[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 29 (Thursday, February 12, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6985-6988]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-3051]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 
Federal Communications Commission for Extension Under Delegated 
Authority

February 2, 2004.
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: Persons wishing to comment on this information collection should 
submit comments April 12, 2004. 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 Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments to Judith 
B. Herman, Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street, SW., 
Room 1-C804, Washington, DC 20554 or via the Internet to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies 
of the information collections contact Judith B. Herman at 202-418-0214 
or via the Internet at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0286.
    Title: Section 80.302, Notice of Discontinuance, Reduction, or 
Impairment of Service Involving a Distress Watch.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Individuals or households, business or other for 
profit, not-for-profit institutions, and State, local, or tribal 
government.
    Number of Respondents: 160.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 1 hour.
    Frequency of Response: Third party disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 160 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: The reporting requirement contained in section 
80.302 is necessary to ensure that the U.S. Coast Guard is timely 
notified when a coast station, which is responsible for maintaining a 
listening watch on a designated marine distress and safety frequency 
discontinues, reduces or impairs its communications services. This 
notification allows the Coast Guard to seek an alternate means of 
providing radio coverage to protect the safety of life and property at 
sea or object to the planned diminution of service. The information is 
used by the U.S. Coast Guard district office nearest to the coast 
station. Once the Coast Guard is aware that such a situation exists, it 
is able to inform the maritime community that radio coverage has or 
will be affected and/or seek to provide coverage of the safety watch 
via alternate means. When appropriate the Coast Guard may file a 
petition to deny any application. The Commission is seeking extension 
(no change) for this collection and all collections listed below for 
which we are seeking the full three year OMB clearance.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0308.
    Title: Section 90.505, Developmental Operation, Showing Required.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit 
institutions, and State, local or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 100.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 2 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.

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    Total Annual Burden: 200 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: Section 90.505 requires applicants proposing 
developmental operations to submit supplemental information showing why 
the authorization is necessary and what its use will be. This 
requirement will be used by Commission staff in evaluating the 
applicant's need for such frequencies and the interference potential to 
other stations operating on the proposed frequencies.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0490.
    Title: Section 74.902, Frequency Assignments.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit 
institutions, and State, local or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 5.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .50 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third 
party disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 3 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: Section 74.902 dictates that when a point-to-point 
ITFS station on the E and F MDS channels is involuntarily displaced by 
an MDS applicant, the MDS applicant must file the appropriate 
application for suitable alternative spectrum. The applications used 
would be FCC Form 327 (3060-0055) and FCC Form 330 (3060-0062). Section 
74.902(i) requires that a copy of this application be served on the 
ITFS licensee to be moved. The data will be used by the ITFS licensee 
to oppose the involuntary migration if the proposal would not provide 
comparable ITFS service and would not serve the public interest.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0491.
    Title: Section 74.991, Wireless Cable Application Procedures.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 100.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 4.5 hours (.5 respondent/4 hours 
attorney).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third 
party disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 50 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: $116,240.
    Needs and Uses: Section 74.991 requires that a wireless cable 
application be filed on FCC Form 330 (3060-0062), sections I and V, 
with a complete FCC Form 304 (3060-0654) appended. The application must 
include a cover letter clearly indicating that the application is for a 
wireless cable entity to operate on ITFS channels. The applicant must 
also, within 30 days of filing its application, give local public 
notice in a daily newspaper of general circulation published in the 
community in which the proposed station will be located. The specific 
data that must be included in the newspaper publication is contained in 
section 74.991(c). The notice must be published twice a week for two 
consecutive weeks. The data is used by FCC staff to ensure that 
proposals to operate a wireless cable system on ITFS channels do not 
impair or restrict any reasonably foreseeable ITFS use. The data is 
also used to insure that applicants are qualified to become a 
Commission licensee and that proposals do not cause interference.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0492.
    Title: Section 74.992, Access to Channels Licensed to Wireless 
Cable Entities.
    Form No.: 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: 10.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 3.5 hours (1.5 respondent/2 hours 
contractor).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third 
party disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 15 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: $4,000.
    Needs and Uses: Section 74.992(a) requires that requests by ITFS 
entities for access to wireless cable facilities licensed on ITFS 
frequencies be made by filing FCC Form 330 (3060-0062), section I, II , 
III and IV. The application must include a cover letter clearly 
indicating that the application is for ITFS access to a wireless cable 
entity's facilities on ITFS channels. Section 74.992(d) requires an 
ITFS user to provide a wireless cable licensee with its planned 
schedule of use four months in advance of accessing the channels. This 
notice is completed before the filing of the application. The data is 
used by FCC staff to determine eligibility of an educational 
institution or entity demanding access for ITFS use on a wireless cable 
facility. The four month advance notice is used by the wireless cable 
licensee to allow it to move programming to other channels.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0493.
    Title: Section 74.986, Involuntary ITFS Station Modifications.
    Form No.: 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: 25.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 5 hours (1 hour respondent/4 hours 
contractor).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 25 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: $16,250.
    Needs and Uses: Section 74.986 requires that an application for 
involuntary modification of an ITFS station be filed on FCC Form 330 
(3060-0062) but need not fill out section II (legal qualifications). 
The application must include a cover letter clearly indicating that the 
modification is involuntary and identify the parties involved. The data 
is used by FCC staff to insure that proposals to modify facilities of 
ITFS licensees/permittees would provide comparable ITFS service and 
would otherwise serve the public interest in promoting the MMDS 
service.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0494.
    Title: Section 74.990, Use of Available Instruction Television 
Fixed Service Frequencies by Wireless Cable Entities.
    Form No.: 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: 100.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .33-2 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 42 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: $11,250.
    Needs and Uses: Section 74.990(c) requires applicants to confirm 
their unopposed status after the period for filing competing 
applications and petitions to deny has passed. This confirmation is 
accomplished through the filing of a letter with the Commission. 
Section 74.990(d) requires a wireless cable applicant to show that 
there are no multipoint distribution service (MDS) or multichannel 
multipoint distribution service (MMDS) channels available for 
application, purchase or lease that could be used in lieu of the 
instructional television fixed service (ITFS) frequencies applied for. 
The data provided in the showing will be used by FCC staff to insure 
that proposals to operate a wireless cable system on ITFS channels do 
not impair or restrict any reasonably foreseeable ITFS use.


