[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 28 (Thursday, February 10, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7564-7565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-2956]
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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
February 2, 2011.
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, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520. 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; (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 currently valid OMB control number.
DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before March 14, 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 via the Internet at
[email protected] and to the Federal Communications
Commission via e-mail to [email protected]. To view a copy of this
information collection request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go to the
Web page http://reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the section
of the Web page called ``Currently Under Review'', (3) click on the
downward-pointing arrow in the ``Select Agency'' box below the
``Currently Under Review'' heading, (4) select ``Federal Communications
Commission'' from the list of agencies presented in the ``Select
Agency'' box, (5) click the ``Submit'' button to the right of the
``Select Agency'' box, and (6) when the list of FCC ICRs currently
under review appears, look for the title of this ICR (or its OMB
Control Number, if there is one) and then click on the ICR Reference
Number to view detailed information about this ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing
Director, (202) 418-0214. For additional information or copies of the
information collection(s), contact Judith B. Herman, OMD, 202-418-0214
or e-mail [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0823.
Title: Part 64, Pay Telephone Reclassification.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 400 respondents; 16,820
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 2.66 hours (average).
Frequency of Response: On occasion, quarterly and monthly reporting
requirements and third party disclosure requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 154, 201-205,
218, 226 and 276.
Total Annual Burden: 44,700 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $652,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Confidentiality concerns are
not relevant to these types of disclosures. The Commission is not
requesting carriers or providers to submit confidential information to
the Commission. If the Commission requests that carriers or providers
submit information which they believe is confidential, the carriers or
providers may request confidential treatment of their information under
47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
during this comment period. The Commission is not changing any of the
reporting and/or third party disclosure requirements. The Commission is
reporting no change in the hourly burden estimate. However,
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we are reporting a $32,000 increase in annual costs. This adjustment
increase is due to an increase in the tariff filing fee from $775 to
$815.
The Commission established a plan to ensure that payphone service
providers (PSPs) were compensated for certain non-coin calls originated
from their payphones.
As part of this plan, the Commission required that by October 7,
1997, local exchange carriers were to provide payphone-specific coding
digits to PSPs, and that PSPs were to provide those digits from their
payphones to interexchange carriers.
The provision of payphone-specific coding digits was a prerequisite
to payphone per-call compensation payments by IXCs to PSPs for
subscriber 800 and access code calls. The Commission's Wireline
Competition Bureau subsequently provided a waiver until March 9, 1998,
for those payphones for which the necessary coding digits were not
provided to identify calls. The Bureau also on that date clarified the
requirements established in the Payphone Orders for the provision of
payphone-specific coding digits and for tariffs that LECs must file
pursuant to the Payphone Orders.
Federal Communications Commission.
Bulah P. Wheeler,
Deputy Manager, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
[FR Doc. 2011-2956 Filed 2-9-11; 8:45 am]
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