[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] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] BILLING CODE 6712-01-P