[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 180 (Friday, September 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55976-55979]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23804]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

September 8, 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.: 3060-0848.
    Expiration Date: 03/31/2001.
    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: 1700 respondents; 95.76 hours per response 
(avg.).; 162,800 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; Third Party Disclosure.
    Description: In the Advanced Services First Report and Order, 
issued in CC Docket 98-147, the Commission adopted measures to 
facilitate the development of competition in the advanced services 
market. These measures include strengthened collocation rules adopted 
pursuant to section 251(c)(6) of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended which imposes a statutory duty on incumbent local exchange 
carriers to provide collocation to requesting telecommunications 
carriers. Recently in an Order on Reconsideration issued in this 
proceeding, the Commission further strengthens its collocation rules. 
The following collections of information are necessary to implement 
Section 251 and to 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. In furtherance of this goal, the Commission imposes certain 
collections of information on incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs), 
seeking to deploy advanced services in order to assist incumbent LECs 
in protecting network integrity.
    a. Processing of Collocation Applications. Where neither the state 
nor the parties to an interconnection agreement set a different 
deadline, an incumbent LEC must tell the requesting telecommunications 
carrier whether a collocation application has been accepted or denied 
within ten calendar days after receiving the application. If the 
incumbent LEC deems that application unacceptable, it must advise the 
competitive LEC of any deficiencies within this ten calendar day 
period. The incumbent LEC must provide sufficient detail so that the 
requesting carrier has a reasonable opportunity to cure each 
deficiency. The competitive LEC must

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cure any deficiencies in its collocation application and resubmit the 
application within 10 calendar days after being advised of them. The 
requesting carrier must inform the ILEC that physical collocation 
should proceed within seven calendar days after receiving the ILEC's 
price quotation. This is a new requirement adopted in the attached 
Order on Reconsideration. See 47 CFR 51.323(l). (Number of respondents: 
1400; hours per response: 40 hours; total annual burden: 56,000 hours).
    b. Amendment of Collocation Agreements, Collocation Tariffs, and 
Collocation-Related Provisions in Statements of Generally Available 
Terms. An incumbent LEC must offer to provide all forms of physical 
collocation (i.e., caged, cageless, shared, and adjacent) in accordance 
with the Commission's application processing and provisioning interval 
requirements, except to the extent a state sets its own application 
processing and collocation interval deadlines. To make an offer to 
provide physical collocation, an incumbent LEC must propose in response 
to a request from a competitive LEC an interconnection agreement or an 
amendment to an interconnection agreement including all necessary 
rates, terms, and conditions. The incumbent LEC also must file with the 
state commission proposed amendments to any tariff or statement of 
generally available terms and conditions that does not comply with the 
national standards for processing collocation applications and 
provisioning collocation arrangements. These amendments must provide 
for application processing intervals and physical collocation intervals 
no longer than the national standards except to the extent a state sets 
its own standard. See Order on Reconsideration, paragraph 36). (Number 
of respondents: 1400; hours per response: 44 hours; total annual 
burden: 61,600 hours).
    c. State Commission Approval. If collocation becomes available in a 
previously exhausted ILEC structure, the ILEC must obtain the state 
commission's express approval before requiring a competitive LEC to 
move, or prohibiting a competitive lLEC from moving, a collocation 
arrangement into that structure, unless the ILEC and the collocation 
have an interconnection agreement that expressly provides for a 
different outcome. (See Order on Reconsideration, paragraph 46). Safe-
time work practices that the incumbent may waive to keep from 
competitively disadvantaging its or an affiliates operations or that 
prevents a collocation, from restoring service in the event of an 
outage are inherently suspect and must receive explicit state 
commission approval. (See Order on Reconsideration, paragraph 60). 
(Number of respondents: 1400; hours per response: 2 hours; total annual 
burden: 2800 hours).
    d. Showing Regarding Loop Condition. Incumbent LECs who refuse a 
competitive carrier's request to condition a loop must make an 
affirmative showing to the relevant state commission that conditioning 
the specific loop in question will significantly degrade voiceband 
services. The incumbent LEC must also show that there is no adjacent or 
alternative loop available that can be conditioned or to which the 
customer's service can be moved to enable line sharing. See 47 CFR 
51.319(h)(5). (Number of respondents: 1400; hours per response: 2 
hours; total annual burden: 2800 hours).
    e. Request for Alternative Physical Access. Incumbent LECs must 
provide requesting carriers with access to the loop facility for 
testing, maintenance, and repair. At a minimum, incumbent must provide 
requesting carriers with loop access either through a cross-connection 
to the competitor's collocation space, or through a standard interface. 
