[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 50 (Friday, March 14, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12353-12355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-6145]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

March 6, 2003.
    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 Paul J. Laurenzano, Federal Communications Commission, (202) 
418-1359 or via the Internet at [email protected].
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0715.
    Expiration Date: 02/28/2006.
    Title: Telecommunications Carriers' Use of Customer Proprietary 
Network Information (CPNI) and Other Customer Information, CC Docket 
No. 96-115.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 4,832 responses; 672,808 total annual 
hours; $229,520,000 cost burden; 139.2 hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: The requirements implement the statutory 
obligations of section 222 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Among 
other things, carriers are permitted to use, disclose, or permit access 
to CPNI, without customer approval, under certain conditions.
    Many uses of CPNI require either opt-in or opt-out customer 
approval, depending upon the entity using the CPNI and the purpose for 
which it is used.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1009.
    Expiration Date: 02/28/2006.
    Title: Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, CC Docket No. 96-45.

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    Form No.: 499, 499-A, 499-Q, 499-M.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1 responses; 1 total annual hours; 1 hour 
per response.
    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. The 
Commission is seeking comment on three connection-based proposals to 
futher refine the record in the proceeding to revisit its universal 
service contribution methodology. If adopted, the proposals may entail 
altering the current reporting requirements to which interstate 
telecommunications carriers are subject under Part 54 of the 
Commission's rules.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0147.
    Expiration Date: 02/28/2006.
    Title: Section 64.804--Extension of Unsecured Credit for Interstate 
and Foreign Communication Services to Candidates for Federal Office.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 13 responses; 104 total annual hours; 8 
hours per response.
    Needs and Uses: Communications common carriers with operating 
revenues exceeding $1 million who extend unsecured credit to a 
candidate or person on behalf of such candidates for Federal office 
must file with the FCC a report including due and outstanding balances. 
The information is used for monitoring purposes.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0076.
    Expiration Date: 02/28/2006.
    Title: Annual Employment Report for Common Carriers.
    Form No.: FCC-395.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 4,000 responses; 4,000 total annual burden 
hours; 1 hour per response.
    Needs and Uses: The Annual Employment Report is submitted by 
certain common carrier licensees and permittees. The Information 
contained in the report is intended to assess compliance with equal 
employment opportunity requirements. The reports have been used by the 
FCC, Congress, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, EEOC, NTIA, public 
interest groups and carrier representatives.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0989.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2005.
    Title: Procedures for Applicants Requiring Section 214 
Authorization for Domestic Interstate Transmission Lines Aquired 
Through Corporate Control, 47 CFR Sections 63.01, 63.03 and 63.04.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 35 responses; 1,655 total annual hours; 
$20,000 cost burden; 3-60 hours per response.
    Needs and Uses: Report and Order (CC Docket No. 01-150) provides 
presumptive Streamlining categories, allows for joint applications for 
international and domestic transfers of control, clarifies confusion 
about content of applications, provides timelines for streamlined 
transaction review, provides a pro forma transaction process, allows 
asset acquisitions to be treated as transfers of control and deletes 
obsolete sections of the Commission's rules. The information will be 
used to ensure that applicants comply with the requirements of 47 
U.S.C. Section 214.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0519.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2005.
    Title: Rules and Regulations Implementing the Telephone Consumer 
Protection Act of 1991 (CC Docket No. 92-06).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 30,000 responses; 1,653,600 total annual 
hours; 55.1 hours per response.
    Needs and Uses: Parts 64 and 68 of the Commission's rules contain 
procedures for avoiding unwanted telephone solicitations to residences, 
and to regulate the use of automatic telephone dialing systems, 
artificial or prerecorded voice messages, and telephone facsimile 
machines. The Commission believes that the recordkeeping requirement is 
the best means of preventing unwanted telephone solicitations.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0513.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2005.
    Title: ARMIS Joint Cost Report.
    Form No.: FCC 43-03.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 121 responses; 10,043 total annual hours; 
83 hours per response.
    Needs and Uses: The Joint Cost Report is needed to administer our 
joint cost rules (Part 64), and to analyze data in order to prevent 
cross-subsidization of non-regulated operations by the regulated 
operations of Tier 1 carriers.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0511.
    Expiration Date: 12/21/2005.
    Title: ARMIS Access Report.
    Form No.: FCC 43-04.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 121 responses; 18,997 total annual hours; 
157 hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: The Access Report is needed to administer the 
Commission's accounting, jurisdicational separations and access charge 
rule; to analyze revenue requirements and rates of return, and to 
collect financial data from Tier 1 incumbent local exchange carriers.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0395.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2005.
    Title: The Armis USOA Report (ARMIS Report 43-02); The ARMIS 
Service Quality Report (ARMIS Report 43-05); and the ARMIS 
Infrastructure Report (ARMIS Report 43-07).
    Form No.: FCC 43-02, FCC 43-05, FCC 43-07.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 50 responses; 26,446 total annual hours; 
529 hours per response.
    Needs and Uses: The USOA Report provides the annual results of the 
carriers' activities for each account of the Uniform System of 
Accounts. The Service Quality Report provides service quality 
information in the areas of interexchange access service, installation 
and repair intervals, local service installation and repair intervals, 
trunk blockage, and total switch downtime for price cap carriers. The 
Infrastructure Report provides switch deployment and capabilities data.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0793.
    Expiration Date: 10/31/2005.
    Title: Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, CC Docket 
No. 96-45, Procedures For Self Certifying as a Rural Carrier.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 10 responses; 10 total annual hours; 1 
hour per response.
    Needs and Uses: In the Tenth Report and Order, the Commission 
adopted proposals that carriers serving study areas with fewer than 
100,000 access lines that already have certified their rural status 
need not re-certify for purposes of receiving support beginning January 
1, 2000, and need only file thereafter if their status changes. 
Further, carriers serving more than 100,000 access lines need to file 
rural certifications for their year 2001 status has changed.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0855.
    Expiration Date: 10/31/2005.
    Title: Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, CC Docket No. 96-45.
    Form No.: FCC 499, FCC 499-A, FCC 499-Q.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 14,300 responses; 106,287 total annual 
hours; $18,000 cost burden; 7.5 hours per respondent.
    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

