[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 9 (Thursday, January 14, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2493-2494]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-836]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management
and Budget
January 7, 1999.
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, 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.: 3060-0875.
Expiration Date: 06/30/99.
Title: Long-Term Portability Cost Classification Proceeding, CC
Docket No. 95-116, MO&O, RM 8535 and Telephone Number Portability, CC
Docket No. 95-116, 3rd R&O.
Form No.: N/A.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit;
Estimated Annual Burden: 67 respondents; 85.5 hours per response
(avg.); 5729 total annual burden hours for all collections.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Description: In the Third Report and Order, the Commission
implements, for long-term number portability costs, the statutory
requirement that all telecommunications carriers bear the costs of
number portability on a competitively neutral basis, as set forth in
Section 251(e)(2) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In the Third
Report and Order, the Commission determined that all carriers would
bear and recover their own carrier-specific costs directly related to
providing number portability. For incumbent local exchange carriers
(LECs) that wish to recover their carrier-specific costs directly
related to providing long-term number portability, the Third Report and
Order requires them to use a federally tariffed, monthly number-
portability charge that will apply to end users for no longer than five
years. In addition, the Third Report and Order delegated authority to
the Common Carrier Bureau to determine appropriate methods for
apportioning joint costs among portability and nonportability services,
and to issue any orders to provide guidance for incumbent LECs before
they file their tariffs and cost support. The Common Carrier Bureau's
Cost Classification Order requires incumbent LECs to include many
details in their cost support that are unique to the number portability
proceeding. For instance, incumbent LECs must demonstrate that any
incremental overhead costs claimed in their cost support are actually
new costs incremental to and resulting from the provision of long-term
number portability. The incumbent LECs' end-user charge will begin no
earlier than February 1, 1999. To obtain an effective date for their
end-user charges of February 1, 1999, incumbent LECs may file their
tariffs and cost support information by January 15, 1999. Incumbent
LECs that want to recover their carrier-specific costs directly related
to providing long-term number portability from their end users will
file federal end-user charge tariffs and cost support with the
Commission. As part of the tariff proceeding, the Commission will
collect detailed information on the incumbent LECs' cost support for
the tariffs. The Commission will use this information to ensure that
the end-user charge recovers the incumbent LECs' costs of implementing
and providing number portability in a competitively neutral manner.
Incumbent LECs will file the tariffs and cost support for their end-
user charge electronically. The Commission has established a program of
mandatory electronic filing of tariffs and associated documents by
LECs. These carriers must file tariffs and associated documents
electronically in accordance with the requirements established by the
Bureau. Obligation to respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0877.
Expiration Date: 07/31/99.
Title: 1999 Central Office Code Utilization Survey (COCUS).
Form No.: N/A.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit;
Estimated Annual Burden: 2900 respondents; 9 hours per response
(avg.); 26,100 total annual burden hours for all collections.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Description: In the past, the administration of the
telecommunications numbering resource in the United States was
performed by AT&T, and later by Bellcore. The Telecommunications Act of
1996 gave the Commission exclusive jurisdiction over those portions of
the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) which pertain to the United
States. The Act also provided that the Commission could delegate this
jurisdiction to states or other entities. The Commission has, in fact,
delegated the administration of the NANP to a neutral administrator,
Lockheed Martin IMS. Historically, the administrator collected data
regarding the use of the telecommunications numbering resource through
a form called the Central Office Code Utilization Survey (COCUS).
Lockheed Martin IMS is planning to send out the first COCUS since it
assumed its duties as the NANP administrator. The North American
Numbering Plan (NANP) is currently experiencing an unprecedented amount
of growth of area codes. Adding area codes imposes costs not only on
the telecommunications industry, but also on consumers. The proposed
COCUS seeks information not only on the number of central office codes
assigned to carriers, but also on the amount of individual numbers
assigned to consumers from the central office codes. This information
will assist the Commission in determining methods to help alleviate
some of the costs associated with the addition of new area codes.
Authority: 47 U.S.C. 251(e)(1). The increasing strain on the NANP, as
evidenced through the rapid increase in the rate of introduction of new
area codes, requires that the Commission take an active role in seeking
solutions to slow the rate of number exhaust. The information collected
will be used to better inform the Commission of the scope of the number
exhaust problem, and which solutions may provide the greatest impact in
different areas of the
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country. Obligation to respond: Voluntary. 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, DC 20554.
Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-836 Filed 1-13-99; 8:45 am]
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