[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 144 (Friday, July 26, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45191-45192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-17950]


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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

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submitted on or before August 26, 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: Direct 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-XXXX.
    Title: Survey for Urban Rates for Fixed Voice and Fixed Broadband 
Residential Services.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: New collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 1,000 respondents; 1,000 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 3.5 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this 
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 254 of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 3,500 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The information being 
collected is not confidential and no assurances of confidentiality are 
being provided.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this new collection to 
the OMB for approval in order to obtain the three year clearance from 
them.
    To implement certain reforms to universal service support, the 
Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau and the Wireless 
Telecommunications Bureau in an Order, DA 13-598, adopted the form and 
content for a survey of urban rates for fixed voice and fixed broadband 
residential services. The information collected in this survey will be 
used to establish a rate floor that eligible telecommunications 
carriers (ETCs) receiving high-cost loop support (HCLS) or frozen high-
cost support must meet to receive their full support amounts and to 
help ensure that universal service support recipients offering fixed 
voice and broadband services do so at reasonably comparable rates to 
those in urban areas.
    Specifically, the Commission directed the Bureaus to ``develop a 
methodology'' to survey a representative sample of facilities-based 
fixed voice service providers taking into account the relative 
categories of fixed voice providers as determined in the most recent 
FCC Form 477 data collection.
    ``The Commission also delegated authority to conduct an annual 
survey, in order to specify an appropriate minimum for usage allowances 
and to adjust such a minimum over time.''

    Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
[FR Doc. 2013-17950 Filed 7-25-13; 8:45 am]
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