[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 58 (Tuesday, March 26, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18337-18338]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-06654]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for Review and Approval
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden
and as required b y the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3502-3520), the Federal Communications Commission invites the
general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on the following information collection(s). Comments are
requested concerning: 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; the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimates; ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected;
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 ways to further reduce the
information collection burden on 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 April 25, 2013. 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 (OMB), via fax at 202-395-5167 or via Internet at
[email protected] and to Judith B. Herman, Federal
Communications Commission, via the Internet at [email protected].
To submit your PRA comments by email send them to: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing
Director, FCC, at 202-418-0214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0292.
Title: Section 90.605, Reporting and Distribution of Pool Access
Revenues, Part 69--Access Charges.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 1,250 respondents; 15,000 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .75 hours (45 minutes).
Frequency of Response: Monthly and annual reporting requirements
and third party disclosure requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. sections 154, 201, 202, 203, 205, 218 and 403 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 11,250 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for
confidentiality.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
during this comment period to obtain the three year clearance from
them. The Commission is requesting approval for an extension (no change
in the reporting and/or third party disclosure requirements). There is
no change in the Commission's burden estimates.
Section 69.605 requires that access revenues and cost data shall be
reported by participants in association tariffs to the association for
computation of monthly pool revenues distributions. The association
shall submit a report on or before February 1 of each calendar year
describing the associations's cost study review process for the
preceding calendar year as well as the results of that process. For any
revisions to the cost study results made or recommended by the
association that would change the respective carrier's calculated
annual common line or traffic sensitive revenue requirement by ten
percent or more, the report shall include the following information:
(1) Name of the carrier;
(2) A detailed description of the revisions;
(3) The amount of the revisions;
(4) The impact of the revisions on the carrier's calculated common
line and traffic sensitive revenue requirements; and
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(5) The carrier's total annual common line and traffic sensitive
revenue requirement. The information is used to compute charges in
tariffs for access service (or origination and termination) and to
compute revenue pool distributions. Neither process could be
implemented without the information.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0743.
Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and
Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC
Docket No. 96-128.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities and state, local
and tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 4,471 respondents; 10,071 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 11.730414 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, quarterly and monthly reporting
requirements, 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 276 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 118,137 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting that respondents submit confidential information to the FCC.
If the Commission requests respondents to submit information which
respondents believe is confidential, they may request confidential
treatment of such information under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's
rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
during this comment period to obtain the 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
previous burden estimates.
In CC Docket No. 96-128, the Commission promulgated rules and
requirements implementing Section 276 of the Telecommunications Act of
1996. Among other things, the rules (1) Establish fair compensation for
every completed intrastate and interstate payphone call; (2)
discontinue intrastate and interstate access charge payphone service
elements and payments, and intrastate and interstate payphone subsidies
from basic exchange services; and (3) adopt guidelines for use by the
states in establishing public interest payphones to be located where
there would otherwise not be a payphone.
The information collected under LEC Provision of Emergency Numbers
to Carrier-Payers would able used to ensure that interexchange
carriers, payphone service providers (``PSP'') LECs, and the states,
comply with their obligations under the 1996 Act.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-06654 Filed 3-25-13; 8:45 am]
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