[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 17 (Friday, January 25, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4567-4570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-1325]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


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

January 14, 2008.
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 of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Sections 3501--3520. 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

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(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 comments should be submitted on or before March 25, 
2008. 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 PRA comments by e-mail or U.S. mail. To 
submit your comments by e-mail, send them to [email protected]. To submit 
your comments by U.S. mail, send them to Leslie F. Smith, Federal 
Communications Commission, Room 1-C216, 445 12th Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20554.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the 
information collection(s), contact Leslie F. Smith via e-mail at 
[email protected] or call (202) 418-0217.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0056.
    Title: Part 68--Connection of Terminal Equipment to the Telephone 
Network.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 58,520 respondents; 70,450 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.5-24 hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement; 
recordkeeping requirement; and third party disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 32,027 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $1,160,000.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting that the respondents submit confidential information to the 
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for 
information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of the 
Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The purpose of 47 CFR Part 68 is to protect the 
telephone network from certain types of harm and interference to other 
subscribers. To ensure that consumers, providers of telecommunications, 
the Administrative Council, telecommunications certification bodies 
(TCBs), and the Commission are able to trace products to the party 
responsible for placing terminal equipment on the market, it is 
essential to require manufacturers and suppliers to provide the 
information required by part 68. In addition, it is necessary that 
incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) provide the information in 
part 68 to warn their subscribers of impending disconnection of service 
when subscriber terminal equipment is causing telephone network harm.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0370.
    Title: Part 32--Uniform System of Accounts for Telecommunications 
Companies.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit, not-for-profit 
institutions, and state, local and tribal government.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 239 respondents; 239 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 1.07-104 hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory as required by 47 U.S.C. 220.
    Frequency of Response: On-occasion reporting requirement; 
recordkeeping requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 1,516,702 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting that the respondents submit confidential information to the 
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for 
information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of the 
Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission adopting the Joint Conference's 
recommendations to reinstate the following Part 32 Class A accounts: 
Account 5230, Directory revenue; Account 6621, Call completion 
services; Account 6622, Number services; Account 6623, Customer 
services; Account 6561, Depreciation expenses--telecommunications plant 
in service; Account 6562, Depreciation expenses--property held for 
future telecommunications use; Account 6563, Amortization expense--
tangible; Account 6564, Amortization expense--intangible; Account 6565, 
Amortization expense--other. These accounting changes are mandatory 
only for Class A Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs). The 
reinstatement of these accounts will impose a minor increase (7%) in 
burden on Class A ILECs only. Additionally, the Commission is 
establishing a requirement that Class A ILECs maintain subsidiary 
record categories for unbundled network element revenues, resale 
revenues, reciprocal compensation revenues, and other interconnection 
revenues in the accounts in which these revenues are currently 
recorded. The use of subsidiary record categories allows carriers to 
use whatever mechanisms they choose, including those currently in 
place, to identify the relevant amounts as long as the information can 
be made available to state and federal regulators upon request. The use 
of subsidiary record categories for interconnection revenue does not 
require massive changes to the ILECs' accounting system and is a far 
less burdensome alternative than the creation of new accounts and/or 
subaccounts.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-XXXX.
    Title: Service Quality Measurement Plan for Interstate Special 
Access and Monthly Usage Reporting Requirements.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: New Collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 3 respondents; 48 responses 
annually.
    Estimated Time per Response: 25-75 hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Frequency of Response: Monthly and quarterly reporting 
requirements; third party disclosure.
    Total Annual Burden: 3,000 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $135,000.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The respondents may request 
confidentiality protection for the special access performance 
information. The respondents are not required to file their customers' 
monthly usage information with the Federal Communications Commission 
(FCC).
    Needs and Uses: The service quality measurement plan for interstate 
special access would require the respondents to report special access 
performance metrics on a quarterly basis. Because, pursuant to Section 
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the BOC Separate Affiliate and Related Requirements; 2000 Biennial 
Regulatory Review Separate Affiliate Requirements of Section 64.1903 of 
the Commission's Rules; Petition of AT&T Inc. for Forbearance Under 47 
U.S.C. 160(c) with Regard to Certain Dominant Carrier Regulations for 
In-Region, Interexchange Services, WC Docket Nos. 02-112, 06-120, CC 
Docket No. 00-175, Report and Order and Memorandum Opinion and Order, 
22 FCC Rcd 16440 (2007) (Section 272 Sunset Order), the respondents are 
no longer required to comply with the section 272 structural 
safeguards, the special access performance metrics reporting 
requirements will ensure that these carriers do not engage in non-price 
discrimination in the provision of special access services to 
unaffiliated entities and will provide the FCC and other interested 
parties with reasonable tools to monitor these carriers' performance in 
providing these special access services to themselves and their 
competitors. The monthly usage reporting requirement would require the 
respondents to provide each of their residential customers who 
subscribe to a call plan that establishes a single rate for unlimited 
wireline local exchange and long distance telecommunications service 
with the total number of long distance telecommunications service 
minutes used by that customer each month. This monthly usage reporting 
