(3), interconnected systems were 
changed to reflect NAD83 coordinates.

Federal Communications Commission.
Gloria Miles,
Federal Register Liaison, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing 
Director.
[FR Doc. 2011-11376 Filed 5-9-11; 8:45 am]
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