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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collection Requirements Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission for Extension Under Delegated
Authority 5 CFR 1320.9.
October 25, 1994.
The Federal Communications Commission is reviewing the following
information collection requirements for possible 3-year extension under
delegated authority 5 CFR 1320.9, authority delegated to the Commission
by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on October 6, 1994. These
collections were all previously approved by OMB and are unchanged.
Public comments are invited on any of these collections for a period
ending December 1, 1994. Persons wishing to comment on these
information collections should contact Dorothy Conway, Federal
Communications Commission, 1919 M Street N.W. Room 242-B, Washington,
DC 20554. You may also send comments via Internet to DC[email protected].
Upon approval FCC will forward supporting material and copies of these
collections to OMB.
Copies of these submissions may be purchased from the Commission's
copy contractor, International Transcription Service, Inc., 2100 M
Street, N.W., Suite 140, Washington, DC 20037, (202) 857-3800. For
further information on these submissions contact Dorothy Conway,
Federal Communications Commission, (202) 418-0217.
OMB Number: 3060-0492
Title: Section 74.992 Access to channels licensed to wireless cable
entities
Form Number: FCC Form 330
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: State or local governments, businesses or other for profit
including small businesses, non-profit
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 10 responses; 6.5 hours burden per response;
65 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 74.992 requires that requests by Instructional
Television Fixed and/or Response Station(s) (ITFS) entities for access
to wireless cable facilities licensed on ITFS frequencies be made by
filing FCC Form 330. The data is used by FCC staff to determine if an
ITFS entity is eligible to demand access on the wireless cable
facility.
OMB Number: 3060-0493
Title: Section 74.986 Involuntary ITFS station modification
Form Number: FCC Form 330
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: State or local governments; businesses or other for profit
including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 20 responses; 8 hours burden per response; 160
hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 74.986 requires an application for involuntary
modification of an ITFS station be filed on FCC Form 330. FCC staff
uses the data to insure that ITFS licensees/permittees proposals to
modify ITFS facilities would provide comparable ITFS service and serve
the public interest in promoting the MMDS service.
OMB Number: 3060-0491
Title: Section 74.991 Wireless cable application procedures
Form Numbers: FCC Forms 330 and 494
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 100 responses; 4.33 hours burden per response;
433 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 74.991 requires that a wireless cable
application be filed on FCC Form 330, Sections I and V, with a complete
FCC Form 494 appended. The application must include a cover letter
clearly indicating that the application is for a wireless cable entity
to operate on ITFS channels. FCC staff uses the data to insure that
proposals to operate a wireless cable system on ITFS channels do not
impair or restrict any reasonably foreseeable ITFS use.
OMB Number: 3060-0490
Title: Section 74.902 Frequency Assignments
Form Number: FCC Forms 330 and 327
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: State or local governments; businesses or other for
profit, including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 32 responses; 7.625 hours burden per response;
244 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 74.902 requires that an MDS applicant files the
appropriate application for suitable alternative spectrum when
involuntarily displacing a point to point ITFS station operating on MDS
channels E and F. FCC staff uses this data to insure that proposals to
displace point to point facilities of ITFS stations would provide
comparable point-to-point ITSF service and serve the public interest in
promoting the MMDS service.
OMB Number: 3060-0494
Title: Section 74.990 Use of available instructional television fixed
service frequencies by wireless cable entities
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 100 responses; 2 hours burden per response;
200 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 74.990 requires a wireless cable applicant to
show that there are no multipoint distribution service or multichannel
distribution service channels available for application, purchase or
lease that could be used in lieu of the instructional television fixed
service frequencies applied for. This data is used by FCC staff to
insure that proposals to operate a wireless cable system on ITFS
channels do not impair or restrict any reasonably foreseeable ITFS use.
OMB Number: 3060-0297
Title: 80.503 Cooperative use of facilities
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;
businesses or other for profit; non-profit institutions including small
businesses
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement
Estimated Annual Burden: 100 recordkeepers; 16 hours burden per
recordkeeper; 1,600 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 80.503 recordkeeping requirements are necessary
to insure licensees which share private facilities operate within the
specified scope of service, on a non-profit basis, and do not function
as communications common carriers providing ship-shore public
correspondence services. FCC Field Operations Bureau staff use the data
during inspections and investigations to insure compliance with
applicable rules.
