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[FR Doc No: 94-27999]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collection Requirements Submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review
November 4, 1994.
The Federal Communications Commission has submitted the following
information collection requirements to OMB for review and clearance
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3507).
Copies of these submissions may be purchased from the Commission's
copy contractor, International Transcription Service, Inc., 2100 M
Street, NW., Suite 140, Washington, DC 20037, (202) 857-3800. For
further information on these submissions contact Judy Boley, Federal
Communications Commission, (202) 418-0214. Persons wishing to comment
on these information collections should contact Timothy Fain, Office of
Management and Budget, Room 10214 NEOB, Washington, DC 20503, (202)
395-3561.
OMB Number: None.
Title: Amendment of the Commission's Rules to Establish New Narrowband
Personal Communications Services (ET Docket No. 92-100 and Gen. Docket
No. 90-314).
Action: New collection.
Respondents: Individuals or households, state or local governments,
non- profit institutions, and businesses or other for-profit (including
small businesses).
Frequency of Response: Other: First collection: 1 year after initial
license grant for BTA licensees. Second collection: 5 years after
initial license grant for nationwide, regional and MTA licensees. Third
collection: 10 years after initial license grant for nationwide,
regional and MTA licensees.
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,782 responses, 15.1 hours average burden
per response, 26,843 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: The Commission has adopted a Memorandum Opinion and
Order, released March 4, 1994, in the narrowband personal
communications service (PCS) proceeding that requires all licensees,
except for paging response channel licensees, to file materials that
show their compliance with the construction requirements of this
service. Specifically, the Commission required that upon meeting five
and ten year construction benchmarks, nationwide, regional and major
trading area (MTA) 50 kHz-based licensees shall file a map and other
supporting documentation that demonstrates compliance with a geographic
area or population coverage requirement. Basic trading area (BTA) 50
kHz-based licensees shall file a statement indicating commencement of
service within one year of initial license grant. The Commission
required these reporting requirements to ensure that the spectrum is
being effectively utilized.
OMB Number: None.
Title: Amendment of the Commission's Rules to Establish New Personal
Communications Services (Gen. Docket No. 90-314).
Action: New collection.
Respondents: Individuals or households, state or local governments,
non- profit institutions, and businesses or other for-profit (including
small businesses).
Frequency of Response: Other: First Collection: 5 years after initial
license grant for all licensees. Second Collection: 10 years after
initial license grant for 30 MHz licensees.
Estimated Annual Burden: 2,669 responses; 3.12 hours average burden
per response; 8,330 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: The Commission adopted a Memorandum Opinion and Order,
released June 13, 1994, in the broadband personal communications
service (PCS) proceeding that requires licensees to file materials
demonstrating their compliance with three Commission rules.
Specifically, in Section 24.203, the Commission required that licensees
of 30 MHz blocks must serve at least one-third of the population in
their licensed areas within five years of being licensed and two-thirds
of the population in their licensed areas within ten years of being
licensed. Licensees of 10 MHz blocks must serve at least one-quarter of
the population in their licensed areas within five years of being
licensed, or make a showing of substantial service in their licensed
areas within five years of being licensed. Licensees must file maps and
other supporting documents showing compliance with the respective
construction requirements by the appropriate five- and ten-year
benchmarks measured as of the date of their initial licenses. The
Commission required these reporting requirements to ensure that the
spectrum is being effectively utilized. Section 24.204 states that
parties with controlling or attributable ownership interests in
cellular licensees where the CGSA(s) covers 20 percent or less of the
PCS service area population may be a party to a broadband PCS
application and that such PCS applicant will be eligible for more than
10 MHz broadband PCS license and/or 30 MHz broadband PCS license(s)
pursuant to the following divestiture procedures: The broadband PCS
applicant shall certify on its short-form auction application, filed in
accordance with Section 24.305, that it and all parties to the
application will come into compliance with the limitations on common
ownership of cellular and broadband PCS interests set forth in this
section. If such an applicant is a successful bidder, it must submit
with its long-form application a signed statement describing its
efforts to date and future plans to come into compliance with the
limitations on common ownership of cellular and broadband PCS interests
set for in this section. Where parties to broadband PCS applications
hold less-than-controlling (but still attributable) interests in
cellular licensee(s), they shall submit, within ninety days of final
grant, a certification that the applicant and all parties to the
application have come into compliance with the limitations on common
ownership of cellular and broadband PCS interests set forth in this
section. Finally, Section 24.237(b) states that the results of the
coordination process between incumbent microwave users and PCS
licensees need to be reported to the Commission only if the parties
fail to agree. Additionally, the Commission requires that each
broadband PCS licensee perform an engineering analysis to assure that
the proposed facilities will not cause interference to existing OFS
stations within the specified coordination distance of a magnitude
greater than a specified criteria, unless there is a prior agreement
with the affected OFS licensee.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-27999 Filed 11-10-94; 8:45 am]
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