[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7433-7434]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-3281]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for 
Review to the Office of Management and Budget, Comments Requested

February 10, 2009.
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 (PRA) 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 Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be 
submitted on or before March 19, 2009. If you anticipate that you will 
be submitting PRA comments, but find it difficult to do so within the 
period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the FCC 
contact listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 
Management and Budget, (202) 395-5887, or via fax at 202-395-5167 or 
via internet at [email protected] and to [email protected], Federal Communications Commission, or an e-mail to 
[email protected]. To view a copy of this information collection request 
(ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go to the web page http://reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the section of the web page called 
``Currently Under Review'', (3) click on the downward-pointing arrow in 
the ``Select Agency'' box below the ``Currently Under Review'' heading, 
(4) select ``Federal Communications Commission'' from the list of 
agencies presented in the ``Select Agency'' box, (5) click the 
``Submit'' button to the right of the ``Select Agency'' box, and (6) 
when the list of FCC ICRs currently under review appears, look for the 
title of this ICR (or its OMB Control Number, if there is one) and then 
click on the ICR Reference Number to view detailed information about 
this ICR.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies 
of the information collection(s), contact Judith B. Herman at 202-418-
0214 or via the Internet at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-1085.
    Title: Section 9.5, Location Information, Provision of Notice, and 
Recordkeeping Requirement on Interconnected Voice Over Internet 
Protocol (VoIP) E911 Compliance.
    Form No.: Not applicable.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 12 respondents; 12 responses.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 50,197 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement and third party 
disclosure requirements.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this 
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 151, 152(a), 
153(33), 153(52), and 251(e)(3).
    Total Annual Burden: 602,364 hours.

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    Total Annual Cost: $52,449,272.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting that respondents submit confidential information to the 
Commission.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission requesting an extension (no change 
in recordkeeping and/or third party disclosure requirements) in order 
to obtain the full three year clearance from the OMB. There has been a 
significant decrease in recalculating the number of respondents/
responses since this was last submitted to OMB in 2006. The Commission 
has also increased the total annual burden hours and annual costs due 
to a recalculation of the estimates.
    The Commission is obligated by statute to promote ``safety of life 
and property'' and to ``encourage and facilitate the prompt deployment 
throughout the United States of a seamless, ubiquitous, and reliable 
end-to-end infrastructure'' for public safety. Congress has established 
911 as the national emergency number to enable all citizens to reach 
emergency services directly and efficiently, irrespective of whether a 
citizen uses wireline or wireless technology when calling for help by 
dialing 911. Efforts by federal, state and local government, along with 
the significant efforts of wireline and wireless service providers, 
have resulted in the nearly ubiquitous deployment of this life-saving 
service.
    The Order the Commission adopted on May 19, 2005, sets forth rules 
requiring providers of VoIP services that interconnect with the 
nation's existing public switched telephone network (interconnected 
VoIP services) to supply E911 capabilities to their customers. To 
ensure E911 functionality for customers of VoIP service providers the 
Commission requires the following information collections:
    A. Location Registration. Requires providers to interconnected VoIP 
services to obtain location information from their customers for use in 
the routing of 911 calls and the provision of location information to 
emergency answering points.
    B. Provision of Automatic Location Information (ALI). 
Interconnected VoIP service providers will place the location 
information for their customers into, or make that information 
available through, specialized databases maintained by local exchange 
carriers (and, in at least one case, a state government) across the 
country.
    C. Customer Notification. Requires that all providers of 
interconnected VoIP are aware of their interconnected VoIP service's 
actual E911 capabilities. That all providers of interconnected VoIP 
service specifically advise every subscriber, both new and existing, 
prominently and in plain language, the circumstances under which E911 
service may not be available through the interconnected VoIP service or 
may be in some way limited by comparison to traditional E911 service.
    D. Record of Customer Notification. Requires VoIP providers to 
obtain and keep a record of affirmative acknowledgement by every 
subscriber, both new and existing, of having received and understood 
this advisory.
    E. User Notification. In addition, in order to ensure to the extent 
possible that the advisory is available to all potential users of an 
interconnected VoIP service, interconnected VoIP service providers must 
distribute to all subscribers, both new and existing, warning stickers 
or other appropriate labels warning subscribers if E911 service may be 
limited or not available and instructing the subscriber to place them 
on or near the customer premises equipment used in conjunction with the 
interconnected VoIP service.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0813.
    Title: Section 20.18, Enhanced 911 Emergency Calling Services.
    Form No.: Not applicable.
    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: 47,031 respondents; 47,031 responses.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 1-5 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and one-time reporting 
requirements, recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure 
requirements.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this 
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 152(a), 153(33), 
153(52), and 251(e)(3).
    Total Annual Burden: 198,200 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: None.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: Not applicable.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting that respondents submit confidential information to the 
Commission.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this information 
collection (IC) to the OMB during this comment period in order to 
obtain the full three year clearance from the OMB. The Commission is 
requesting an extension (no change in the reporting, recordkeeping and/
or third party disclosure requirements) and there is no change in the 
number of responses and/or burden hours.
    The notification requirement on Public Safety Answering Points 
(PSAPs) will be used by the carriers to verify that wireless E911 calls 
are referred to PSAPs who have the technical capability to use the data 
to the caller's benefit. TTY and dispatch requirements will be used to 
avoid customer confusion as to the capabilities of their handsets to 
reach help in emergency situations, this minimizing the possibility of 
critical delays in response time. The annual TTY reports will be used 
to monitor the progress of TTY technology and thus capability. 
Consultations on the specific meaning assigned to pseudo-Automatic 
Location Identification (ALI) are appropriate to ensure that all 
parties are working with the same information. Coordination between 
carriers and state and local entities to determine the appropriate 
PSAPs to receive and respond to E911 calls is necessary because of the 
difficulty in assigning PSAPs based on the location of the wireless 
caller. The deployment schedule that must be submitted by carriers 
seeking a waiver of Phase I or Phase II deployment schedules(s) will be 
used by the Commission to guarantee that the rules are enforced in as 
timely a manner as possible within technological constraints. In 
addition, a wireless carrier must implement E911 service within the 
six-month period following the date of the PSAP's request will be 
deemed valid if the PSAP making the request provides the following 
information: (1) Cost recovery; (2) necessary equipment; and (3) 
necessary facilities. (See a complete explanation of these requirements 
in the 60 day notice that was published in the Federal Register on 
November 14, 2008 (73 FR 67514).
    In the alternative, the PSAP may demonstrate that a funding 
mechanism is in place, that it is E911 capable using a Non-Call 
Associated Signaling technology, and that it has made a timely request 
to the appropriate Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) for the necessary ALI 
database upgrade.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-3281 Filed 2-13-09; 8:45 am]
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