[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 68 (Monday, April 10, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18091-18092]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-5196]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

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: Jennifer Mock, Federal Communications 
Commission, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554, (202) 418-7234 
or via the Internet at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1021.
    OMB Approval Date: 11/7/2005.
    OMB Expiration Date: 11/30/2008.
    Title: Section 25.139, NGSO FSS coordination and information 
sharing between MVDDS licenses in the 12.2 GHz to 12.7 GHz band.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 6 respondents; 36 annual burden hours; 6 
hour per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: Section 43.21(c) requires each miscellaneous common 
carrier with operating revenues in excess of the indexed threshold as 
defined in 47 CFR 32.900 for a calendar year to file with the Chief, 
Wireline Competition Bureau (formerly the Common Carrier Bureau) a 
letter showing its operating revenues for that year and the value of 
its total communications plant at the end of that year. The letter must 
be filed no later that April 1 of the following year. The information 
is used by FCC staff members to regulate and monitor the telephone 
industry and by the public to analyze the industry. The information or 
revenues and total plant is compiled and published in the Commission's 
annual common carrier statistical publication and trends in telephone 
service report.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-1022.
    OMB Approval Date: 1/13/2006
    OMB Expiration Date: 1/31/2009.
    Title: Section 101.1403, Broadcast Carriage Requirements.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 214 respondents; 214 annual burden hours; 
1 hour per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: On July 7, 2003, the FCC released a Third Report 
and Order in ET Docket No. 98-206, FCC 03-152, which requires 
Multichannel Video Distribution and Data Service (MVDDS) respondents 
that meet the statutory definition of Multiple Video Programming 
Distributor (MVPD) to comply with the broadcast carriage requirements 
located at 47 U.S.C. 325(b)(1). Any MVDDS licensee that is an MVPD must 
obtain the prior express authority of a broadcast station before 
retransmitting that station's signal, subject to the exceptions 
contained in section 325(b)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended. Additionally, the Commission decided to change from the 
original Component Economic Areas (CEAs) to Designated Market Areas 
(DMAs) to allow for advanced wireless services.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-1023.
    OMB Approval Date: 1/13/2006.
    OMB Expiration Date: 1/31/2009.
    Title: Section 101.103, Frequency Coordination Procedures.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 214 respondents; 1177 total annual burden 
hours; (estimated time per respondent to complete letter for consent is 
0.5 hours x 214 = 107 burden hours, estimated time per respondent to 
establish and update Internet site is 5 hours x 214 = 1070 burden 
hours, 107 + 1070 = 1177 total burden hours).
    Needs and Uses: On July 7, 2003, the FCC released a Third Report 
and Order in ET Docket No. 98-206, FCC 03-152, which requires 
Multichannel Video Distribution and Data Service (MVDDS) licensees to 
provide notice of intent to construct a proposed antenna to NGSO FSS 
licensing operating in the 12.2-12.7 GHz frequency band and to maintain 
an Internet Web site of all existing transmitting sites and 
transmitting antennas that are scheduled for operation within one year 
including the ``in service'' dates. Additionally, the Commission 
decided to change from the original Component Economic Areas (CEAs) to 
Designated Market Areas (DMAs) to allow for advanced wireless services.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-1024.
    Title: Section 101.1413, License Term and Renewal Expectancy; 
Section 101.1421, Coordination of Adjacent Area MVDDS Stations and 
Incumbent Public Safety POFS Stations.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 214 respondents; 107 total annual burden 
hours; 0.5 hours per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: On July 7, 2003, the FCC released a Third Report 
and Order in ET Docket No. 98-206, FCC 03-152, which requires 
Multichannel Video Distribution and Data Service (MVDDS) renewal 
applicants to comply with the requirements to provide substantial 
service by the end of the ten year initial license term. Additionally, 
the Commission decided to change from the original Component Economic 
Areas (CEAs) to Designated Market Areas

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(DMAs) to allow for advanced wireless services.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-1025.
    Title: Section 101.1440, MVDDS Protection of Direct Broadcast 
Satellites (DBS).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimate Annual Burden: 217 respondents; 8,635 total burden hours; 
(214 MVDDS licensees x 40 hours = 8560 burden hours, 3 DBS licensees x 
25 hours = 75 burden hours, totaling 8635 total annual burden hours).
    Needs and Uses: On July 7, 2003, the FCC released a Third Report 
and Order in ET Docket No. 98-206, FCC 03-152, which requires 
Multichannel Video Distribution and Data Service (MVDDS) licensees to 
conduct a survey of the area around its proposed transmitting antenna 
site to determine the location of all DBS customers that may 
potentially be effected by the introduction of its MVDDS service. The 
MO&O and Second Report and Order will ensure that MVDDS signal will not 
be in excess of the appropriate Equivalent Power Flux Density (EPFD) 
limits as written in 47 CFR 101.105(a)(4)(ii)(B) is causing 
interference to DBS customers. If the MVDDS licensee determines that 
its signal level will exceed the EPFD limit at any DBS customer site, 
it shall take whatever steps are necessary, up to and including finding 
a new transmission site. Additionally, the Commission decided to change 
from the original Component Economic Areas (CEAs) to Designated Market 
Areas (DMAs) to allow for advanced wireless services.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1026.

    Title: Section 101.1417, Annual Report.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 214 respondents; 214 total annual burden 
hours; 1 hour per respondent.
    Needs and Uses: On July 7, 2003, the FCC released a Third Report 
and Order in ET Docket No. 98-206, FCC 03-152, which requires 
Multichannel Video Distribution and Data Service (MVDDS) licensees to 
file two copies of a ``licensee information report'' by March 1st of 
each year with the Commission, for the preceding calendar year. This 
report must include the name and address of the licensee, station(s) 
call letters and primary geographic service area(s), and statistical 
data for the licensee's station(s). This report enables the Commission 
to keep track of the number of MVDDS licensee stations. Additionally, 
the Commission decided to change from the original Component Economic 
Areas (CEAs) to Designated Market Areas (DMAs) to allow for advanced 
wireless services.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E6-5196 Filed 4-7-06; 8:45 am]
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