[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 10, 1996)] [Notices] [Page 36379] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 96-17563] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) For Review July 3, 1996. The Federal Communications Commission has submitted the following information collection requirement to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507. Persons wishing to comment on this information collection should contact Timothy Fain, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10236, NEOB, Washington, D.C. 20503, (202) 396-0651. For further information, contact Dorothy Conway, Federal Communications Commission, (202) 418- 0217. Please note: The Commission has requested emergency review of this collection by July 16, 1996, under the provisions of 5 C.F.R. Section 1320.13. Title: Bell Operating Company Provision of Out-of-Region, Interstate, Interexchange Services, Report and Order, CC Docket No. 96- 21, (Affiliated Company Recordkeeping Requirement). Form No.: N/A OMB Control No.: None. Action: New Collection. Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities. Estimated Annual Burden: 7 respondents; 6056 hours per response; 42,394 hours total annual burden. Needs and Uses: In the Report and Order issued in CC Docket No. 96- 21, the Commission removed dominant regulation for BOCs that provide out-of-region, interstate, interexchange services through an affiliate that complies with certain safeguards, in order to facilitate the efficient and rapid provisions of out-of-region, domestic, interstate, interexchange services by the BOCs, as contemplated by the 1996 Act, while still protecting ratepayers and competition in the interexchange market. These safeguards require that the affiliate: (1) maintain separate books of account from the LEC; (2) not jointly own transmission or switching facilities with the LEC; and (3) take any tariffed services from the affiliated LEC pursuant to the terms and conditions of the LEC's generally applicable tariff. This recordkeeping requirement will not impose any significant burden on BOC interexchange affiliates because we do not require that the interexchange affiliate maintain separate books of account that comply with our Part 32 rules. Instead, these affiliates must maintain separate books as would any separate corporation, as a matter of course. The foregoing estimates include the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the burden estimates or any other aspect of the collection of information including suggestions for reducing the burden to the Federal Communications Commission, Records Management Division, Paperwork Reduction Project, Washington, D.C. 20554. Federal Communications Commission. William F. Caton, Acting Secretary. [FR Doc. 96-17563 Filed 7-9-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712-01-P