OMB Number: 3060-0222
Title: 97.213 Remote control of a station
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Individuals or households
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement
Estimated Annual Burden: 500 recordkeepers; 12 minutes burden per
recordkeeper; 100 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 97.213 requires posting a photocopy of the
station license, a label with the name, address and telephone number of
the station license and the name of at least one authorized control
operator. This facilitates quick resolution of any harmful interference
problems in accordance with the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
FCC Field Operations Bureau staff use this information during
inspections and investigations to assure that remotely controlled
amateur radio stations are licensed in accordance with applicable
rules, statutes and treaties.
OMB Number: 3060-0202
Title: Section 87.37 Developmental license
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;
businesses or other for profits; non-profit institutions including
small businesses
Frequency of Response: Annual
Estimated Annual Burden: 12 responses; 8 hours burden response; 96
hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: This requirement in Section 87.37 enables the FCC to
gather data on the results of developmental programs conducted in the
Aviation Services for which developmental authorizations have been
issued. The data is used to determine whether developmental
authorizations should be renewed and/or whether rule making proceedings
should be initiated to include such operations within the normal scope
of Aviation Services.
OMB Number: 3060-0197
Title: Section 87.31 Changes during license term
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;
businesses or other for profit; federal agencies or employees; non-
profit institutions; small businesses or organizations
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 100 responses; 1 hour burden per response; 100
hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: This requirement in Section 87.31 is necessary to
ensure name and/or address of licensee.
OMB Number: 3060-0264
Title: 80.413 On-board station equipment records
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;
businesses or other for profit; federal agencies or employees; non-
profit institutions; small businesses or organizations
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,000 recordkeepers; 2 hours burden per
recordkeeper; 2,000 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: The recordkeeping requirement in Section 80.413 is
necessary to document the number and type of transmitters operating
under an on-board station license. FCC Field Operations Bureau staff
use the information during inspections and investigations to determine
what mobile units and repeaters are associated with on-board stations
aboard a particular vessel.
OMB Number: 3060-0132
Title: Supplemental Information 72-76 MHz Operational Fixed Stations
Form Number: FCC Form 1068A
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;
businesses or other for profit; non-profit institutions; small
businesses or organizations
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 300 responses; 30 minutes burden per response;
150 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: This collection is required to evaluate applicants for
authorization in the Operational Fixed Private Land Mobile Stations in
the 72-76 MHz frequency band.
OMB Number: 3060-0021
Title: Civil Air Patrol Radio Station License
Form Number: FCC Form 480
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Non-profit institutions
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 12 responses; 5 minutes burden per response; 1
hour total annual burden
Needs and Uses: FCC Form 480 is used by apply for a new, renewal or
modified Civil Air Patrol Radio Station License. The data is used by
the Commission personnel to evaluate the application to issue licenses,
to provide information for enforcement and rulemaking proceedings and
to maintain a current inventory of licensees.
OMB Number: 3060-0182
Title: Section 73.1620 Program Tests
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit; non-profit institutions
including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,136 responses; 1.06 hours burden per
response; 1,204 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: The notification to FCC regarding program tests
(Section 73.1620(a)) alerts FCC that station construction is complete
and that the station is ready to broadcast program material. The
notification to UHF translator stations (Section 73.1620(f)) alerts the
station that the potential for interference exists. The report to FCC
regarding deviations (Section 73.1620(g)) ensure that comparative
promises relating to services are not inflated.
OMB Number: 3060-0348
Title: Section 76.79 Records available for public inspection
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit including small businesses
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping
Estimated Annual Burden: 2,150 recordkeepers; 2 hours burden per
recordkeeper; 4,300 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 73.79 requires that every cable employment unit
with more than five full-time employees maintain, for public inspection
a file containing copies of all annual employment reports and related
documents. This data is used to assess the cable unit's equal
employment opportunity (EEO) efforts.
