[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 244 (Thursday, December 20, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 72358]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-24510]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

December 10, 2007.
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: Thomas Butler, Federal Communications 
Commission, (202) 418-1492 or via the Internet at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0166.
    OMB Approval Date: 11/28/2007.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2010.
    Title: Part 42--Preservation of Records of Communications Common 
Carriers.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burdens: 56 responses; 112 total annual hours; 2 
hours per response.
    Needs and Uses: Part 42 prescribes the regulations governing the 
preservation of records of communications common carriers that are 
fully subject to the jurisdiction of the FCC. The requirements are 
necessary to ensure the availability of carrier records needed by 
Commission staff for regulatory purposes.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0715.
    OMB Approval Date: 12/06/2007.
    Expiration Date: 06/30/2008.
    Title: Telecommunications Carriers' Use of Customer Proprietary 
Network Information (CPNI) and Other Customer Information, CC Docket 
No. 96-115.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burdens: 6,017 respondents; 350,704 hours; 58.29 
hours per response.
    Needs and Uses: On January 12, 2007, President George W. Bush 
signed into law the ``Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 
2006,'' which responded to the problem of ``pretexting,'' or seeking to 
obtain unauthorized access to telephone records, by making it a 
criminal offense subject to fines and imprisonment. In particular, 
pretexting is the practice of pretending to be a particular customer or 
other authorized person in order to obtain access to that customer's 
call detail or other private communications records. The Telephone 
Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 Act found that such 
unauthorized disclosure of telephone records is a problem that ``not 
only assaults individual privacy but, in some instances, may further 
acts of domestic violence or stalking, compromise the personal safety 
of law enforcement officers, their families, victims of crime, 
witnesses, or confidential informants, and undermine the integrity of 
law enforcement investigations.''
    On April 2, 2007, the Commission released the Report and Order and 
Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Implementation of the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996: Telecommunications Carriers' Use of 
Customer Proprietary Network Information and Other Customer 
Information; IP-Enabled Services, CC Docket No. 96-115, WC Docket No. 
04-36, FCC 07-22, which responded to the practice of pretexting by 
strengthening its rules to protect the privacy of customer proprietary 
network information (CPNI) that is collected and held by providers of 
communications services. Section 222 of the Communications Act requires 
telecommunications carriers to take specific steps to ensure that CPNI 
is adequately protected from unauthorized disclosure. Pursuant to 
section 222, the Commission adopted new rules focused on the efforts of 
providers of communications services to prevent pretexting. These rules 
require providers of communications services to adopt additional 
privacy safeguards that, the Commission believes, will sharply limit 
pretexters' ability to obtain unauthorized access to the type of 
personal customer information from carriers that the Commission 
regulates. In addition, in furtherance of the Telephone Records and 
Privacy Protection Act of 2006, the Commission's rules help ensure that 
law enforcement will have necessary tools to investigate and enforce 
prohibitions on illegal access to customer records.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-24510 Filed 12-19-07; 8:45 am]
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