[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 74 (Wednesday, April 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18904-18907]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-9279]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 
Federal Communications Commission

April 8, 2002.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its 
continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public 
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the 
following information collection(s), as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or 
sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a current valid 
control number. No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing 
to comply with a collection of information subject to the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (PRA) that does not display a valid control number. 
Comments are requested concerning (a) whether the proposed collection 
of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions 
of the Commission, including whether the information shall have 
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's burden 
estimate; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on the respondents, including the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.

DATES: Written comments should be submitted on or before June 17, 2002. 
If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but find it 
difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice, 
you should advise the contact listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to Les Smith, Federal Communications 
Commission, Room 1-A804, 445 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20554, or 
via the Internet to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies 
of the information collection(s) contact Les Smith at 202-418-0217 or 
via the Internet at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0674.
    Title: Section 76.931, Notification of Basic Tier Availability, and 
Section 76.932, Notification of Proposed Rate Increase.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 11,365.
    Estimated Time per Response: 2.25 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirements; Third 
party disclosure.
    Total Annual Burden: 25,572 hours.
    Total Annual Costs: None.
    Needs and Uses: 47 CFR 76.931 requires each cable operator to 
provide written notification to subscribers of the availability of 
basic tier service by November 30, 1993, or three billing cycles from 
September 1, 1993, and to new subscribers at the time of installation. 
This notification is to include: (a) What basic tier service is 
available; (b) cost per month for basic tier service; and (c) list of 
all services included in the basic service tier. 47 CFR 76.932 requires 
each cable operator

