[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 114 (Friday, June 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32337-32338]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15517]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collection Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

June 10, 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 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 Judy Boley, Federal 
Communications Commission, (202) 418-0214.

Federal Communications Commission

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0580.
    Expiration Date: 06/30/2000.
    Title: Section 76.504, Limits on Carriage of Vertically Integrated 
Programming.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 22,500 total annual hours; 15 hours per 
respondent; 1,500 respondents.
    Description: Section 76.504 requires cable operators to maintain 
records regarding the nature and extent of their attributable interests 
in all video programming services as well as information regarding 
their carriage of such vertically integrated video programming services 
on cable systems in which they also have an attributable interest. 
These records must be maintained in operator's public files for a 
period of 3 years.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0728.
    Expiration Date: 05/31/2000.
    Title: Supplemental Information Requesting Taxpayer Identifying 
Number for Debt Collection.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 177,985 total annual hours; .017 hours per 
respondent; 10,469,716 respondents.
    Description: Public Law 104-134, Chapter 10, Section 3100l, 
requires federal agencies to collect the taxpayer identifying number 
from any individual or firm doing business with it. In the case of an 
individual, that number is the person's social security number. In the 
case of a business, it is the employer identification number as 
assigned by the Internal Revenue Service. The information will be used 
by the FCC and the U.S. Department of Treasury for purposes of 
collecting and reporting on any delinquent amounts arising out of such 
person's relationship with the Government. The respondents are anyone 
doing business with the FCC.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0552.
    Expiration Date: 05/31/2000.
    Title: Sections 76.1003 and 76.1004, Adjudicatory Proceedings.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 252 total annual hours; 1-20 hours per 
respondent; 24 respondents (12 complainants and 12 defendants).
    Description: This information is used by Commission staff to 
resolve disputes alleging unfair methods of competition and deceptive 
practices where the purpose or effect of which is to hinder 
significantly or to prevent any multichannel video programming 
distributor from providing satellite cable programming or satellite 
broadcast programming to subscribers or consumers. Section 301(j) of 
the 1996 Act amends the restrictions in Section 628 to include common 
carriers and their affiliates that provide video programming.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0551.
    Expiration Date: 05/31/2000.
    Title: Section 76.1002, Specific Unfair Practices Prohibited.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 676 total annual hours; 1-25 hours per 
respondent; 52 respondents (26 petitions and 26 oppositions).
    Description: This information is used by Commission staff to 
determine on a case-by-case basis whether particular exclusive 
contracts for cable television programming comply with the statutory 
public interest standard of Section 19 of the Cable Television Consumer 
Protection and Competition Act of 1992 and Section 628 of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended. Section 301(j) of the 1996 Act 
amends the restrictions in Section 628 to include common carriers and 
their affiliates that provide video programming.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0104.
    Expiration Date: 05/31/2000.
    Title: Temporary Permit to Operate a Part 90 Radio Station.
    Form No.: FCC Form 572.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 200 total annual hours; 6 minutes per 
respondent; 2,000 respondents.
    Description: Applicants eligible to hold a radio station 
authorization in the Private Land Mobile Radio Services 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.: 3060-0765.
    Expiration Date: 05/31/2000.
    Title: Revision of Part 22 and Part 90 of the Commission's Rules to 
Facilitate Future Development of Paging Systems (Further Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 56,250 total annual hours; 3 hours per 
respondent; 50,000 respondents.
    Description: This proceeding will further establish a regulatory 
scheme for the common carrier paging (CCP) and private carrier paging 
(PCP) services which will promote efficient licensing and competition 
in the commercial mobile radio marketplace.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0776.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/1997.
    Title: Price Cap Performance Review for Local Exchange Carriers, 
Fourth Report and Order.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 4,331 total annual hours; 61 hours per 
respondent; 71 respondents.
    Description: Local exchange carriers (LECs) are required to make 
tariff filings to reflect changes in the price cap index (PCI) formula 
governing their access rate levels. This is necessary to ensure that 
interstate access rates that will take effect on July 1, 1997 are just 
and reasonable as required by Section 201 of the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended. Also, the revisions will further pro-competitive, 
deregulatory policy established by Congress in the Telecommunications 
Act of 1996. The respondents that will submit data have all 
participated in this proceeding, and they keep the records necessary to 
comply with the data collection.


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Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-15517 Filed 6-12-97; 8:45 am]
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