[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 132 (Tuesday, July 11, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35745-35746]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16906]



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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

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

June 30, 1995.
    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 this submission contact Dorothy Conway, Federal 
Communications Commission, (202) 418-0217 or via internet at 
[email protected]. Persons wishing to comment on this information 
collection should contact Timothy Fain, Office of Management and 
Budget, Room 10214 NEOB, Washington, DC 20503, (202) 395-3561.

OMB Number: N/A.
    Title: Proposed Part 17--Antenna Registration.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: New Collection.
    Respondents: Business or other-for-profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 307,200 responses; .12 hours burden per 
response; 35,840 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: The requirement contained in the Notice of Proposed 
Rule Making in WT 95-5 is necessary to implement uniform registration 
procedures for owners of antenna structures. The antenna structure 
owners will be required to provide tenants licensees with a copy of the 
antenna registration and display the registration number on or around 
the antenna structure.

OMB Number: N/A.
    Title: Policies and Rules Concerning Unauthorized Changes of 
Consumers' Long Distance Carriers (CC Docket 94-129)
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: New Collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 500 responses; 2 hours burden per 
response; 1,000 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Interexchange carriers (IXCs) are required to 
provide consumers with letters of agency (LOAs) that are physically 
separate or severable from any inducements or promotional materials. 
The LOA must be written in clear and unambiguous language and printed 
in a font size and style comparable to the inducements. The new rules 
prohibit the potentially deceptive or confusing practice of combining 
the LOA with promotional materials in the same document.

OMB Number: N/A.
    Title: FCC Annual Survey of Cable Industry Prices.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: New Collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 816 responses; 3 hours burden per 
response; 2,446 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 623(k) of the Cable Television Consumer 
Protection and Competition Act of 1992 (``Cable Act'') requires the 
Commission to publish an annual statistical report on average rates for 
basic cable service, cable programming service and equipment. The 
report must compare prices charged by cable systems subject to 
effective competition and those not subject to effective competition. 
The survey is to collect the data needed to prepare this report.

OMB Number: 3060-0548.
    Title: Section 76.302 Required recordkeeping for must-carry 
purposes and Section 76.56 Signal Carriage obligations.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 48,000 responses; 22.25 hours burden per 
response; 267,000 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 76.302 requires the operator of every cable 
television system to maintain a public inspection file containing must-
carry records. Section 76.56 requires that if a cable operator 
authorizes subscribers to install additional receiver connections, but 
does not provide the connections or equipment for such connections, the 
operator must notify the subscriber of all broadcast stations that are 
carried on the system which cannot be viewed without a converter box. 
Operators must also respond to written requests for the identification 
of signals carried on the system.

OMB Number: 3060-0547.
    Title: Sections 76.61 Disputes concerning carriage and Sections 
76.7 Special relief and must-carry procedures.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: Revision to a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 2,100 responses; 5 hours burden per 
response; 10,500 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 76.61 requires local commercial televisions 
or qualified low power television stations to notify a cable operator, 
in writing, when that station believes that a cable operator has failed 
to meet its carriage or channel positioning obligations. Section 76.7 
states that on petition by an interested party, the Commission may 
waive provisions of its cable television rules, impose additional or 
different requirements, or issue a ruling on a complaint or disputed 
question.

OMB Number: 3060-0519.
    Title: Rules and Regulations Implementing the Telephone Consumer 
Protection Act of 1991 (CC Docket No. 92-90).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping Requirement.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 30,000 recordkeepers; 31.2 hours burden 
per recordkeeper; 936,000 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Parts 64 and 68 of the rules contain procedures for 
avoiding unwanted telephone solicitations to residences, and to 
regulate the use of automatic telephone dialling system, artificial or 
prerecorded voice messages, and telephone facsimile machines. The rule 
imposes a recordkeeping requirement on telemarketers to maintain lists 
of telephone subscribers who do not wish to be contacted by telephone. 
Maintenance of company-specific do not call lists serves as a mechanism 
for prevent unwanted telephone solicitation.

OMB Number: N/A.
    Title: Section 76.58 Notifications.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: New Collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions.

