[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 142 (Tuesday, July 23, 1996)] [Notices] [Pages 38200-38201] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 96-18604] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management and Budget July 17, 1996. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public information collections pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number. For further information contact Shoko B. Hair, Federal Communications Commission, (202) 418- 1379. Federal Communications Commission OMB Control No.: 3060-0730. Expiration Date: 10/31/96. Title: Toll Free Service Access Codes--800/888 Number Release Procedures. Form No.: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 2010 total annual hours; 1 hour per respondent (avg.); 2010 respondents. [[Page 38201]] Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0. Description: The Commission has instructed Database Service Management, Inc. (DSMI) to collect authorizations from the current 800 number subscriber and its Responsible Organization or the Toll Free Service Provider declining their previously asserted commercial interest in the 888 number. DSMI will not release the 888 number from the pool of unavailable numbers into the general pool of toll free numbers until it receives these authorizations. OMB Control No.: 3060-0712. Expiration Date: 07/31/99. Title: Petition for Declaratory Ruling by the Inmate Calling Services Providers Task Force--RM-8181. Form No.: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 60 total annual hours; 1 hour per respondent (avg.); 60 respondents. Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0. Description: In the Declaratory Ruling issued in RM-8181, the Commission requires that local exchange carriers, among other things, notify their customers of the change in status of inmate-only customer premises equipment (CPE). This is necessary to ensure that correctional facility customers are aware of change in regulatory status of inmate- only payphones. OMB Control No.: 3060-0233. Expiration Date: 07/31/99. Title: Separations--Part 36. Form No.: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 61,800 total annual hours; 20 hours per respondent (avg.); 3090 respondents. Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0. Description: Local exchange carriers (LECs) are required to submit data annually to the National Exchange Carrier Association for the filing of access tariffs. State or local telephone companies who want to participate in the federal assistance program must make certain informational showings to demonstrate eligibility. OMB Control No.: 3060-0704. Expiration Date: 06/30/99. Title: Policy and Rules Concerning the Interstate, Interexchange Marketplace, Implementation of Section 254(g) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended--CC Docket No. 96-61. Form No.: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 2595 total annual hours; hours per respondent (avg.); 519 respondents. Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0. Description: In the Notice of Proposed of Rulemaking issued in CC Docket No. 96-61, the Commission proposes to eliminate the requirement that nondominant interexchange carriers file tariffs. In order to facilitate enforcement of such carriers' statutory obligation to charge just and reasonable, and not unjustly discriminatory rates, in the absence of tariff filings, the NPRM proposes to require carriers to maintain at their premises business records to establish the lawfulness of their rates. The NPRM proposes, among other things, a certification requirement to implement the geographic rate averaging and rate integration requirements of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. OMB Control No.: 3060-0729. Expiration Date: 10/31/96. 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. Estimated Annual Burden: 42,394 total annual hours; 6056 hours per respondent (avg.); 7 respondents. Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0. Description: 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. The 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. Federal Communications Commission. William F. Caton, Acting Secretary. [FR Doc. 96-18604 Filed 7-22-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712-01-P