[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7789-7793]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3989]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

February 10, 1998.
    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. 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.: 3060-0810.
    Expiration Date: 05/31/98.
    Title: Procedures for Designation of Eligible Telecommunications 
Carriers Pursuant to Section 214(e)(6) of the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 35 respondents; 47.14 hours per response 
(avg.); 1650 total annual burden hours for all collections.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: The Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the Act), 
mandates that, after the date the Commission's rules implementing 
section 254 of the Act, only eligible telecommunications carriers may 
receive universal service support. The Commission's rules implementing 
section 254 of the Act take effect on January 1, 1998. Under the Act, 
state commissions must designate telecommunications carriers as 
eligible. On December 1, 1997 Public Law 105-125 added subsection 
(e)(6) to section 214(e) of the Act. New section 214(e)(6) states that 
a telecommunications carriers that is not subject to the jurisdiction 
of a state may request that the Commission determine whether it is 
eligible. Specifically, section 214(e)(6) states that ``[i]n the case 
of a common carrier * * * that is not subject to the jurisdiction of a 
State commission, the Commission shall upon request designate such a 
common carrier that meets the requirements of paragraph (1) as an 
eligible telecommunications carrier for a service area designated by 
the Commission. * * *'' The Commission must evaluate whether such 
telecommunications carriers, almost all of which are expected to be 
companies owned by Native American tribes, meet the eligibility 
criteria set forth in the Act. a. Petition for Designation as Eligible 
Telecommunications Carriers Pursuant to Section 214(e)(6). Carriers 
seeking designation from the Commission pursuant to section 214(e)(6) 
must demonstrate that they fulfill the requirements of section 
214(e)(1). Carriers seeking designation from the Commission early in 
1998 are instructed to provide specific information. See Public Notice, 
FCC 97-219, released 12/29/97. (No. of respondents: 25; hours per 
response: 58; total annual hours: 1450 hours). b. Submission of Written 
Comments by Interested Third Parties. Oppositions or comments on 
petitions are due 10 days after a Public Notice announcing receipt of a 
petition is released. Reply comments are due 7 days after comments are 
due. (No. of respondents: 10; hours per response: 20 hours; total 
annual burden: 200 hours). The Commission will use the information 
collected to determine whether the telecommunications carriers 
providing the data are eligible to receive universal service support. 
Obligation to respond: Mandatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0815.
    Expiration Date: 07/31/98.
    Title: North American Numbering Plan Funding Worksheet.
    Form No.: FCC Form 496.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 3700 respondents; .50 hours per response 
(avg.); 1850 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: Pursuant to Congress' directive in the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996 that the Commission establish an 
independent entity to administer telecommunications numbering, the 
Commission determined on July 13, 1995, that the costs associated with 
administering numbering duties should be based on each 
telecommunications carrier's gross revenues less payments made to other 
carriers. We authorize the North American Numbering Plan 
Administrator's (NANPA) billing and collections agent to send FCC Form 
496 requesting that telecommunications carriers provide information 
regarding their yearly gross revenues less payments made to other 
telecommunications carriers. The Worksheet, FCC Form 496, seeks 
financial data, and payment from telecommunications carriers to fund 
NANPA. All common carriers providing telecommunications service between 
U.S. and foreign points must file this worksheet. The Commission and 
the NANPA will use the information collected in the worksheet to 
determine the total revenue received from telecommunications carriers 
in order to arrive at an amount that each carrier must pay to fund the 
NANPA.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0760.
    Expiration Date: 07/31/98.
    Title: Access Charge Reform, CC Docket No. 96-262 (First Report and 
Order); Second Order on Reconsideration and Memorandum Opinion and 
Order, and Third Report and Order.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 16 respondents; 112,945 hours per response 
(avg.); 1,807,120 total annual burden hours for all collections.

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Incremental burdens associated with collections approved by OMB on 1/
29/98 are listed below.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $33,000.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: In the Order Designating Issues for Investigation and 
Order on Reconsideration (Order), CC Docket No. 97-250, Tariffs 
Implementing Access Charge Reform, the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau 
adopts that the price cap incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs) must 
file supplementary information to support their tariff filings 
implementing access charge reform. In all instances described below, 
the price cap LEC has failed to provide adequate support for the 
position taken in its tariff filing. The information collections are as 
follows:
    a. Primary and Non-Primary Residential Line Definitions: BellSouth, 
SNET, and SWBT must explain fully their definitions of primary and non-
primary residential lines, including any assumptions that went into 
these definitions, and submit modified, expanded, or clarified 
definitions as necessary. These price cap LECs should make clear what 
lines these definitions include and the manner in which they would be 
identified, such as by account number(s), billing number(s), customer 
name, location, or by whatever sorting method the LEC chose to use. 