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). (Number of respondents: 1400; hours 
per response: .50 hours; total annual burden: 700 hours).
    f. 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. Where a carrier seeks to establish 
that deployment of a technology falls within the presumption of 
acceptability under 47 CFR 51.230(a)(3), the burden is on the 
requesting carrier to demonstrate to the state commission that its 
proposed deployment meets the threshold for a presumption of 
acceptability and will not, in fact, significantly degrade the 
performance of other advanced services or traditional voice band 
services. Upon a successful demonstration by the requesting carrier 
before a particular state commission, the deployed technology shall be 
presumed acceptable for deployment in other areas. See 47 CFR 51.230(b) 
and (c). (Number of respondents: 1400; hours per response: 2 hours; 
total annual burden: 2800 hours).
    g. 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. Where 
the requesting carrier asserts that the technology it seeks to deploy 
fits within a generic power spectral density mask, it also must provide 
Spectrum Class information for the technology. Where a requesting 
carrier relies on a calculation-based approach to support deployment of 
a particular technology, it must provide the incumbent LEC with 
information on the speed and power at which the signal will be 
transmitted. The requesting carrier also must provide the information 
required above when notifying the incumbent LEC of any propose change 
in advanced services technology that the carrier uses on the loop. See 
47 CFR 51.231(b)-(c). (Number of respondents: 1400; hours per response: 
1.5 hours; total annual burden: 2100 hours).
    h. 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). (Number of respondents: 100; hours per response: 1 hour; 
total annual burden; 100 hours).
    i. Showing of Network Harm. Where a deployed advanced service is 
significantly degrading other services and 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. Any 
claims of network harm presented to the deploying carrier(s) or, if 
subsequently necessary, the relevant state commission, must be 
supported with specific and verifiable information. See 47 CFR Section 
51.233 (b) and (c). (Number of respondents: 100; hours per response: 2 
hours; total annual burden: 200 hours).
    j. 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

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section 251(c)(6) of the Act, the incumbent LEC shall prove to the 
state commission that the equipment is eligible for collocation. 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. In the Order on Reconsideration, the Commission required 
that this affidavit set forth in detail: the exact safety requirement 
that the requesting carrier's equipment does not satisfy; the incumbent 
LEC's basis for concluding that the requesting carrier's equipment does 
not meet this safety requirement; and the incumbent LEC's basis for 
concluding why collocation of equipment not meeting this safety 
requirement would compromise network safety. See 47 CFR 51.323(b). This 
requirement has been modified. (Number of respondents: 1400; hours per 
response: 2 hours; total annual burden 2800 hours).
    k. 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. The Commission amended the rule in the First 
Report and Order to require that ILECs allow CLECs to tour their 
facility. However, no new or modified paperwork requirements were made. 
In the Order on Reconsideration, the Commission required that each 
incumbent LEC provide the state commission with all information 
necessary for the state commission to evaluate the reasonableness of 
the incumbent LEC's and its affiliates' reservations of space for 
future growth. This information shall include any information the state 
commission may require to implement its specific space reservation 
policies, including which space, if any, the incumbent or any of its 
affiliates have reserved for future use. The incumbent shall also 
provide the state commission with a detailed description of the 
specific future uses for which the space has been reserved. An 
incumbent LEC shall permit any requesting telecommunications carrier to 
inspect any floor plans or diagrams that the incumbent LEC provides a 
state commission, subject to any nondisclosure protections the state 
commission deems appropriate. See 47 CFR Section 51.321(f). See also 
paragraph 57 in attached Order on Reconsideration. This requirement has 
been modified. (Number of respondents: 100; hours per response: 26 
hours; total annual burden: 26,000 hours).
    l. 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). In the Order 
on Reconsideration, the Commission makes clear that the ILEC must 
provide this report within ten calendar days, as opposed to ten 
business days. (See Order on Reconsideration, paragraph 64, page 32). 
