[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 46 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9164-9165]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-5342]



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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collection Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

March 1, 1996.
    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public 
information collections pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, Pub. L. 96-511. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person 
is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it 
displays a currently valid control number. For further information 
contact Shoko B. Hair, Federal Communications Commission, (202) 418-
1379.

Federal Communications Commission

OMB Control No.: 3060-0384.
    Expiration Date: 02/28/99.
    Title: Annual Auditor's Certification--Section 64.904
    Estimated Annual Burden: 9500 total annual hours; 500 hours per 
respondent; 19 respondents.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 
$11,400,000.
    Description: Local exchange carriers required to file cost 
allocation manuals must have performed annually, by an independent 
auditor, an audit that provides a positive option on whether the 
applicable data shown in the carrier's annual report presents fairly 
the information of the carrier required to be set forth in accordance 
with the carrier's cost allocation manual, The Commission's Joint Cost 
Orders and applicable Commission rules in Parts 32 and 64 in force as 
of the date of the auditor's report. This requirement assists the 
Commission in effectively carrying out its responsibilities.

OMB Control No.: 3060-0484.
    Expiration Date: 02/28/99.
    Title: Amendment of Part 63 of the Commission's Rules to Provide 
for Notification of Common Carriers of Service Disruptions--Section 
63.100.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1040 total annual hours; 5 hours per 
respondent (average); 208 respondents.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: None.
    Description: 47 CFR Section 63.100 requires 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 on any facilities 
which it owns or operates must notify the Commission if such service 
outage continues for 30 minutes or more. An initial and a final report 
is required for each outage. In an Order on Reconsideration in CC 
Docket No. 91-273, the Commission amended the rules to require, among 
other things, that local exchange or interexchange common carriers or 
competitive access providers that operate either transmission or 
switching facilities and provide access service or interstate or 
international telecommunications service report outages that effect 
30,000 or more customers or that affect special facilities and report 
fire-related incidents impacting 1,000 or more lines. With such reports 
the FCC can monitor and take effective action to ensure network 
reliability.

OMB Control No.: 3060-0687.
    Expiration Date: 02/28/99.
    Title: Access to Telecommunications Equipment and Services by 
Persons with Disabilities, CC Docket No. 87-124.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1,635,000 total annual responses; 2 hours 
per response (average); 806,100 respondents.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $737,000.
    Description: The Commission adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 
(NPRM), in CC Docket No. 87-124 regarding hearing aid compatibility of 
wireline telephones. Rules proposed in the NPRM would require that all 
wireline telephones in the workplace, confined settings (e.g., 
hospitals,

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nursing homes) and hotels and motels eventually would be hearing aid 
compatible and have volume control. The NPRM also contained several 
information collection requirements. OMB approved the information 
collection requirements as proposed for Section 68.112(b)(1)(G) and 
existing Section 68.224(a) and amendment thereof, regarding equipment 
packaging.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-5342 Filed 3-6-96; 8:45 am]
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