[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 214 (Tuesday, November 5, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67407-67408]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-28062]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


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

October 28, 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 currently 
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 December 5, 
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 Judith Boley Herman, Federal 
Communications Commission, Room 1-C804, 445 12th Street, SW., DC 20554 
or via the Internet to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies 
of the information collection(s), contact Judith Boley Herman at 202-
418-0214 or via the Internet at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0704.
    Title: Policy and Rules Concerning the Interstate, Interexchange 
Marketplace; Implementation of section 254(g) of the Communications Act 
of 1934, as amended, CC Docket No. 96-6.
    Form Nos.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 519.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .50--120 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Annual and on occasion reporting 
requirement, recordkeeping requirement, and third party disclosure 
requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 158,971 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $435,000.
    Needs and Uses: These collections of information are necessary to 
provide consumers ready access to information concerning the rates, 
terms, and conditions governing the provision of interstate, domestic, 
interexchange services offered by nondominant IXC's in a detariffed and 
increasingly competitive environment. These collections of information 
are consistent with OMB's ``strong recommendation'' earlier in this 
proceeding that the Commission consider mechanisms to make pricing 
information available to consumers, state regulators, and other 
interested parties.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0770.
    Title: Price Cap Performance Review for Local Exchange Carriers, CC 
Docket No. 94-1 (New Services).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 13 respondents; 26 responses.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 10 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 130 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission permits price cap LECs to introduce 
new services on a streamlined basis, without prior approval. The 
Commission modified the rules to eliminate the public interest showing 
required by section 69.4(g) and to eliminate the new services test 
(except in the case of loop-based new services) required under sections 
69.4(f) and (g). The information is needed by the Commission to carry 
out its mandate. The Commission is submitting this information 
collection to OMB with no change and to extend the approval for three 
years.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0760.
    Title: Access Charge Reform, CC Docket No. 96-262 (First Report and 
Order); Second Order on Reconsideration and Memorandum Opinion and 
Order, and Fifth Report and Order.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 14.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 3-2,060 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and specific dates reporting 
requirement, third party disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 57,127 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $8,000.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission provides detailed rules for 
implementing the market-based approach, pursuant to which price cap 
LECs would receive pricing flexibility in the provision of interstate 
access services as competition for those services develops. Commission 
rules grants immediate pricing flexibility to price cap LECs in the 
form of streamlined introduction of new services, geographic 
deaveraging of rates for services in the trunking basket, and removal 
of certain interstate interexchange services from price cap regulation, 
while providing for additional pricing flexibility upon certain 
showings. The information to be collected would be submitted to the 
Commission by incumbent LECs for use in determining whether the 
incumbent LECs should receive the regulatory relief proposed in the 
above reference rulemakings. The information collected under the Second 
Order on Reconsideration and Memorandum Opinion and Order would be 
submitted by the LECs to the interexchange carriers (IXCs) for use in 
developing the most cost-efficient rates and rate structures.


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Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-28062 Filed 11-4-02; 8:45 am]
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