[Federal Register: February 12, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 29)]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission for Extension Under Delegated
Authority
February 2, 2004.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection(s), as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or
sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently
valid 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 control
number. Comments are requested concerning (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's
burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information collected; and (d) 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.
DATES: Persons wishing to comment on this information collection should
submit comments April 12, 2004. If you anticipate that you will be
submitting comments, but find it difficult to do so within the period
of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the contact listed
below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments to Judith
B. Herman, Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street, SW.,
Room 1-C804, Washington, DC 20554 or via the Internet to Judith-
B.Herman@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies
of the information collections contact Judith B. Herman at 202-418-0214
or via the Internet at Judith-B.Herman@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No.: 3060-0286.
Title: Section 80.302, Notice of Discontinuance, Reduction, or
Impairment of Service Involving a Distress Watch.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals or households, business or other for
profit, not-for-profit institutions, and State, local, or tribal
government.
Number of Respondents: 160.
Estimated Time Per Response: 1 hour.
Frequency of Response: Third party disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 160 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
Needs and Uses: The reporting requirement contained in section
80.302 is necessary to ensure that the U.S. Coast Guard is timely
notified when a coast station, which is responsible for maintaining a
listening watch on a designated marine distress and safety frequency
discontinues, reduces or impairs its communications services. This
notification allows the Coast Guard to seek an alternate means of
providing radio coverage to protect the safety of life and property at
sea or object to the planned diminution of service. The information is
used by the U.S. Coast Guard district office nearest to the coast
station. Once the Coast Guard is aware that such a situation exists, it
is able to inform the maritime community that radio coverage has or
will be affected and/or seek to provide coverage of the safety watch
via alternate means. When appropriate the Coast Guard may file a
petition to deny any application. The Commission is seeking extension
(no change) for this collection and all collections listed below for
which we are seeking the full three year OMB clearance.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0308.
Title: Section 90.505, Developmental Operation, Showing Required.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit
institutions, and State, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 100.
Estimated Time Per Response: 2 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
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Total Annual Burden: 200 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
Needs and Uses: Section 90.505 requires applicants proposing
developmental operations to submit supplemental information showing why
the authorization is necessary and what its use will be. This
requirement will be used by Commission staff in evaluating the
applicant's need for such frequencies and the interference potential to
other stations operating on the proposed frequencies.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0490.
Title: Section 74.902, Frequency Assignments.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit
institutions, and State, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 5.
Estimated Time Per Response: .50 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third
party disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 3 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
Needs and Uses: Section 74.902 dictates that when a point-to-point
ITFS station on the E and F MDS channels is involuntarily displaced by
an MDS applicant, the MDS applicant must file the appropriate
application for suitable alternative spectrum. The applications used
would be FCC Form 327 (3060-0055) and FCC Form 330 (3060-0062). Section
74.902(i) requires that a copy of this application be served on the
ITFS licensee to be moved. The data will be used by the ITFS licensee
to oppose the involuntary migration if the proposal would not provide
comparable ITFS service and would not serve the public interest.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0491.
Title: Section 74.991, Wireless Cable Application Procedures.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 100.
Estimated Time Per Response: 4.5 hours (.5 respondent/4 hours
attorney).
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third
party disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 50 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: $116,240.
Needs and Uses: Section 74.991 requires that a wireless cable
application be filed on FCC Form 330 (3060-0062), sections I and V,
with a complete FCC Form 304 (3060-0654) appended. The application must
include a cover letter clearly indicating that the application is for a
wireless cable entity to operate on ITFS channels. The applicant must
also, within 30 days of filing its application, give local public
notice in a daily newspaper of general circulation published in the
community in which the proposed station will be located. The specific
data that must be included in the newspaper publication is contained in
section 74.991(c). The notice must be published twice a week for two
consecutive weeks. The data is used by FCC staff to ensure that
proposals to operate a wireless cable system on ITFS channels do not
impair or restrict any reasonably foreseeable ITFS use. The data is
also used to insure that applicants are qualified to become a
Commission licensee and that proposals do not cause interference.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0492.
Title: Section 74.992, Access to Channels Licensed to Wireless
Cable Entities.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities and State, local
or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 10.
Estimated Time Per Response: 3.5 hours (1.5 respondent/2 hours
contractor).
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third
party disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 15 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: $4,000.
Needs and Uses: Section 74.992(a) requires that requests by ITFS
entities for access to wireless cable facilities licensed on ITFS
frequencies be made by filing FCC Form 330 (3060-0062), section I, II ,
III and IV. The application must include a cover letter clearly
indicating that the application is for ITFS access to a wireless cable
entity's facilities on ITFS channels. Section 74.992(d) requires an
ITFS user to provide a wireless cable licensee with its planned
schedule of use four months in advance of accessing the channels. This
notice is completed before the filing of the application. The data is
used by FCC staff to determine eligibility of an educational
institution or entity demanding access for ITFS use on a wireless cable
facility. The four month advance notice is used by the wireless cable
licensee to allow it to move programming to other channels.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0493.
Title: Section 74.986, Involuntary ITFS Station Modifications.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities and State, local
or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 25.
Estimated Time Per Response: 5 hours (1 hour respondent/4 hours
contractor).
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 25 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: $16,250.
Needs and Uses: Section 74.986 requires that an application for
involuntary modification of an ITFS station be filed on FCC Form 330
(3060-0062) but need not fill out section II (legal qualifications).
The application must include a cover letter clearly indicating that the
modification is involuntary and identify the parties involved. The data
is used by FCC staff to insure that proposals to modify facilities of
ITFS licensees/permittees would provide comparable ITFS service and
would otherwise serve the public interest in promoting the MMDS
service.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0494.
