[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 241 (Friday, December 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65574-65575]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-31650]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

December 6, 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, Public Law 104-13. 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.: 3060-0742.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
    Title: Telephone Number Portability, First Report and Order and 
Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 735 total annual hours; 6.89 hours per 
respondent (avg.); 107 respondents.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Description: In Telephone Number Portability, CC Docket No. 95-116, 
First Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 
(released June 27, 1996), the Commission promulgates rules and 
regulations implementing the

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statutory requirement that local exchange carriers (LECs) provide 
number portability as set forth in Section 251 of the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 Act). Pursuant to Section 251, the 
First Report and Order establishes performance criteria for acceptable 
long-term number portability methods and requires all LECs to begin 
deploying number portability in the 100 largest Metropolitan 
Statistical Areas (MSAs) no later than October 1, 1997, and to complete 
deployment in those MSAs by December 31, 1998, in accordance with a 
phased schedule.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0729.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
    Title: Bell Operating Company Provision of Out-of-Region, 
Interstate, Interexchange Services (Affiliated Company Recordkeeping 
Requirement--CC Docket No. 96-21).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 42,394 total annual hours; 6056 hours per 
respondent (avg.); 7 respondents.
    Description: In the Report and Order issued in CC Docket No. 96-21, 
the Commission removed dominant regulation for BOCs that provide out-
of-region, interstate, interexchange services through an affiliated 
that complies with certain safeguards, in order to facilitate the 
efficient and rapid provisions of out-of-region, domestic, interstate, 
interexchange services by the BOCs, as contemplated by the 1996 Act, 
while still protecting ratepayers and competition in the interexchange 
market. These safeguards require that the affiliate: (1) Maintain 
separate books of account from the LEC; (2) not jointly own 
transmission or switching facilities with the LEC; and (3) take any 
tariffed services from the affiliated LEC pursuant to the terms and 
conditions of the LEC's generally applicable tariff. The recordkeeping 
requirement will not impose any significant burden on BOC interexchange 
affiliates because we do not require that the interexchange affiliate 
maintain separate books of accounts that comply with our Part 32 rules. 
Instead, these affiliates must maintain separate books as would any 
separate corporation, as a matter of course.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-31650 Filed 12-12-96; 8:45 am]
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