[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 1, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5337-5338]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-891]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

January 24, 2006.
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.: 3060-0147.
    OMB Approval Date: January 19, 2006.
    Expiration Date: January 31, 2009.
    Title: Section 64.804--Extension of Unsecured Credit for Interstate 
and Foreign Communication Services to Candidates for Federal Office.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 13 responses; 104 total annual burden 
hours; 8 hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: Communications common carriers with operating 
revenues exceeding $1 million who extend unsecured credit to a 
candidate or person on behalf of such candidates for Federal office 
must file with the FCC a report including due and outstanding balances. 
The information is used tor monitoring purposes.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0704.
    OMB Approval Date: January 13, 2006.
    Expiration Date: January 31, 2009.
    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. 96-61.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 519 responses; 84,337 total annual burden 
hours; approximately .5-120 hours average per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: 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.: 3060-1009.
    OMB Approval Date: January 19, 2006.
    Expiration Date: January 31, 2009.
    Title: Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, CC Docket No. 96-45.
    Form No.: FCC 499 M.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1 response; 1 total annual burden hour; 1 
hour per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: In December 2002, the Commission issued a Second 
Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on specific 
aspects of three connection-based proposals to further refine the 
record in its proceeding to revisit its universal service contribution 
methodology. First, the Commission sought comment on a contribution 
methodology that would impose a minimum contribution obligation on all 
interstate telecommunications carriers, and a flat charge for each end-
user connection, depending on the nature or capacity of the connection. 
Next, the Commission sought comment on a proposal to assess all 
connections based purely on capacity. Finally, the Commission sought 
comment on a proposal to assess providers of switched connections based 
on their working telephone numbers. If adopted, the proposals may 
entail altering the current reporting requirements to which interstate 
telecommunications carriers are subject under Part 54 of the 
Commission's rules.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-1085.
    OMB Approval date: January 13, 2006.
    Expiration Date: January 31, 2009.
    Title: Collection of Location Information, Provision of Notice and 
Reporting on Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) E911 
Compliance.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 14,238,254 responses; 435,894 total annual 
burden hours; approximately .09-16 hours average per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: On June 3, 2005, the Commission released a First 
Report and Order in WC Docket No. 04-36 and a Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking in WC Docket No. 05-196, FCC 05-116 (Order) in which the 
Commission established rules requiring providers of interconnected 
VoIP--meaning VoIP service that allows a user generally to receive 
calls originating from and to terminate calls to the public switched 
telephone network (PSTN)--to provide enhanced 911 (E911) capabilities 
to their customers as a standard feature of service.
    The Order requires collection of information in six requirements:
    A. Location Registration. The Order requires providers of 
interconnected VoIP services to obtain location information from their 
customers for use in the routing of 911 calls and the provision of 
location information to emergency answering points.
    B. Provision of Automatic Location Information (ALI). In order to 
meet the obligations set forth in the Order, interconnected VoIP 
service providers will place the location information for their 
customers into, or make that information available through, specialized 
databases maintained by local exchange carriers (and, in at least one 
case, a state government) across the country.
    C. Customer Notification. In order to ensure that consumers of 
interconnected VoIP services are aware of their interconnected VoIP 
service's actual E911 capabilities, the Order requires that all 
providers of interconnected VoIP service specifically advise every 
subscriber, both new and existing,

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prominently and in plain language, the circumstances under which E911 
service may not be available through the interconnected VoIP service or 
may be in some way limited by comparison to traditional E911 service.
    D. Record of Customer Notification. The Order requires VoIP 
providers to obtain and keep a record of affirmative acknowledgement by 
every subscriber, both new and existing, of having received and 
understood this advisory.
    E. User Notification. In addition, in order to ensure to the extent 
possible that the advisory is available to all potential users of an 
interconnected VoIP service, interconnected VoIP service providers must 
distribute to all subscribers, both new and existing, warning stickers 
or other appropriate labels warning subscribers if E911 service may be 
limited or not available and instructing the subscriber to place them 
on and/or near the customer premises equipment used in conjunction with 
the interconnected VoIP service.
    F. Compliance Letter. The Order requires all interconnected VoIP 
providers to submit a letter to the Commission detailing their 
compliance with the rules set forth in the Order no later than 120 days 
after the effective date of the Order. This letter will enable the 
Commission to ensure that interconnected VoIP providers have achieved 
E911 compliance by the established deadline.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 06-891 Filed 1-31-06; 8:45 am]
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