[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17876-17879]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8342]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

March 24, 2000.
    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.: 3060-0395.
    Expiration Date: September 30, 2000.

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    Title: The ARMIS USOA Report; The ARMIS Service Quality Report; and 
The ARMIS Infrastructure Report.
    Form No.: FCC Report Nos. 43-02; 43-05; 43-07.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 50 respondents; 929.52 hours per response 
(avg). 46,476 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual.
    Description: FCC Report 43-02 contains company-wide data for each 
account specified in the Uniform System of Accounts (USOA). It provides 
the annual operating results of the carriers' activities for every 
account in the USOA. (FCC Report 43-02 has 50 respondents, 637.6 hours 
per response (avg.), 31,880 total annual hours).
    FCC Report 43-05 collects data at the study area and holding 
company levels and is designed to capture trends in service quality 
under price cap regulations. It provides service quality information in 
the areas of interexchange access service installation and repair 
intervals, local service installation and repair intervals, trunk 
blockage and total switch downtime for price cap companies. (FCC Report 
43-05 has 12 respondents, 849 hours per response (avg.), 10,197.4 total 
annual hours).
    FCC Report 43-07 is designed to capture trends in telephone 
industry infrastructure development under price cap regulation. It 
provides switch deployment and capabilities data. (FCC Report 43-07 has 
8 respondents, 555 hours per response (avg.) 4,400 total annual hours). 
Obligation to respond: Mandatory.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0496.
    Expiration Date: March 31, 2002.
    Title: The ARMIS Operating Data Report.
    Form No.: FCC Report 43-08.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 50 respondents; 160 hours per response 
(avg.); 8000 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual.
    Description: The ARMIS Operating Data Report consists of 
statistical schedules which are needed by the Commission to monitor 
network growth, usage, and reliability. Obligation to respond: 
Mandatory.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0511.
    Expiration Date: September 30, 2000.
    Title: ARMIS Access Report.
    Form No.: FCC Report 43-04.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 150 respondents; 621 hours per response 
(avg.); 93,150 total annual burden.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual.
    Description: The Access Report is needed to administer the results 
of the FCC's jurisdictional separations and access charge procedures in 
order to analyze revenue requirements, joint cost allocations, 
jurisdictional separations and access charges. Obligation to respond: 
Mandatory.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0512.
    Expiration Date: September 30, 2000.
    Title: The ARMIS Annual Summary Report.
    Form No.: FCC Report No. 43-01.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 150 respondents; 135 hours per response 
(avg.); 20,250 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual.
    Description: The ARMIS Annual Summary Report contains financial and 
operating data and is used to monitor the incumbent local exchange 
carriers and to perform routine analyses of costs and revenues on 
behalf of the Commission. Obligation to respond: Mandatory.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0513.
    Expiration Date: September 30, 2000.
    Title: ARMIS Joint Cost Report.
    Form No.: FCC Report 43-03.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 150 respondents; 83 hours per response 
(avg.); 12,450 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual.
    Description: The Joint Cost Report is needed to administer our Part 
64 joint cost rules and to analyze the regulated and nonregulated cost 
and revenue allocations by study area in order to prevent cross-
subsidization of nonregulated operations by the regulated operations. 
Obligation to respond: Mandatory.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0763.
    Expiration Date: March 31, 2002.
    Title: The ARMIS Customer Satisfaction Report.
    Form No.: FCC Report 43-06.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 8 respondents; 720 hours per response 
(avg.); 5760 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual.
    Description: The Customer Satisfaction Report collects data from 
carrier surveys designed to capture trends in service quality. 
Obligation to respond: Mandatory.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0410.
    Expiration Date: June 30, 2000.
    Title: Forecast of Investment Usage Report and Actual Usage of 
Investment Report.
    Form No.: FCC 495A; FCC 495B.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 300 respondents: 40 hours per response; 
12,000 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual.
    Description: The Forecast of Investment Usage Report is used by 
carriers to submit the forecasts of investments used. The Actual Usage 
of Investment Report is used to submit the actual investments used. 
These reports are part of the Automated Reporting Management 
Information System (ARMIS). The information contained in these two 
reports provides the necessary detail to enable this Commission to 
fulfill its regulatory responsibility to ensure that the regulated 
operations of the carriers do not subsidize the nonregulated operations 
of those same carriers. Obligation to respond: Mandatory.
    Several of the ARMIS Reports have been revised pursuant to an Order 
issued in AAD 95-91, released December 15, 1999. The Order implemented 
changes to ARMIS necessitated by recent Commission orders and provides 
improved definitions, descriptions, and instructions that will lead to 
greater clarity and consistency in reporting by incumbent local 
exchange carriers. The Appendix to the Order contains all the revisions 
made to the reports. See AAD 95-91. For copies of the procedures and 
formats for the ARMIS reports, please call Barbara Van Hagen at 202-
418-0849. Copies of the procedures and formats may also be obtained via 
the Internet at http://www.fcc.gov/ccb/armis.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0076.
    Expiration Date: February 28, 2000.
    Title: Annual Employment Report for Common Carriers.
    Form No.: FCC Form 395.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 4000 respondents; 1 hour per response 
(avg.); 4000 total annual burden hours.