OMB Number: 3060-0187
Title: Section 73.3594 Local public notice of designation for hearing
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 48 responses; 4 hours burden per response; 192
hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 73.3594 request that applicants of any AM, FM
or TV broadcast station designated hearing must give notice of such
designation. This notice must be given in a daily newspaper of general
circulation published twice weekly for two consecutive weeks in the
community in which the station is or will be located. This notice gives
interested parties the opportunity to respond.
OMB Number: 3060-0488
Title: Section 73.30 Petition for authorization of an allotment in the
1605-1705 kHz band
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 500 responses; 2 hours burden per response;
1,000 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 73.30 requires any party interested in applying
for an AM broadcast station to be operated on the 1605-1705 band to
first file a petition for the establishment of an allotment to its
proposed community of service. FCC staff uses the data to determine
whether applicants meet basic technical requirements to migrate to the
expanded band.
OMB Number: 3060-0218
Title: Section 90.41(b) Disaster Relief Organization ``Special
eligibility showing''
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Non-profit institutions; small businesses or organizations
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 75 responses; 10 minutes burden per response;
13 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Information used to establish the eligibility of
disaster relief organizations to use Special Emergency Radio Service
frequencies which are primarily used for emergency medical services.
This is necessary to assure efficient communications operations.
OMB Number: 3060-0259
Title: Section 90.263 Substitution of Frequencies below 25 MHz
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: State or local governments; businesses or other for profit
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 60 responses; 30 minutes burden per response;
30 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Applicants proposing operation in certain frequency
bands below 25 MHz must submit supplemental information showing such
frequencies are necessary from a safety of life standpoint. FCC
personnel uses this information to evaluate the applicants need for
such frequencies and the interference potential to other stations
operating on the proposed frequencies.
OMB Number: 3060-0295
Title: Sections 90.607(b)(1) & (c)(1) Supplemental information to be
furnished by applicants for facilities under this subpart
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: State or local government; businesses or other for profit
including small business
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 2,028 responses; 15 minutes burden per
response; 507 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Applicants must submit a list of any radio facility
they hold within 40 miles of the base station transmitter site being
applied for. This information is used to determine if an applicant's
proposed system is necessary in light of communications facilities it
already owns. Such a determination helps the Commission to equitably
distribute limited spectrum.
OMB Number: 3060-0221
Title: Section 90.155(b) Time in which station must be placed in
operation (exceptions)
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;
businesses or other for profit, including small businesses; non-profit
institutions
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 55 responses; 1 hour burden per response; 55
hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: state and local governments are must show a need if
they require longer than eight months to place a station in operation.
Commission licensing staff use the information to determine if an
exception to the eight month requirement is warranted.
OMB Number: 3060-0173
Title: Section 73.1207 Rebroadcasts
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses
non-profit institutions
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,012 recordkeepers; 30 minutes burden per
recordkeeper; 506 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 73.1207 requires licensees of broadcast
stations to obtain written permission from an originating station prior
to retransmitting any program or part thereof. A copy of the permission
must be kept in the station's file and made available to the FCC upon
request. This written consent assures the Commission that prior
authorization for retransmission of a program was obtained.
OMB Number: 3060-0190
Title: Section 73.3544 Application to obtain a modified station license
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small
businesses; non-profit institutions
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 272 responses; 1 hour burden per response; 272
hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 73.3544 requires broadcast licensees to file
informal applications with FCC to obtain modified station license when
prior authority is not required to make changes. FCC uses the data to
ensure changes are in accordance with FCC rules and regulations and to
issue a modified station license.
OMB Number: 3060-0489
Title: Section 73.37 Applications for broadcast facilities, showing
required
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 210 responses; 4.86 hours per response; 1,021
hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 73.37(d) requires applicants for new or major
change AM broadcast stations to make a satisfactory showing if new or
modified nighttime operations by a Class B station is proposed. Section
73.37(f) requires applicants seeking facilities modifications that
would result in spacing that fail to meet any of the separation
requirements to include a showing that an adjustment has been made to
the radiated signal which effectively results in a site-to-site
radiation that is equivalent to the radiation of a station with
standard Model 1 facilities. The FCC staff uses the data to ensure that
objectionable interference will not be caused to other authorized AM
stations.
