[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 115 (Friday, June 13, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33820-33821]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-13263]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

June 3, 2008.
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: Dana Wilson, Federal Communications 
Commission, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554, (202) 418-2247 
or via the Internet at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0519.
    OMB Approval Date: 11/26/2007.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2010.
    Title: Rules and Regulations Implementing the Telephone Consumer 
Protection Act of 1991, Order, CG Docket No. 02-278.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 135,607,383 responses; .004 (15 seconds) 
to 3 hours per response; 708,806 total annual hourly burden.
    Needs and Uses: The reporting requirements included under OMB 
Control Number 3060-0519 enable the Commission to gather information 
regarding violations of the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act (Do-Not-Call 
Act). If the information collection was not conducted, the Commission 
would be unable to track and enforce violations of the Do-Not-Call Act. 
The Do-Not-Call rules provide consumers with several options for 
avoiding most unwanted telephone solicitations.
    The National Do-Not-Call Registry supplemented company-specific do-
not-call rules, though consumers may give specific companies permission 
to call them through an express written agreement even if such 
consumers have registered with the National Do-Not-Call Registry. 
Nonprofit organizations, companies with whom consumers have an 
established business relationship, and calls to persons with whom the 
telemarketer has a personal relationship are exempt from the do-not-
call requirements.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0653.
    OMB Approval Date: 04/24/2008.
    Expiration Date: 04/30/2011.
    Title: Section 64.703 (b) and (c), Consumer Information--Posting by 
Aggregators.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 5,339,038 responses; .017 to 3 hours per 
response; 172,631 total annual hourly burden.
    Needs and Uses: Pursuant to the information collection requirements 
included under OMB Control Number 3060-0653, aggregators making 
telephones available to the public or transient users of their premises 
under 47 U.S.C. 226(c)(1)(A) and 47 CFR 64.703(b) must post in writing, 
on or near such phones, information about pre-subscribed operator 
services, rates, carrier access, and the FCC address to which consumers 
may direct complaints. Section 64.703(c) of the Commission's rules 
establishes a 30-day outer limit for updating the posted consumer 
information when an aggregator has changed the pre-subscribed operator 
service provider (OSP). Consumers will use this information to 
determine whether they wish to use the services of the identified OSP.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0833.
    OMB Approval Date: 04/08/2008.
    Expiration Date: 04/30/2011.
    Title: Implementation of Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act 
of 1996: Complaint Filings.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 85,154 responses; 0.25 to 5 hours per 
response; 80,184 total annual hourly burden.
    Needs and Uses: The information collection requirements included 
under this OMB Control Number 3060-0833 govern the filing of complaints 
with the Commission as part of the implementation of section 255 of the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996, which seeks to ensure that 
telecommunications equipment and services are available to all 
Americans, including those individuals with disabilities. As with any 
complaint procedure, a certain number of regulatory and information 
burdens are necessary to ensure compliance with FCC rules. The 
information collection requirements also give full effect to the 
accessibility policies embodied in section 255, by requiring 
telecommunications equipment manufacturers and service providers to 
make end-user product documentation available in alternate formats, 
including providing contact information to request such documentation, 
and by requiring them to demonstrate how they considered accessibility 
during product development, when no other affirmative defenses to a 
complaint are pertinent.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1043.
    OMB Approval Date: 03/24/2008.
    Expiration Date: 03/31/2011.
    Title: Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech 
Services for Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities, Report 
and Order, CG Docket No. 03-123; FCC 04-137.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 18 responses; 10 hours per response; 180 
total annual hourly burden.
    Needs and Uses: The reporting requirements included under OMB 
Control Number 3060-1043 enable the Commission to collect waiver 
reports from Video Relay Service (VRS) and Internet-Protocol Relay (IP 
Relay) providers requesting waivers from certain Telecommunications 
Relay Services (TRS) mandatory minimum standards. On June 30, 2004, the 
Commission released a Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration in 
Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for 
Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities, FCC 04-137. In the 
Report and Order, the Commission granted VRS and IP Relay providers 
waivers of the following TRS mandatory minimum requirements, amongst 
others: (1) 47 CFR 64.604(a)(3)--types of calls that must be handled; 
(2) 47 CFR 64.604(a)(4)--emergency call handling; and (3) 47 CFR 
64.604(b)(3)--equal access to interexchange carriers. These waivers are 
granted provided that VRS and IP Relay providers submit annual reports 
to the Commission, in a narrative form, detailing: (1) The provider's 
plan or general approach to meet the waived standards; (2) any 
additional costs that would be required to meet the standards; (3) the 
development of any new technology that may affect the particular 
waivers; (4) the progress made by the provider to meet the standards; 
(5) the specific steps taken to resolve any technical problems that 
prohibit the provider from meeting the standards; and (6) any other 
factors relevant to whether the waiver should continue in effect.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1078.
    OMB Approval Date: 11/20/2007.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2010.
    Title: Rules and Regulations Implementing the Controlling the 
Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-
SPAM Act); CG Docket No. 04-53.
    Form No.: N/A.

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    Estimated Annual Burden: 5,443,287 responses; 1 to 10 hours per 
response; 30,254,598 total annual hourly burden.
    Needs and Uses: The reporting requirements included under OMB 
Control Number 3060-1078 enable the Commission to collect information 
regarding violations of the CAN-SPAM Act. This information is used to 
help wireless subscribers stop receiving unwanted commercial mobile 
services messages.
    On August 12, 2004, the Commission released an Order, Rules and 
Regulations Implementing the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited 
Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, CG Docket No. 04-53, FCC 04-194, 
adopting rules to prohibit the sending of commercial messages to any 
address referencing an Internet domain name associated with wireless 
subscribers' messaging services, unless the individual addressee has 
given the sender express prior authorization. The information 
collection requirements consist of 47 CFR 64.3100(a)(4), (d), (e) and 
(f).
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1111.
    OMB Approval Date: 01/15/2008.
    Expiration Date: 01/31/2011.
    Title: Sections 225 and 255, Interconnected Voice Over Internet 
Protocol Services (VoIP).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 27,464 responses; 1 to 20 hours per 
response; 149,962 total annual hourly burden.
    Needs and Uses: On June 15, 2007, the Commission released a Report 
and Order, IP-Enabled Services; Implementation of Sections 225 and 
251(a)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934, as Enacted by the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996: Access to Telecommunications Service, 
Telecommunications Equipment and Customer Premises Equipment by Persons 
with Disabilities; Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-
Speech Services for Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities; 
the Use of N11 Codes and Other Abbreviated Dialing Arrangements, FCC 
07-110. FCC 07-110 extended the disability access requirements that 
apply to telecommunications service providers and equipment 
manufacturers under section 255 of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended (the Act), to providers of ``interconnected voice over Internet 
Protocol (VoIP) services,'' as defined by the Commission, and to 
manufacturers of specially designed equipment used to provide those 
services. In addition, the Commission extended to interconnected VoIP 
providers the TRS requirements contained in its regulations, pursuant 
to section 225(b)(1) of the Act. As applied to interconnected VoIP 
providers and to manufacturers of specialized VoIP equipment, several 
requirements adopted by FCC 07-110 contained new or modified 
information collection requirements.

    Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-13263 Filed 6-12-08; 8:45 am]
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