(No. of respondents: 3; hours per response (avg.): 2; total annual 
burden: 6 hours).
    b. Identification of Primary and Non-Primary lines: The Bureau 
requires price cap LECs to identify the number of lines in each of the 
following categories: (1) primary residential lines; (2) single-line 
business lines; (3) non-primary residential lines; and (4) BRI ISDN 
lines. Each price cap LEC's direct case must delineate what, how, and 
in which order data were sorted and used in accordance with its 
definition to arrive at the primary and non-primary residential line 
count totals submitted pursuant to this order. The Bureau also directs 
each price cap LEC to include in its direct case an explanation of why 
its definition is reasonable. (No. of respondents: 16; hours per 
response (avg.): 16 hours; total annual burden: 256 hours).
    c. Inward-Only Line PICC Demand: The Bureau requires Ameritech and 
CBT to include inward-only lines in their SLC and PICC counts. 
Ameritech and CBT must include in their direct cases an explanation as 
to why their practices with respect to determining PICC demand should 
be considered reasonable and consistent with the First Report and 
Order. U S West must include in its direct case its rationale as to why 
it is reasonable to exclude inward-only lines from the development of 
common line rates. Further, U S West must identify in its direct case 
the portion, if any, of the costs of these lines that is assigned to 
the interstate jurisdiction. If a portion of these costs is assigned to 
the interstate jurisdiction, U S West must include in its direct case 
an explanation of how these costs are recovered in interstate rates, 
and how U S West's treatment of these lines in computing common line 
rates is consistent with the Commission's Part 69 rules. If none of 
these costs is assigned to the interstate jurisdiction, U S West must 
explain how this is consistent with the Commission's Part 36 rules. The 
Bureau also directs Ameritech to include in its direct case an 
explanation as to why its practice of counting each PRI ISDN service 
application as five SLCs, but only one PICC is reasonable and 
consistent with the First Report and Order. In addition, the Bureau 
directs Ameritech, CBT, and U S West to submit with their direct cases 
their recalculated line counts. (No. of respondents: 3; hours per 
response (avg.): 2 hours; total annual burden: 6 hours).
    d. Maximum CCL Rate Reduction Calculation: The Bureau directs Bell 
Atlantic, NYNEX, GTE, SWBT, the Sprint LTCs, and U S West to provide a 
recalculation of their maximum common line revenues. (No. of 
respondents: 6; hours per response (avg.): 24 hours; total annual 
burden: 144 hours).
    e. Method for Calculating Exogenous Cost Changes for Line Ports and 
End Office Trunk Ports: Each LEC must list all exogenous adjustments it 
has made since it entered price cap regulation that had the purpose of 
reallocating costs among baskets, categories, rate elements, or between 
price cap and non price cap services. LECs should list the method used 
in each instance. (No. of respondents: 16; hours per response (avg.): 
24 hours; total annual burden: 384 hours).
    f. Attribution of tandem switching revenue requirement to SS7 
costs: The Bureau requires Bell Atlantic and U S West to provide cost 
studies justifying the amount that was removed from the transport 
interconnection charge (TIC) as SS7 costs. The Bureau also requires 
detailed information regarding any additional SS7 costs that were 
incorporated into the TIC during the period January 1, 1994 to December 
31, 1997. Furthermore, Bell Atlantic and U S West should provide 
detailed information regarding any true-up to SS7 costs due to 
exogenous cost adjustments in the trunking basket. (No. of respondents: 
2; hours per response (avg.): 8 hours; total annual burden: 16 hours).
    g. Removal of COE maintenance and marketing expenses from the TIC: 
Price cap LECs must provide supporting documentation justifying the 
amount that was removed from the TIC as COE maintenance and marketing 
expenses. In particular, the price cap LECs must provide detailed 
information substantiating the amount of COE maintenance and marketing 
costs that were removed from the trunking basket, and the portion of 
that amount that was removed from the TIC. Price cap LECs should 
explain their theory for determining the portion removed from the TIC. 
