[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 78 (Tuesday, April 23, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23930-23932]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-09443]
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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 May 23, 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
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[email protected] [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][email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing
Director, FCC, at 202-418-0214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0719.
Title: Quarterly Report of Local Exchange Carriers Listing Payphone
Automatic Number Identifications (ANIs).
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 400 respondents; 1,600 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 3.5 hours (8 hours for the initial
submission; 2 hours per subsequent submission--for an average of 3.5
hours per response).
Frequency of Response: Quarterly reporting requirement,
recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 151, 154,
201-205, 215, 218, 219, 220, 226 and 276 of the Communications Act of
1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 5,600 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting respondents to submit confidential information to the
Commission. If the respondents wish confidential treatment of their
information, they may request confidential treatment under 47 CFR 0.459
of the Commission's rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection during this comment period to obtain the full,
three year clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
The Commission is requesting approval for an extension (no change in
the reporting and/or third party disclosure requirements). There is no
change to the Commission's previous burden estimates.
The Commission adopted rules and policies governing the payphone
industry under section 276(b)(1)(A) of the Telecommunications Act of
1996 (the Act) and established ``a per call compensation plan to ensure
that all payphone service providers are fairly compensated for each and
every completed intrastate and interstate call.'' Pursuant to this
mandate and as required by section 64.1310(d) of the Commission's
rules, Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) must provide to carriers required
to pay compensation pursuant to section 64.1300(a), a quarterly report
listing payphone ANIs. Without provision of this report, resolution of
disputed ANIs would be rendered very difficult. Carriers would not be
able to discern which ANIs pertain to payphones and therefore would not
be able to ascertain which dial-around calls were originated by
payphones for compensation purposes. There would be no way to guard
against possible fraud. Without this collection, lengthy investigations
would be necessary to verify claims. The report allows carriers to
determine which dial-around calls are made from payphones.
Without this collection, lengthy investigations would be necessary
to verify claims. The report allows carriers to determine which dial-
around calls are made from payphones. The information must be provided
to third parties. The requirement would be used to ensure that LECs and
the carriers required to pay compensation pursuant to 47 CFR 64.1300(a)
of the Commission's rules, comply with their obligations under the
Telecommunications Act of 1996.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0895.
Title: Numbering Resource Optimization.
Form Number: FCC Form 502.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities and state, local
or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 2,780 respondents; 7,385 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour to 44.4 hours
Frequency of Response: On occasion and semi-annual reporting
requirements and recordkeeping requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 153, 154, 201-205
and 251 of the Communications Act of 1934.
Total Annual Burden: 131,782 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $3,462,800.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Disaggregated, carrier
specific forecast and utilization data will be treated as confidential
and will be exempt from public disclosure under 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4).
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection after this comment period to obtain the full,
three year clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
There are no changes to the reporting and/or recordkeeping
requirements. There are no changes to the Commission's previous burden
estimates.
The data collected on FCC Form 502 helps the Commission manage the
ten-digit North American Numbering Plan (NANP), which is currently
being used by the United States and 19 other countries. Under the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, the Commission was given
``exclusive jurisdictions over those portions of the North American
Numbering Plan that pertains to the United States.'' Pursuant to that
authority, the Commission conducted a rulemaking in March 2000 that the
Commission found that mandatory data collection is necessary to
efficiently monitor and manage numbering use. The Commission received
OMB approval for this requirement and the following:
(1) Utilization/Forecast Report;
(2) Application for initial numbering resource;
(3) Application for growth numbering resources;
(4) Recordkeeping requirement;
(5) Notifications by state commissions;
(6) Demonstration to state commission; and
(7) Petitions for additional delegation of numbering authority.
The data from this information collection is used by the FCC, state
regulatory commissions, and the NANPA to monitor numbering resource
utilization by all carriers using the resource and to project the dates
of area code and NANP exhaust.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0942.
Title: Access Charge Reform, Price Cap Performance Review for Local
Exchange Carriers, Low-Volume Long Distance Users, Federal-State Joint
Board on Universal Service.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 20 respondents; 20 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 2-15 hours.
Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirements, third party
disclosure requirements and recordkeeping requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection
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is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 1, 4(i), and (j), 201-209, 218-222,
254 and 403.
Total Annual Burden: 56 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting respondents to submit confidential information to the
Commission. If the Commission requests respondents to submit
information to the Commission that the respondents believe are
confidential, respondents may wish request confidential treatment of
such information pursuant to 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) as
a revision after this comment period in order to obtain the full three
year clearance from them.
The Commission adopted a Report and Order, FCC 00-193, which
required the Commission to take further action to further accelerate
the development of competition in the local and long-distance
telecommunications markets, and to further establish explicit universal
service support that will be sustainable in an increasingly competitive
marketplace, pursuant to the mandate of the Telecommunications Act of
1996.
The Commission requires the following information to be reported to
the following entities under the Coalitions for Affordable Local and
Long Distance Service (CALLS) Proposal: (1) Modified tariff filings
with the Commission; (2) quarterly and annual data filings (line
counts, price cap and revenue data); and (3) cost support information.
In the USF/ICC Transformation Order, FCC 11-161, the Commission
eliminated the remaining universal service data filings previously
contained in this information collection. The burdens associated with
those filings are being removed from this information collection.
Federal Communications Commission.
Gloria J. Miles,
Federal Register Liaison, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing
Director.
[FR Doc. 2013-09443 Filed 4-22-13; 8:45 am]
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