[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 6, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31327-31328]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-10897]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 
Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested

May 29, 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 No. 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 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 August 6, 2007. If you anticipate that you will 
be submitting comments, but find it difficult to do so within the 
period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the contact 
listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: You may submit all Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments by 
e-mail or U.S. post mail. To submit you comments by e-mail, send them 
to [email protected]. To submit your comments by U.S. mail, mark them to the 
attention of Cathy Williams, Federal Communications Commission, Room 1-
C823, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554 and Jasmeet Seehra, 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Desk Officer, Room 10236 NEOB, 
725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503 or via Internet at [email protected] or via fax (202) 395-5167.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the 
information collection(s), send an e-mail to [email protected] or contact 
Cathy Williams at 202-418-2918.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Control Number: 3060-1089.
    Title: Emergency Access Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and 
Internet-Protocol (IP) Relay/ Video Relay Service (VRS) Fraud Further 
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM); VRS Interoperability FNPRM, CG 
Docket No. 03-123.
    Form No.: Not applicable.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; State, Local or 
Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 8--(6 of which provides VRS and IP Relay 
service; 2 of which provides VRS).
    Estimated Time per Response: 4 to 1,000 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement; One-time 
reporting requirement; On occasion reporting requirement; Recordkeeping 
requirement; Monthly reporting requirement; Third party disclosure 
requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Total Annual Burden: 34,688 hours.
    Total Annual Costs: None.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: An assurance of 
confidentiality is not offered because this information collection does 
not require the collection of personally identifiable information (PII) 
from individuals.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: Note: The Commission is revising information 
collection 3060-1089 to consolidate/merge the information collection 
requirements of 3060-1091 into this collection per the Office of 
Management and Budget's (OMB) request. Presently, the Commission 
concludes that these two proposed information collections are similar 
because these collections involve same respondents and contain similar 
data of identifiable information in order: (1) To facilitate 911 
emergency calls; (2) to improve interoperability for VRS and IP Relay 
services; and (3) to curtail misuse of VRS and IP Relay services. The 
Commission does not

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collect this information. The Commission requires respondents to 
collect this information. Once OMB approval is received for the 
consolidated/merged information collection requirements, the Commission 
will eliminate OMB information collection No. 3060-1091.
    On November 30 2005, the Commission released a Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking (NPRM), CG Docket No. 03-123, which addressed the issue of 
access to emergency services for Internet-based forms of 
Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS), namely VRS and IP Relay 
Service. The Commission sought to adopt means to ensure that such calls 
promptly reach the appropriate emergency service provider. By doing so, 
the NPRM sought comment on various issues: (1) Whether the Commission 
should require VRS and IP Relay service providers to establish a 
registration process in which VRS and IP Relay service users provide, 
in advance, the primary location from which they will be making VRS or 
IP Relay service calls (the Registered Location), so that a 
communication assistant (CA) can identify the appropriate Public Safety 
Answering Point (PSAP) to contact; (2) should VRS and IP Relay 
providers be required to register their customers and obtain a 
Registered Location from their customers so that they will be able to 
make the outbound call to the appropriate PSAP; (3) whether there are 
other means by which VRS and IP Relay service providers may obtain 
Registered Location information, for example, by linking the serial 
number of the customer VRS or IP Relay service terminal or equipment to 
their registered location; (4) any privacy considerations that might be 
raised by requiring VRS and IP Relay service users to provide location 
information as a prerequisite to using these services; (5) whether, 
assuming some type of location registration requirement is adopted, the 
Commission should require specific information or place limits on the 
scope of information that providers should be able to obtain; (6) 
whether the Commission should require VRS and IP Relay providers to 
provide appropriate warning labels for installation on customer 
premises equipment (CPE) used in connection with VRS and IP Relay 
services; (7) whether the Commission should require VRS and IP Relay 
providers to obtain and keep a record of affirmative acknowledgement by 
every subscriber of having received and understood the advisory that 
E911 service may not be available through VRS and IP Relay or may be in 
some way limited by comparison to traditional E911 service; and (8) how 
the Commission may ensure that providers have updated location 
information, and the respective obligations of the providers and the 
consumers in this regard.
    On May 8, 2006, the Commission released the Misuse of IP Relay 
Service and VRS Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, (IP Relay Fraud 
FNPRM), CG Docket No. 03-123, FCC 06-58 which contained the following 
information collection requirements involving user registration, e.g., 
callers register to use VRS and IP Relay and provide their requisite 
information as necessary: The IP Relay Fraud FNPRM sought comment on: 
(1) Whether IP Relay and VRS providers should be required to implement 
user registration system in which users provide certain information to 
their providers, in advance, as a means of curbing illegitimate IP 
Relay and VRS calls; (2) what information should be required of the 
user; (3) whether there are steps that could be taken, or technology 
implemented, to prevent the wrongful use of registration information; 
and (4) whether the Commission should require VRS and IP Relay 
providers to maintain records of apparently illegitimate calls that 
were terminated by the providers.
    On May 9, 2006, the Commission released the VRS Interoperability 
Declaratory Ruling and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 
(Interoperability FNPRM), In the Matter of Telecommunications Relay 
Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for individuals with Hearing and 
Speech Disabilities, CG Docket No. 03-123, FCC 06-57. In the 
Interoperability FNPRM, the Commission sought comment on the 
feasibility of establishing a single, open, and global database of 
proxy numbers for VRS users that would be available to all service 
providers, so that a hearing person can call a VRS user through any VRS 
provider, and without having first to ascertain the VRS user's current 
IP address. The Commission also sought comment on nature of the proxy 
numbers that might be used and how they might be administered. The 
Commission sought comment on the role of the Commission in creating and 
maintaining the database. In the Interoperability FNPRM, the Commission 
recognized: (a) That when a hearing person contacts a VRS user by 
calling a VRS provider, the calling party has to know in advance the IP 
address of the VRS user so that the calling party can give that address 
to the VRS CA (b) that because most consumers' IP addresses are 
dynamic, the VRS consumer may not know the IP address of his or her VRS 
equipment at a particular time; (c) that some VRS providers have 
created their own database of ``proxy'' or ``alias'' numbers that 
associate with the IP address of their customers, even if a particular 
person's IP address is dynamic and changes; (d) that databases are 
maintained by the service provider and, generally, are not shared with 
other service providers; and (e) that a person desiring to call a VRS 
consumer via the consumer's proxy number can only use the services of 
the VRS provider that generates the number. The Interoperability FNPRM 
contained the following information collection requirements involving 
an open, global database of VRS proxy numbers. The Interoperability 
FNPRM sought comment on: (1) Whether VRS providers should be required 
to provide information to populate an open, global database of VRS 
proxy numbers and to keep the information current; (2) whether the 
Interstate TRS Fund administrator, a separate entity, or a consortium 
of service providers should be responsible for the maintenance and 
operation of an open, global database of VRS proxy numbers; (3) whether 
Deaf and hard of hearing individuals using video broadband 
communication need uniform and static end-point numbers should be 
linked to the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) that would remain 
consistent across all VRS providers so that they can contact one 
another and be contacted to the same extent that Public Switched 
Telephone Network (PSTN) and VoIP users are able to identify and call 
one another; (4) whether participation by service providers should be 
mandatory so that all VRS users can receive incoming calls.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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