(No. of respondents: 16; hours per response (avg.): 8 hours; total 
annual burden: 128 hours).
    h. Recalculation of Removal of TIC: PacBell and certain of the 
United, Frontier, and GTE operating companies must recalculate the 
removal of TIC costs and the facilities-based portion of the TIC. (No. 
of respondents: 4; hours per response (avg.): 6 hours; total annual 
burden: 24 hours).
    i. Universal Service Fund (USF) obligation allocation: Price cap 
LECs must submit explanations detailing why the methodology each has 
used to allocate different amounts of the universal service fund 
obligation to individual price cap baskets more accurately reflects the 
distribution of interstate end-user revenues across baskets. As part of 
this explanation, each price cap LEC must explain in detail the 
methodology it uses and any assumptions it makes to determine these 
allocations. Price cap LECs must report the interstate end-user 
revenues they derived from each basket during the accounting period 
they used to calculate their universal service contribution. If the 
proportions of the USF contributions that LECs allocate for recovery 
from the common line, trunking, and interexchange baskets differ from 
the proportions of the total interstate end-user revenues they report 
for these baskets, they must explain the reason for this difference. 
Also, Citizens must justify allocating a portion of its USF 
contribution to the traffic sensitive basket, given the Commission's 
finding in the Access Reform Order that none of the service categories 
in this basket generate, interstate end-user revenues. (No. of 
respondents: 18; hours per response (avg.): 7.3 hours; total annual 
burden: 132 hours). Our authority to collect this information is 
provided under 47 U.S.C. 201-204 and 303(r). The information collected 
under this Order would be submitted to the FCC by incumbent LECs for 
use in determining

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whether the incumbent LEC properly calculated its tariffed rates in its 
December 17, 1997 tariff filing. Obligation to comply: Mandatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0646.
    Expiration Date: 01/31/2001.
    Title: Policies and Rules Concerning Unauthorized Changes of 
Consumers' Long Distance Carriers--CC Docket No. 94-129.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 500 respondents; 2 hours per response 
(avg.); 1000 total annual burden hours for all collections.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: In Policies and Rules Concerning Unauthorized Changes 
of Consumers' Long Distance Carriers, CC Docket No. 94-129, Report and 
Order, the Commission adopted consumer protection mechanisms that were 
designed to curb widespread instances of slamming and associated 
deceptive or misleading marketing practices by many long distance 
carriers. In response to six petitions for reconsideration of the 1995 
Report and Order, the Commission amended its rules in three respects. 
First, Section 64.1150(g) was modified to clarify that interexchange 
carriers using letters of agency must fully translate their LOAs into 
the same language(s) as their associated promotional materials or oral 
descriptions and instructions. Second Section 1150(e)(4) was modified 
to incorporate the terms interLATA and intraLATA, as well as interstate 
and intrastate, in order to remove all possible confusion or 
uncertainty about the scope of our rules, which are generally relevant 
to all jurisdictions. Third, Section 64.1100(a) was modified to clarify 
that IXCs must confirm orders for long distance service generated by 
telemarketing using only one of the four verification options. This 
information will be used to inform long distance carriers of their 
additional and continuing obligations to verify all orders for long 
distance service generated by telemarketing in accordance with the 
Commission's verification rules. The information received from the 
current collection was used to identify and strengthen the areas in 
which increased protection and/or clarification of our verification 
rules were needed. Obligation to comply: mandatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0786.
    Expiration Date: 01/31/2001.
    Title: Petitions for LATA Association Changes by Independent 
Telephone Companies.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 20 respondents; 6 hours per response 
(avg.); 120 total annual burden hours for all collections.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: In the Memorandum Opinion and Order issued in CC 
Docket 97-158, the Commission pursuant to the provisions of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended requests that independent 
telephone companies (ITC) and Bell Operating Companies (BOC) provide 
certain information to the Commission regarding ITC requests for 
changes in local access and transport area (LATA) association and 
modification of LATA boundaries to permit the change in association. 
The Commission has provided voluntary guidelines to assist ITCs in 
filing petitions for changes in LATA association and connected 
modification of LATA boundaries. The guidelines ask that each LATA 
association change request include the following information: (1) type 
of request; (2) exchange information; (3) number of access lines or 
customers; (4) public interest statement; (5) a map showing exchanges 
and LATA boundaries involved; (6) a list of extended local calling 
service routes between the independent exchange and the LATA with which 
it is currently associated; and (7) a BOC supplement requesting a 
modification of the LATA boundary. The requested information is used by 
the Commission to determine whether the need for the proposed changes 
in LATA association outweighs the risk of potential anticompetitive 
effects, and thus whether requests for changes in LATA association and 
connected modifications of LATA boundaries should be granted

    .OMB Control No.: 3060-0808.
    Expiration Date: 02/28/2001.
