[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 47 (Thursday, March 10, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13183-13184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-5525]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission for Extension Under Delegated
Authority, Comments Requested
February 28, 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,
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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 May 9, 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].
For Further Information Contact: Judith B. Herman, Office of
Managing Director, (202) 418-0214. For additional information, contact
Judith B. Herman, OMD, 202-418-0214 or e-mail [email protected].
Supplementary Information:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1005.
Title: Numbering Resource Optimization--Phase 3.
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 and Responses: 17 respondents; 34 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 40-50 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. 153, 154, 201-205, 207-209, 218, 225-227, 251-252, 271 and 332.
Total Annual Burden: 830 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting respondents to submit confidential information to the
Commission. If the Commission requests respondents to submit
information which respondents believe is confidential, respondents may
request confidential treatment of such information pursuant to 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)
after this comment period to obtain the full, three year clearance from
them. There is no change in the reporting and/or third party disclosure
requirements. The Commission is reporting a 30 hour decrease adjustment
in burden. This decrease is due to recalculations of the previous
burdens submitted to OMB in 2008.
The Commission established a safety valve to ensure that carriers
experiencing rapid growth in a given market will be able to meet
customer demand. States may use this safety valve to grant requests
from carriers that demonstrate the following:
(1) The carrier will exhaust its numbering resources in a market or
rate area within three months (in lieu of six months-to-exhaust
requirement); and
(2) Projected growth is based on the carrier's actual growth in the
market or rate area, or in the carrier's actual growth in a reasonably
comparable market, but only if that projected growth varies no more
than 15 percent from historical growth in the relevant market.
The Commission lifted the ban on service-specific and technology-
specific overlays (collectively, specialized overlays or SOs), allowing
State commissions seeking to implement SOs to request delegated
authority to do so on a case-by-case basis. To provide further guidance
to State commissions, the Commission set forth the criteria that each
request for delegated authority to implement a SO should address. This
will enable us to examine the feasibility of SOs in a particular area,
and determine whether the Commission's stated goals are likely to be
met if the SO is implemented.
Specifically, State commissions should also specifically address
the following:
(1) The technologies or services to be included in the SO;
(2) The geographic area to be covered;
(3) Whether the SO will be transitional;
(4) When the SO will be implemented and, if a transitional SO is
proposed, when the SO will become an all-services overlay;
(5) Whether the SO will include take-backs;
(6) Whether there will be 10-digit dialing in the SO and the
underlying area code(s);
(7) Whether the SO and underlying area code(s) will be subject to
rationing; and
(8) Whether the SO will cover an area in which pooling is taking
place.
The Commission uses the information it collects to assist the State
commissions in carrying out their delegated authority over numbering
resources.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
[FR Doc. 2011-5525 Filed 3-9-11; 8:45 am]
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