[Federal Register: November 10, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 218)]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Extension Being
Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested
November 4, 2008.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC), 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 extension, 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 extension 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 January 9, 2009. 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: Submit your comments by e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov. Include in
the e-mail the OMB control number of the collection or, if there is no
OMB control number, the Title shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section below. If you are unable to submit your comments by email
contact the person listed below to make alternate arrangements.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the
information collection(s) or to obtain a copy of the collection send an
e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov and include the collection's OMB control number
as shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below (or the title
of the collection if there is no OMB control number), or call Jerry
Cowden at 202-418-0447.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Control Number: 3060-1085.
Title: Collection of Location Information, Provision of Notice, and
Recordkeeping on Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
E911 Compliance (47 CFR Section 9.5).
Form No.: Not applicable.
Type of Review: Extension of a previously approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 12 respondents; 12 responses.
Estimated Time Per Response: 50,197 hours.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement and third party
disclosure requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory.
Total Annual Burden: 602,364 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $52,449,272.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting that respondents submit confidential information to the
Commission.
Needs and Uses: The Commission is obligated by statute to promote
``safety of life and property'' and to ``encourage and facilitate the
prompt deployment throughout the United States of a seamless,
ubiquitous, and reliable end-to-end infrastructure'' for public safety.
Congress has established 911 as the national emergency number to enable
all citizens to reach emergency services directly and efficiently,
irrespective of whether a citizen uses wireline or wireless technology
when calling for help by dialing 911. Efforts by federal, state and
local government, along with the significant efforts of wireline and
wireless service providers, have resulted in the nearly ubiquitous
deployment of this life-saving service.
The Order the Commission adopted on May 19, 2005, sets forth rules
requiring providers of VoIP services that interconnect with the
nation's existing public switched telephone network (interconnected
VoIP services) to supply E911 capabilities to their customers. To
ensure E911 functionality for customers of VoIP service providers the
Commission requires the following information collections:
A. Location Registration. Requires providers to interconnected VoIP
services to obtain location information from their customers for use in
the routing of 911 calls and the provision of location information to
emergency answering points.
B. Provision of Automatic Location Information (ALI).
Interconnected VoIP service providers will place the location
information for their customers into, or make that information
available through, specialized databases maintained by local exchange
carriers (and, in at least one case, a state government) across the
country.
C. Customer Notification. Requires that all providers of
interconnected VoIP are aware of their interconnected VoIP service's
actual E911 capabilities. That all providers of interconnected VoIP
service specifically advise every subscriber, both new and existing,
prominently and in plain language, the circumstances under which E911
service may not be available through the interconnected VoIP service or
may be in some way limited by comparison to traditional E911 service.
D. Record of Customer Notification. Requires VoIP providers to
obtain and keep a record of affirmative acknowledgement by every
subscriber, both new and existing, of having received and understood
this advisory.
E. User Notification. In addition, in order to ensure to the extent
possible that the advisory is available to all potential users of an
interconnected VoIP service, interconnected VoIP service providers must
distribute to all subscribers, both new and existing, warning stickers
or other appropriate labels warning subscribers if E911 service may be
limited or not available and instructing the subscriber to place them
on or near the customer premises equipment used in conjunction with the
interconnected VoIP service.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-26737 Filed 11-7-08; 8:45 am]
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