[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 46 (Thursday, March 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11971-11972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-4724]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 
Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested

March 2, 2005.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its 
continuing

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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: Written comments should be submitted on or before May 9, 2005. 
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 comments to Judith B. Herman, Federal 
Communications Commission, Room 1-C804, 445 12th Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20554 or via the Internet to [email protected].

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No.: 3060-XXXX.
    Title: Accounting and Separations Information from Incumbent Local 
Exchange Carriers that Receive Interstate Access Revenues on a Cost 
Basis.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: New collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 900.
    Estimated Time per Response: 20 hours.
    Frequency of Response: One time reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 18,000 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: This is a one-time data collection designed to 
assist the Commission in evaluating whether to modify its rules 
pertaining to jurisdictional separations, specifically, the Part 36 
category relationships and jurisdictional cost allocation factors. 
Jurisdictional separations are the process by which incumbent local 
exchange carriers apportion regulated costs between the intrastate and 
interstate jurisdictions. In 2001, the Commission adopted the 
recommendation of the Federal-State Joint Board on Separations and took 
action to freeze, on an interim basis, the Part 36 jurisdictional 
separations rules, in order to stabilize and simplify the separations 
process while the Commission continued to work on comprehensive 
separations reform. Specifically, the Commission froze all of the Part 
36 category relationships and allocation factors for price cap 
carriers, and froze all allocation factors for rate-of-return carriers. 
This freeze was to last for five years or until the Commission 
completed comprehensive separations reform, whichever came first. The 
freeze is scheduled to lapse on June 30, 2006.
    The requested data is necessary to enable the Federal-State Joint 
Board on Separations and the Commission to determine whether to extend 
the separations freeze, and, if not, whether and how to modify the 
jurisdictional separations process. To assist the Federal-State Joint 
Board on Separations and the Commission in this regard, carriers will 
be requested to identify and explain the way in which specific 
categories of costs and revenues are recorded for accounting and 
jurisdictional purposes. Among other things, the data will allow the 
Federal-State Joint Board and the Commission to study the impact of the 
Internet and the growth in local minutes during the interim freeze.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-4724 Filed 3-9-05; 8:45 am]
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