requirement will help ensure that, as a result of the relief granted in 
the Section 272 Sunset Order residential interstate long distance 
consumers receive adequate information regarding their monthly usage in 
order to make informed choices among alternative long distance calling 
plans.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0823.
    Title: Pay Telephone Reclassification, Memorandum Opinion and 
Order, CC Docket No. 96-128.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 400 respondents; 400 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 2-35 hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory as required by 47 U.S.C. 276.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion, monthly, and quarterly 
reporting requirements; recordkeeping requirement; and third party 
disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 44,700 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $480,000.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting that the respondents submit confidential information to the 
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for 
information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of the 
Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission's Common Carrier Bureau adopted and 
released a Memorandum Opinion and Order, Implementation of the Pay 
Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996 et al., CC Docket No. 96-128, DA 98-481, 
on March 9, 1998, which clarified the requirements established in the 
Payphones Orders for the provision of payphone-specific coding digits 
and for tariffs that local exchange carriers (LECs) must file pursuant 
to the Payphone Orders. The Commission also granted a waiver of Part 69 
of the Commission's rules so that LECs can establish rate elements to 
recover the costs of implementing FLEX-ANI (a type of switch software) 
to provide payphone-specific coding digits for per-call compensation. 
The Commission is required to implement section 276 of the Act, which 
it has done in the Payphone Orders.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0298.
    Title: Competitive Carrier Line Count Report.
    Form Number: FCC Form 525.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,300 respondents; 4,753 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 57 hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and annual reporting 
requirements.
    Total Annual Burden: 66,120 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The respondents may request 
confidentiality protection for the special access performance 
information. The respondents are not required to file their customers' 
monthly usage information with the Federal Communications Commission 
(FCC).
    Needs and Uses: 47 CFR Part 61 of the Commission's rules 
establishes procedures for filing tariffs which contain the charges, 
practices, and regulations of the common carriers, supporting economic 
data and other related documents. The supporting data must conform to 
other parts of the Rules such as Parts 36 and 69. Part 61 also 
prescribes the framework for the initial establishment of and 
subsequent revisions to tariffs. Tariffs that do not conform to Part 61 
may be required to post their schedules or rates and regulations. The 
information collected through a carrier's tariff is used by the 
Commission to determine whether services offered are just and 
reasonable as the Act requires. The tariffs and any supporting 
documentation are examined in order to determine if the services are 
offered in a just and reasonable manner.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-1046.
    Title: Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions 
of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC Docket No. 96-128, Order on 
Reconsideration.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,023 respondents; 4,854 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 100 hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory, as required by 47 U.S.C. 276.
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly and annual reporting requirements; 
recordkeeping requirement; and third party disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 485,400 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting that the respondents submit Confidential information to the 
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for 
Information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of the 
Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission released an Order on 
Reconsideration, the Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation 
Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC Docket No. 96-128, 
FCC 04-251, on October 22, 2004, which increased the time carriers must 
retain certain data and adds burden in that regard. It also removed 
potentially burdensome paperwork requirements by encouraging carriers 
to comply with the reporting requirements through electronic means. We 
believe that the clarifications adopted in the Order on Reconsideration 
significantly decrease the paperwork burden on carriers. Specifically, 
the Commission: (1) Clarified that Completing Carriers must provide the 
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(PSP) with adequate notice of an alternative compensation arrangement 
(ACA) prior to its effective date with sufficient time for the PSP to 
object to an ACA, and also prior to the termination of an ACA; (2) 
clarified any paperwork burdens imposed on carriers and allowed 
Completing Carriers to provide notice of ACAs on a clearinghouse's Web 
site; (3) required Completing Carriers to report only completed calls 
in their quarterly reports; and (4) extended the time period from 18 to 
27 months for Completing Carriers and Intermediate Carriers to retain 
certain payphone records.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0816.
    Title: Local Telephone Competition and Broadband Reporting, Report 
and Order, WC Docket No. 04-141, FCC 04-266.
    Form Number: FCC Form 477.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit; not-for-profit 
institutions; and state, local or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,400 respondents; 2,800 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 46.0 hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory, as required by the Commission's 
rules implementing section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 
47 U.S.C. 157nt, and the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 
U.S.C. 151-155, 160, 161, 201-205, 215, 218-220, 251-271, 303(r), 332, 
403, 502, and 503.
    Frequency of Response: Semi-annual reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 128,800 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: Respondents may request 
confidential treatment for competitively sensitive information by using 
a drop-down box located on the first page of Form 477. If the 
Commission receives a request for release pursuant to the Freedom of 
Information Act, the respondent is notified and afforded an opportunity 
to show why the data should not be released under 47 CFR 0.459(b) of 
the Commission's rules. Additionally, the Commission only releases 
aggregated (non-company specific) information in its published reports.
    Needs and Uses: The information is necessary to evaluate the status 
of local telephone competition and the status of broadband services 
deployment. The information assists the Commission in preparing the 
report mandated by section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 
and it is used by the Commission to evaluate the efficacy of Commission 
rules and policies adopted to implement the Telecommunications Act of 
1996.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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