[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 47 (Monday, March 11, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10916-10918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-5677]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

March 4, 2002.
    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, Pub. L. 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.: 3060-0463.
    Expiration Date: 07/31/2002.
    Title: Telecommunications Services for Individuals with Hearing and 
Speech Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 47 
CFR part 64 (Sections 64.601-64.605).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 5052 respondents; 5.31 hour per response 
(avg.); 26,831 total annual burden hours (for all collections under 
this control number).
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; Every five years; 
Recordkeeping; Third Party Disclosure.
    Description: In the Memorandum Opinion and Order and Further Notice 
of Proposed Rulemaking issued in CC Docket No. 98-67, released December 
21, 2001 (MO&O), the Commission adopts three of the four 
recommendations for traditional TRS: (1) The Commission directs the TRS 
administrator to use the average per minute costing methodology to 
develop the interstate cost recovery mechanism for traditional TRS; (2) 
the Commission also directs the TRS administrator to review the TRS 
Center Data Request, and report to the Chief of the Common Carrier 
Bureau, on an ongoing basis, any changes necessary to ensure that TRS 
providers are compensated for additional costs imposed by the Improved 
TRS Order; and (3) the Commission directs that the same minutes of use 
allocation methodology in place for toll-free call minutes should be 
used for 900 call minutes. In the MO&O, the Commission also adopts the 
four recommendations for STS cost recovery: (1) The Commission directs 
the TRS administrator to use the same average per minute costing 
methodology cost recovery mechanism for traditional TRS for STS; (2) 
the Commission adopts a separate per-minute national average 
compensation formula for STS and directs the TRS administrator to 
develop annually a national average STS reimbursement rate for 
compensating STS providers; (3) because STS service is of a more recent 
origin, the Commission adopts the Advisory Council and the Fund 
Administrator's recommendation that the TRS Center Data Request be 
expanded to capture separately STS costs and minutes; and (4) as with 
traditional TRS, each provider of STS services will be compensated at 
the national average rate for every completed conversation minute. In 
the MO&O, the Commission also states that due to the unique 
characteristics of VRS, a separate reimbursement rate for VRS should be 
calculated. The Commission also agrees with the Advisory Council and 
the Fund Administrator's recommendation that the TRS Center Data 
Request should be expanded to include specific sections to capture 
separately VRS costs and minutes for this service. Thus, the Commission 
requires NECA to expand the TRS Data Request to include data that are 
specific to VRS. By promoting the efficient and effective means of cost 
recovery for TRS services, these collection requirements should help to 
advance a procompetitive, deregulatory national policy framework for 
telecommunications services, a key goal of the Telecommunications Act 
of 1996. Other information collections unaffected by the MO&O remain in 
place as currently approved by OMB. Obligation to respond: Mandatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0519.
    Expiration Date: 02/28/2005.
    Title: Rules and Regulations Implementing the Telephone Consumer 
Protection Act of 1991 (CC Docket No. 92-06).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 30,000 respondents; 31.2 hours per 
response (avg.); 936,000 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; Recordkeeping..
    Description: In CC Docket No. 92-60, the Commission implemented 
rules pursuant to the requirements of the Telephone Consumer Protection 
Act of 1991, Public Law 102-243, December