    Title: Amendments to Uniform System of Accounts for 
Interconnection--CC Docket No. 97-212 (Proposed Rule).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 68 respondents; 320 hours per response 
(avg.); 21,760 total annual burden hours for all collections.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: In the NPRM issued in CC Docket No. 97-212, the 
Commission proposed rules for the accounting treatment of transactions 
related to interconnection and shared infrastructure. Specifically, the 
Commission proposed new part 32 accounts and subsidiary recordkeeping 
requirements to record the revenues and expenses related to providing 
and obtaining interconnection. The following are the new proposed 
accounts: Account 5071, Interconnection and access to unbundled network 
elements; Account 6551, interconnection and access; Account 5072, 
Transport and termination revenue; Account 6552, transport and 
termination expense; and Account 6553, Purchased telecommunications 
service expense. (No. of respondents: 68; hours per response (avg.): 40 
hours; total annual burden: 2720). The Commission also proposed several 
subsidiary account records: Subsidiary recordkeeping categories that 
will enable carriers to identify the revenue from and amounts paid for 
interconnection and each unbundled network element; Subsidiary records 
categories so that the amounts attributable to transport and 
termination may be separately recorded; Subsidiary record categories 
for carriers to report the amounts contained in existing part 32 
revenue accounts that result from the wholesale of telecommunications 
service pursuant to Section 251(c)(4); Subsidiary accounting records to 
record the costs associated with providing interconnection. We propose 
that the total amount of costs to be recorded in the subsidiary records 
be based on the revenues received for providing interconnection and 
that the apportionment of the costs should be consistent with cost 
studies underlying the charges for these services and elements. (No. of 
respondents: 68; hours per response (avg.): 120 hours; total annual 
burden: 8160 hours). The Commission proposes to require ILEC to 
construct a cost study reflecting the agreement upon which to base its 
assignment of costs to the subsidiary records. Any action of the state 
that alters the underlying cost study should be reflected in the 
underlying cost study upon which the ILEC bases the reclassification of 
costs to the subsidiary records. ILECs must maintain a sufficiently 
detailed audit trial of the assignments of costs to permit audits of 
the method of assignment and amounts assigned to the subsidiary 
records. (No. of respondents: 68; hours per response (avg.): 160 hours; 
total annual burden:

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10,880 hours). The proposed information collection requirements will 
provide the necessary information to enable this Commission to fulfill 
its regulatory responsibilities. Obligation to comply with the 
requirements, if adopted, is mandatory

    .OMB Control No.: 3060-0774.
    Expiration Date: 08/31/98.
    Title: Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, CC Docket 
No. 96-45 (47 CFR 36.611-36.612 and 47 CFR Part 54).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; individuals or 
households, state.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 5,565,451 respondents; .32 hours per 
response (avg.); 1,801,570 hours total annual burden for all 
collections. See estimates provided below for burden for requirements 
approved by OMB on
2/6/98.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: On December 30, 1997, the Commission released the 
Fourth Order on Reconsideration in Federal-Joint Board on Universal 
Service, CC Docket 96-45, Access Charge Reform, Price Cap Performance 
Review for Local Exchange Carriers, Transport Rate Structure and 
Pricing, End User Common Line Charge, CC Docket Nos. 96-262, 94-1, 91-
213, 95-72 (Order). Following publication of the Commission's May 8th 
Report and Order on Universal Service, the Commission received 
significant comment from the public regarding universal service in the 
form of petitions for reconsideration, oppositions to those petitions, 
and comments on those petitions. In the Order, the Commission responded 
to various issues raised in the petitions for reconsideration and/or 
clarification of the Commission's May 8th Report and Order on Universal 
Service. Several of the rules adopted in the Order reduce existing 
reporting requirements or impose new reporting requirements.
    a. 47 CFR Sec. 54.201(a)(2)--Submission of eligibility criteria. 
Pursuant to section 214(e), a carrier must be designated an eligible 
telecommunications carrier by a state commission before receiving 
universal service support in accordance with section 254. A state 
commission that is unable to designate as an eligible 
telecommunications carrier, by January 1, 1998, a carrier that sought 
such designation before January 1, 1998, may, once it has designated 
such carrier, file with the Commission a petition for waiver of 
paragraph (a)(1) of this section requesting that the carrier receive 
universal service support retroactive to January 1, 1998. The state 
commission must demonstrate in its petition that exceptional 
circumstances prevented it from designating such carrier as an eligible 
telecommunications carrier by January 1, 1998. (No. of respondents: 
100; avg. hours per response: 4 hours; total annual burden: 400 hours).
    b. Demonstration of Reasonable Steps. Carriers also are encouraged 
to file with the Commission information demonstrating that they took 
reasonable steps to be designated as eligible telecommunications 
carriers by January 1, 1998. (No. of respondents: 50; avg. hours per 
response: 1 hour; total annual burden: 50 hours).