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to provide written notice to subscribers of any increase in the price 
to be charged for the basic service tier or associated equipment at 
least thirty days before any proposed increase is effective.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0888.
    Title: Part 76, Cable Television Service Pleading and Complaint 
Rules.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; Individuals or 
households.
    Number of Respondents: 400.
    Estimated Time per Response: 4 to 40 hours.
    Total Annual Burden: 8,800 hours.
    Total Annual Costs: $1,204,000.
    Needs and Uses: On January 8, 1999, the Commission released a 
Report and Order (R&O), In the matter of the 1998 Biennial Regulatory 
review; Part 76 Cable Television Service Pleading and Complaint Rules. 
This proceeding was initiated in conjunction with the Commission's 1998 
Biennial Regulatory Review pursuant to section 11 of the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996. The R&O adopted rules to eliminate 
redundant requirements, to expand the types of submissions for 
petitions for special relief, to standardize filing procedures for 
finding effective competition, and to establish standard provisions for 
uniform filing formats, deadlines, and other procedural requirements 
for pleadings, i.e., waivers, enforcement, show cause, forfeiture, and 
declaratory ruling procedures, filed under 47 CFR part 76 of the 
Commission's Rules.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-1008.
    Title: Reallocation and Service Rules for the 698-746 MHz Band (TV 
Channels 52-59).
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; and State, 
Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 734.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping; On occasion reporting 
requirement, Third party disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 367 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: None.
    Needs and Uses: On December 12, 2001, the FCC adopted a Final Rule 
in GN Docket No. 01-74, FCC 01-364, Reallocation and Service Rules for 
the 698-746 MHz Spectrum Band (Television Channels 52-59). Following a 
Congressional mandate that the FCC auction off the Lower 700 MHz Band 
(698-746 MHz) spectrum by September 30, 2002, the FCC adopted 
allocation and service rules for this spectrum band and scheduled the 
spectrum auction for June 19, 2002, see Public Notice, DA 02-2002 
(January 24, 2002). The Report and Order supports the development of 
new services in the Lower 700 MHz Band and also protects existing 
television operations that occupy the band throughout the transition to 
digital television. Under 47 CFR 27.50(c)(5), licensees that intend to 
operate a base or fixed station at a power level greater than 1 kW ERP 
must issue a public notice (which includes the station's location and 
operating parameters, the ERP, antenna coordinates, antenna height 
above ground, and vertical antenna pattern) at least 90 days prior to 
commencing station operations to the FCC and to all authorized 
licensees that operate a base or fixed station on an adjacent spectrum 
block at a location within 75 kms of the based or fixed station 
operating at a power level greater than 1 kW ERP.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0798.
    Title: FCC Application for Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Radio 
Service Authorization.
    Form Number: FCC 601.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; Not-for-profit 
institutions; Individuals or households; and State, Local or Tribal 
governments.
    Number of Respondents: 241,335.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.5 to 1.25 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and 10 year annual reporting 
requirements; Third party disclosure.
    Total Annual Burden: 211,169 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $48,267,100.
    Needs and Uses: FCC Form 601 is a consolidated, multi-part 
application or ``long form'' for market-based licensing and site-by-
site licensing in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's (WTB) Radio 
Services' Universal Licensing System (ULS). On December 12, 2001, the 
FCC adopted a Final Rule in GN Docket No. 01-74, FCC 01-364, 
Reallocation and Service Rules for the 698-746 MHz Spectrum Band 
(Television Channels 52-59). Pursuant to adoption of the Report and 
Order, the FCC has revised Form 601, which will be used to determine 
the basic eligibility and qualifications of auction winners to become 
licensees. Form 601 was also revised to ease the filing burden for 
applicants and others who used the form by making various other 
changes, i.e., correcting mailing and web site addresses, removing the 
Taxpayer Identification Number, and making other miscellaneous edits.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0706.
    Title: Cable Act Reform.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 950.
    Estimated Time per Response: 1 to 8 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirements; Third 
party disclosure.
    Total Annual Burden: 3,900.
    Total Annual Costs: $4,000.
    Needs and Uses: On March 29, 1999, the FCC released a Report and 
Order (R&O), FCC 99-57, which further amended the Commission's cable 
television rules pursuant to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. With 
this R&O, the FCC has accounted for various requirements in its rules 
not already accounted for in the initial and final rules. The 
regulations serve a variety of purposes for subscribers, cable 
operators, franchising authorities, and the FCC, i.e., 47 CFR 76.952 
requires a cable operator to include the franchising authority contact 
information in a subscriber's monthly billing statement; 47 CFR 76.990 
requires a cable operator to certify in writing to the franchising 
authority that it qualifies as ``small cable operator;'' and 47 CFR 
76.1404 requires a local exchange carrier to file contract information 
with the FCC to determine whether its use of a cable operator's 
facilities is reasonably limited in scope and duration.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0742.
    Title: Telephone Number Portability (47 CFR part 52, subpart C, 
sections 52.21-52.33) and CC Docket No. 95-116.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision to a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 1,858.
    Estimated Time per Response: 7.34 hours (avg).
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping; On occasion and annual 
reporting requirements; Third Party Disclosure.
    Total Annual Burden: 13,634 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $76,635.
    Needs and Uses: 47 CFR 52.21-52.33 implement the requirements that 
local exchange carriers (LECs) provide number portability. In a 
Memorandum, Opinion, and Order on Reconsideration issued in CC Docket 
No. 95-116, the FCC implemented new and/or modified

