[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 14, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 7032]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-2575]



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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

February 8, 2007.

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) 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.: 3060-0292.
    OMB Approval date: 1/10/2007.
    Expiration Date: 1/31/2010.
    Title: Part 69--Access Charges (Section 69.605, Reporting and 
Distribution of Pool Access Revenues.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 15,000 responses; 11,250 total annual 
burden hours.
    Needs and Uses: Part 69 of the Commission's rules and regulations 
establishes the rules for access charges for interstate or foreign 
access provided by telephone companies. Local telephone companies and 
states are required to submit information to the Commission and/or the 
National Exchange Carrier Association. The information is used to 
compute charges in tariffs for access service (or origination and 
termination) and to computer revenue pool distributions.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0743.
    OMB Approval date: 1/16/2007.
    Expiration Date: 1/31/2010.
    Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and 
Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC 
Docket No. 96-128. Part 36--Separations.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 10,071 responses; 118,137 total annual 
burden hours.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission has rules and requirements 
implementing Section 276 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Among 
other things, the rules: (1) Establish fair compensation for every 
completed intrastate and interstate payphone call; (2) discontinue 
intrastate and interstate access charge payphone service elements and 
payments, and intrastate and interstate payphone subsidies from basic 
exchange services; and (3) adopt guidelines for use by the states in 
establishing public interest payphones to be located where there would 
otherwise not be a payphone.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0775.
    OMB Approval date: 1/16/2007.
    Expiration Date: 1/31/2010.
    Title: Section 64.1903, Obligations of All Incumbent Local Exchange 
Carriers (LECs).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 10 responses; 60,560 total annual burden 
hours.
    Needs and Uses: Independent Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) wishing 
to offer international, inter-exchange services must comply with the 
separate affiliate requirements of the Competitive Carrier Fifth Report 
and Order in order to do so. One of these requirements is that the 
independent LEC's international, inter-exchange affiliate must maintain 
books of account separate from such LEC's local exchange and other 
activities. This regulation does not require that the affiliate 
maintain books of account that comply with the Commission's Part 32 
rules; rather, it refers to the fact that as a separate legal entity, 
the international, inter-exchange affiliate must maintain its own books 
of account in the ordinary course of its business.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0952.
    OMB Approval date: 1/10/2007.
    Expiration Date: 1/31/2010.
    Title: Proposed Demographic Information and Notifications, Second 
FNPRM, CC Docket No. 98-147 and Fifth NPRM, CC Docket No. 96-98.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 10,071 responses; 118,137 total annual 
burden hours.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission requires incumbent LECs to provide 
requesting carriers with demographic and other information regarding 
particular remote terminals similar to the information available 
regarding incumbent LEC central offices. Requesting carriers use 
demographic and other information obtained from incumbent LECs to 
determine whether they wish to collocate at particular remote 
terminals.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-1096.
    OMB Approval date: 2/05/2007.
    Expiration Date: 2/28/2010.
    Title: Prepaid Calling Card Service Provider Certification, WC 
Docket 05-68.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 3,148 responses; 78,700 total annual 
burden hours.
    Needs and Uses: Prepaid calling card service providers must now 
report quarterly the percentage of interstate, intrastate and 
international access charges to carriers from which they purchase 
transport services. Prepaid calling card providers must also file 
certifications with the Commission quarterly that include the above 
information and a statement that they are contributing to the federal 
Universal Service Fund based on all interstate and international 
revenue, except for revenue from the sale of prepaid calling cards by, 
to, or pursuant to contract with the DoD or a DoD entity.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Secretary.
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