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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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