OMB Number: 3060-0346
Title: Section 78.27 License Conditions
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Business or other for profit, including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 455 responses; 10 minutes burden per response;
76 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 78.27 requires licensees of Cable Television
Relay Service stations to notify the Commission when stations commence
operation and to request additional time to complete construction when
needed. FCC staff uses the data to provide accurate records of actual
CARS channel usage for frequency coordination purposes.
OMB Number: 3060-0570
Title: Section 76.982 Continuation of Rate Agreements
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: State and local governments; businesses or other for
profit, including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 150 persons; 30 minutes burden response; 75
hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 76.982 provides that franchise authorities who
were regulating basic cable rates pursuant to a rate agreement executed
before July 1, may continue to regulate rates during the remainder of
the agreement after notification to the FCC that it intends to do so.
This notification will give the FCC information needed to assess impact
of new regulatory scheme.
OMB Number: 3060-0314
Title: Section 76.209 Fairness doctrine, personal attacks, political
editorials
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,312 responses; 2.6 hours burden per
response; 3,411 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 76.209(b) requires that a cable television
system operator must notify a person or group on which a personal
attack was made of the date, time and identification of the cablecast.
They are to offer a script or tape of the attack and offer a reasonable
opportunity to respond to the attack over the licensees facilities.
Section 76.209(d) requires that when a cable television system operator
in an editorial endorses or opposes a candidate, the licensee must
notify the other qualified candidate(s) for the same office or the
candidate opposed, of the date and time of editorial, provide a script
or tape editorial and offer a reasonable opportunity to respond over
the system's facilities.
OMB Number: 3060-0561
Title: Section 76.913 Assumption of jurisdiction by the Commission
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: State or local governments; federal agencies or employees
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 500 responses; 8 hours burden per response;
4,000 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 76.913 provides that a franchise authority that
has insufficient resources to regulate rates or lacks the legal
authority may petition the Commission to regulate the rates for basic
cable service and associated equipment of its franchise. FCC uses the
data to identify situations where it should exercise jurisdiction.
OMB Number: 3060-0447
Title: Section 25.134 Licensing Provisions of Very Small Aperture
Terminal Network
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Business or other for profit, including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 10 responses; 120 hours burden per response;
1,200 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 25.134 requires applicants seeking higher
satellite carrier power density to make certain showings including a
copy of their engineering analyses output, accompanied with a narrative
summary and also proof of consent to all potentially affected parties.
The FCC uses this data to identify potential interference problems.
OMB Number: 3060-0560
Title: Section 76.911 Petition for reconsideration of certification
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 450 responses; 2 hours burden per response;
900 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 76.911(b)(2) requires competing video
programmers, when requested by cable operators to provide information
regarding the competitor's research and number of subscribers. The
information will be used by cable operators to rebut a franchising
authority's certification to the FCC that the cable system is not
subject to effective competition. FCC staff will use the data to
achieve the goals of the Communications and Cable Acts, by ensuring
that the threshold effective competition determination is based on a
complete record and to resolve disputes concerning the presence or
absence of effective competition.
OMB Number: 3060-0562
Title: Section 76.916, Petition for Recertification
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: State or local governments
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,300 responses; 2.5 hours burden per
response; 3,250 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: Section 76.916 provides that franchising authority
wishing to assume jurisdiction to regulate basic service and associated
equipment rates after its request for certification has been denied or
revoked must file a ``Petition for Reconsideration.'' If this
collection was not conducted, such franchise authorities would not have
the opportunity to establish their qualifications after their initial
request for certification was denied or revoked.
OMB Number: 3060-0486
Title: Document Index Terms
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden: 21,120 responses; .017 hours burden per
response; 360 hours total annual burden
Needs and Uses: This information is used by the FCC to enter documents
into the Commissions Records Imaging Processing System (RIPS). This
system is used for storage and retrieval of docketed, rulemakings and
petitions for Rulemaking proceedings. The data assists the public in
assigning documents in the system.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
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