    c. 47 CFR Sec. 54.519--State telecommunications networks. State 
telecommunications networks that secure discounts on eligible services 
on behalf of eligible schools and libraries must maintain records 
listing eligible schools and libraries, showing the basis on which 
eligibility determinations were made, and demonstrating the discount 
amount to which each eligible school and library is entitled. The state 
networks must direct the eligible schools and libraries to pay the 
discounted price for services and must comply with the competitive bid 
requirements established in 47 CFR Sec. 54.504. (No. of respondents: 
50; avg. hours per response: 4 hours; total annual burden: 200 hours).
    d. Streamlined application process for schools and libraries and 
for rural health care providers. An eligible school or library will not 
be required to undergo the competitive bid process outlined in 47 CFR 
Sec. 54.504(a) for a minor modification to a universal service contract 
as defined in 47 CFR Sec. 54.500(h). An eligible school or library 
making a minor modification to a contract must submit an FCC Form 471 
indicating the value of the proposed contract modification. An eligible 
school or library will not be required to undergo the competitive bid 
process outlined in 47 CFR Sec. 54.504(a) if the eligible entity elects 
to order services from a master contract negotiated by a third party as 
defined in 47 CFR Sec. 54.500(g). An eligible rural health care 
provider shall not be required to undergo the competitive bid process 
outlined in Sec. 54.603 for a minor modification to a universal service 
contract. Such health care provider, however, shall be required to file 
an FCC Form 466 indicating the value of the proposed contract 
modification. An eligible rural health care provider shall not be 
required to undergo the competitive bid process outlined in 47 CFR 
Sec. 54.603 if the eligible entity elects to order services from a 
master contract negotiated by a third party. (See Order, Section J, 
pps. 130-136). (No. of respondents: 16,000; avg. hours per response: 1 
hour; total annual burden: 16,000 hours).
    e. 47 CFR Sec. 54.604--Existing contracts. Rural health care 
providers bound by existing contracts for services shall not be 
required to comply with the competitive bid process outlined in 47 CFR 
Sec. 54.603. (This rule reduces the total annual burden of Section 
54.603(b)(1) by 1,000 burden hours).
    f. Obligation to notify underlying carrier. Systems integrators 
that derive de minimis amounts of revenue from the resale of 
telecommunications and small entities that qualify for the de minimis 
exemption are not required to contribute to universal service. They 
must, however, notify their underlying carriers that they constitute 
end users for universal service purposes. (No. of respondents: 1700; 
avg. hours per response: 1 hour; total annual burden: 1,700 hours). All 
the requirements contained herein are necessary to implement the 
congressional mandate for universal service. These reporting 
requirements are necessary to calculate the contribution amount owed by 
each telecommunications carrier or to verify that particular carriers 
and other respondents are eligible to receive universal service 
support. Obligation to comply: Mandatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0785.
    Expiration Date: 08/31/98.
    Title: Changes to the Board of Directors of the National Exchange 
Carrier Association and the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal 
Service, CC Docket Nos. 97-21 and 96-45.
    Form No.: FCC Form 457.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 5,000 respondents; 11.3 hours per response 
(avg.); 55,650 hours total annual burden all requirements.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 
$4,903,000.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: On December 30, 1997, the Commission released the 
Fourth Order on Reconsideration in Federal-Joint Board on Universal 
Service, CC Docket 96-45, Access Charge Reform, Price Cap Performance 
Review for Local Exchange Carriers, Transport Rate Structure and 
Pricing, End User Common Line Charge, CC Docket Nos. 96-262, 94-1, 91-
213, 95-72 (Order). Following publication of the Commission's May 8th 
Report and Order on Universal Service, the Commission received 
significant

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comment from the public regarding universal service in the form of 
petitions for reconsideration, oppositions to those petitions, and 
comments on those petitions. In the Order, the Commission responded to 
various issues raised in the petitions for reconsideration and/or 
clarification of the Commission's May 8th Report and Order on Universal 
Service. The Commission reconsidered certain aspects of the Universal 
Service Order and exempted additional entities from universal service 
contribution and reporting requirements. Broadcasters and schools, 
colleges, universities, rural health care providers, and systems 
integrators that derive de minimis amounts of revenue from the resale 
of telecommunications will not be required to contribute to universal 
service. See 47 CFR Section 54.703. Entities whose annual contribution 
would be less than $10,000 will not be required to contribute to 
universal service or comply with universal service reporting 
requirements. See 47 CFR Section 54.705. Obligation to comply: 
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.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
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