[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 66 (Tuesday, April 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17006-17009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9020]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collections being Reviewed by the 
Federal Communications Commission

March 30, 1998.

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commissions, as part of its 
continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public 
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the 
following information collection, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or 
sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently 
valid control number. 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. Comments are requested concerning (a) whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of 
the functions of the Commission, including whether the information 
shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's 
burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the information collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of 
the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.

DATES: Persons wishing to comment on this information collection should 
submit comments June 8, 1998.
ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to Judy Boley, Federal Communications 
Commissions, Room 234, 1919 M St., NW., Washington, DC 20554 or via 
internet to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies 
of the information collections contact Judy Boley at 202-418-0214 or 
via internet at [email protected]. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0072.
    Title: Airborne Mobile Radio Telephone License Application.
    Form No.: FCC 409.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Individuals and households.
    Number of Respondents: 3,000.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 5 minutes.
    Total Annual Burden: 252 hours.
    Frequency of Response:  On occasion reporting requirement.
    Needs and Uses: The FCC 409 is used in applying for authority to 
operate an airborne mobile radio telephone by individual users who 
intend to become subscribers to a common carrier service. The form is 
subsequently used for modification and renewal of such licenses.
    FCC 409 is required by 47 CFR Part 22. The applicant may be subject 
to requirements in addition to those specified on the form.
    The form has been redesigned to remove the fee filing data. FCC 
Form 159, Fee Remittance Advice, is required to be submitted with any 
payment to the FCC. Thus we are removing the duplicative data 
collection from the FCC Form 409. This change will not affect the 
average estimated completion time of the form.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0823.
    Title:  Pay Telephone Reclassification Memorandum Opinion and 
Order, CC Docket No. 96-128.
    Form No.:  N/A.
    Type of Review:  Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.

