[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 94 (Friday, May 14, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26825-26826]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-11010]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved By Office of Management 
and Budget

April 10, 2004.
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, Pub. L. 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.: 3060-0895.
    OMB Approval Date: 3/26/2004.
    Expiration Date: 3/31/2007.
    Title: Numbering Resource Optimization, CC Docket No. 99-200.
    Form No.: FCC Form 502.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 5,400 responses; 181,890 total annual 
burden hours; 33-34 hours average per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: Carriers that receive numbering resources from the 
North American Numbering Plan (NANP) Administrator or that receive 
numbering resources from the Pooling Administrator in thousand-blocks 
must report forecast and utilization data semi-annually. These carriers 
are also required to maintain detailed internal records of their number 
usage. Carriers must file applications for initial and growth numbering 
resources. The information will be used by the FCC, state regulatory 
commissions, and the NANP Adminstrator to monitor numbering resource 
utilization and to project the date of area code and NANP exhaust.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0511.
    OMB Approval Date: 4/16/2004.
    Expiration Date: 4/30/2007.
    Title: ARMIS Access Report.
    Form No.: FCC 43-04.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 84 responses; 12,852 total annual burden 
hours; 153 hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: The Access Report is needed to administer the 
Commission's accounting, jurisdictional 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.: 3060-0410.
    OMB Approval Date: 4/16/2004.
    Expiration Date: 4/30/2007.
    Title: Forecast of Investment Usage Report and Actual Usage of 
Investment Report.
    Form No.: FCC 495A and FCC 499B.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 192 responses; 7,680 total annual burden 
hours; 40 hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: The Forecast of Investment Usage and Actural Usage 
of Investment Reports are needed to detect and correct forcast errors 
that could lead to significant misallocation of network plant between 
regulated and nonregulated activities. FCC's purpose is to protect the 
regulated ratepayer from subsidizing the nonregulated activities of 
rate regulated telephone companies. Only large ILECs file these 
reports.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1046.
    OMB Approval Date: 5/05/2004.
    Expiration Date: 5/31/2007.
    Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and 
Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunication Act of 1996, CC Docket 
No. 96-128, Report and Order.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 4,854 responses; 485,400 total annual 
burden hours; 100 hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission issued a Report and Order (CC Docket 
96-128/ FCC 03-235). In this proceeding, final rules were adopted

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that altered the previous payphone compensation rules. The new rules 
place the liability to compensate payphone service providers (PSPs) for 
payphone-originated calls on the facilities-based long distance 
carriers from whose switches such calls are completed. The new rules 
were not put in effect immediately to allow industry time to prepare 
for implementation of the new rules. Accordingly, the Order initially 
adopted interim rules until the new rules become effective. The interim 
rules received OMB approval as of 11/14/2003 and are currently in 
effect. The Commission has now received OMB approval of the final 
rules. The interim rules will be vacated and the new rules will go into 
effect on July 1, 2004.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 04-11010 Filed 5-13-04; 8:45 am]
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