[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 225 (Wednesday, November 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70842-70843]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-22841]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

November 10, 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, 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.

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.: 3060-0526.
    OMB Approval Date: 10/26/2005.
    Expiration Date: 10/31/2008.
    Title: Density Pricing Zone Plans, Expanded Interconnection with 
Local Telephone Company Facilities, CC Docket No. 91-141.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 17 responses; 816 total annual burden 
hours; approximately 48 hours average per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission requires Tier 1 Local Exchange 
Carriers (LECs) to provide expanded opportunities for third-party 
interconnection with their interstate special access facilities. The 
LECs are permitted to establish a number of rate zones within study 
areas in which expanded interconnection is operational. In the Fifth 
Report and Order in CC Docket No. 96-262, the Commission allows price 
cap LECs to define the scope and number of zones within a study area. 
These LECs must file and obtain approval of their pricing plans which 
will be used by FCC staff to ensure that the rates are just, reasonable 
and nondiscriminatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0742.
    OMB Approval Date: 11/01/2005.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2008.
    Title: Telephone Number Portability (47 CFR Part 52, Subpart C, 
Sections 52.21-52.33) and CC Docket No. 95-116.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 2,027 responses; 14,333 total annual 
burden hours; approximately 2-149 hours average per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: 47 CFR Part 52, Subpart C implements the statutory 
requirement that local exchange carriers (LECs) and Commercial Mobile 
Radio Service (CMRS) providers provide local number probability (LNP). 
This collection is being revised to include the implementation of 
wireless carriers providing LNP. Wireline carriers began providing LNP 
in 1998. In a Memorandum Opinion and Order (FCC 02-215) in CC Docket 
No. 95-116, the Commission extended the deadline for CMRS providers to 
offer LNP. Long-term number portability must be provided by LECs and 
CMRS providers in switches for which another carrier has made a 
specific request for number portability, according to the Commission's 
deployment schedule. Carriers that are unable to meet the deadlines for 
implementing a long-term number portability solution are required to 
file with the Commission at least 60 days in advance of the deadline a 
petition to extend the time by which implementation in its network will 
be completed.
    Incumbent LECs may recover their carrier-specific costs directly 
related to providing long-term number portability by establishing in 
tariffs filed with the Commission certain number portability charges. 
Incumbent LECs are required to include many details in their cost 
support that are unique to the number portability proceeding pursuant 
to the Cost Classification Order. For instance, incumbent LECs must 
demonstrate that any incremental overhead costs claimed in their cost 
support are actually new costs incremental to and resulting from the 
provision of long-term number portability. Incumbent LECs are required 
to maintain records that detail both the nature and specific amount of 
these carrier-specific costs that are directly related to number 
portability, and those carrier-specific costs that are not directly 
related to number portability.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0989.
    OMB Approval Date: 11/01/2005.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2008.
    Title: Procedures for Applicants Requiring Section 214 
Authorization for Domestic Interstate Transmission Lines Acquired 
Through Corporate Control, 47 CFR Sections 63.01, 63.03 and 63.04.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 86 responses; 959 total annual burden 
hours; approximately 1.5-12 hours average per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: Procedures for Applicants Requiring Section 214 
Authorization for Domestic Interstate Transmission Lines Acquired 
Through Corporate Control are set forth for common carriers requiring 
authorization under section 214 of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended (Act), 47 U.S.C. 214, to acquire domestic interstate 
transmission lines through a transfer of control. Under section 214 of 
the Act, carriers must obtain Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 
approval before constructing, acquiring, or operating an interstate 
transmission line. Acquisitions involving interstate common carriers 
therefore require affirmative action by the FCC before the acquisition 
can occur.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0770.
    OMB Approval Date: 11/07/2005.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2008.
    Title: Price Cap Performance Review for Local Exchange Carriers, CC 
Docket No. 94-1 (New Services).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 34 responses; 170 total annual burden 
hours; approximately 5 hours average per respondent.

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    Needs and Uses: In the Fifth Report and Order, the Commission 
permits price cap LECs to introduce new services on a streamlined 
basis, without prior approval. The Commission modified the rules to 
eliminate the public interest showing required by Section 69.4(g) and 
to eliminate the new services test (except in the case of loop-based 
new services) required under Sections 61.49(f) and (g). These 
modifications eliminated the delays that existed for the introduction 
of new services as well as to encourage efficient investment and 
innovation.
    The Commission no longer requires an incumbent LEC to introduce a 
new service by filing a waiver under Part 69 of the Commission's rules. 
Instead, incumbent LECs are allowed to file a petition for the new 
service based on a public interest standard. After the first incumbent 
LEC has satisfied the public interest requirement for establishing new 
rate elements for a new switched access service, other incumbent price 
cap LECs can file petitions seeking authority to introduce identical 
rate elements for identical new services, and their petitions will be 
reviewed within ten days. If the Common Carrier Bureau (now the 
Wireline Competition Bureau) does not act within the prescribed time, 
authority to establish the rate elements in question are deemed 
granted. In the event the Bureau denies an incumbent LEC's initial 
petition, or a subsequent petition filed by another incumbent LEC, the 
petitioner must file a Part 69 waiver petition.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-22841 Filed 11-22-05; 8:45 am]
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