[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 298-300]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-83]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

December 28, 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.: 3060-0848.
    Expiration Date: 06/30/2000.
    Title: Deployment of Wireline Services Offering Advanced 
Telecommunications Capability, CC Docket No. 98-147.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1400 respondents; 10.7 hours per response 
(avg.); 15,000 total annual burden hours for all collections.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; Third Party Disclosures.
    Description: In CC Docket 98-147, the Commission seeks to implement 
Congress's goal of promoting innovation and investment by all 
participating in the telecommunications marketplace, in order to 
stimulate competition for all services, including advanced services as 
mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The following are the 
information collections:
    (a) Showing Regarding Loop Condition.--Incumbent LECs who refuse a 
competitive carrier's request to condition a loop must make an

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affirmative showing to the relevant state commission that conditioning 
the specific loop in question will significantly degrade voiceband 
services. See 47 CFR 51.319(h)(5). (No. of respondents: 1400; hours per 
response: 2 hours; total annual burden: 2800 hours).
    (b) Request for Alternative Physical Access.--Incumbent LECs must 
provide requesting carriers with access to the loop facility for 
testing, maintenance, and repair. An incumbent seeking to utilize an 
alternative physical access methodology may request approval to do so 
from the relevant state commission, but must show that the proposed 
alternative method is reasonable, nondiscriminatory, and will not 
disadvantage a requesting carrier's ability to perform loop or service 
testing, maintenance or repair. See 47 CFR 51.319(h)(7). (No. of 
respondents: 1400; hours per response: .50; total annual burden: 700 
hours).
    (c) Showing of Significant Degradation.--An incumbent LEC may not 
deny a carrier's request to deploy a technology that is presumed 
acceptable for deployment unless the incumbent LEC demonstrates to the 
relevant state commission that deployment of the particular technology 
will significantly degrade the performance of other advanced services 
or traditional voiceband services. See 47 CFR 51.230(b) and (c). (No. 
of respondents: 1400; hours per response: 1.5 hours; total annual 
burden: 2100 hours).
    (d) Information on Type of Technology.--A requesting carrier that 
seeks access to a loop or a high frequency portion of a loop to provide 
advanced services must provide to the incumbent LEC information on the 
type of technology that the requesting carrier seeks to deploy. See 47 
CFR 51.231(b)-(c). (No. of respondents: 1400; hours per response: 1.5 
hours; total annual burden: 2100 hours).
    (e) Petition.--Any party seeking designation of a technology as a 
known disturber should file a petition for declaratory ruling. See 47 
CFR 51.232(b). (No. of respondents: 100; hours per response: 1 hour; 
total annual burden: 100 hours).
    (f) Showing of Network Harm.--Where the degradation remains 
unresolved by the deploying carrier(s), after a reasonable opportunity 
to correct the problem, the carrier whose services are being degraded 
must establish before the relevant state commission that a particular 
technology deployment is causing the significant degradation. See 47 
CFR Section 51.233(b)-(c). (No. of respondents: 100; hours per 
response: 2 hours; total annual burden: 200 hours).
    (g) List of Equipment, Affidavit.--Whenever an incumbent LEC 
objects to collocation of equipment by a requesting telecommunications 
carrier for the purposes within the scope of section 251(c)(6) of the 
Act, the incumbent LEC shall prove to the state commission that the 
equipment will not be actually used by the telecommunications carrier 
for the purpose of obtaining interconnection or access to unbundled 
network elements. An incumbent LEC that denies collocation of a 
competitor's equipment, citing safety standards, must provide to the 
competitive LEC within five business days a list of all equipment that 
the incumbent LEC locates within the premises in question, together 
with an affidavit attesting that all of that equipment meets or exceeds 
the safety standard that the incumbent LEC contends the competitor's 
equipment fails to meet. See 47 CFR 51.323(b). (No. of respondents: 
1400; hours per response: 1 hour; total annual burden: 1400 hours).
    (h) Space Limitation Documentation.--An incumbent LEC shall submit 
to the state commission, subject to any protective order as the state 
commission may deem necessary, detailed floor plans or diagrams of any 
premises where the incumbent LEC claims that physical collocation is 
not practical because of space limitations. An incumbent LEC that 
contends space for physical collocation is not available in an 
incumbent LEC premises must also allow the requesting carrier to tour 
the entire premises in question, not just the room in which space was 
denied, without charge, within ten days of the receipt of the incumbent 
LEC's denial of space. See 47 CFR Section 51.321(f).
    (i) Report of Available Collocation Space.--Upon request, an 
incumbent LEC must submit to the requesting carrier within ten days of 
the submission of the request a report indicating the incumbent LEC's 
available collocation space in a particular LEC premises. This report 
must specify the amount of collocation space available at each 
requested premises, the number of collocators, and any modifications in 
the use of the space since the last report. The incumbent LEC must 
maintain a publicly available document, posted for viewing on the 
Internet, indicating all premises that are full, and must update such a 
document within ten days of the date at which a premises runs out of 
physical collocation space. See 47 CFR Section 51.321(h). (No. of 
respondents: 1400; hours per response: 1 hour; total annual burden: 
1400 hours).
    (j) Information on Security Training.--An incumbent LEC must 
provide information to competitive LECs on the specific type of 
security training a competitive LEC's employees must complete in order 
for the incumbent LEC to maintain reasonable security measures for its 
equipment and networks. See 47 CFR Section 51.323(i)(3). (No. of 
respondents: 1400; hours per response: .50 hours; total annual burden: 
700 hours).
    (k) Access to Spectrum Management Procedures and Policies.--An 
incumbent LEC must provide competitive LECs with nondiscriminatory 
access to the incumbent LEC's spectrum management procedures and 
policies. See 1st Report and Order, para. 72 and 47 CFR Section 
51.231(a). (No. of respondents: 1400; hours per response: .50 hours; 
total annual burden: 700 hours).
    (l) Rejection and Loop Information.--An incumbent LEC must disclose 
to requesting carriers information with respect to the rejection of the 
requesting carrier's provision of advanced services, together with the 
specific reason for the rejection. An incumbent LEC must also disclose 
to requesting carriers information with respect to the number of loops 
using advanced services technology within the binder and type of 
technology deployed on those loops. See 1st Report and Order, para. 73 
and 47 CFR Section 51.23(a). (No. of respondents: 1400; hours per 
response: 1 hour; total annual burden: 1400 hours).
    (m) Notification of Performance Degradation.--If a carrier claims a 
service is significantly degrading the performance of other advanced 
services or traditional voice band services, then that carrier must 
notify the causing carrier and allow that carrier a reasonable 
opportunity to correct the problem. Any claims of network harm must be 
supported with specific and verifiable supporting information. See 1st 
Report and Order, para. 75 and 47 CFR 51.233. (No. of respondents: 
1400; hours per response: .50 hours; total annual burden: 700 hours). 
All of the collections will be used by the Commission and by 
competitive carriers to facilitate the deployment of advanced data 
services and to implement section 706 of the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended. Obligation to respond: Mandatory.
    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

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Performance Evaluation and Records Management, Washington, D.C. 20554.

Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
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