[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 8, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 6762]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2422]



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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

January 27, 2005.
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 
(PRA), 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.
    In the 800 MHz Report and Order the Commission adopted certain 
information collection requirements and third party disclosures as part 
of its plan to abate interference to public safety communications, such 
as those of police, fire and emergency medical agencies. The 
information collection requirements and third-party disclosures will be 
used by the Commission to ensure that licensees of certain 800 MHz 
Commercial Mobile Radio Service systems abate interference to the 
reception of signals from public safety, Critical Infrastructure 
Industry (CII), and certain other 800 MHz communications systems.
    In a separate document published in the Final Rules section of this 
issue, the Commission also announces that the information collection 
requirements adopted in the 800 MHz Report and Order are effective upon 
publication of the aforementioned document in the Federal Register. A 
summary of the 800 MHz Report and Order was published in the Federal 
Register on November 22, 2004, 68 FR 67823. The summary stated that, 
with the exception of rules requiring OMB approval, the rules adopted 
in the 800 MHz Report and Order would become effective January 21, 
2005. With regard to rules requiring OMB approval, the Commission 
stated it will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing 
the effective date of these rules. With publication of the 
aforementioned document in the Final Rules section, all rules adopted 
in the 800 MHz Report and Order are effective.
    The Commission obtained emergency clearance of the information 
collections adopted in the 800 MHz Report and Order pursuant to 5 CFR 
1320.13(a)(2)(i) and waiver of the notice and comment provisions of 5 
CFR 1320.8(d) and 1320.5(a)(iv). As a result, OMB approval for these 
requirements will expire June 30, 2005. The Commission will establish a 
period for public comment on these PRA matters before submitting its 
request for regular, three-year OMB approval of these collections.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Evanoff, Federal Communications 
Commission, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington DC, 20554, (202) 418-0680 
or via the Internet at [email protected]. For additional information 
concerning the Paperwork Reduction Act information collection 
requirements, contact Judith B. Herman at (202) 418-0214.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1080.
    OMB Approval Date: 1/27/2005.
    Expiration Date: 6/30/2005.
    Title: Improving Public Safety Communications in the 800 MHz Band.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 2,500 responses; 27,162 total annual 
burden hours; 3-8 hours average per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: Cellular Radiotelephone (Cellular) and Enhanced 
Mobile Radio Service (ESMR) licensees, jointly, must establish an 
electronic means of information collection in order to receive 
interference complaints and promptly resolve them. Whenever an 
interference problem presents a clear and imminent danger to life or 
property, there is an information collection requirement that allows 
the affected public safety licensee to state, in writing, the basis for 
such determination. This statement must be filed with the Commission 
and served upon any offending licensee(s). A Cellular or ESMR carrier 
that receives an initial notification of interference must respond and 
prepare a written interference analysis. This information collection is 
necessary to promptly identify the source of and abate interference.
    Certain information collection requirements are designed to 
forestall activation of facilities that have the potential to create 
unacceptable interference to public safety communications. Thus, 
Cellular and ESMR licensees must apprise public safety entities of 
changes to the operating parameters of Cellular and ESMR systems and 
the public safety licensees have a reciprocal obligation to apprise 
Cellular and ESMR licensees of the operating parameters of 800 MHz 
public safety communications systems. This information collection 
requirement is necessary to identify and address potential interference 
before it occurs.
    In the 800 MHz Report and Order, the Commission established a 
Transition Administrator. The Commission authorized the Transition 
Administrator to obtain certain information from certain 800 MHz 
licensees in order to facilitate 800 MHz band reconfiguration. 
Licensees must provide the Transition Administrator with the estimated 
cost of reconfiguring their systems. The Transition Administrator must 
then make this information available to the Commission upon request. 
Some information will be exchanged between certain 800 MHz licensees 
and Nextel Communications, Inc., with copies thereof submitted to the 
Transition Administrator. The Transition Administrator must apprise the 
Commission of the progress of band reconfiguration by means of reports 
which, among other things, contain certifications by 800 MHz incumbent 
licensees that relocation has been completed and that parties agree on 
the costs encountered and the amounts received. The Transition 
Administrator must submit a written record to the Commission of any 
dispute the Transition Administrator has been unable to resolve. The 
foregoing information collections are necessary to facilitate 
relocation negotiations and execution of relocation agreements in a 
timely manner and is integral to the Commission's overall band 
reconfiguration plan to eliminate interference to public safety 
operations. Without these information collection requirements, it would 
not be practical to abate interference in the manner, and on the 
schedule, necessary to timely abate potentially life threatening 
interference to CII and public safety systems.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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