[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 247 (Monday, December 27, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81270-81273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-32472]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for
Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB),
Comments Requested
December 15, 2010.
SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to comment on the following
information collection. 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
[[Page 81271]]
the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; (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; and (e) ways to further reduce
the information collection burden for small business concerns with
fewer than 25 employees.
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB 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 OMB control number.
DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before January 26, 2011. 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 Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of
Management and Budget, via fax at 202-395-5167 or the Internet at
[email protected]; and to the Federal Communications
Commission's PRA mailbox (e-mail address: [email protected]). Include in the
e-mail the OMB control number of the collection as shown in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below, or if there is no OMB control
number, include the Title as shown in the Supplementary Information
section. If you are unable to submit your comments by e-mail, contact
he person listed below to make alternate arrangements.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, contact
Judith B. Herman at 202-418-0214 or via the Internet at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1000.
Title: Section 87.147, Authorization for Equipment.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 25 respondents; 25 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Frequency of Response: On occasion and one time reporting
requirements and third party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. sections 154, 303, and 307(e).
Total Annual Burden: 25 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 expiring
information collection (IC) to the OMB during this comment period. The
Commission is reporting no change in its burden estimates. The
Commission is seeking OMB approval for an extension (there are no
changes to the reporting and/or third party disclosure requirements).
Section 87.147 is needed to require applicants for aviation
equipment certification to submit a Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) determination of the equipment's compatibility with the National
Airspace System (NAS). This will ensure that radio equipment operating
in certain frequencies is compatible with the NAS, which shares system
components with the military. The notification must describe the
equipment, give the manufacturer's identification, antenna
characteristics, rated output power, emission type and characteristics,
the frequency or frequencies of operation, and essential receiver
characteristics if protection is required.
This information collected is used by FCC engineers to determine
the interference potential of the proposed operation.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0484.
Title: Section 4.1 and 4.2, and Part 4 of the Commission's Rules
Concerning Disruptions to the Communications (NORS).
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit, not-for-profit
institutions, and state, local or tribal governments.
Number of Respondents: 71 respondents; 139 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 2 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement,
recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. sections 151, 154, 218, 219, 230, 256, 301, 302, 303, and 403,
and 621.
Total Annual Burden: 19,738 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: In accordance with 47 CFR
section 4.2, of the Commission's rules, reports under part 4 are
presumed confidential.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection (IC) to the OMB during this comment period. The
Commission is requesting OMB approval for an extension (no change in
the reporting, recordkeeping and/or third party disclosure
requirements). The Commission is reporting a 10,100 total annual burden
hour increase. This increased adjustment is due to a recalculation of
the number of responses and therefore the total annual burden hours
have increased since the last time this collection was submitted to the
OMB. The information collection is used in connection with the
reporting of significant outages of voice and/or paging communications
provided by wireline, wireless, cable circuit-switched telephony, and
satellite communications providers.
This information collection is necessary for the following reasons:
(1) Collecting information on significant outages as defined in its
rules enables the Federal Communications Commission (``FCC or
Commission'') to analyze significant disruptions to telecommunications
networks, and thereby fulfill its statutory obligations under the
Communication Act by ensuring the reliability and security of the
nation's telecommunications networks for the benefit of all Americans.
Furthermore, these measures are necessary to support the efforts of
public safety, national defense, and homeland security entities that
rely upon the integrity of our Nation's telecommunications
infrastructure to accomplish their own missions. In the absence of--or
less frequent--reporting of significant outages as required by the
Commission's rules, valuable information regarding telecommunications
failures would escape timely FCC analysis, and thus impede the ability
to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities involving the
Nation's telecommunications infrastructure--particularly those having
an adverse impact on public safety, homeland security and national
defense priorities.
(1) In addition, the information collected--particularly in cases
involving major outage incidents--can be of a nature that constitutes
``Critical Infrastructure Information'' as defined in 6 U.S.C. section
131, which may be shared with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
in furtherance of its missions to protect the United States from
terrorist activity and to otherwise protect domestic security.
Consequently, the collection and timely
[[Page 81272]]
reporting of data relating to significant outages as required by these
rules is necessary in order for the Commission and DHS to successfully
accomplish these critical missions for the benefit of the American
people.
(2) In addition, the mandatory reporting procedures requires three
submissions to be transmitted electronically to the Commission's
database by each affected provider for each reportable outage as
follows:
(a) a bare-bones Notification (``Notification'') not later than 120
minutes after discovering a reportable outage;
(b) a more detailed Initial Communications Outage Report (``Initial
Report'') not later than 72 hours after discovering a reportable
outage; and
(c) a comprehensive Final Communications Outage Report (``Final
Report'') not later than thirty (30) days after discovering a
reportable outage.
