[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 108 (Friday, June 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 30757]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14901]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

May 29, 1998.
    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public 
information collection 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.: 3060-0106.
    Expiration Date: 05/31/2001.
    Title: Section 43.61--Reports of Overseas Telecommunications 
Traffic.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 248 respondents (only five respondents are 
subject to the quarterly filing requirement); 30.45 hours per response 
(avg.); 7554 total annual burden hours for all requirements.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $18,000.
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly, annually, on occasion.
    Description: Section 43.61 requires each common carrier that 
provides international facilities-based switched service between the 
United States and any foreign country to file an annual traffic and 
revenue report. The annual report includes actual traffic and revenue 
data for each service provided by a common carrier, divided among 
service billed in the United States, service billed outside the United 
States, and service transiting the United States. In IB Docket No. 96-
261, released 8/7/97, the Commission increased the filing frequency in 
order to detect market distortion that may occur from the routing of 
U.S. international switched, basic traffic over private lines. Common 
carriers subject to the existing Section 43.61 requirement will be 
required to file the quarterly reports, in addition to annual reports 
for each quarter reporting period in which their minutes of switched 
telephone traffic meet certain thresholds established by the 
Commission. However, we will require that carriers file their traffic 
and revenue data only for switched facilities-based telephone services 
and switched facilities resale telephone services--not for their other 
international services. Obligation to respond: required. Public 
reporting burden for the collection 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.
[FR Doc. 98-14901 Filed 6-4-98; 8:45 am]
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