(Number of respondents: 1400; hours per respondent: 1 hour; total 
annual burden: 1400 hours).
    m. 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). (Number of 
respondents: 1400; total annual burden: .50 hour; total annual burden: 
700 hours).
    n. 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 47 CFR Section 51.231(a). (Number of respondents: 1400; 
hours per response: .50 hour; total annual burden: 700 hours).
    o. Rejection and Loop Information--An incumbent LEC must disclose 
to requesting carrier 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 47 CFR 51.231(a). (Number of 
respondents: 1400; hours per response: 1 hour; total annual burden: 
1400 hours).
    p. 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 47 
CFR 51.233. (Number of respondents: 1400; hours per response: .50 hour; 
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.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0806.
    Expiration Date: 9/30/2003.
    Title: Universal Service--Schools and Libraries Universal Service 
Program.
    Form No.: FCC Forms 470 and 471.
    Respondents: Not-for-profit institutions; State, Local or Tribal 
Government; business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 60,000 respondents; 7.33 hours per 
response (avg.).; 440,000 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; Third Party Disclosure; 
Recordkeeping.
    Description: The Commission adopted rules providing support for all 
telecommunications services, Internet access, and internal connections 
for all eligible schools and libraries. To participate in the program, 
schools and libraries must submit a description of the services desired 
to the Administrator via FCC Form 470. FCC Form 471 is submitted by 
schools and libraries that have ordered telecommunications services, 
Internet access, and internal connections. The information is used to 
determine

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eligibility. Obligation to respond: Required to obtain or retain 
benefits.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0384.
    Expiration Date: 09/30/2003.
    Title: Section 64.904, Independent Audits.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 14 respondents; 250 hours per response 
(avg.).; 3500 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 
$1,200,000.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: Local exchange carriers and dominant interexchange 
carriers are required to submit an auditor's attestation biennially 
demonstrating the application of the Commission's cost allocation 
standards to their particular operations. The independent audit 
requirement is imposed to ensure that the carriers are properly 
implementing their cost allocation manual. The independent audits serve 
as an important aid in the Commission's monitoring program. Obligation 
to respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0725.
    Expiration Date: 08/31/2003.
    Title: Annual Filing of Nondiscrimination Reports (On Quality of 
Service, Installation and Maintenance by Bell Operating Companies).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 7 respondents; 50 hours per response 
(avg.).; 350 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: Bell Operating Companies (BOCs) are required to 
provide nondiscrimination reports on an annual basis. Without provision 
of these reports, the Commission would be unable to ascertain whether 
the BOCs were discriminating in favor of their own payphones. The 
report allows the Commission to determine how the BOCs will provide 
competing payphone providers with equal access to all the basic 
underlying network services that are provided to its own payphones. 
Obligation to respond: Mandatory.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0726.
    Expiration Date: 08/31/2003.
    Title: Quarterly Report of Interexchange Carriers Listing the 
Number of Dial-Around Calls for Which Compensation is Being Paid to 
Payphone Owners.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1100 respondents; .50 hours per response 
(avg.); 550 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Third Party Disclosure.
    Description: Pursuant to the mandate in Section 276(b)(1)(A) to 
``establish a per call compensation plan to ensure that all payphone 
service providers are fairly compensated for each and every completed 
intrastate and interstate call'', interexchange carriers (IXCs) who are 
responsible for paying per-call compensation to payphone providers are 
required to provide to payphone providers a quarterly report listing 
the dial-around calls made from each payphone provider's payphones. 
Without provision of this report, payphone providers would be unable to 
ascertain the compensation amount to be paid by the IXCs. The report 
allows each payphone provider to determine how many dial-around calls 
to the IXC generating the report were originated by each of the 
payphone provider's payphones. Obligation to respond: Mandatory.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0817.
    Expiration Date: 08/31/2003.
    Title: Computer III Further Remand Procedures: BOC Provision of 
Enhanced Services (ONA Requirements), CC Docket No. 95-20.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 10 respondents; 27 hours per response 
(avg.); 270 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; Semi-annually; Third Party 
Disclosure.
    Description: Bell Operating Companies (BOCs) are required to post 
their Comparably Efficient Interconnection (CEI) plans and amendments 
on their publicly accessible Internet sites. The requirement extends to 
CEI plans for new or modified telemessaging or alarm monitoring 
services and for new or amended payphone services. If the BOC receives 
a good faith request for a plan for someone who does not have internet 
access, the BOC must notify that person where a paper copy of the plan 
is available for public inspection. The CEI plan will be used to ensure 
that BOCs comply with Commission policies and regulations safeguarding 
against potential anticompetitive behavior by the BOCs in the provision 
of information services. Obligation to respond: Mandatory. 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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