[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 54 (Wednesday, March 21, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13282-13283]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-5168]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for 
Review to the Office of Management and Budget

March 13, 2007.
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 (PRA) 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 April 20, 2007. If you anticipate that you will 
be submitting PRA comments, but find it difficult to do so within the 
period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the FCC 
contact listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Allison E. Zaleski, Office of 
Management and Budget, Room 10236 NEOB, Washington, DC 20503, (202) 
395-6466, or via fax at 202-395-5167 or via internet at Allison--E.--
Zaleski@ omb.eop.gov and to Judith-B. [email protected], Federal 
Communications Commission, Room 1-B441, 445 12th Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20554 or an e-mail to [email protected]. If you would like to 
obtain or view a

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copy of this information collection, you may do so by visiting the FCC 
PRA Web page at: http://www.fcc.gov/omd/pra.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies 
of the information collection(s), contact Judith B. Herman at 202-418-
0214 or via the Internet at Judith-B.[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0895.
    Title: Numbering Resource Optimization, CC Docket No. 99-200 (47 
CFR 52.15, Central Office Code Administration).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 2,780 respondents; 7,385 responses.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 1-44.4 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and semi-annual reporting 
requirements and recordkeeping requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory.
    Total Annual Burden: 131,782 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $3,462,800.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Disaggregated, carrier 
specific forecast and utilization data will be treated as confidential 
and will be exempt from public disclosure under 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4) of 
the Privacy Act.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this information 
collection to OMB as a revision during this comment period to obtain 
the full three-year clearance from them.
    The Commission has revised the burden hours and annual cost since 
this was last submitted to OMB.
    For this submission to OMB, the Commission is eliminating a one-
time reporting requirement that carriers submit cost support data so 
that the Commission could determine the cost associated with the 
thousand-block number pooling. Carriers were required to include an 
analysis of the differences between the shared industry costs 
associated with the thousand-block number pooling and the shared 
industry costs, if any, associated with the current practices that 
resulted in more frequent area code changes. Because the Commission is 
revising this collection to eliminate this one-time requirement, we are 
reporting a -50,108 hourly burden reduction. The Commission is also 
reporting a -$4,396,200 reduction in annual costs due to an adjustment 
because industry burden costs have been re-estimated for contract years 
2-4 for wages.
    The data from this information collection is used by the FCC, state 
regulatory commissions, and the North American Numbering Plan 
Administrator (NANPA) to monitor numbering resource utilization by all 
carriers using the resource and to project the dates of area code and 
North American Numbering Plan (NANP) exhaust.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E7-5168 Filed 3-20-07; 8:45 am]
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