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[FR Doc No: 94-4699]


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[Federal Register: March 2, 1994]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
 

Public Information Collection Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public 
information collections pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1980, Public Law 96-511. For further information contact Shoko B. Hair, 
Federal Communications Commmission, (202) 632-6934.

Federal Communications Commission

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0590.
    Title: In the Matter of Transport Rate Structure and Pricing, CC 
Docket No. 91-213, Second Report and Order, released January 31, 1994.
    Expiration Date: 04/30/94.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 110 total hours; 2 hours per response.
    Description: In the Second Report and Order in CC Docket No. 91-213 
(released 1/31/94), the Commission modified certain features of the 
price cap regulatory system applicable to local exchange carriers 
(LECs) to accommodate the recent restructure of the LECs local 
transport rates. Transport services, including all the transmission-
related elements, the tandem switching charge, and the interconnection 
charge, were moved out of the price cap basket for traffic sensitive 
services and placed into a combined ``trunking'' basket containing 
transport and special access services. The Commission realigned the 
service categories and subcategories within the trunking basket to 
reflect the similarities between certain special access and flat-rated 
transport services, and to accommodate the new density zone pricing 
system that were adopted for both special access and transport. The 
pricing bands applicable to the service categories and subcategories 
were also adapted. All LECs subject to the price cap rules are required 
to file a supplemental tariff review plan to recalculate their price 
cap indexes pursuant to the decision in the Order. The recalculated 
indexes should be used as the basis of any price cap filing that 
changes rates of services in the trucking or traffic sensitive baskets 
subsequent to the effective date of the initial restructured transport 
tariffs. Subsequent tariff filings must be made pursuant to the 
modified rules. The information will be used to aid in the review of 
the LECs transport service restructure by the Commission and interested 
parties.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0484.
    Title: Amendment of part 63 of the Commission's Rules to Provide 
for the Notification of Common Carriers of Service Disruptions--R&O, 
Sec. 63.100.
    Expiration Date: 06/30/96.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 239 total hours; 2.3 hours per response.
    Description: In the Memorandum Opinion and Order and Further Notice 
of Proposed Rulemaking, in CC Docket No. 91-273, released December 1, 
1993, the Commission amended 47 CFR 63.100 to include competitive 
access providers among those required to report outages lasting 30 or 
more minutes and potentially affecting 50,000 or more of their 
customers. This action is necessary to ensure the Commission's ability 
to monitor outages and determine what steps may be necessary to ensure 
network reliability. The amendment will provide the Commission with the 
additional information it needs to perform this task. OMB approval also 
includes the Commission's proposal to amend Sec. 63.100 to require that 
local exchange and interexchange common carriers that operate either 
transmission or switching facilities report outages affecting 30,000 or 
more customers or special facilities.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0583.
    Title: Amendment of part 32 and 64 of the Commission's rules to 
Account for Transactions Between Carriers and Their Nonregulated 
Affiliates--CC Docket No. 93-251 (Proposed Rules).
    Expiration Date: 10/31/96.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 320,020 total hours; 4980 total hours per 
response.
    Description: OMB approved the proposed requirements contained in 
the Commission's notice of proposed rulemaking (notice) in CC Docket 
No. 93-453, released October 20, 1993. The notice sought comments to 
amend the Commission's affiliate transaction rules and on the specific 
procedures telephone companies would use in implementing the proposed 
rules. The FCC proposed these measures to enhance its ability to keep 
telephone companies from imposing the costs of nonregulated activities 
on interstate ratepayers, and to keep ratepayers from being harmed by 
the telephone companies imprudence. The Notice proposed new and 
modified information requirements to help ensure that carriers adhere 
to the proposed affiliate transactions rule amendments.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-4699 Filed 3-1-94; 8:45 am]
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