[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46521-46522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-15430]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


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

July 26, 2005.
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 (PRA) 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 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 Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be 
submitted on or before October 11, 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: You may submit your Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments 
by e-mail or U.S. postal mail. To submit your comments by e-mail send 
them to: [email protected]. To submit your comments by U.S. mail, mark it to 
the attention of Judith B. Herman, Federal Communications Commission, 
445 12th Street, SW., Room 1-C804, Washington, DC 20554.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the 
information collection(s) send an e-mail to [email protected] or contact 
Judith B. Herman at 202-418-0214.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0704.
    Title: Policy and Rules Concerning the Interstate, Interexchange 
Marketplace; Implementation of Section 254(g) of the Communications Act 
of 1934, as amended, CC Docket No. 96-6.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 519.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .5-120 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and annual reporting 
requirements, recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure 
requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 84,337 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission has eliminated the tariff 
cancellation requirement; therefore, we are decreasing the reported 
burden hours by 74,598 hours and $435,000 in total annual costs. The 
OMB is asked to approve this revised collection, when we submit it in 
60 days, the removal of the burden hours for that requirement as part 
of this collection.
    These collections of information are necessary to provide consumers 
ready access to information concerning the rates, terms, and conditions 
governing the provision of interstate, domestic and interexchange 
services offered by nondominant interexchange carriers (IXCs) in a 
detariffed and increasingly competitive environment. In the Second 
Order on Reconsideration issued in CC Docket No. 96-61, (March 1999), 
the Commission reinstated the public disclosure requirement and also 
required that nondominant interexchange carriers that have Internet Web 
sites to pass this information on-line in a timely and easily 
accessible manner. These carriers are also required to file annual 
certifications pursuant to section 254(g); maintain prices and service 
information; and are forborne from filing certain tariffs. The tariff 
cancellation requirement has been completed so the burden for that part 
of this collection has been removed.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0760.
    Title: Access Charge Reform, CC Docket No. 96-262.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 17.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 3-1,575 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and annual reporting 
requirements.
    Total Annual Burden: 55,462 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $12,000.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Needs and Uses: This collection will be submitted to the OMB after 
the 60 day comment period because we have revised it to eliminate the 
cost study and third party disclosure requirements that are no longer 
needed. The Commission also revises the remaining burden hours and 
respondent estimates to provide more current and accurate data. Price 
cap local exchange carriers (LECs) must demonstrate that competitors 
have made irreversible, sunk investments in the facilities needed to 
provide services at issue.
    In the Fifth Report and Order, CC Docket No. 96-262, (August 1999), 
the Commission modified the rules that govern the provision of 
interstate access services by those price cap LECs subject to price 
regulation to advance the pro-

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competitive, deregulatory national policies embodied in the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996. The pricing flexibility framework 
adopted in that Order was designed to grant greater flexibility to 
price cap LECs as competition develops, while ensuring that: (1) Price 
cap LECs do not use pricing flexibility to deter efficient entry or 
engage in exclusionary pricing behavior; and (2) price cap LECs do not 
increase rates to unreasonable levels for customers that lack 
competitive alternatives.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-15430 Filed 8-9-05; 8:45 am]
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