[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 247 (Monday, December 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67551-67553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32485]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

December 16, 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.

OMB Control No.: 3060-0719.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
    Title: Quarterly Report of IntraLATA Carriers Listing Payphone 
Automatic Number Identifications (ANIs).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 5600 total annual hours; 3.5 hours per 
respondent (avg.); 400 respondents.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Description: Pursuant to the mandate in Section 276(b)(1)(A) to 
``establish a per call compensation plan to ensure that all payphone 
service providers are fairly compensated for each and every completed 
intrastate and interstate call'', 47 U.S.C. Section 276(b)(1)(A), 
intraLATA carriers are required to provide to interexchange carriers 
(``IXCs'') a quarterly report listing payphone automatic payphone 
identifications (``ANIs''). Without provision of this report, 
resolution of disputed ANIs would be rendered very difficult. IXCs 
would not be able to discern which ANIs pertain to payphones and 
therefore would not be able to ascertain which dial-around calls were 
originated by payphones for compensation purposes. There would be no 
way to guard against possible fraud. Without this collection, lengthy 
investigations would be necessary to verify claims. The report allows 
IXCs to determine which dial-around calls are made from payphones. The 
data, which must be maintained for at least 18 months after the close 
of a compensation period, will facilitate verification if disputed 
ANIs.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0721.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
    Title: One-Time Report of Local Exchange Companies of Cost 
Accounting Studies.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 20,000 total annual hours; 50 hours per 
respondent (avg.); 400 respondents.

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    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Description: Pursuant to the mandate in Section 276(b)(1)(A) to 
``establish a per call compensation plan to ensure that all payphone 
service providers are fairly compensated for each and every completed 
intrastate and interstate call'', 47 U.S.C. Section 276(b)(1)(A), 
incumbent LECs are required to offer individual central office coin 
transmission services to payphone service providers (``PSPs'') under a 
nondiscriminatory, public tariffed offering if the LECs provide those 
services for their own operations. Because the incumbent LECs may have 
an incentive to charge their competitors unreasonably high prices for 
these services, the Commission requires them to submit cost support for 
their central office coin services, on a one-time basis. The report 
would contain engineering studies, time and wage studies, and other 
cost accounting studies to identify the direct cost of central office 
coin services. This will ensure that the services are reasonably priced 
and do not include subsidies.
OMB Control No. 3060-0723.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
    Title: Public Disclosure of Network Information by Bell Operating 
Companies.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 350 total annual hours; 70 hours per 
respondent (avg.); 7 respondents.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Description: Pursuant to Section 276(b)(1)(C) provisions that 
prescribe a set of nonstructural safeguards for BOC payphone services, 
to foster development of competition in the provision of local 
telephone service, 47 U.S.C. Section 276(b)(1)(C), the BOCs are 
required to publicly disclose changes in their networks or new network 
services at two different points in time. First, disclosure would occur 
at the ``make/buy''point: when a BOC decides to make for itself, or 
procure from an unaffiliated entity, any product whose design affects 
or relies on the network interface. Second, a BOC would publicly 
disclose technical information about a new service 12 months before it 
is introduced. If the BOC would introduce the service within 12 months 
of the make/buy point, it would make a public disclosure at the make/
buy point. In no event, however, would the public disclosure occur less 
than six months before the introduction of the service. Without 
provision of these reports, the industry would be unable to ascertain 
whether the BOCs designing new network services or changing network 
technical specifications are to the advantage of their own payphones, 
or might disadvantage BOC payphone competitors. The requirement for a 
minimum 6-month period of public disclosure prior to the introduction 
of a new service is vital to ensure that BOCs do not design new network 
services or change network technical specifications to the advantage of 
their own payphones.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0724.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
    Title: Annual Report of Interexchange Carriers Listing the 
Compensation Amount Paid to Payphone Providers and the Number of 
Payees.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 550 total annual burden hours; 2 hours per 
respondent (avg.); 275 respondents.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Description: Pursuant to the mandate in Section 276(b)(1)(A) to 
``establish a per call compensation plan to ensure that all payphone 
service providers are fairly compensated for each and every completed 
intrastate and interstate call'', 47 U.S.C. Section(b)(1)(A), IXCs, who 
are responsible for paying per-call compensation to payphone providers, 
are required to provide annual reports to the Common Carrier Bureau 
listing the amount of compensation paid to payphone providers and the 
number of payees. Without provision of this report, the Commission 
would be unable to ensure that all the IXCs are paying their respective 
compensation obligations.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0726.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
    Title: Quarterly Report of Interexchange Carriers Listing the 
Number of Dial-Around Calls for Which Compensation is Being Paid to 
Payphone Owners.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 550 total annual burden; 30 minutes per 
respondent (avg.); 1100 respondents.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Description: Pursuant to the mandate in Section 276(b)(1)(A) to 
``establish a per call compensation plan to ensure that all payphone 
service providers are fairly compensated for each and every completed 
intrastate and interstate call'', 47 U.S.C. Section (b)(1)(A), IXCs, 
who are responsible for paying per-call compensation to payphone 
providers are required to provide to payphone providers a quarterly 
report listing the dial-around calls made from each payphone provider's 
payphones. Without provision of this report, payphone providers would 
be unable to ascertain the compensation amount to be paid by the IXCs.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0743.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
    Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and 
Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996--CC 
Docket No. 96-128.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 136,677 total annual hours; 30 hours per 
respondent (avg.); 4542 respondents.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Description: The rules adopted in CC Docket No. 96-128: (1) 
establish a plan to ensure fair competition for each and every 
completed intrastate and interstate call using a payphone; (2) 
discontinue intrastate and interstate carrier access charge payphone 
service elements and payments and intrastate and interstate payphone 
subsidies from basic exchange services; (3) prescribe nonstructural 
safeguards for Bell Operating Company payphones; (4) permit the BOCS to 
negotiate with the payphone location provider about a payphone's 
presubscribed interLATA carrier; (5) permit all payphone providers to 
negotiate with the location provider about a payphone's presubscribed 
intraLATA carrier; and (6) adopt guidelines for use by the states in 
establishing public interest payphones to be located where there would 
otherwise not be a payphone. All the information collection 
requirements would be used to ensure that interexchange carriers, 
payphone service providers, LECs, the states, comply with their 
obligations under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0756.
    Expiration Date: 06/30/97.
    Title: Procedural Requirements and Policies for Commission 
Processing of Bell Operating Company Applications for the Provision of 
In-Region, InterLATA Services Under Section 271 of the Communications 
Act.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 16,600 total annual burden; 291 hours per 
respondent; 57 respondents.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden: $0.
    Description: The Commission issued a Public Notice (FCC 96-469) 
that establishes various procedural requirements and policies relating 
to the Commission's processing of Bell Operating Company (BOC) 
applications to provide in-region, interLATA services pursuant to 
Section 271 of the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. Section 271. 
Among other things, BOCs must file applications which provide

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information on which the applicant intends to rely in order to satisfy 
the requirements of Section 271; state regulatory commission will file 
written consultations relating to the applications; and the Department 
of Justice will file written consultations relating to the 
applications. All of the requirements would be used to ensure that BOCs 
have complied with their obligations under the Communications At of 
1934, as amended before being authorized to provide in-region, 
interLATA services pursuant to Section 271.

Federal Communications Commission.
Shirley S. Suggs,
Chief, Publications Branch.
[FR Doc. 96-32485 Filed 12-20-96; 8:45 am]
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