[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 141 (Monday, July 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37896-37897]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-18102]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to Office of
Management and Budget for Review
July 17, 1995.
The Federal Communications Commission has submitted the following
information collection requirements to OMB for review and clearance
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3507).
Copies of these submissions may be purchased from the Commission's
copy contractor, International Transcription
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Service, Inc., 2100 M Street, NW., Suite 140, Washington, DC 20037,
(202) 857-3800. For further information on this submission contact
Dorothy Conway, Federal Communications Commission, (202) 418-0217 or
via internet at [email protected]. Persons wishing to comment on this
information collection should contact Timothy Fain, Office of
Management and Budget, Room 10214 NEOB, Washington, DC 20503, (202)
395-3561.
OMB Number: 3060-0613.
Title: Expanded Interconnection with Local Telephone Company
Facilities, CC Docket No. 91-141, Transport Phase II (Third R&O).
Form No.: N/A.
Action: Revision to a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 64 responses; 13 hours burden per
response; 832 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Tier 1 local exchange carriers (except NECA
members) are required to make tariff filings to provide certain
signalling information to interested parties so that those parties can
provide tandem switching services. Tandem switching providers are
required to provide certain billing information to those Tier 1 local
exchange carriers. The tariffs and cost support information
accompanying them are used by the FCC staff to ensure that the tariff
rates are paid for signalling information are just, reasonable and
nondiscriminatory, as Sections 201 and 202 of the Communications Act
requires. Without this information the FCC would be unable to determine
whether the rates for these services are just, reasonable,
nondiscriminatory, and otherwise in accordance with the law. PIU and
billing allocation information are used by LECs to bill IXCs properly
for interstate and intrastate access.
OMB Number: 3060-0370.
Title: Part 32 Uniform System of Accounts for Telecommunications
Companies.
Form No.: N/A.
Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 239 responses; 1,2686 hours burden per
response; 3,031,868 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: The Uniform System of Accounts is a historical
financial accounting system which reports the results of operational
and financial events in a manner which enables both management and
regulators to assess these results with a specified accounting period.
Subject respondents are telecommunications companies. Entities having
annual revenue from regulated telecommunications operations of less
than $100 million are designated as Class B companies and are subject
to a less detailed accounting system than those designated as Class A
companies.
OMB Number: N/A.
Title: Accounting and Reporting Requirements for Video Dailtone
Service (RAO Letter 25).
Form No.: N/A.
Action: New collection.
Respondents: Business or other for profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 10 recordkeepers; 850 hours burden per
respondent; 8,500 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Carriers offering video dialtone service are
required to establish two sets of subsidiary accounting records; one to
capture the investment expense and revenue wholly dedicated to video
dialtone, the other to capture the investment, expense and revenue
shared between video dailtone and other services. This requirement is
necessary to ensure that the subsidiary records maintained by the
carriers include all relevant data and to ensure that the data is
auditable.
OMB Number: 3060-0065.
Title: Application for New or Modified Radio Station Authorization
Under Part 5 of FCC Rules - Experimental Radio Service (Other than
Broadcast).
Form No.: FCC 442.
Action: Revision of currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local or Tribal Governments.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 700 responses; 4 hours burden per
respondent; 2,800 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: FCC Form 442 is required to be filed by Section
5.55(a), (b) and (c) of the FCC Rules and Regulations by applicants
requiring an FCC license to operate a new or modified experimental
radio station. The data is used to determine: (1) if the applicant is
eligible for an experimental license; (2) the purpose of the
experiment; (3) compliance with the requirements of Part 5 and (4) if
the proposed operation with cause interference with existing
operations.
OMB Number: N/A.
Title: Section 64.1100 Policies and Rules Concerning Changing Long
Distance Carriers (CC Docket No. 96-64).
Form No.: N/A.
Action: New Collection.
Respondents: Business or other for profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 75 responses; 1.2 hours burden per
response; 93 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: This requirements require IXCs that generate orders
for long distance service by telemarketing to perform one of four
alternative verification procedures before placing the end user's
primary interexchange carrier (PIC) change order with the LEC. IXC's
with generate customer PIC change orders through telemarking must
independently verify, by one of four alternatives that customers have
agreed to change their long distance service before submitting these
requests to the LECs. The IXC must first: (1) obtain a letter of
authorization from the customer; (2) obtain the customer's electronic
authorization by means of a toll-free phone number; (3) utilize an
independent third-party to obtain the customer's oral authorization or
(4) within three business days of the customer's request for a PIC
change send each new customer an information package that contains
information concerning the requested change and a postpaid postcard
which the customer can use to deny, cancel, or confirm the order.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-18102 Filed 7-21-95; 8:45 am]
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