[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 227 (Monday, November 28, 1994)]
[Unknown Section]
[Page ]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-29119]


[Federal Register: November 28, 1994]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collection Requirements Submitted to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review

November 16, 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: 3060-0029.
    Title: Application for TV Broadcast Station License.
    Form Number: FCC Form 302-TV.
    Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Non-profit institutions, and businesses or other for-
profit (including small businesses).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 54 responses, 20.25 hours average burden 
per response, 1,094 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: On 7/16/92, the OMB approved for use a new FCC Form 
302-FM (3060-0506) to be used by licensees and permittees to apply for 
a new or modified FM license. The FCC Form 302-FM was created through 
the Total Quality Management (TQM) process. At the time of approval, 
the current FCC 302 was to be used only for the AM and TV services. At 
this time, the Commission is separating the AM and TV services into 
separate forms. The FCC Form 302-TV will use the current OMB control 
number (3060-0029). Licensees and permittees of TV broadcast stations 
are required to file FCC Form 302-TV to obtain a new or modified 
station license, and/or to notify the Commission of certain changes in 
the licensed facilities of these stations. The data is used by FCC 
staff to confirm that the station has been built to terms specified in 
the outstanding construction permit, and to update FCC station files. 
Data is then extracted from the FCC Form 302-TV for inclusion in the 
subsequent license to operate the station. The FCC Form 302-AM will be 
submitted to OMB as a new collection and will require a new OMB control 
number.
OMB Number: 3060-0484.
    Title: Amendment of Part 63 of the Commission's Rules to Provide 
for Notification by Common Carriers of Service Disruptions (Section 
63.100).
    Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and Other: 
Initial report due 120 minutes or three days after incident depending 
on the number of potentially affected customers and type of disruption. 
Final report due 30 days after initial report.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 208 responses; 5 hours average burden per 
response; hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 63.100 previously required that ``any local 
exchange or interexchange common carrier that operates transmission or 
switching facilities and provides access service or interstate or 
international telecommunications service that experiences an outage 
which potentially affects 50,000 or more of its customers on any 
facilities which it owns or operates must notify the Commission if such 
service outage continues for 30 or more minutes. Satellite carriers and 
cellular carriers were exempt from this reporting requirement.'' An 
initial and a final report is required for each outage. In addition to 
those changes made in Section 63.100 in the Memorandum Opinion and 
Order (MO&O) and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) adopted 
by the Commission on 11/5/93, pursuant to the present Order and 
previously approved by OMB, the amendments to this rule requires 
carriers to report 911 outages when more than 25% of the lines serving 
a PSAP are affected; to indicate, when specifying the types of services 
affected by any reportable outage and 911 is one of those services, 
whether more than 25% of the lines to any PSAP were disrupted; to 
provide 911 managers, when more than 25% of the lines to a 911 PSAP are 
affected, with any available information that will help those managers 
mitigate the effects of the outage on 911 callers; and to report all 
fire-related incidents affecting 1,000 or more lines. In the NPRM, it 
was proposed that carriers report fire-related incidents affecting 100 
or more lines, 911 outages were to be reported under different 
criteria, carriers were not specifically asked to include information 
as to the percentage of affected lines serving a PSAP in their reports 
(though ``all available information'' was required), the carriers were 
not asked to give PSAP management available information that would help 
mitigate the affects of an outage. See Appendix A for the rules and 
requirements.

    These changes will eliminate confusion in the proposed 911 
reporting requirements that resulted in unnecessary and even false 911 
outage reports, eliminate unnecessary reports of small unavoidable 
fires not related to any carrier activity, provide the Commission with 
information as to the severity of the 911 effects of large outages that 
are reported under numerical thresholds rather than as special 
facilities outages. As a whole, the amendments to Section 63.100 will 
enable the Commission to become aware of significant outages at the 
earliest possible time so that we may monitor developments; to serve as 
a source of information for the public; to encourage and, where 
appropriate, to assist in dissemination of information to those 
affected; to take immediate steps, as needed, and after analyzing the 
information submitted, to determine what, if any, other action is 
required. After extensive study, the additional reporting requirements 
will increase the monitoring capacity of the FCC to include all tandems 
that form the major interexchange carrier networks and 41% of the total 
access lines of the twelve major local exchange carriers. In addition, 
the reporting of outages affecting ``special'' facilities will add 
another 9.5 million lines to the FCC's monitoring capacity. This will 
allow the FCC to monitor through the required reports outages affecting 
approximately half of the total access lines of the twelve major local 
exchange carriers, almost a tripling of present coverage. With the 
additional coverage, the FCC will be able to perform the functions 
mentioned above far more efficiently. The reports for fire-related 
incidents will allow the Commission to monitor the efficiency of 
network fire prevention and control systems in the absence of major 
fire-caused outages. This is necessary because fire-caused outages are 
especially rare but especially extensive. The extent and gravity of 
outages over the last few years shows the depth of the need for FCC 
monitoring of outages to maintain a reliable telecommunications 
network.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-29119 Filed 11-25-94; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6712-01-F