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telecommunications relay services, numbering administration, number 
portability, and universal service. The Commission modified the 
existing methodology used to assess contributions that carriers make to 
the federal universal servcie support mechanisms.
    The modifications adopted, will entail altering to the current 
revenue reporting requirements to which interstate telecom. carriers 
are subject under part 54 of the Commission's rules.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0770.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2005.
    Title: Price Cap Performance Review for Local Exchange Carriers, CC 
Docket No. 94-1 (New Services).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 26 responses; 130 total annual hours; 5 
hours per response.
    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 69.4(g) and to eliminate the new services test (except in 
the case of loop-based new services) required under sections 61.49(f) 
and (g). The information is needed by the Commission to carry out its 
mandate.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0704.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2005.
    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 No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 519 responses; 158,971 total annual hours; 
$435,000 cost burden; 306.3 hours per response.
    Needs and Uses: In the Second Order on Reconsideration issued in CC 
Docket No. 96-61, the Commission reinstates the public disclosure 
requirement and also requires that nondominant interexchange carriers 
that have Internet websites pass this information on-line in a timely 
and easily accessible manner. These carriers also continue to be 
required to file annual certifications pursuant to section 254(g); 
maintain price and service information; and are forborned from filing 
certain tariffs.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0760.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2005.
    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.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 14 responses; 57,127 total annual hours; 
$8,000 cost burden; 4,080.5 hours per response.
    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. The Order 
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. A 
FNPRM seeks additional flexibility.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-6145 Filed 3-13-03; 8:45 am]
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