[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 98 (Wednesday, May 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27735-27736]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13370]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

May 15, 1997.
    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.: 3060-0738.
    Expiration Date: 04/30/2000.
    Title: Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: 
Electronic Publishing and Alarm Monitoring Services--CC Docket No. 96-
152.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 7 respondents; 3000 hours per response 
(avg.); 21,000 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: In the First Report and Order issued in CC Docket 96-
152, the Commission implements the non-accounting requirements 
prescribed by Congress in sections 260 and 274 of the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the Act) which respectively govern the 
provision of telemessaging and electronic publishing services. The 
Commission imposes this third-party disclosure requirement on Bell 
Operating Companies (BOCs) in order to implement the nondiscrimination 
requirement of section 274(c)(2)(A) of the Act, as amended. The 
Commission requires that to the extent a BOC refers a customer to a 
separated affiliate, electronic publishing joint venture of affiliate 
during the normal course of its telemarketing operations, it must refer 
that customer to all unaffiliated electronic publishers requesting the 
referral service. In particular, the BOC must provide the customer the 
names of all unaffiliated electronic publishers, in random order. 
Compliance is mandatory.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0755.
    Expiration Date: 05/31/2000.
    Title: Infrastructure Sharing--CC Docket 96-237.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1425 respondents; 1.63 hours per response 
(avg.); 2325 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: In the Report and Order, Implementation of 
Infrastructure Sharing Provisions in the Telecommunications Act of 
1996, CC Docket No. 96-237, the Commission adopts rules to implement 
Section 259 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. Section 259 
requires incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs) to file any 
arrangements showing the conditions under which they share 
infrastructure per section 259. Section 259 also requires incumbent 
LECs to provide information on deployments of new services and 
equipment to qualifying carriers. The Commission also requires 
incumbent LECs to provide 60 days notice prior to terminating section 
259 agreements. The information collected under the requirement that 
incumbent LECs file any tariffs, contracts or other arrangements for 
infrastructure sharing would be made available for public inspection. 
The information collected under the requirement that incumbent LECs 
provide timely information on planned deployments of new services and 
equipment would be provided to third parties (qualifying carriers). The 
information collected under the requirement that providing incumbent 
LECs furnish sixty days notice prior to termination of a section 259 
sharing agreement would be provided to third parties, i.e., qualifying 
carriers, to protect customers from sudden changes in service. 
Compliance is mandatory.

    Title: Written Contracts Filed with the Commission and Made 
Publicly Available--Section 274(b)(3)(B), CC Docket No. 96-152 (FNPRM).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 4200 respondents; 1.33 hours per response 
(avg.); 3150 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: The Commission issued a Further Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking in CC Docket No. 96-152, to implement section 274 of the 
Communications Act, as amended which governs BOC provision of 
electronic publishing services. Section 274(b)(3)(B) of the Act 
requires a separated affiliate or electronic publishing joint venture 
established pursuant to section 274(a) and the Bell Operating Company 
(BOC) with which it is affiliated to ``carry out transactions * * * 
pursuant to written contracts or tariffs that are filed with the 
Commission and made publicly available.'' The Further Notice notes that 
the phrases ``filed with the Commission'' and ``made publicly 
available'' in section 274(b)(3)(B) each can be read to apply to both 
contracts and tariffs, or only tariffs. In seeking comment on the 
proper interpretation of these phrases, the Further Notice proposed the 
following new collections of information: (1) The filing of both 
written contracts and tariffs with the Commission; and/or (2) the 
making of those contracts ``publicly available.'' OMB approved the 
proposed collections. If the collections are adopted, compliance would 
be mandatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0704
    Expiration Date: 08/31/1997
    Title: Policy and Rules Concerning the Interstate, Interexchange 
Marketplace: Implementation of Section 254(g) of the Communications Act 
of 1934, as amended--CC Docket No. 96-61.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 519 respondents; 266.2 hours per response 
(avg.); 138,175 total annual burden hours.

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    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $435,000.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: CC Docket 96-61 eliminates the requirement that 
nondominant interexchange carriers file tariffs for interstate, 
domestic, interexchange telecommunications services. In order to 
facilitate enforcement of such carriers' statutory obligation to 
geographically average and integrate their rates, and to make it easier 
for customers to compare carriers' service offerings, the Commission 
requires affected carriers to maintain, and to make available to the 
public in at least one location, information concerning their rates, 
terms and conditions for all of their interstate domestic, 
interexchange services. The information collected under the tariff 
cancellation requirement must be disclosed to the Commission, and will 
be used to implement the Commission's detariffing policy. The 
information collected under the recordkeeping and certification 
requirements will be used by the Commission to ensure that affected 
interexchange carriers fulfill their obligations under the 
Communications Act, as amended. The information in the disclosure 
requirement must be provided to third parties, and will be used to 
ensure that such parties have adequate information to bring to the 
Commission's attention any violations of geographic rate averaging and 
rate integration requirements of Section 254(g) of the Communications 
Act, as amended. Compliance is mandatory.
    Public reporting burden for the collections of information is as 
noted above. Send comments regarding the burden estimate or any other 
aspect of the collections of information, including suggestions for 
reducing the burden to Performance Evaluation and Records Management, 
Washington, D.C. 20554.

Federal Communications Commission.
LaVera F. Marshall,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-13370 Filed 5-20-97; 8:45 am]
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