[Federal Register: September 13, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 177)]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested
September 7, 2007.
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, 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: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before October 15, 2007. 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 contacts
listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser of Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), via Internet at
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov or via fax at (202) 395-5167 and to Cathy Williams,
Federal Communications Commission, Room 1-C823, 445 12th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC.
If you would like to obtain or view a copy of this information
collection, you may do so by visiting the FCC PRA Web page at: http://www.fcc.gov/omd/pra
.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies
of the information collection(s), contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418-
2918 or via the Internet at PRA@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1089.
Title: Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech
Services for Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities;
Emergency Access Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and Internet-
Protocol (IP) Relay/Video Relay Service (VRS) Fraud Further Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM); and Interoperability Declaratory and
FNPRM, CG Docket No. 03-123.
Form No.: Not applicable.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; State, Local or
Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 8--(6 of which provides VRS and IP Relay
service; 2 of which provides VRS).
Estimated Time per Response: 4 to 1,000 hours.
Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement; One-time
reporting requirement; On occasion reporting requirement; Recordkeeping
requirement; Monthly reporting requirement; Third party disclosure
requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Total Annual Burden: 34,688 hours.
Total Annual Costs: None.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: An assurance of
confidentiality is not offered because this information collection does
not require the collection of personally identifiable information (PII)
from individuals.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
Needs and Uses: Note: The Commission is revising information
collection 3060-1089 to consolidate/merge the information collection
requirements of 3060-1091 into this collection per the Office of
Management and Budget's (OMB) request. Presently, the Commission
concludes that these two proposed information collections are similar
because these collections involve same respondents and contain similar
data of identifiable information in order: (1) To facilitate 911
emergency calls; (2) to improve interoperability for VRS and IP Relay
services; and (3) to curtail misuse of VRS and IP Relay services. The
Commission does not collect this information. The Commission requires
respondents to collect this information. Once OMB approval is received
for the consolidated/merged information collection requirements, the
Commission will eliminate OMB information collection No. 3060-1091.
On November 30 2005, the Commission released a Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (NPRM), CG Docket No. 03-123, which addressed the issue of
access to emergency services for Internet-based forms of
Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS), namely VRS and IP Relay
Service. The Commission sought to adopt means to ensure that such calls
promptly reach the appropriate emergency service provider. By doing so,
the NPRM sought comment on various issues: (1) Whether the Commission
should require VRS and IP Relay service providers to establish a
registration process in which VRS and IP Relay service users provide,
in advance, the primary location from which they will be making VRS or
IP Relay service calls (the Registered Location), so that a
communication assistant (CA) can identify the appropriate Public Safety
Answering Point (PSAP) to contact; (2) should VRS and IP Relay
providers be required to register their customers and obtain a
Registered Location from their customers so that they will be able to
make the outbound call to the appropriate PSAP; (3) whether there are
other means by which VRS and IP Relay service providers may obtain
Registered Location information, for example, by linking the serial
number of the customer VRS or IP Relay service terminal or equipment to
their registered location; (4) any privacy considerations that might be
raised by requiring VRS and IP Relay service users to provide location
information as a prerequisite to using these services; (5) whether,
assuming some type of location registration requirement is adopted, the
Commission should require specific information or place limits on the
scope of information that providers should be able to obtain; (6)
whether the Commission should require VRS and IP Relay providers to
provide appropriate warning labels for installation on customer
premises equipment (CPE) used in connection with VRS and IP Relay
services; (7) whether the Commission should require
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VRS and IP Relay providers to obtain and keep a record of affirmative
acknowledgement by every subscriber of having received and understood
the advisory that E911 service may not be available through VRS and IP
Relay or may be in some way limited by comparison to traditional E911
service; and (8) how the Commission may ensure that providers have
updated location information, and the respective obligations of the
providers and the consumers in this regard.
On May 8, 2006, the Commission released the Misuse of IP Relay
Service and VRS Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, (IP Relay Fraud
FNPRM), CG Docket No. 03-123, FCC 06-58 which contained the following
information collection requirements involving user registration, e.g.,
callers register to use VRS and IP Relay and provide their requisite
information as necessary: The IP Relay Fraud FNPRM sought comment on:
(1) Whether IP Relay and VRS providers should be required to implement
user registration system in which users provide certain information to
their providers, in advance, as a means of curbing illegitimate IP
Relay and VRS calls; (2) what information should be required of the
user; (3) whether there are steps that could be taken, or technology
implemented, to prevent the wrongful use of registration information;
and (4) whether the Commission should require VRS and IP Relay
providers to maintain records of apparently illegitimate calls that
were terminated by the providers.
On May 9, 2006, the Commission released the VRS Interoperability
Declaratory Ruling and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
(Interoperability FNPRM), In the Matter of Telecommunications Relay
Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for individuals with Hearing and
Speech Disabilities, CG Docket No. 03-123, FCC 06-57. In the
Interoperability FNPRM, the Commission sought comment on the
feasibility of establishing a single, open, and global database of
proxy numbers for VRS users that would be available to all service
providers, so that a hearing person can call a VRS user through any VRS
provider, and without having first to ascertain the VRS user's current
IP address. The Commission also sought comment on nature of the proxy
numbers that might be used and how they might be administered. The
Commission sought comment on the role of the Commission in creating and
maintaining the database. In the Interoperability FNPRM, the Commission
recognized: (a) That when a hearing person contact a VRS user by
calling a VRS provider, the calling party has to know in advance the IP
address of the VRS user so that the calling party can give that address
to the VRS CA (b) that because most consumers' IP addresses are
dynamic, the VRS consumer may not know the IP address of his or her VRS
equipment at a particular time; (c) that some VRS providers have
created their own database of ``proxy'' or ``alias'' numbers that
associate with the IP address of their customers, even if a particular
person's IP address is dynamic and changes; (d) that databases are
maintained by the service provider and, generally, are not shared with
other service providers; and (e) that a person desiring to call a VRS
consumer via the consumer's proxy number can only use the services of
the VRS provider that generates the number.
The Interoperability FNPRM contained the following information
collection requirements involving an open, global database of VRS proxy
numbers. The Interoperability FNPRM sought comment on: (1) Whether VRS
providers should be required to provide information to populate an
open, global database of VRS proxy numbers and to keep the information
current; (2) whether the Interstate TRS Fund administrator, a separate
entity, or a consortium of service providers should be responsible for
the maintenance and operation of an open, global database of VRS proxy
numbers; (3) whether Deaf and hard of hearing individuals using video
broadband communication need uniform and static end-point numbers
should be linked to the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) that would
remain consistent across all VRS providers so that they can contact one
another and be contacted to the same extent that Public Switched
Telephone Network (PSTN) and VoIP users are able to identify and call
one another; (4) whether participation by service providers should be
mandatory so that all VRS users can receive incoming calls.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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