[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 1 (Monday, January 4, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 148-149]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-31154]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


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

December 28, 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; (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; and (e) ways to further reduce the information collection 
burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
    The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information 
unless it displays a currently valid OMB 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 that does not 
display a currently valid OMB control number.

DATES: Persons wishing to comments on this information collection 
should submit comments on or before March 5, 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.

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 them 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] and to Judith B. Herman, 202-418-0214.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No: 3060-1044.
     Title: Review of the Section 251 Unbundling Obligations of 
Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers, CC Docket No. 01-338 and WC Docket 
No. 04-313, FCC 04-290, Order on Remand.
     Form No.: N/A.
     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: 645 respondents; 645 responses.
     Estimated Time Per Response: 8 hours.
     Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement, 
recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure requirement.
     Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in 
47 U.S.C. 251.
     Total Annual Burden: 5,160 hours.
     Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
     Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting respondents to submit or disclose confidential information. 
However, in certain circumstances, respondents may voluntarily choose 
to submit confidential information pursuant to applicable 
confidentiality rules.
     Need and Uses: The Commission will submit this information 
collection after this 60 day comment period in order to obtain the full 
three year clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 
The Commission has not changed its burden estimates or requirements 
that were submitted to the OMB for approval in 2007.
    All of the information collections implement the requirements of 
section 251 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Section 251 is 
designed to accelerate private sector development and deployment of 
telecommunications technologies and services by spurring competition. 
In order to foster competition in the local telephone market, the Act 
requires incumbent local exchange carriers (incumbent LECs) to share 
certain elements of their local telephone networks, providing them to 
other carriers at reasonable prices on an unbundled basis. These 
``unbundled network elements'' (UNEs) are necessary for competition 
because the only alternative, building entire new telephone networks, 
would be prohibitively expensive for new entrants.
    In Order, FCC 03-36, the Commission adopted rules and regulations 
designed to eliminate operational barriers to competition in the 
telecommunications services market and implement certain provisions of 
Section 251, including the UNE obligations of incumbent LECs.
    In the Order on Remand, FCC 04-290, the Commission responded to a 
decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of 
Columbia that vacated the ``sub-delegation'' of authority to state 
commissions and vacated and remanded certain nationwide impairment 
findings, including mass

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market switching and dedicated transport.

Federal Communications Commission.
Alethea Lewis,
Information Specialist, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing 
Director.
[FR Doc. E9-31154 Filed 12-31-09; 8:45 am]
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