[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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