Title: Section 74.990, Use of Available Instruction Television
Fixed Service Frequencies by Wireless Cable Entities.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities and State, local
or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 100.
Estimated Time Per Response: .33-2 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 42 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: $11,250.
Needs and Uses: Section 74.990(c) requires applicants to confirm
their unopposed status after the period for filing competing
applications and petitions to deny has passed. This confirmation is
accomplished through the filing of a letter with the Commission.
Section 74.990(d) requires a wireless cable applicant to show that
there are no multipoint distribution service (MDS) or multichannel
multipoint distribution service (MMDS) channels available for
application, purchase or lease that could be used in lieu of the
instructional television fixed service (ITFS) frequencies applied for.
The data provided in the showing will be used by FCC staff to insure
that proposals to operate a wireless cable system on ITFS channels do
not impair or restrict any reasonably foreseeable ITFS use.
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OMB Control No.: 3060-0966.
Title: Sections 80.385, 80.475, and 90.303, Automated Maritime
Telecommunications Service (AMTS).
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals or households and business or other for-
profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 20.
Estimated Time Per Response: .50 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third
party disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 10 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
Needs and Uses: The reporting requirements are necessary to require
licensees of Automated Maritime Telecommunications System (AMTS)
stations to notify TV stations and two organizations (the American
Radio Relay League (ARRL), and Interactive Systems, Inc.) that maintain
databases of AMTS locations for the benefit of amateur radio operators
of the location of AMTS fill-in stations. Amateur radio operators use
some of the same frequencies (219 -220 MHz) as AMTS stations on a
secondary, non-interference basis for digital message forwarding
systems. Reporting requirements are necessary to require amateurs
proposing to operate within close proximity of an AMTS station to
notify the AMTS licensee as well as the ARRL. The information is used
to update databases concerning AMTS locations for the benefit of
amateur radio operators. If the collection of information was not
conducted, the database would become inaccurate and the ability to
avoid interference problems would deteriorate.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0970.
Title: Section 90.621(e)(2), Selection and Assignment of
Frequencies.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities and State, local
or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 1,000.
Estimated Time Per Response: .50 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 500 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
Needs and Uses: Section 90.621 requires applicants proposing to
modify operations to use channels for commercial purposes in certain
frequency bands in 800 MHz to provide written notice of the
modification to all Public Safety licensees within 70 miles of the site
of the channels for which the authorization for commercial use is
sought that operate within 25 kHz of the center of those channels. This
requirement seeks to avoid the potential of interference that could
result from the modification of a Private Land Mobile radio facility to
commercial use. If the information were not available, there would be
an increased risk of interference in this band.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0261.
Title: Section 90.215, Transmitter Measurements.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals or households, business or other for-
profit entities, not-for-profit institutions, and State, local or
tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 20,075.
Estimated Time Per Response: .33 hours.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 663 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
Needs and Uses: This rule requires licensees to measure carrier
frequency, output power, and modulation of each transmitter authorized
to operate with power in excess of two watts when the transmitter is
initially installed and when any changes are made which would likely
affect such parameters. Such measurements, which help ensure proper
operation of transmitters, are required to be retained in the station
records. The information is normally used by the licensee to ensure
that equipment is operating within prescribed tolerances. Prior
technical operation of transmitters helps limit interference to other
users and provides the licensee with the maximum possible utilization
of equipment.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0691.
Title: Amendment of Parts 2 and 90 of the Commission's Rules to
Provide for the Use of 200 Channels Outside of the Designated Filing
Areas in the 896-901 MHz Bands Allotted to the Specialized Mobile Radio
Pool, Second Order on Reconsideration and Seventh Report and Order for
the 900 MHz Specialized Mobile Radio Service.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals or households and business or other for-
profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 135.
Estimated Time Per Response: .50--2 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and
recordkeeping requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 274 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: $55,200.
Needs and Uses: This information collection is used to verify
construction requirements that will be used by the Commission to
determine whether the licensee has met the 900 MHz MTA construction
requirements. The information is filed electronically on the FCC Form
601.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0281.
Title: Section 90.651, Supplemental Reports Required of Licensees
Authorized Under this Subpart.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit
institutions and State, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 16,408.
Estimated Time Per Response: .166 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 2,724 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
Needs and Uses: This rule section specifies the timeframe for
reporting the number of mobile units placed in operation from eight
months to 12 months. The radio facilities addressed in this subpart are
allocated on and governed by regulations designed to award facilities
on a need basis determined by the number of mobile units served by each
base station. This is necessary to avoid frequency hoarding by
applicants. The various subparts of this rule apply to different
categories of licensees and define exactly what reports are required of
each category. The Commission uses the information to maintain an
accurate database of frequency users.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0914.
Title: Petition, Pursuant to Section 7 of the Act, for a Waiver of
the Airborne Cellular Rule, or in the Alternative, for a Declaratory
Ruling.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, Federal
government, and State, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 30.
Estimated Time Per Response: 8 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and
recordkeeping requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 240 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
Needs and Uses: The Commission has reset an Order it adopted on
December
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24, 1998, that grants conditionally AirCell's waiver request of section
22.925. The waiver permits AirCell, Inc., and a number of cellular
licensees, which jointly entered into resale agreements with AirCell,
Inc., to furnish system capacity for the provision of cellular service
on a secondary, conditional basis to airborne terminal units using
technology developed by AirCell, Inc. The waiver also gives AirCell the
authority to operate a specially-designed mobile cellular
telecommunications unit for use aboard general aviation aircraft. The
AirCell system gives the public greater access to safety-related data
and wireless telephone services for general aviation and equips pilots
with a transmission facility that can provide a method of receiving
real-time information about changing weather conditions, navigation,
telemetry, and aircraft operations.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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