[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 135 (Thursday, July 13, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 43251]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17669]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 52

[CC Docket No. 99-200; FCC 00-104]


Numbering Resource Optimization

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) implemented 
numbering resource optimization measures that will minimize the 
negative impact on consumers of premature area code exhausts; ensure 
sufficient access to numbering resources for all service providers to 
enter into or to compete in telecommunications markets; avoid, or at 
least delay, exhaust of the North American Number Plan (NANP) and the 
need to expand the NANP; impose the least societal cost possible, and 
ensure competitive neutrality, while obtaining the highest benefit; 
ensure that no class of carrier or consumer is unduly favored or 
disfavored by our optimization efforts; and minimize the incentives for 
carriers to build and carry excessively large inventories of numbers. 
Section 52.15(f) of the Commission's rules, which imposes new 
information collection requirements, becomes effective on July 17, 
2000.

EFFECTIVE DATE: The amendment to 47 CFR 52.15(f) published at 65 FR 
37703, June 16, 2000, becomes effective on July 17, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aaron N. Goldberger, Attorney Advisor, 
Common Carrier Bureau, Network Services Division, (202) 418-2320 or via 
e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 17, 2000, the Commission adopted a 
Report and Order implementing administrative and technical measures 
that will allow it to monitor more closely the way numbering resources 
are used within the NANP. See 65 FR 37703, June 16, 2000. Section 
52.15(f) of the Commission's rules imposes new information collection 
requirements. Section 52.15(f) provides that for purposes of forecast 
and utilization reports, reporting shall commence August 1, 2000. In 
the Federal Register publication, we stated that ``Sec. 52.15(f) * * * 
contains information collection requirements that have not been 
approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).'' See 65 FR 
37703, June 16, 2000. OMB approved the information collections on June 
23, 2000. See OMB No. 3060-0895. This publication satisfies our 
statement that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal 
Register announcing the effective date of Sec. 52.15(f).

Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-17669 Filed 7-12-00; 8:45 am]
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