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    Number of Respondents:  400.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 112 hours per response (avg.)
    Total Annual Burden: 44,700 hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response:  On occasion, monthly, quarterly, annually, 
one-time reporting requirements.
    Needs and Uses: In the Payphone Orders, the Commission adopted new 
rules and policies governing the payphone industry to implement Section 
276 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Those rules and policies in 
part establish a plan to ensure fair compensation for ``each and every 
completed intrastate and interstate call using [a] payphone.'' 
Specifically, the Commission established a plan to ensure that payphone 
service providers (PSPs) were compensated for certain noncoin calls 
originated from their payphones. As part of this plan, the Commission 
required that by October 7, 1997, LECs provide payphone-specific coding 
digits to PSPs, and that PSPs provide those digits from their payphones 
to IXCs. The provision of payphone-specific coding digits is a 
prerequisite to payphone per-call compensation payments by IXCs to PSPs 
for subscriber 800 and access code calls. The Common Carrier Bureau, on 
its own motion, subsequently provided a waiver until March 9, 1998, for 
those payphones for which the necessary coding digits were not provided 
to identify calls. In a Memorandum Opinion and Order (MO&O) (released 
March 9, 1998), we clarify the requirements established in the Payphone 
Orders for the provision for payphone-specific coding digits and for 
tariffs that LECs must file pursuant to the Payphone Orders. We also 
grant a waiver of Part 69 of the Commission's rules so that LECs can 
establish rate elements to recover the costs of implementing FLEX-ANI 
to provide payphone-specific coding digits for per-call compensation. 
The Commission in the Memorandum Opinion and Order, therefore, is 
effecting the following collections of information made in regard to 
information disclosures required in the Payphone Orders to implement 
Section 276 of the Act. The collection requirements are as follows: 
(a). LEC Tariff to provide FLEX ANI to IXCs: The MO&O requires that 
local exchange carriers (LECs) implement FLEX ANI to comply with the 
requirements set forth in the Payphone Orders. LECs must provide to 
IXCs through their interstate tariffs, FLEX ANI service so that IXCs 
can identify which calls come from a payphone. LECs (and PSPs) must 
provide FLEX ANI to IXCs without charge for the limited purpose of per-
call compensation, and accordingly, LECs providing FLEX ANI must revise 
their interstate tariffs to reflect FLEX ANI as a nonchargeable option 
to IXCs no later than March 30, 1998, to be effective no later than 
April 15, 1998, in those areas that it is available. (No. of 
respondents: 400; hours per response: 35 hours; total annual burden: 
14,000 hours). (b). LEC Tariff to recover costs: LECs must file a 
tariff to establish a rate element in their interstate tariffs to 
recover their costs from PSPs for providing payphone-specific coding 
digits to IXCs. This tariff must reflect the costs of implementing FLEX 
ANI to provide payphone-specific coding digits for payphone 
compensation, and provide for recovery of such costs over a reasonable 
time period through a monthly recurring flat-rate charge. LECs must 
provide cost support information for the rate elements they propose. 
The Bureau will review these LEC rate element tariff filings, the 
reasonableness of the costs, and the recovery period. LECs will recover 
their costs over an amortization period of no more than ten years. The 
rate element charges will discontinue when the LEC has recovered its 
cost. (No. of respondents: 400; hours per response: 35 hours; total 
annual burden 14,000 hours). (c). LECs must provide IXCs information on 
payphones that provide payphone-specific coding digits for smart and 
dumb payphones: LECs must provide IXCs information on the number and 
location of smart and dumb payphones providing payphone-specific coding 
digits, as well as the number of those that are not. (No. of 
respondents: 400; hours per response: 24 hours; total annual burden: 
9600 hours). (d). LECs must provide IXCs and PSPs information on where 
FLEX ANI is available now and when it is to be scheduled in the future: 
Within 30 days of the release of the MO&O, LECs should be prepared to 
provide IXCs, upon request, information regarding their plans to 
implement FLEX ANI by end office. LECs must provide IXCs and PSPs 
information on payphones that provide payphone-specific coding digits 
on end offices where FLEX ANI is available, and where it is not, on a 
monthly basis. Pursuant to the waivers in this order, LECs must also 
inform IXCs and PSPs proposed dates for its availability. (No. of 
respondents: 400; hours per response: 16 hours; total annual burden: 
6400 hours). (e). For a waiver granted to small or midsize LECs, a cost 
analysis must be provided, upon request: In the MO&O, the Bureau grants 
a waiver to midsize and small LECs that will be unable to recover the 
costs of implementing FLEX ANI in a reasonable time period. LECs must 
make this evaluation within 30 days of the release of the MO&O. The LEC 
must then notify IXCs that they will not be implementing FLEX ANI 
pursuant to this waiver, and provide the number of dumb payphones 
providing the ``27'' coding digit and the number of smart phones for 
which payphone-specific coding digits are unavailable. A LEC delaying 
the implementation of FLEX ANI pursuant to this waiver provision, must 
be prepared to provide its analysis, if requested by the Commission. 
(No. of respondents: 20; hours per response: 35 hours; total annual 
burden: 700 hours). The information disclosure rules and policies 
governing the payphone industry to implement Section 276 of the Act 
will ensure the payment of per-call compensation by implementing a 
method for LECs to provide information to IXCs to identify calls, for 
each and every call made from a payphone.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0512.
    Title: The ARMIS Annual Summary Report.
    Report No.: FCC Report 43-01.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 150.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 220 hours per response (avg.)
    Total Annual Burden: 33,000 hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Needs and Uses: The ARMIS Annual Summary Report contains financial 
and operating data and is used to monitor the local exchange carrier 
industry and to perform routine analyses of costs and revenues on 
behalf of the Commission.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0395.
    Title: Automated Reporting and Management Information Systems 
(ARMIS)--Sections 43.21 and 43.22.
    Report No.: FCC Reports 43-02, 43-03, 43-05.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for profit.
    Number of Respondents: 50.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 1,253 hours per response (avg.)
    Total Annual Burden: 62,637 hours.
    Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Needs and Uses: FCC Report 43-02 contains company-wide data for 
each account specified in the Uniform

