[Federal Register: June 18, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 116)]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

 
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Approved by the Office 
of Management and Budget

June 15, 2009.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission has received Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public 
information collection(s) pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520). An agency may not conduct or sponsor a 
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB 
control number, and no person is required to respond to a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. 
Comments concerning the accuracy of the burden estimate(s) and any 
suggestions for reducing the burden should be directed to the person 
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leslie Haney, Leslie.Haney@fcc.gov, 
(202) 418-1002.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control Number: 3060-1085.
    OMB Approval Date: June 9, 2009.
    Expiration Date: June 30, 2012.
    Title: Section 9.5, Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol 
(VoIP) E911 Compliance.
    Form No.: Not applicable.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 14,320,000 responses; 24.90 hours per 
response (average); 574,945 hours total annual burden hours; and 
$80,235,305 in annual cost.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this 
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 152(a), 153(33), 
153(52), and 251(e)(3).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting that respondents submit confidential information to the 
Commission.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission requesting an extension (no change 
in recordkeeping and/or third party disclosure requirements) in order 
to obtain the full three year clearance from the OMB. There has been a 
significant decrease in recalculating the number of respondents/
responses since this was last submitted to OMB in 2006. The Commission 
has also increased the total annual burden hours and annual costs due 
to a recalculation of the estimates.
    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. E9-14322 Filed 6-17-09; 8:45 am]

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