[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 13, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1979-1981]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-660]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

December 30, 2003.
SUMMARY: 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, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC, 20554, 
(202) 418-1359 or via the Internet at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0681.
    OMB Approval date: 12/01/2003.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2006.
    Title: Toll-Free Service Access Codes--CC Docket No. 95-155, 47 CFR 
Part 52, Subpart D, Sections 52.101-52.111.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 300 responses; 4,500 total annual hours; 
15 hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: Responsible organizations (RespOrgs) who wish to 
make a specific toll free number unavailable must submit written

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requests to DSMI, the toll free data administrator. The request shall 
include documentation outlining the reason for the request. The 
information is necessary to hold RespOrgs more accountable and will 
decrease abuses of lag time process. It will prevent numbers from being 
held in unavailable status without demonstrated reasons and will make 
more numbers available for subscribers who need and want them.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0711.
    OMB Approval date: 12/19/2003.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2006.
    Title: Implementation of section 34(a)(1) of the Public Utility 
Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended by the Telecommunications Act 
of 1996, (47 CFR 1.5001-1.5007).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 15 responses; 150 total annual hours; 10 
hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: 47 CFR 1.500-1.5007 implement section 34(a) of the 
Public Utility Holding Company Act. The rules provide filing 
requirements and procedures to expedite public utility holding company 
entry into the telecommunications industry. Persons seekings a 
determination of ETC status must file in good faith for determination 
by the Commission. The information will be used by the Commission to 
determine whether persons satisfy the statutory criteria for exempt 
telecommunications company status.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0719.
    OMB Approval date: 12/22/2003.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2006.
    Title: Quarterly Report of IntraLATA Carriers Listing Payphone 
Automatic Number Identifications (ANIs).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1,600 responses; 5,600 total annual hours; 
3.5 hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: IntraLATA carriers must submit a quarterly list of 
payphone ANIs to the interexchange carriers. This will facilitate 
resolution of disputed ANIs in the par-call compensation context. The 
report allows IXCs to determine which dial-around calls are made from 
payphones. The data, which must be maintained for at least 18 months 
after the close of a compensation period, will facilitate verification 
of disputed ANIs.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0723.
    OMB Approval date: 12/01/2003.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2006.
    Title: Public Disclosure of Network Information by Bell Operating 
Companies.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 7 responses; 350 total annual hours; 50 
hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: Bell Operating Companies must make public 
disclosure of network information. This will prevent them from 
designing new network services or changing network technical 
specifications to the advantage of their own payphones.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0745.
    OMB Approval date: 12/19/2003.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2006.
    Title: Implementation of the Local Exchange Carrier Tariff 
Streamlining Provisions in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC 
Docket No. 96-187.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1,520 responses; 1,130 total annual hours; 
1-2 average hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: In CC Docket No. 96-187, the Commission adopted 
measures to streamline tariff filing requirements for local exchange 
carriers (LECs) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In order to 
achieve a stramlined and deregulatory enviornement for local exchanged 
carrier tariff filings, local exchange carriers are required to file 
tariffs electronically. Other carriers are permitted to file their 
tariffs electronically.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0775.
    OMB Approval date: 12/01/2003.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2006.
    Title: Separate Affiliate Requirement for Independent Local 
Exchange Carrier (LEC) Provision of International, Interexchange 
Services (47 CFR 64.1901--64.1903.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 10 responses; 60,563 total annual hours; 
6,056 hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: The commission imposes the recordkeeping collection 
to ensure that independent LECs providing international, interexchange 
services through a separate affiliate are in compliance with the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and with Commission policies 
and regulations.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0790.
    OMB Approval date: 11/25/2003.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2006.
    Title: Section 68.110(c)--Availability of Inside Wiring 
Information.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1,200 responses; 1,200 total annual hours; 
1 hour per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: 47 CFR 68.110(c) requires telephone companies to 
provide building owners with all available information regarding 
carrier installed wiring on the customer's side of the demarcation 
point, including copies of existing schematic diagrams and service 
records. The information must be provided by the telephone company upon 
request of the building owner or agent thereof. The information is 
needed so that building owners may be able to contract with an 
installer of their choice for maintenance and installation service, or 
elect to contract with the telephone company to modify existing wiring 
or assist with the installation of additional inside wiring.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0791.
    OMB Approval date: 11/19/2003.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2006.
    Title: Accounting for Judgements and Other Costs Associated with 
Litigation, CC Docket No. 93-240.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1 response; 36 total annual hours; 36 
hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: In CC Docket No. 93-240, the Commission considered 
the issue of the accounting rules and ratemaking policies that should 
apply to litigation costs incurred by carriers subject to part 32 of 
its rules and regulations. The Commission concluded that there should 
be special rules to govern the accounting treatment of federal 
antitrust judgements and settlements, in excess of the avoided costs of 
litigation, but not for litigation expenses. The Commission further 
concluded that these special rules should not apply to costs arising in 
other kinds of litigation A carrier must make a showing to receive 
recognition of its avoided costs of litigation.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0819.
    OMB Approval date: 12/01/2003.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2006.
    Title: Lifeline Assistance (Lifeline) Connection Assistance (Link-
Up) Reporting Worksheet and Instructions (47 CFR 54.400-54.417).
    Form No.: FCC Form 497.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 18,000 responses; 63,000 total annual 
hours; 3-4 hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: Eligible Telecommunications carriers are permitted 
to receive universal service support reimbursement for offering certain 
services to qualifying low-income customers. The telecommunciations 
carriers must file FCC Form 497 to solicit reimbursement. Collection of 
this data is necessary for the administor to accurately provide 
settlements for the low-income programs according to Commission rules.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0933.
    OMB Approval date: 11/19/2003.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2006.
    Title: Community Broadband Deployment Database Reporting Form.

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    Form No.: FCC Form 460.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 150 responses; 37 total annual hours; .25 
hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: Pursuant to section 410(b) of the Communications 
Act of 1934, as amended, on October 8, 1999, the FCC convened a 
Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Telecommunications Services 
to provide a forum for cooperaticve dialogue and information exchange 
between and among state and federal jurisdications regarding the 
deployment of advanced telecommunications services. As part of this 
ongoing effort, a searchable on-line database of community bradband 
demand aggregation and deployment efforts is being established. The 
Collection of information from respondents is entirely voluntary.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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