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System of Accounts (USOA). It provides the annual operating results of 
the carriers' activities for every account in the USOA. (No. of 
respondents: 50; hours per response: 960 hours; total annual burden: 
48,000 hours). FCC Report 43-05 collects data at the study area level 
and holding company level and is designed to capture trends in service 
quality under price cap regulation. It provides service quality 
information in the areas of interexchange access service installation 
and repair intervals, local service installation and repair intervals, 
trunk blockage and total switch downtime for price cap companies. (No. 
of respondents: 12 hours per response: 849 hours; total annual burden: 
10,197.4 hours). FCC Report 43-07 is designed to capture trends in 
telephone industry infrastructure development under price cap 
regulation. It provides switch deployment and capabilities data. (No. 
of respondents: 8; hours per response: 550 hours; total annual burden: 
4400 hours). 
OMB Control No.: 3060-0513.
    Title:  ARMIS Joint Cost Report.
    Report No.: FCC Report 43-03.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for profit.
    Number of Respondents: 150.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 200 hours per response (avg.)
    Total Annual Burden: 30,000 hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Needs and Uses: The Joint Cost Report is needed to administer our 
joint cost rules (Part 64) and to analyze the regulated and 
nonregulated cost and revenue allocations by study area in order to 
prevent cross-subsidization of nonregulated operations by the regulated 
operations.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0511.
    Title: ARMIS Access Report.
    Report No.: FCC Report 43-04.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Number of Respondents: 150.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 1,150 hours per response (avg.)
    Total Annual Burden: 172,500 hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Needs and Uses: The Access Report is needed to administer the 
results of the FCC's jurisdictional separations and access charge 
procedures in order to analyze revenue requirements, joint cost 
allocations, jurisdictional separations and access charges.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0763.
    Title: The ARMIS Customer Satisfaction Report.
    Report No.: FCC Report 43-06.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 8.
    Estimated Time Per response: 720 hours per response (avg.)
    Total Annual Burden: 5,760 hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Needs and Uses: The Customer Satisfaction Report collects data from 
carrier surveys designed to capture trends in service quality.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0496.
    Title:  The ARMIS Operating Data Report.
    Report No.: FCC Report 43-08.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 50.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 160 hours per response (avg.)
    Total Annual Burden: 8,000 hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Needs and Uses: The ARMIS Operating Data Report consists of 
statistical schedules which are needed by the Commission to monitor 
network growth, usage, and reliability.
    ARMIS was implemented to facilitate the timely and efficient 
analysis of revenue requirements and rate of return, to provide an 
improved basis for audits and other oversight functions, and to enhance 
the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of alternative policy. 
The information contained in the reports provides the necessary detail 
to enable the Commission to fulfill its regulatory responsibilities. 
Automated reporting of these data greatly enhances the Commission's 
ability to process and analyze the extensive amounts of data it needs 
to administer its rules.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0824.
    Title: Service Provider Information Form.
    Form No.: FCC Form 498.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for profit.
    Number of Respondents: 10,000.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 1 hour.
    Total Annual Burden: 10,000 hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Needs and Uses: Pursuant to 47 CFR Section 54.515 and 54.611, the 
Administrator must obtain information relating to: service provider 
name and address, telephone number, Federal Employee identification 
number, contact names and telephone numbers, and billing and collection 
information. FCC Form 498 has been designed to collect this information 
from carriers and service providers participating in the universal 
service program. The information will be used in the reimbursement of 
universal service support payments.
OMB Approval Number: 3060-0332.
    Title: Section 76.614, Cable Television System Regular Monitoring.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business and other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 9,300.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .5 hours - 1 hour.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden to Respondents: 9,300 hours. The paperwork 
burden for maintaining logs is estimated as follows: we estimate that 
there are approximately 9,300 cable television systems currently 
operating on aeronautical frequencies, of which approximately 50% do 
not use computerized equipment that detect and automatically log cable 
signal leaks. 9,300 x 50% = 4,650 systems. We estimate that there will 
be an average of five leaks per system per month (60 annually) and that 
the average burden of logging leaks is one minute per leak. 4,650 
systems x 1 hour (60 leaks x 1 minute per leak) = 4,650 hours.
    In addition, system operators undergo a recordkeeping burden for 
keeping the signal leakage log on file for two years and making the 
file available to authorized representatives of the Commission upon 
request. We estimate the average annual recordkeeping burden to 
respondents to be .5 hours. 9,300 systems x .5 hours = 4,650 hours.
    Total estimated annual burden to respondents = 4,650 + 4,650 = 
9,300 hours.
    Total Annual Cost to Respondents: $32,550 calculated as follows: 
The costs associated with stationery and photocopying for complying 
with the logging requirement is estimated to be $5 per respondent. 
4,650 respondents x $5 = $23,250. The costs associated with the 
recordkeeping requirement is estimated to be $1 per respondent. 9,300 
respondents x $1 = $9,300. Total

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estimated annual cost to respondents = $23,250 + $9,300 = $32,550.
    Needs and Uses: Section 76.614 requires that cable television 
operators transmitting carriers in the frequency bands 108-137 and 225-
400 MHz shall provide for a program of regular monitoring for signal 
leakage by substantially covering the plant every three months. This 
collection (3060-0332) accounts for the paperwork and recordkeeping 
burden associated with maintaining logs that show the date and location 
of each leakage source identified, the date on which the leakage was 
repaired and the probable cause of the leakage. This data is used by 
cable television systems and the Commission to prevent, locate and 
eliminate harmful interference as it occurs, to help assure safe 
operation of aeronautical and marine radio services and to minimize the 
possibility of interference to these safety-of-life services. If this 
collection of information is not conducted, there would be a greater 
likelihood of harmful interference to aeronautical and safety radio 
services, Commission efforts to locate and eliminate such interference 
would be impaired, and there would be a potentially greater risk to 
safety-of-life and property.

Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-9020 Filed 4-6-98; 8:45 am]
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