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regulations that require each multi-region carrier to calculate its 
share of local number portability (LNP) administration costs. Any 
carrier that cannot divide its revenue by LNP region but chooses to 
allocate such revenue by subscriber percentages must file a 
certification with the FCC. To ensure that if a non-LNP capable 
incumbent LEC, participating in an extended area service calling plan 
with an LNP-capable carrier, complies with LNP cost recovery law and 
rules, the carrier must file a tariff with the FCC, if the carrier 
seeks to recover its query and LNP administration costs.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0395.
    Title: The ARMIS USOA Report (ARMIS Report 43-02); The ARMIS 
Service Quality Report (ARMIS Report 43-05); The ARMIS Infrastructure 
Report (ARMIS Report 43-07).
    Form Numbers: FCC Reports 43-02, 43-05, and 43-07.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 50.
    Estimated Time per Response: 587.3 hours (avg).
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping; Annual reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 29,366 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: None.
    Needs and Uses: Under section 220 of the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended, 47 USC 220, FCC may prescribe the forms of accounts, 
records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic, receipts, and 
expenditures of monies to be kept by carriers subject to this Act. 
Section 219(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 USC 
219(b), requires any carrier subject to this Act to file monthly 
earnings and expense reports and periodical and/or special reports 
concerning all other matters with the FCC, as authorized by 47 CFR 
43.21. ARMIS was implemented to facilitate the timely and efficient 
analysis of revenue requirements, rates of return, and price caps; to 
provide an improved basis for audits and other oversight functions; and 
to enhance the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of 
alternative policy.
    FCC Report 43-02--The ARMIS 43-02 Report, 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. Mid-sized LECs are not 
required to file the ARMIS FCC Report 43-02. FCC Report 43-05--The 
ARMIS 43-05 Report, collects trend data, etc. on holding companies and 
on service quality levels under price cap regulations, i.e., 
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 43-07--The ARMIS 
43-07 Report, captures trends in telephone industry infrastructure 
development under price cap regulation, i.e., switch deployment and 
capabilities data.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0511.
    Title: ARMIS Access Report.
    Form Number: FCC Report 43-04.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 121.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Estimated Time per Response: 157 hours (avg).
    Total Annual Burden: 18,997 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: None.
    Needs and Uses: Under section 220 of the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 220, FCC may prescribe the forms of 
accounts, records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic, receipts, 
and expenditures of monies to be kept by carriers subject to this Act. 
Section 219(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 
219(b), requires any carrier subject to this Act to file monthly 
earnings and expense reports and periodical and/or special reports 
concerning all other matters with the FCC, as authorized by 47 CFR 
43.21. ARMIS was implemented to facilitate the timely and efficient 
analysis of revenue requirements, rates of return, and price caps; to 
provide an improved basis for audits and other oversight functions; and 
to enhance the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of 
alternative policy. The ARMIS 43-04 Report monitors revenue 
requirements, joint cost allocations, jurisdictional separations, and 
access charges. Mid-sized carriers are not required to file the FCC 
Report 43-04.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0513.
    Title: ARMIS Joint Cost Report.
    Form Number: FCC Report 43-03.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 121.
    Estimated Time per Response: 83 hours (avg).
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Total Annual Burden: 10,043 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: None.
    Needs and Uses: Under section 220 of the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 220, FCC may prescribe the forms of 
accounts, records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic, receipts, 
and expenditures of monies to be kept by carriers subject to this Act. 
Section 219(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 
219(b), requires any carrier subject to this Act to file monthly 
earnings and expense reports and periodical and/or special reports 
concerning all other matters with the FCC, as authorized by 47 CFR 
43.21. ARMIS was implemented to facilitate the timely and efficient 
analysis of revenue requirements, rates of return, and price caps; to 
provide an improved basis for audits and other oversight functions; and 
to enhance the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of 
alternative policy. The ARMIS 43-03 Report is used to administer the 
FCC's joint cost rules and to analyze data to prevent cross-
subsidization of nonregulated operations by the regulated operations of 
Tier 1 carriers. Mid-sized carriers are not required to file FCC Report 
43-03 on April 1, 2002.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0855.
    Title: Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet and Associated 
Requirements, CC Docket No. 96-45.
    Form Number: FCC Form 499 (FCC Forms 499-A and 499-Q).
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 5,500.
    Estimated Time per Response: 15 hours (avg).
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping; On occasion, quarterly, and 
annually reporting requirements; Third party disclosure.
    Total Annual Burden: 82,487 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $14,000.
    Needs and Uses: Pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended, telecommunications carriers (and certain other providers of 
telecommunications services) must contribute to the support and cost 
recovery mechanisms for telecommunications relay services, numbering 
administration, number portability, and universal service. Respondents 
file their gross-billed end-user telecommunications revenues on a 
quarterly basis on FCC Form 499-Q, and on an annual basis on FCC Form 
499-A. Carriers are permitted to consolidate filing if the filing 
entity certifies that certain conditions have been met.


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Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-9279 Filed 4-16-02; 8:45 am]
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