[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 4, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57171-57172]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-26534]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


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

October 29, 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 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: Persons wishing to comments on this information collection 
should submit comments on January 4, 2010. 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.

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ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB), via fax at (202) 395-5167, or via the 
Internet at [email protected] and to Judith B. Herman, 
Federal Communications Commission (FCC). To submit your PRA comments by 
e-mail send then to: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith B. Herman, OMD, 202-418-0214. 
For additional information about the information collection(s) send an 
e-mail to [email protected] or contact Judith B. Herman, 202-418-0214.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No: 3060-0743.
     Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and 
Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC 
Docket No. 96-128.
     Form No.: N/A.
     Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
     Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
     Number of Respondents: 4,471 respondents; 10,071 responses.
     Estimated Time Per Response: .50 to 100 hours.
     Frequency of Response: On occasion, quarterly, and monthly 
reporting requirements; recordkeeping requirement and third party 
disclosure requirement.
     Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this 
information collection is contained in 47 CFR section 276.
     Total Annual Burden: 118,137 hours.
     Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
     Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting respondents to submit confidential information to the 
Commission. However, if the respondent wishes to submit their 
information they believe is confidential, they may request confidential 
treatment of their information under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's 
rules.
     Need and Uses: This collection will be submitted as an extension 
of a currently approved collection to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) in order to obtain the full three year clearance from 
them. There is no change in the Commission's burden estimates.
    The Commission promulgated rules and reporting requirements 
implementing section 276 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Among 
other things, the rules: 1) establish fair compensation for every 
completed intrastate and interstate payphone calls; 2) discontinue 
intrastate and interstate access charge payphone service elements and 
payments, and intrastate and interstate payphone subsidies from basic 
exchange services; and 3) adopt guidelines for use by the states in 
establishing public interest payphones to be located where there would 
otherwise not be a payphone. The information collected is provided to 
third parties and to ensure that interexchange carriers, payphone 
service providers (``PSPs'') LECs, and the states comply with their 
obligations under the 1996 Act.

Federal Communications Commission.
Alethea Lewis,
Information Specialist, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing 
Director.
[FR Doc. E9-26534 Filed 11-3-09; 8:45 am]
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