As noted above, the information provided in the data collected by
providers (collectively ``Outage Reports'') is essential in enabling
the Commission to monitor developments affecting telecommunications
reliability and security; to facilitate improvements in
telecommunications reliability and security; and to serve as a source
of information for the public.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0971.
Title: Section 52.15, Request for ``For Cause'' Audits and State
Commission's Access to Numbering Resource Application Information.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit and state, local or
tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 2,105 respondents; 63,005 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .166 hours to 3 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third
party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. sections 153, 154, 201-205, 207-209, 218, 225-227, 251-252, 271
and 332.
Total Annual Burden: 10,473 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Carrier numbering resource
applications and audits of carrier compliance will be treated as
confidential and will be exempt from public disclosure under 5 U.S.C.
552(b)(4).
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection (IC) to the OMB during this comment period. The
Commission is reporting a 42 total hourly burden reduction adjustment.
The adjustment is due to a recalculation of the previous estimates
submitted to OMB in 2008. The Commission is now seeking OMB approval
for an extension (there are no changes to the reporting and/or third
party disclosure requirements) to keep this collection from lapsing OMB
approval.
There are two Paperwork Reduction Act related obligations under
this OMB Control Number 3060-0971.
1. The North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA), the
Pooling Administrator, or a state commission may draft a request to the
auditor stating the reason for the request, such as misleading or
inaccurate data, and attach supporting documentation.
2. Requests for copies of carriers' applications for numbering
resources may be made directly to carriers.
The information collected will be used by the FCC, state
commissions, the NANPA and the Pooling Administrator to verify the
validity and accuracy of such data and to assist state commissions in
carrying out their numbering responsibilities, such as area code
relief.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0972.
Title: Multi-Association Group (MAG) Plan Order, Parts 54 and 69
Filing Requirements for Regulation of Interstate Services of Non-Price
Cap Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) and Interexchange Carriers
(IXCs).
Form Nos.: FCC Forms 507, 508 and 509.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit and not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 1,258 respondents; 10,849 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .166 hours to 3 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, annual, quarterly, one time and
every three years reporting requirements and third party disclosure
requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. sections 1-4, 10, 154(i), 154(j), 201-205, 254, and 403.
Total Annual Burden: 46,885 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $48,900.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission does not
require that respondents submit confidential information to the
Commission. If the Commission does request applicants to submit
information that the respondents believe is confidential, respondents
may do so under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection (IC) to the OMB during this comment period The
Commission is now seeking OMB approval for an extension (there are no
changes to the reporting and/or third party disclosure requirements) to
keep this collection from lapsing OMB approval. The Commission is
reporting the following changes in burden since this was last submitted
to the OMB. There is a 6,434 increase in the hourly burden which is due
to an increase in the number of respondents/responses and a $3,705
increase in annual costs. This increase adjustment in annual costs is
due to an increase in filing fees.
The 60 day notice that was published on September 9, 2010 (75 FR
54878) cited an incorrect total annual burden estimate. It has been
corrected in this 30-day notice. There are 14 Paperwork Reduction Act
(PRA) related information collection requirements under this OMB
Control Number 3060-0972.
Following the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the
Commission adopted interstate access charge and universal service
support reforms. The reforms were designed to establish a ``pro-
competitive, deregulatory national policy framework'' for the United
States telecommunications industry, and to carry out the universal
service policies embodied in the 1996 Act. Specifically, the Commission
aligned the interstate access rate structure more closely with the
manner in which costs are incurred, and created a universal service
support mechanism for rate-of-return carriers (Interstate Common Line
Support (ICLS)) to replace implicit support in interstate access
charges with explicit support that is portable to all eligible
telecommunications carriers.
The Commission's actions were also tailored to the needs of small
and mid-sized local telephone companies serving rural and high-cost
areas, and help to provide certainty and stability for rate-of-return
carriers, encourage investment in rural America, and provide important
consumer benefits.
To administer the ICLS mechanism, the Administrator must collect
certain data. Specifically, the Administrator must collect from each
rate-of-return carrier projected cost and revenue data for the July 1--
June 30 funding year to accurately distribute prospective ICLS to those
carriers. Line count data is reported on FCC Form 507. Projected
[[Page 81273]]
cost data, including cost and revenue data is filed on FCC Form 508.
And, the actual data, including cost and revenue data is reported on
FCC Form 509.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-32472 Filed 12-23-10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6712-01-P