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    OMB Control No.: 3060-0966.
    Title: Sections 80.385, 80.475, and 90.303, Automated Maritime 
Telecommunications Service (AMTS).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Individuals or households and business or other for-
profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 20.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .50 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third 
party disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 10 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: The reporting requirements are necessary to require 
licensees of Automated Maritime Telecommunications System (AMTS) 
stations to notify TV stations and two organizations (the American 
Radio Relay League (ARRL), and Interactive Systems, Inc.) that maintain 
databases of AMTS locations for the benefit of amateur radio operators 
of the location of AMTS fill-in stations. Amateur radio operators use 
some of the same frequencies (219 -220 MHz) as AMTS stations on a 
secondary, non-interference basis for digital message forwarding 
systems. Reporting requirements are necessary to require amateurs 
proposing to operate within close proximity of an AMTS station to 
notify the AMTS licensee as well as the ARRL. The information is used 
to update databases concerning AMTS locations for the benefit of 
amateur radio operators. If the collection of information was not 
conducted, the database would become inaccurate and the ability to 
avoid interference problems would deteriorate.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0970.
    Title: Section 90.621(e)(2), Selection and Assignment of 
Frequencies.
    Form No.: 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: 1,000.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .50 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 500 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: Section 90.621 requires applicants proposing to 
modify operations to use channels for commercial purposes in certain 
frequency bands in 800 MHz to provide written notice of the 
modification to all Public Safety licensees within 70 miles of the site 
of the channels for which the authorization for commercial use is 
sought that operate within 25 kHz of the center of those channels. This 
requirement seeks to avoid the potential of interference that could 
result from the modification of a Private Land Mobile radio facility to 
commercial use. If the information were not available, there would be 
an increased risk of interference in this band.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0261.
    Title: Section 90.215, Transmitter Measurements.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Individuals or households, business or other for-
profit entities, not-for-profit institutions, and State, local or 
tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 20,075.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .33 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 663 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: This rule requires licensees to measure carrier 
frequency, output power, and modulation of each transmitter authorized 
to operate with power in excess of two watts when the transmitter is 
initially installed and when any changes are made which would likely 
affect such parameters. Such measurements, which help ensure proper 
operation of transmitters, are required to be retained in the station 
records. The information is normally used by the licensee to ensure 
that equipment is operating within prescribed tolerances. Prior 
technical operation of transmitters helps limit interference to other 
users and provides the licensee with the maximum possible utilization 
of equipment.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0691.
    Title: Amendment of Parts 2 and 90 of the Commission's Rules to 
Provide for the Use of 200 Channels Outside of the Designated Filing 
Areas in the 896-901 MHz Bands Allotted to the Specialized Mobile Radio 
Pool, Second Order on Reconsideration and Seventh Report and Order for 
the 900 MHz Specialized Mobile Radio Service.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Individuals or households and business or other for-
profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 135.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .50--2 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and 
recordkeeping requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 274 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: $55,200.
    Needs and Uses: This information collection is used to verify 
construction requirements that will be used by the Commission to 
determine whether the licensee has met the 900 MHz MTA construction 
requirements. The information is filed electronically on the FCC Form 
601.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0281.
    Title: Section 90.651, Supplemental Reports Required of Licensees 
Authorized Under this Subpart.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit 
institutions and State, local or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 16,408.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .166 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 2,724 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: This rule section specifies the timeframe for 
reporting the number of mobile units placed in operation from eight 
months to 12 months. The radio facilities addressed in this subpart are 
allocated on and governed by regulations designed to award facilities 
on a need basis determined by the number of mobile units served by each 
base station. This is necessary to avoid frequency hoarding by 
applicants. The various subparts of this rule apply to different 
categories of licensees and define exactly what reports are required of 
each category. The Commission uses the information to maintain an 
accurate database of frequency users.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0914.
    Title: Petition, Pursuant to Section 7 of the Act, for a Waiver of 
the Airborne Cellular Rule, or in the Alternative, for a Declaratory 
Ruling.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, Federal 
government, and State, local or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 30.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 8 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and 
recordkeeping requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 240 hours.
    Annual Cost Burden: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission has reset an Order it adopted on 
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24, 1998, that grants conditionally AirCell's waiver request of section 
22.925. The waiver permits AirCell, Inc., and a number of cellular 
licensees, which jointly entered into resale agreements with AirCell, 
Inc., to furnish system capacity for the provision of cellular service 
on a secondary, conditional basis to airborne terminal units using 
technology developed by AirCell, Inc. The waiver also gives AirCell the 
authority to operate a specially-designed mobile cellular 
telecommunications unit for use aboard general aviation aircraft. The 
AirCell system gives the public greater access to safety-related data 
and wireless telephone services for general aviation and equips pilots 
with a transmission facility that can provide a method of receiving 
real-time information about changing weather conditions, navigation, 
telemetry, and aircraft operations.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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