[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 115 (Thursday, June 13, 1996)] [Notices] [Pages 30068-30071] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 96-15014] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Public Information Collection Approved by Office of Management and Budget June 4, 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.: 3060-0696. Expiration Date: 4/30/99. Title: Physically Handicapped Special Showing. Form No.: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 1 annual hour; average 5 minutes per respondent; 20 respondents. Description: Section 90.38(b) provides that persons claiming eligibility in the Special Emergency Radio Service on the basis of being physically handicapped must present a physician's statement indicating that they are handicapped. Submissions of this information are necessary to ensure that frequencies are reserved for licensing to handicapped individuals. Commission personnel use the data to determine applicant eligibility. OMB Control No.: 3060-0020. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Application for Ground Station Authorization in the Aviation Services. Form No.: 406. Estimated Annual Burden: 1,600 total annual hours; average 1 hour per respondent; 1,600 respondents. Description: FCC rules require collecting this information for new, modified or renewal Aviation Ground Radio Station Authorizations. Data is used to update the existing database and make efficient use of the frequency spectrum. Data is also used by the Commission for enforcement and interference resolution. OMB Control No.: 3060-0329. Expiration Date: 4/30/99. Title: Equipment Authorization/Verification--Section 2.955 Form No.: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 101,790 total annual hours; average 18 hours per respondent; 5,655 respondents. Description: The Commission rules require verification of compliance to established technical standards for certain Part 15 and 18 devices. Technical data is gathered and retained by the equipment manufactures in order to verify compliance with these regulations. The information may be used to determine that the equipment marketed complies with the applicable Commission rules and that the operation of the equipment is consistent with the initially documented test results. OMB Control No.: 3060-0436. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Equipment Authorization, Cordless Telephone Security Coding. Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 200 total annual hours; average 1 hour per respondent; 200 respondents. Description: Cordless telephone security features protect the public switched telephone network from unintentional line seizure and telephone dialing. These features prevent unauthorized access to the telephone line, the dialing of calls in response to signals other than those from the owner's handset and the unintentional ringing of a cordless telephone handset. Use of the cordless telephone security features reduces the harm caused by some cordless telephones to the ``911'' Emergency Service Telephone System and the telephone network in general. OMB Control No.: 3060-0223. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Supplemental Information Routinely Submitted with Applications, Non-Type Accepted Equipment - Section 90.129(b). Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 50 total annual hours; average 30 minutes per respondent; 100 respondents. Description: Section 90.129(b) requires applicants using non type- accepted equipment to provide a description of the equipment. The information is used to evaluate the interference potential of the proposed operation. OMB Control No.: 3060-0537. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Section 13.217 Records. Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 15 total annual hours; average 1 hour per respondent; 15 respondents. Description: The recordkeeping requirement in section 13.217 is needed to assure that expenses and revenues collected by examination managers administering the commercial operators examinations are available if needed. If the information were not collected, it is conceivable that fraud and abuse could occur in the commercial radio examination program. [[Page 30069]] OMB Control No.: 3060-0290. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Report of Operation Section 90.517. Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 200 total annual hours; average 2 hours per respondent; 100 respondents. Description: Section 90.517 requires developmental authorizations licensees to file a report indicating the usefulness of such developmental operations when requesting renewal or termination of developmental operations. OMB Control No.: 3060-0692. Expiration Date: 4/30/99. Title: Disposition of Cable Home Wiring--Section 76.802 Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 18,039 total annual hours; average 5 minutes per respondent; 183,000 responses. Description: This information disclosure requirement ensures that consumers are informed of their cable home wiring purchase rights upon termination of their cable services, including information regarding the purchase of their home wiring in a single contact, and the use of wiring to connect to an alternative video programming service. OMB Control No.: 3060-0402. Expiration Date: 5/31/97. Title: Application for a new or Modified Microwave Radio Station License Under Part 21. Form: FCC 494. Estimated Annual Burden: 19,400 total annual hours; average 2 hours per respondent; 9,700 respondents. Description: The FCC 494 is used by telecommunications entities to apply for facility licenses in the services governed by 47 CFR Part 21. The data is used to determine whether the applicant is qualified legally, technically and financially to be licensed to use microwave radio frequencies. OMB Control No.: 3060-0398. Expiration Date: 4/30/99. Title: Equipment Authorization Measurement Standards--Sections 2.948, 15.117(g)(2), 15.117(g)(3) Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 9,350 total annual hours; average 27.5 hours per respondent; 420 respondents. Description: Compliance testing of equipment is required prior to authorization for marketing. To ensure that data gathered is valid, verification of certain measurement standards and practices, documentation of testing procedures, and data collection employed by the equipment manufacturers or his representatives are necessary. OMB Control No.: 3060-0446. Expiration Date: 9/30/98. Title: Pioneer's Preference - Section 1.402. Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 1,120 total annual hours; average 500 hours per respondent to submit new applications, 10 hours per respondent to amend existing applications; 14 respondents. Description: The information will be used to evaluation existing pioneer's preference request in proceedings in which tentative decisions have not been made, as well as any new pioneer's preference requests that may be received. The collection requires that an applicant submit a statement that a new allocation of spectrum is necessary for its innovation to be implemented. Further, if the applicant relied on experimental results to demonstrate the technical feasibility of its innovation, it must submit a summary of those results. OMB Control No.: 3060-0434. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Stolen Vehicle Recovery System Requirements--Section 90.19. Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 80 total annual hours; average 1 hour per respondent; 80 respondents. Description: Section 90.517 requires that applicants for stolen vehicle recovery systems perform an analysis for each base station to ensure that the system does not cause interference to TV channel 7. OMB Control No.: 3060-0280. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Conventional Systems Loading Requirements, Wide Area Systems--Section 90.633 (f)(g). Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 10 total annual hours; average .5-1 hour per respondent; 15 respondents. Description: The 800 and 900 MHz radio systems are normally licensed to cover a confined area of operation. However, these sections allow applicants who need specially configured wide area or ribbon systems to request authorization for such systems upon showing of need. The information is used by FCC licensing personnel to determine if such systems should be authorized. OMB Control No.: 3060-0307. Expiration Date: 4/30/99. Title: Amendment to Part 90 of the Commission's Rules to Facilitate Future Development of SMR Systems in the 800 MHz Frequency Band, First Report and Order, Eighth Report and Order, and Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 17,254 total annual hours; average .5 - 5 hours per respondent; 12,195 respondents. Description: The FCC requires certain information from licensees in order to determine whether they should be granted or in the case of 800 MHz Specialized Mobile radio licensees retain authority for additional time to construct their radio facilities; it also requires information to determine how licensees' radio facilities have been modified; it also requires a demonstration that licensees have provided notification of intent to relate certain incumbent licensees; it requires information about prospective licensees in order to determine whether such licensees are entitled to special provisions as small businesses. OMB Control No.: 3060-0243. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Section 74.551 Equipment Changes. Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 13 total annual hours; average .5-1 hour per respondent; 25 respondents. Description: Section 74.551(b) requires licensees of aural broadcast studio transmitter link (STL) or intercity relay stations to notify the Commission in writing of minor equipment changes upon completion of such changes. Data is used by FCC staff to ensure that changes comply with the FCC rules and regulations. OMB Control No.: 3060-0532. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Scanning Receiving Compliance Exhibit--Sections 2.975(a)(8) and 2.1033(b)(12). Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 40 total annual hours; average 1 hour per respondent; 40 respondents. Description: An exhibit accompanying an FCC Form 731, Application for Equipment Authorization, determines the compliance with Congressionally mandated regulations of applicants requesting authorization to market scanning receivers and frequency converters. The regulations prohibit the marketing of radio scanners capable of intercepting, or being modified to intercept cellular telephone conversations. OMB Control No.: 3060-0537. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: On-Site Verification of Field Disturbance Sensors - Section 15.201(d). Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 3,600 total annual hours; average 18 hours per respondent; 200 respondents. Description: In order to monitor non-licensed field disturbance sensors [[Page 30070]] operating in the low VHF television bands, equipment testing is required at each installation. Data is retained by the holder of the equipment authorized issued by the Commission and made available only at the request of the Commission. OMB Control No.: 3060-0245. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Section 74.537 Temporary Authorization. Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 75 total annual hours; average 1-2 hours per respondent; 50 respondents. Description: Section 74.537 requires licensees of aural broadcast studio transmitter link (STL) or intercity relay stations to file informal requests for special temporary authorizations for operations of a temporary nature. FCC staff uses the data to ensure that temporary operations will not cause interference to existing stations. OMB Control No.: 3060-0572. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Filing Manual for Annual International Circuit Status Reports. Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 850 total annual hours; average 17 hours per respondent; 50 respondents. Description: The information compiled in the Annual Circuit Status Report will be useful to current industry members, potential new entrants into the international telecommunications industry and the Commission. The reports will also serve as a database for determining and monitoring the payment of annual regulatory fees on active equivalent 64 Kb/s international circuits. The information will also allow the Commission to continue to identify use of facilities as it streamlines its facilities authorization procedures. OMB Control No.: 3060-0105. Expiration Date: 2/28/99. Title: Licensee Qualifications Report. Form: FCC 430. Estimated Annual Burden: 3,800 total annual hours; average 2 hours per respondent; 1,900 respondents. Description: FCC 430 is submitted by certain new applicants and by existing common carrier radio and satellite licensees and permittees annually if substantial changes occur in organization structure. FCC 430 is used by the Commission to evaluate the applicant's legal qualifications to become or remain a licensee. OMB Control No.: 3060-0709. Expiration Date: 7/31/96. Title: Revision of Part 22 and Part 90 to Facilitate Future Development of Paging Systems and Implementation of Section 309(j) of the Communications Act. Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 160 total annual hours; average .08 hours per respondent; 2,000 respondents. Description: On February 8, 1996, the Commission adopted a NPRM that examines ways to establish a comprehensive and consistent regulatory scheme that simplifies and streamlines licensing procedures and provides a flexible operating environment for both common carrier and private paging service. The notice imposed an interim across-the- board freeze on new paging applications. On April 22, 1996 the Commission adopted the First Report and Order that modified the interim freeze imposed in the Notice to allow the incumbents in the paging industry the flexibility needed to serve the public and upgrade to more spectrally effective equipment. This Order allows incumbent common carrier paging and private carrier paging licensees to expand their current paging system by applying for additional transmission sites on the same channel within 65 kilometers from their existing operating transmission sites. This modification of the interim rules is limited to incumbent licensees. Paging applicants must certify in writing that: (1) the applicant is an incumbent paging licensee, and (2) the proposed site is within 65 kilometers of an authorized transmission site that was licensed to the same applicant on the same channel on or before February 8, 1996 and which is operational as of the filing date of the application for the additional transmitter site. OMB Control No.: 3060-0444. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: 220 and 800 MHz Construction Letter. Form: FCC 800A. Estimated Annual Burden: 11,500 total annual hours; average 1 hour per respondent; 11,500 respondents. Description: FCC 800A is sent to licensees as a method of verifying if the licensee has placed the station into operation in accordance with the Commission's Rules. These ensures efficient use of the spectrum. OMB Control No.: 3060-0443. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Conditional Temporary Authorization to Operate a Part 90 Radio Station. Form: FCC 572-C. Estimated Annual Burden: 1,702 total annual hours; average 6 minutes per respondent; 17,023 respondents. Description: Applicants eligible to hold a radio station authorization below 470 MHz or in the 929-930 MHz band in the Private Land Mobile Radio Service may use this form to acquire a temporary permit to operate their radio station during processing of an application for license grant. OMB Control No.: 3060-0139. Expiration Date: 6/30/98. Title: Application for Antenna Structure Registration. Form: FCC 854/854R. Estimated Annual Burden: 21,500 total annual hours; average 30 minutes per respondent; 43,000 respondents. Description: Data is collected from antenna structure owners for the purpose of registering antenna structures with the Commission which may pose a hazard to air navigation and require the assignment of painting and lighting. OMB Control No.: 3060-0386. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Special Temporary Authorization (STA)--Section 73.1635. Form: N/A. Estimated Annual Burden: 4,740 total annual hours; average 1 -4 hours per respondent; 2,580 respondents. Description: Section 73.1635 allows licensees/permittees of broadcast stations to file for special temporary authority to operate broadcast stations at specified variances from station authorizations not to exceed 180 days. OMB Control No.: 3060-0009. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License or Transfer of Control of Corporation Holding Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License. Form: FCC 316. Estimated Annual Burden: 2,990 total annual hours; average 1-3 hours per respondent; 1,575 respondents. Description: FCC 316 is required when applying for authority for a voluntary/involuntary assignment of a broadcast license or construction permit or transfer of control of corporation holding broadcast license or construction permit. Data is used by FCC staff to determine if applicant meets basic statutory requirements. OMB Control No.: 3060-0134. Expiration Date: 5/31/99. Title: Application for renewal of Private Radio Station License. Form: FCC 574-R. Estimated Annual Burden: 27,720 total annual hours; average .33 hours per respondent; 84,000 respondents. Description: This form is filed by applicants in the Private Land Mobile and General Mobile Radio Services for renewal of an existing authorization. The data is used to determine eligibility for a renewal and issue a radio station license. [[Page 30071]] Federal Communications Commission. William F. Caton, Acting Secretary. [FR Doc. 96-15014 Filed 6-12-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712-01-F