[Federal Register: June 12, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 112)]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

 
Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

June 9, 2009.
    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public 
information collection 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: Contact Judith B. Herman, Federal 
Communications Commission, at (202) 418-0214 or via the Internet at 
Judith-B.Herman@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0999.
    Expiration Date: 06/30/2012.
    Title: Hearing Aid Compatibility Status Report and Section 20.19, 
Hearing Aid-Compatible Mobile Handsets (Hearing Aid Compatibility Act).
    Form No.: FCC Form 655--electronic only.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 925 responses; 12,063 total annual hours; 
2.5 hours per response.
    Needs and Uses: In the Report and Order in WT Docket 01-309, FCC 
03-168, adopted and released in September 2003, the Federal 
Communications Commission modified the exemption for telephones used 
with public mobile services from the requirements of the Hearing Aid 
Compatibility Act of 1988 (HAC Act). The Order required digital 
wireless phone manufacturers and service providers to make certain 
digital wireless phones capable of effective use with hearing aids, 
label certain phones they sold with information about their 
compatibility with hearing aids, and report to the Commission (at first 
every six months, then on an annual basis) on the numbers and types of 
hearing aid compatible phones they were producing or offering to the 
public.
    In February 2008, the Commission adopted final rules in a Report 
and Order (FCC 08-68) that updated several performance benchmarks and 
instituted new requirements. To assist the Commission in monitoring the 
implementation of the new requirements and to provide information to 
the public, the Report and Order also required manufacturers and 
service providers to continue to file annual reports on the status of 
their compliance with the requirements, and required manufacturers and 
service providers that maintain public websites to publish up-to-date 
information on those websites regarding their hearing aid-compatible 
handset models.
    Now, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden, 
the Commission is eliminating the use of paper-based annual reports and 
will require annual reports filed by manufacturers and service 
providers to be submitted using electronic FCC Form 655 beginning July 
15, 2009. Use of the electronic FCC Form 655 will help filers ensure 
that their reports include all of the required information, will 
facilitate the Commission's compilation of data from the reports, and 
will decrease the paperwork burden overall.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-13945 Filed 6-11-09; 8:45 am]

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