[Federal Register: February 7, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 25)]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for
Review to the Office of Management and Budget
January 30, 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(s), as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) 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 March 9, 2007. If you anticipate that you will
be submitting PRA comments, but find it difficult to do so within the
period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the FCC
contact listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Allison E. Zaleski, Office of
Management and Budget, Room 10236 NEOB, Washington, DC 20503, (202)
395-6466, or via fax at 202-395-5167 or via Internet at
Allison_E._Zaleski@.omb.eop.gov and to Judith-B.Herman@fcc.gov, Federal
Communications Commission, Room 1-B441, 445 12th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20554 or send an e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov. If you would
like to
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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 Judith B. Herman at 202-418-
0214 or via the Internet at Judith-B.Herman@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0678.
Title: Part 25 of the Commission's Rules Governing the Licensing
of, and Spectrum Usage by, Satellite Network Stations and Space
Stations.
Form No.: FCC Form 312, Schedule S.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 3,462 respondents; 3,462 responses.
Estimated Time Per Response: 12 hours (average).
Frequency of Response: On occasion and annual reporting
requirements and third party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Total Annual Burden: 42,116 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $613,719,126.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for
confidentiality.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this information
collection to OMB as a revision during this comment period to obtain
the full 3-year clearance from them. The Commission has revised this
collection since it was last submitted to OMB. The Commission on its
own motion, proposes to revise this collection to add a section to the
FCC Form 312 which will enable satellite applicants to certify whether
or not they are subject to geographic service or geographic coverage
requirements and whether they will comply with those requirements. The
Commission amended the FCC Form 312 in order to make it easier to
ensure that applicants will comply with the geographic service rules
and/or geographic coverage requirements contained in Part 25 of the
Commission's rules. Without such information, the Commission could not
determine whether to permit respondents to provide telecommunications
services in the United States. Therefore, the Commission would be
unable to fulfill its statutory responsibilities in accordance with the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and the obligations imposed on
parties to the WTO Basic Telecom Agreement.
OMB Control Number: 3060-1048.
Title: Section 1.929(c)(1), Composite Interference Contour (CIC).
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit, not-for-profit
institutions, and state, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 50 respondents; 50 responses.
Estimated Time Per Response: 2 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and
recordkeeping requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Total Annual Burden: 100 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for
confidentiality.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this information
collection to OMB as a revision during this comment period to obtain
the full 3-year clearance from them.
The Commission has revised this collection since it was last
submitted to OMB. On February 22, 2005, the Commission released a
Report and Order in WT Docket No. 03-103 (70 FR 19293), which amended
this section to specify that expansion of a composite interference
contour (CIC) of a site-based licensee in the Paging and Radiotelephone
Service--as well as the Rural Radiotelephone Service and 800 MHz
Specialized Mobile Radio Service--over water on a secondary, non-
interference basis should be classified as a minor (rather than a
major) modification of a license. Such reclassification has eliminated
the filing requirements associated with these license modifications,
but requires site-based licensees to provide the geographic area
licensee (on the same frequency) with the technical and engineering
information necessary to evaluate the site-based licensee's operations
over water. The purpose of this collection is to enable the geographic
licensee to have technical and engineering information regarding a
site-based licensee's operation over water in order to guard against
unacceptable interference to its own operation(s).
OMB Control Number: 3060-0496.
Title: The ARMIS Operating Data Report.
Report No.: FCC Report 43-08.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 56 respondents; 56 responses.
Estimated Time Per Response: 139 hours.
Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory.
Total Annual Burden: 7,784 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Ordinarily questions of a
sensitive nature are not involved in the ARMIS Operating Data Report.
The Commission contends that areas in which detailed information is
required are fully subject to regulation and the issue of data being
regarded as sensitive will arise in special circumstances only. In such
circumstances, the respondent is instructed on the appropriate
procedures to follow and safeguard sensitive data. Commission rules 47
CFR 0.459 contain the procedures for requesting confidential treatment
of data.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this information
collection to OMB as an extension during this comment period to obtain
the full 3-year clearance from them. There is no change in the number
of respondents and/or burden hours.
ARMIS Report 43-08 monitors network growth, usage, and reliability.
Section 43.21 of the Commission's rules details that requirement. The
Automated Reporting Management Information System (ARMIS) was
implemented to facilitate the timely and efficient analysis of revenue
requirements, rates of return and price caps; to provide an improved
basis for audits and other oversight functions; and to enhance the
Commission's ability to quantify the effects of alternative policy.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0798.
Title: FCC Application for Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Radio
Service Authorization.
Form No.: FCC Form 601.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals or household, business or other for-
profit, not-for-profit institutions, and state, local or tribal
government.