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    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 4,560 responses; 45 minutes burden per 
response; 3,280 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 76.58 states that a cable operator must: a) 
notify broadcast stations and subscribers before deleting the station 
from carriage; b) notify qualified noncommercial educational television 
stations of its designated principal headend; c) notify must-carry 
stations of any change in the designation of the principal headend; d) 
notify local educational stations that may not be entitled to carriage, 
and e) mail a list of all broadcast stations carried on its system to 
all local television stations.

OMB Number: N/A.
    Title: Section 76.9 Order to show cause; forfeiture proceedings.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: New Collection.
    Respondents: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit; Not-for-profit institutions.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 50 responses; 7 hours burden per response; 
350 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 76.9 states that upon petition by any 
interested person, the Commission may issue an order requiring a cable 
television operator to show cause why it should not be directed to 
cease and desist from violating Commission rules. The petition may be 
submitted informally, by letter, but shall be accompanied by a 
certificate of service on any interested person who may be directly 
affected if an order to show cause is issued or a forfeiture proceeding 
initiated. The petitions are used by the Commission to determine 
whether or not the Commission's cable rules have been violated.

OMB Number: N/A.
    Title: Section 76.502 Three year holding requirement.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: New Collection.
    Respondents: Business or other-for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1,000 responses; 15 minutes burden per 
response; 250 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 76.502 states that a cable operator seeking 
to assign or transfer control of a cable system must certify to the 
local franchise authority that the proposed assignment or transfer of 
control will not violate the three-year holding requirement. The 
certification must be submitted to the franchise authority at the time 
the cable operator submits the request for transfer approval, unless 
local transfer approval is not required by the terms of the agreement.

OMB Number: N/A.
    Title: Section 76.309 Customer Service Obligations and Section 
76.964 Notice to subscribers.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: New Collection.
    Respondents: Business or other-for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 125,000 responses; 20 minutes burden per 
response; 40,917 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Sections 76.309 and 76.964 set forth customer 
service obligations and notification requirements for changes in rates, 
programming services and channel position. Section 76.309(c)(3)(i)(A) 
states cable operators shall provide written information on each of the 
following areas at the time of installation of service, at least 
annually, and upon request to all subscribers: products and services 
offered; prices and options for programming services and conditions of 
subscription to programming and other services; installation and 
service maintenance policies; instructions on using the cable service; 
channel positions programming carried on the system; and billing and 
complaint procedures, including the address and telephone number of the 
local franchise authority cable office. Section 76.964(a) states that 
customers will be notified of any changes in rates, programming service 
or channel positions as soon as possible through announcements on the 
cable system and in writing. Notice must be given at least 30 days in 
advance of such changes if the changes is within the cable operators 
control. Section 76.964(a) requires that cable operators give the 
relevant franchising authority a minimum of 30 days written notice of 
any changes in rates for cable programming service or associated 
equipment. Section 76.964(b) states that cable systems shall give 30 
days written notice to both subscribers and the local franchise 
authority before implementing any rate change or change in service. 
Section 76.964(c) states that cable systems shall provide written 
notice to subscribers of their rights to file Commission complaints 
concerning rate changes for cable programming services or associated 
equipment.

OMB Number: 3060-0419.
    Title: Syndicated Exclusivity/Network non-duplication Rights 
Sections 76.94, 76.95, 76.155, 76.156, 76.157, 76.159.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 170,568 responses; 1.01 hour burden per 
response; 170,768 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Notifications by TV stations and program suppliers 
will provide cable systems with the information on programs for which 
they can have syndicated exclusivity/network non-duplication rights. 
The data provided to cable systems by TV stations will be used to 
determine when programs subject to deletion will be aired, so that the 
cable system can delete carriage of signals at the appropriate time.

OMB Number: N/A.
    Title: Section 64.703(b) Consumer Information - Posting by 
aggregators.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: New Collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions; Federal Government; State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 56,200 responses; 3.7 hours burden per 
response; 206,566 hours total annual burden per response.
    Needs and Uses: Section 64.703(b), requires that aggregators 
(providers of telephones to the public or transient users) must post in 
writing, on or near their phones, information about presubscribed 
operator services, rates, carrier access, and the FCC address to which 
consumers may direct complaints. Aggregators will disclose the 
information via printed notice that is posted on or near the phones.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-16906 Filed 7-10-95; 8:45 am]
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