[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 42 (Friday, March 4, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10636-10637]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-4249]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

February 23, 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, 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.: 3060-0972.
    OMB Approval date: 11/29/2004.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2007.
    Title: Multi-Association Group (MAG) Plan for Regulation of 
Interstate Services of Non-Price Cap Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers 
and Interexchange Carriers.
    Form No.: FCC Forms 507, 508 & 509.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 5,200 responses; 31,607 total annual 
burden hours; approximately 1-6 hours average per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission took additional steps to provide 
rate-of-return carriers greater flexibility to respond to changing 
marketplace conditions. The Commission revised its access and universal 
service rules by (1)

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modifying the ``all-or-nothing'' rule to permit rate-of-return carriers 
to bring recently acquired price cap lines back to rate-of-return 
regulation; (2) granting rate-of-return carriers the authority 
immediately to provide geographically deaveraged transport and special 
access rates, subject to certain limitations; and (3) merging Long Term 
Support with Interstate Common Line Support.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0774.
    OMB Approval date: 12/20/2004.
    Expiration Date: 12/31/2007.
    Title: Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, CC Docket 
No. 96-45 (47 CFR Part 54).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 6,311,546 responses; 1,876,790 total 
annual burden hours; 20 minutes average response time per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: Congress directed the Commission to implement a new 
set of universal service support mechanisms that are explicitly and 
sufficient to advance the universals service principles enumerated in 
47 U.S.C. Section 254 and other such principles as the Commission 
believes are necessary and appropriate for the protection of the public 
interest, convenience and necessity, and are consistent with the Act. 
Part 54 promulgates the rules and requirements to preserve and advance 
universal service; the collections are necessary to implement Sec. 254.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0992.
    OMB Approval date: 1/14//2005.
    Expiration Date: 1/31/2008.
    Title: CC Docket No. 96-45 (FCC 01-195) and 47 CFR Section 54.507 
(d)(1)-(4).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 850 responses; 850 total annual burden 
hours; 1 hour per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: Section 54.507 (d) provides addititonal time for 
recipients under the schools and libraries universal service support 
mechanism to implement contracts or agreements with service providers 
for non-recurring services. Section 54.507(d) extends the deadline for 
the implementation of non-recurring sevices for certain qualified 
applicants who are unable to complete implementation by the September 
30 deadline. The rule provides schools and libraries with more time to 
install non-recurring services.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0513.
    OMB Approval date: 2/10/2005.
    Expiration Date: 2/29/2008.
    Title: ARMIS Joint Cost Report.
    Form No.: FCC Report 43-03.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 83 responses; 4,150 total annual burden 
hours; 50 hours average per respondent.
    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.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-4249 Filed 3-3-05; 8:45 am]
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