[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7263-7264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4291]



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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collection Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

February 20, 1996.
    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public 
information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 
Pub. L. 96-511. An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid control number. Not 
withstanding any other provisions of law, no person shall be subject to 
any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information 
subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that does not display a 
valid control number. Questions concerning the OMB control numbers and 
expiration dates should be directed to Dorothy Conway, Federal 
Communications Commission, (202) 418-0217.

Federal Communications Commission

OMB Control No.: 3060-0289.
    Expiration Date: 2/28/99.
    Title: Performance Tests - Section 76.601.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 285,084 hours annual burden; average 19.4 
hours per respondent; 14,673 respondents.
    Description: Section 76.601 requires that every cable system 
operator maintain a current listing of the cable television channels 
which that system delivers to its subscribers. Section 76.601(c) and 
(d) require cable systems with over 1,000 subscribers to conduct semi-
annual proof of performance tests and triennial proof of performance 
tests for color testing. This collection is being revised to request 
approval for the third party disclosure in section 76.601(d) requiring 
local franchise authorities to notify the cable operators who will be 
allowed third days to come in compliance with any perceived signal 
quality problems which need to be corrected.

OMB Control No.: 3060-0028.
    Expiration Date: 2/28/99.
    Title: Application for Authorization in the Auxiliary Broadcast 
Service.
    Form: FCC Form 313.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 7,749 total annual hours; average 5.166 
hours per respondent; 1,500 respondents.
    Description: FCC Form 313 is used by permitees or licensees of AM, 
FM and TV Broadcast Stations and eligible networks when applying for 
remote pickup, aural microwave, television microwave, and other 
auxiliary broadcast stations. Data is used by FCC staff to determine if 
proposal meets statutory requirements and to ensure that interference 
will not occur.

OMB Control No.: 3060-0645.
    Expiration Date: 2/28/99.
    Title: Antenna Registration - Part 17.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 40,965 total annual hours; average 1 hour 
per respondent; 40,965 respondents.
    Description: This recordkeeping requirement requires that those 
licensees who experience problems with the lighting of their antenna 
structure lighting to keep a record of the malfunction with the station 
records. This information is used by FCC personnel to ensure that 
antenna structure lighting systems are properly maintained.

OMB Control No.: 3060-0686.
    Expiration Date: 2/28/99.
    Title: Streamlining the International Section 214 Authorization 
Process and Tariff Requirements.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 3,448 total annual hours; average 8 hours 
per respondent; 431 respondents.
    Description: This collection contained in an NPRM proposes to 
Streamline the International Section 214 authorization process and 
tariff requirements. The proposed rules would greatly reduce the 
regulatory burden on the applicants, authorized carriers and the 
Commission. The NPRM proposes to reduce the need for carriers to file 
multiple applications by enabling a non-dominant carrier to obtain a 
global 214 authorization, which is not limited to specific carrier 
facilities, and by eliminating several regulatory requirements that 
require carriers to file multiple Section 214 applications. The global 
Section 214 authorization would allow carriers to provide international 
services on a facilities-basis to virtually all points in the world, 
using any licensed facility. This authorization would be subject to an 
exclusion list that the Commission would publish identifying countries 
or facilities for which there are restrictions. In regard to regulatory 
requirements being removed, Section 63.01 would be amended to make it 
applicable only to applicants for domestic Section 214 authority. A new 
rule is proposed that will detail the application requirements for 
International Section 214 authority, and include the provisions for 
filing a global Section 214 application. In addition, the proposed rule 
will allow resellers to provide international resale services via an 
authorized common carrier, except those affiliated with the reseller, 
without obtaining additional authority. Also private line resale 
carriers would be able to resell interconnected private lines for 
switched services to all designated ``equivalent'' countries, without 
obtaining additional authority to serve each equivalent country. 
Section 63.15 is proposed to be amended to enable carriers to add 
circuits on private satellite or cable systems, without obtaining prior 
authority. The NPRM also proposes to simplify the section 214 and cable 
landing license application process by reducing the detailed 
information now required in Sections 63.01 and 1.767. The NPRM also 
proposes to encourage filing of international Section 214 applications 
electronically and on computer disk and to require that any information 
contained in the application in a foreign language be accompanied with 
certified English translation.
    The NPRM further reduces filing requirements by allowing dominant 
carriers to automatically convey transmission capacity in submarine 
cables to other carriers without obtaining prior Section 214 authority. 
Also, the NPRM propose to further streamline tariff requirements for 
non-dominant international resale and facilities-based carriers by 
permitting them to file their international tariff rates on one day's 
notice instead of the current 14 day's notice.

OMB Control No.: 3060-0688.
    Expiration Date: 2/28/99.
    Title: Abbreviated Cost of Service Filing for Cable Network 
Upgrades.
    Form: FCC Form 1235.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 47,250 total annual hours; average 20 
hours per

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cable operator respondents and 10 hours per local franchising authority 
respondents; 2,100 cable operator and 525 local franchising authority 
respondents.
    Description: Section 76.922(h) enables cable operators in some 
circumstances to increase rates when undertaking significant network 
upgrades. This form allows cable operators to justify rate increase 
related to capital expenditures used to improve services to regulated 
cable subscribers. Operators wishing to establish a network upgrade 
rate increase should file the form 1235 following the end of the month 
in which upgraded cable services become available and are providing 
benefits to the customers. In addition this form can be filed for pre-
approval any time prior to the upgraded services becoming available to 
the subscribers using projected upgrade costs. If the preapproval 
option is exercised the operator must file the form again following the 
end of the month in which upgraded cable services become available and 
are providing benefits to the customers.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-4291 Filed 2-26-96; 8:45 am]
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