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    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annual.
    Description: The Annual Employment Report is a data collection 
device for enforcement and assessment of the Commission's EEO Rules. 
All common carrier licensees or permittees with sixteen (16) or more 
full-time employees are required to file this report and retain it for 
a two-year period. The report identifies each carrier's staff by 
gender, race, color and/or national origin in each of nine major job 
categories. The information describes applicant's compliance with the 
EEO rules. The information, in addition to being useful for the 
Commission's purposes, has also been used by public interest groups, 
NTIA, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Congress and the 
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to assess progress in accordance with 
their particular objectives. FCC Form 395 has been revised to 
incorporate the new OMB expiration date. Copies of the revised edition 
of the form are available via the Internet at www.fcc.gov/formpage.html. Printed copies of the form may be obtained either by 
writing to the Commission's Forms Distribution Center, 9300 E. Hampton 
Drive, Capital Heights, Maryland 20431, or by calling telephone number 
1-800-418-3676 and leaving a request on the answering machine provided 
for that purpose. Obligation to respond: Required to obtain or retain 
benefits.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0921.
    Expiration Date: August 31, 2000.
    Title: Petitions for LATA Boundary Modification for the Deployment 
of Advanced Services.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 20 respondents; 8 hours per respondent 
(avg.); 160 hours total annual burden.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: Bell Operating Companies (BOCs) that petition for LATA 
boundary modifications to encourage the deployment of advanced services 
on a reasonable and timely basis are requested to include information 
in accordance with the criteria specified in CC Docket 98-147, Fourth 
Report and Order and Memorandum Opinion and Order, released February 
11, 2000.
    A BOC must include the following criteria to the extent applicable 
in any request for LATA boundary modification to supply advance 
services: (i) The customer and type of customer to be serviced; (ii) 
the specific service or services currently provided, or to be provided, 
to that customer; (iii) the capacity required to provide the service; 
(iv) the protocols to be used to provide the service; (v) the physical 
mode of transport; (vi) the path that the network would take if the 
LATA modification were to be granted, with a map of the proposed 
modification indicating the location of the nearest NAP; (vii) efforts 
made to obtain interLATA access from an interexchange carrier (IXC), or 
other provider of interLATA services; and (vii) any response, or offer 
to supply advanced service, received from another provider of interLATA 
transport. The BOC should describe the quality of the service offered 
by available interLATA providers; the affordability of the service; and 
include any other information that may be needed on a case by case 
basis. See CC Docket No. 98-147 for complete details on criteria. The 
Commission will use this information to review the petitions.
    In order to review request for LATA modifications promptly and 
efficiently, it is necessary that BOCs provide the information 
specified in the Order. The criteria set forth in the Order will serve 
to ease the petition process on BOCs by providing guidelines that will 
service to narrow the scope of their petitions to the issues and facts 
that the Commission is primarily concerned with. In addition, the 
request will also expedite the petition review process by ensuring that 
petitioners will provide all of the information the Commission needs to 
properly review the requests. Obligation to respond: Required to obtain 
or retain benefits.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0804.
    Expiration Date: September 30, 2000.
    Title: Universal Service--Health Care Providers Universal Service 
Program.
    Form No.: FCC Forms 465, 466, 467 and 468.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 14,700 respondents; 3.94 hours per 
response (avg.); 58,050 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: The Commission adopted rules providing support for all 
telecommunications services, Internet access, and internal connections 
for all eligible health care providers. Health care providers who want 
to participate in the universal service program must file several 
forms, one being FCC form 465. FCC Form 465 was recently revised, among 
other things, to remove the data element concerning consortia as each 
health care provide now files this information individually. Health 
care providers must now certify their compliance with state and local 
procurement rules. Other items on the form have been renumbered and 
reorganized to enhance the flow of information. Rural health care 
providers ordering discounted telecommunications services under the 
universal service program must submit FCC Form 465. Rural health care 
providers must certify their eligibility to receive discounted 
telecommunication services. Call RHCD at 800-229-5476 for questions 
concerning or copies of FCC Forms 465, 466, 467 and 468. Obligation to 
respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0855.
    Expiration Date: August 31, 2000.
    Title: Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet and Associated 
Requirements, CC Docket No. 98-171.
    Form No.: FCC Form 499.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 5500 respondents; 7.2 hours per response 
(avg.); 40,000 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: All contributors to the federal universal service 
support mechanisms, the TRS Fund, the cost recovery mechanism for 
numbering administration, and the cost recovery mechanism for the 
shared costs of local number portability must file the revised 
Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, FCC Form 499-A) (April 2000 
Worksheet). Contributors to the mechanisms include every 
telecommunications carrier providing interstate telecommunications and 
certain other providers of interstate telecommunications for a fee. 
Data filed on the April 2000 Worksheet will be used to calculate 
contributions to the universal service support mechanisms, as well as 
to the TRS Fund, the cost recovery for numbering administration, and 
the cost recovery for the shared costs of local number portability. 
Copies of the April 2000 Worksheet (FCC Form 499-A) and instructions 
may be downloaded from the Commission's Forms Web Page (www.fcc.gov/formpage.html). Copies may also be obtained from NECA at (973) 560-
4400. Obligation to respond: Mandatory.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0147.
    Expiration Date: February 28, 2003.
    Title: Section 64.804--Extension of Unsecured Credit for Interstate 
and

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Foreign Communications Services to Candidates for Federal Office.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 13 respondents; 8 hours per response 
(avg.); 104 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Description: Communications common carriers with operating revenues 
exceeding $1 million who extend unsecured credit to a candidate or 
person on behalf of such candidates for Federal office must file with 
the FCC a report including due and outstanding balances. The 
information is used for monitoring purposes. Obligation to respond: 
Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    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, DC 20554.

    Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
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