[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 23 (Monday, February 4, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6502-6503]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-1976]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


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

January 29, 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. 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 (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 April 4, 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

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F. Smith via e-mail at [email protected] or call (202) 418-0217.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0715.
    Title: Telecommunications Carriers' Use of Customer Proprietary 
Network Information (CPNI) and Other Customer Information, CC Docket 
No. 96-115.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 6,017 respondents; 137,256,125 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.153 minutes.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion, biennial, annual, and one time 
reporting requirements; recordkeeping; and third party disclosure.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory as required by section 222 of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 222.
    Total Annual Burden: 350,704 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $3,000,000.
    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: Section 222 of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended, 47 U.S.C. 222, establishes a duty of every telecommunications 
carrier to protect the confidentiality of its customers' CPNI, which 
includes personally identifiable information derived from a customer's 
relationship with a provider of communications services. This 
information collection implements the statutory obligations of section 
222. These regulations impose safeguards to protect customers' CPNI 
against unauthorized access and disclosure. In March 2007, the 
Commission adopted new rules in the CPNI Order, CC Docket No. 96-115 et 
al., FCC 07-22, which focused on the efforts of providers of 
communications services to prevent pretexting. These rules required 
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.
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