Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 6 (Friday, January 9, 2015)

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 6 (Friday, January 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1410-1411]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-00100]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[WC Docket No. 12-375; DA 14-1848]


Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission granted in part the Prison 
Policy Initiative's (PPI) request that parties be given additional time 
to comply with the Commission's request for comments. Citing questions 
raised in the Commission's Second Further Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking, PPI argued that the extension, if granted, would allow 
parties added time to provide more thorough, meaningful responses. The 
extension moves the deadline for comments and reply comments.

DATES: The deadline for filing comments is due on or before January 12, 
2015. The deadline for reply comments is due on or before January 27, 
2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by WC Docket No. 12-375, 
by any of the following methods:
     Federal Communications Commission's Web site: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/. Follow the instructions for submitting 
comments.
     People with Disabilities: Contact the FCC to request 
reasonable accommodations (accessible format documents, sign language 
interpreters, CART, etc.) by email: [email protected] or phone: 202-418-
0530 or TTY: 202-418-0432.
    For detailed instructions for submitting comments and additional 
information on the rulemaking process, see the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lynne Engledow, Pricing Policy 
Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, 202-418-1540 or 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's Order,

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WC Docket 12-375, DA 14-1848, released December 17, 2014. The full text 
of this document may be downloaded at the following Internet address: 
http://www.fcc.gov/document/comment-deadlines-extended-inmate-calling-second-fnprm. The complete text may be purchased from Best Copy and 
Printing, Inc., 445 12th Street SW., Room CY-B402, Washington, DC 
20554. To request alternative formats for persons with disabilities 
(e.g., accessible format documents, sign language, interpreters, CARTS, 
etc.), send an email to [email protected] or call the Commission's 
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 or (202) 
418-0432 (TTY). This document does not contain information collections 
subject to the Paperwork Act of 1995 (PRA), Public Law 104-13. In 
addition, therefore, it does not contain any new or modified 
information collection burden[s] for small business concerns with fewer 
than 25 employees, pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act 
of 2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(4).

Summary

    1. On October 22, 2014, the Commission released a Second Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking (Inmate Calling Second FNPRM), seeking comment on a 
number of issues. On December 10, 2014, the Prison Policy Initiative 
(PPI) filed a letter requesting additional time for parties to respond 
to questions raised in the Commission's Inmate Calling Second FNPRM. 
PPI contends the additional time will improve the quality of responses 
the Commission receives from the public and industry participants, and 
further facilitate the Commission's consideration of key issues at the 
center of this proceeding.
    2. PPI states that it has spoken with several interested parties 
that consent to this request. However, in its opposition to the PPI 
Request, Securus Technologies, Inc. (Securus) argued that respondents 
have already had a sufficient amount of time to prepare their 
responses, and ``the issues under consideration in this proceeding must 
be resolved expeditiously in order to provide finality to what is now a 
volatile market.''
    3. Upon review the Commission agrees in part with the modest 
extension requested by PPI, as it allows for more fulsome comments that 
will facilitate the compilation of a complete record in this 
proceeding, without undue delay to its consideration of these issues.

Federal Communications Commission.
Lynne Engledow,
Deputy Chief, Pricing Policy Division.
[FR Doc. 2015-00100 Filed 1-8-15; 8:45 am]
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