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20, 1991 (TCPA) which added Section 227 to the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended, to restrict the use of automatic telephone dialing 
systems, artificial or prerecorded messages, facsimile machines or 
other devices to send unsolicited advertisements. The rules require 
that telephone solicitors maintain and use company-specific lists of 
residential subscribers who request not to receive further telephone 
calls (company-specific do-not-call lists), thereby affording consumers 
the choice of which solicitors if any, they will hear from by 
telephone. Telephone solicitors also are required to have a written 
policy for maintaining do-not-call lists, and are responsible for 
informing and training their personnel the existence and use of such 
lists. See 47 CFR Section 64.1200(e)(i). The rules require that those 
making telephone solicitations identify themselves to called parties, 
and that basic identifying information also be included in telephone 
facsimile transmissions. See 47 CFR Sections 64.1200(e)(iv) and 
68.318(c)(3). The Commission believes that these rules are the best 
means of preventing unwanted telephone solicitations. Obligation to 
respond: Mandatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0653.
    Expiration Date: 02/28/2005.
    Title: Sections 64.703(b) and (c)--Consumer Information--Posting by 
Aggregators.
    Form No.: N/A. .
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 56,200 respondents; 3.67 hour per response 
(avg.); 206,566 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; Third Party Disclosure.
    Description: Section 226(c)(1)(A) of the Communications Act and 
Section 64.703(b) of the Commission's rules require that each 
aggregator post on or near the telephone instrument in plain view of 
consumers: (1) The name, address, and toll-free telephone number of the 
provider of operator services; (2) written disclosure that the rates 
for all operator-assisted calls are available on request, and that 
consumers have a right to obtain access to the interstate common 
carrier of their choice and may contact their preferred interstate 
common carriers for information on accessing that carrier's service 
using that telephone; and (3) the name and address of the Consumer 
Information Bureau of the Commission, to which the consumer may direct 
complaints regarding operator services. This requirement was a response 
to a widespread failure of aggregators to disclose information 
necessary for informed consumer choice in the marketplace. See 47 CFR 
Section 64.703(b). In the Second Order on Reconsideration in CC Docket 
No. 92-77, the Commission amended section 64.703(b)(4) to require that 
the new bureau's (Consumer Information Bureau) name and address be 
posted on payphones in future postings. The Consumer Information 
Bureau, is now the appropriate recipient of consumer complaints about 
OSPs. Section 64.703(c) establishes a 30-day outer limit for 
aggregators to update the posted information. An aggregator may meet 
the 30-day outer limit rule, where its maintenance technicians would 
not otherwise visit the particular payphone location within 30 days, by 
having its coin collection or other agent affix a temporary sticker to 
the payphone. Such temporary sticker must be replaced with permanent 
signage during the next regularly scheduled maintenance visit. Section 
64.703(c) is intended to provide updated OSP information to consumers 
and enable consumers to make informed choices when placing operator 
service calls. See 47 CFR Section 64.703(c). Aggregators will disclose 
the required information to consumers via printed notice that is posted 
on or near each of the aggregator's phones. Pursuant to Section 
64.703(c), this information must be updated within 30 days in changes 
of OSPs. Consumers will use this information to determine whether they 
wish to use the services of the identified OSP. Obligation to respond: 
Mandatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0823.
    Expiration Date: 2/28/2005.
    Title: Pay Telephone Reclassification Memorandum Opinion and Order, 
CC Docket No. 96-128.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 400 respondents; 111.75 hour per response 
(avg.); 44,700 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $480,000.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; Recordkeeping; Third Party 
Disclosure.
    Description: In the Payphone Orders, the Commission adopted rules 
and policies governing the payphone industry to implement section 276 
of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Those rules and policies in part 
establish a plan to ensure fair compensation for ``each and every 
completed intrastate and interstate call using [a] payphone.'' 
Specifically, the Commission established a plan to ensure that payphone 
service providers (PSPs) were compensated for certain noncoin calls 
originated from their payphones. In a Memorandum Opinion and Order 
issued in CC Docket No. 96-128 (Order), the Commission clarified 
requirements established in the Payphone Orders for the provision of 
payphone-specific coding digits. The following collections of 
information implement section 276 of the Act. The collection 
requirements are as follows:
    a. LEC Tariff to provide FLEX ANI to IXCs: Local exchange carriers 
(LECs) must implement FLEX ANI to comply with the requirements set 
forth in the Payphone Orders. LECs must provide to IXCs through their 
interstate tariffs, FLEX ANI service so that IXCs can identify which 
calls come from a payphone. LECs (and PSPs) must provide FLEX ANI to 
IXCs without charge for the limited purpose of per-call compensation, 
and accordingly, LECs providing FLEX ANI must revise their interstate 
tariffs to reflect FLEX ANI as a nonchargeable option to IXCs no later 
than March 30, 1998, to be effective no later than April 15, 1998, in 
those areas that it is available. (No. of respondents: 400; hours per 
response: 35 hours; total annual burden: 14,000 hours.)
    b. LEC Tariff to recover costs: LECs must file a tariff to 
establish a rate element in their interstate tariffs to recover their 
costs from PSPs for providing payphone-specific coding digits to IXCs. 
This tariff must reflect the costs of implementing FLEX ANI to provide 
payphone-specific coding digits for payphone compensation, and provide 
for recovery of such costs over a reasonable time period through a 
monthly recurring flat-rate charge. LECs must provide cost support 
information for the rate elements they propose. The Bureau will review 
these LEC rate element tariff filings, the reasonableness of the costs, 
and the recovery period. LECs will recover their costs over an 
amortization period of no more than ten years. The rate element charges 
will discontinue when the LEC has recovered its cost. (No. of 
respondents: 400; hours per response: 35 hours; total annual burden 
14,000 hours.)
    c. LECs must provide IXCs information on payphones that provide 
payphone-specific coding digits for smart and dumb payphones: LECs must 
provide IXCs information on the number and location of smart and dumb 
payphones providing payphone-specific coding digits, as well as the 
number of those that are not. (No. of respondents: 400; hours per 
response: 24 hours; total annual burden: 9600 hours.)
    d. LECs must provide IXCs and PSPs information on where FLEX ANI is

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available now and when it is to be scheduled in the future: Within 30 
days of the release of the MO&O, LECs should be prepared to provide 
IXCs, upon request, information regarding their plans to implement FLEX 
ANI by end office. LECs must provide IXCs and PSPs information on 
payphones that provide payphone-specific coding digits on end offices 
where FLEX ANI is available, and where it is not, on a monthly basis. 
Pursuant to the waivers in this order, LECs must also inform IXCs and 
PSPs proposed dates for its availability. (No. of respondents: 400; 
hours per response: 16 hours; total annual burden: 6400 hours.)
    e. For a waiver granted to small or midsize LECs, a cost analysis 
must be provided, upon request: In the MO&O, the Bureau grants a waiver 
to midsize and small LECs that will be unable to recover the costs of 
implementing FLEX ANI in a reasonable time period. LECs must make this 
evaluation within 30 days of the release of the MO&O. The LEC must then 
notify IXCs that they will not be implementing FLEX ANI pursuant to 
this waiver, and provide the number of dumb payphones providing the 
``27'' coding digit and the number of smart phones for which payphone-
specific coding digits are unavailable. A LEC delaying the 
implementation of FLEX ANI pursuant to this waiver provision must be 
prepared to provide its analysis, if requested by the Commission. (No. 
of respondents: 20; hours per response: 35 hours; total annual burden: 
700 hours.) The information disclosure rules and policies governing the 
payphone industry to implement section 276 of the Act will ensure the 
payment of per-call compensation by implementing a method for LECs to 
provide information to IXCs to identify calls, for each and every call 
made from a payphone. Obligation to respond: Required to obtain or 
retain benefits.
    Public reporting burden for the collections of information are as 
noted above. Send comments regarding the burden estimates 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.
William Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-5677 Filed 3-8-02; 8:45 am]
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