Number of Respondents: 250,920 respondents; 250,920 responses.
Estimated Time Per Response: .50-1.25 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion and every 10 year reporting
requirements, recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure
requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Total Annual Burden: 219,505 hours.
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Total Annual Cost: $50,144,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: Yes.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Respondents may request
materials or information submitted to the Commission be withheld from
public inspection under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this information
collection to OMB as an extension during this comment period to obtain
the full 3-year clearance from them. There is no change in the number
of respondents, burden hours and/or annual costs.
The FCC Form 601 is a consolidated, multi-part application form, or
``long form'', that is used for general market-based licensing and
site-by-site licensing for wireless telecommunications and public
safety services filed through the Commission's Universal Licensing
System (ULS). FCC Form 601 is composed of a main form that contains the
administrative information and a series of schedules used for filing
technical and other information. Respondents are encouraged to submit
FCC Form 601 electronically and are required to do so when submitting
FCC Form 601 to apply for an authorization for which the applicant was
the winning bidder in a spectrum auction. The data collected on the FCC
Form 601 include the FCC Registration Number (FRN), which serves as a
``common link'' for all filings an entity has with the Commission. The
Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 requires that those entities
filing with the Commission use a FRN.
OMB Control Number: 3060-1044.
Title: Review of the Section 251 Unbundling Obligations of
Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers, CC Docket No. 01-338 and WC Docket
No. 04-313, FCC 04-290, Order on Remand.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit, not-for-profit
institutions, and state, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 645 respondents; 645 responses.
Estimated Time Per Response: 8 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement,
recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Total Annual Burden: 5,160 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting respondents to submit or disclose confidential information.
However, in certain circumstances, respondents may voluntarily choose
to submit confidential information pursuant to applicable
confidentiality rules, 47 CFR 0.459.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this information
collection to OMB as a revision during this comment period to obtain
the full three-year clearance from them. The Commission has revised
this collection since it was last submitted to OMB.
In the Order on Remand (FCC 04-290), the Commission responded to a
decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia that vacated the ``sub-delegation'' of authority to state
commissions and vacated and remanded certain nationwide impairment
findings, including mass market switching and dedicated transport.
In the Order, the Commission adopted three specific service
eligibility criteria for access to enhanced extended links (EELs),
which are important to assure that requesting carriers may not obtain
EELs if they do not provide services that qualify for unbundled network
elements (UNEs) under the Commission's rules. The Order requires
carriers to collect certain data regarding usage of local telephone
networks, and includes the possibility of audits by the incumbent
carrier. Under the first of the three EELs eligibility criteria, each
carrier must have a state certification of authority to provide local
voice service. Second, each carrier must have at least one local number
assigned to each circuit and must provide 911 or E911 capability to
each circuit, in order to demonstrate actual provision of local voice
service. Third, each carrier must satisfy circuit-specific
architectural safeguards. Carriers requesting EELs also must certify
that they satisfy each criterion, subject to an incumbent local
exchange carrier's (LECs) limited right to obtain an annual independent
audit of the requesting carrier.
The Commission has revised this information collection to eliminate
the state commission UNE proceeding requirement from the collection due
to the Order on Remand. This has resulted in a -68,690 burden hours and
-$5,275,000 in annual costs.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0942.
Title: Access Charge Reform, Price Cap Performance Review for Local
Exchange Carriers, Low-Volume Long Distance Users, Federal-State Joint
Board on Universal Service.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 759 respondents; 3,241 responses.
Estimated Time Per Response: 5-60 hours (average).
Frequency of Response: On occasion, quarterly and annual reporting
requirements, recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure
requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Total Annual Burden: 21,321 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting respondents to submit confidential information to the
Commission or to USAC. If the Commission requests respondents to submit
information to the Commission that the respondents believe are
confidential, respondents may request confidential treatment of such
information pursuant to 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this information
collection to OMB as an extension during this comment period to obtain
the full three-year clearance from them. In 2000, the Commission
adopted an integrated interstate access reform and universal service
proposal put forth by the members of the Coalition for Affordable Local
and Long Distance Service (CALLS). The Commission requires the
following information to be reported to the following entities under
the CALLS proposal: (a) Tariff filing; (b) quarterly and annual data
filings; and (c) cost support filings. The Commission and USAC
(administrator) uses the information to ensure compliance with the
interstate access reforms of the CALLS proposal, or uses the line count
and other information filed by price cap and competitive LECs to
determine, on a per-line basis, the amount that the carrier receives
from the interstate access universal services support mechanism; or to
implement requirements of section 201(b) of the Communications Act.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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