[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 140 (Monday, July 21, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 42344]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-16494]



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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Approved by the Office 
of Management and Budget

July 8, 2008.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission has received Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public 
information collection(s) pursuant to 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 OMB 
control number, and no person is required to respond to a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. 
Comments concerning the accuracy of the burden estimate(s) and any 
suggestions for reducing the burden should be directed to the person 
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information contact 
Thomas McCudden, Spectrum and Competition Policy Division, Wireless 
Telecommunications Bureau at (202) 418-7769 or via Internet at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0999.
    OMB Approval Date: 7/2/08.
    Expiration Date: 7/31/11.
    Title: Section 20.19, Hearing Aid-Compatible Mobile Handsets 
(Hearing Aid Compatibility Act).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 925 respondents; 950 responses; 13.2 hours 
average burden per response; 12,600 annual burden hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits; 
Statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in 
Sections 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 157, 160, 201, 202, 208, 214, 301, 303, 
308, 309(j), and 310.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Information requested in the 
reports may include confidential information. However, covered entities 
would be allowed to request that such materials submitted to the 
Commission be withheld from public inspection. See 47 CFR 0.459.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission is revising this IC because it has 
adopted final rules in a Report and Order, FCC 08-68, adopted on 
February 26, 2008, and released on February 28, 2008, which updates 
several of the performance benchmarks for the offering of hearing aid-
compatible handset models by manufacturers and service providers of 
digital handsets used with public mobile services, institutes new 
requirements for manufacturers to refresh their product lines and for 
service providers to offer hearing aid-compatible handset models with 
differing levels of functionality, adopts a new version of the 
technical standard for measuring hearing aid compatibility, and 
addresses the application of the rules to phones that operate in 
multiple frequency bands or air interfaces.
    To assist the Commission in monitoring the implementation of the 
new requirements and to provide information to the public, the Report 
and Order also requires manufacturers and service providers to continue 
to file annual reports on the status of their compliance with these 
requirements, and requires manufacturers and service providers that 
maintain public Web sites to publish up-to-date information on those 
Web sites regarding their hearing aid-compatible handset models. The 
annual reports required in this Order contain different and additional 
information than in previous versions of this information collection. 
Those requirements, along with the requirement to post certain 
information on Web sites, are intended to give consumers the 
information they need to navigate a technically complex and rapidly 
changing world of hearing aid-compatible wireless phones, and to allow 
the Commission to monitor compliance with its new regulations. Finally, 
in order to avoid potential consumer confusion over technical 
capabilities, the Order modified the product labeling requirements 
slightly.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-16494 Filed 7-18-08; 8:45 am]
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