[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 13, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1781-1782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-402]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


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

January 7, 2010.
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. 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 of reducing the information 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 control number. No person shall be 
subject to any penalty for failing to comply with

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a collection of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act 
(PRA) that does not display a valid control number.

DATES: Persons wishing to comments on this information collection 
should submit comments on or before February 12, 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].
    To view a copy of this information collection request (ICR) 
submitted to OMB: (1) Go to web page: http://www.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 FCC list 
appears, look for the title of this ICR (or its OMB Control Number, if 
there is one) and then click on the ICR.

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, monthly and quarterly 
reporting requirements, recordkeeping requirement and third party 
disclosure requirement.
     Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this 
collection of information is contained in 47 U.S.C. section 276 of the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996.
     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 
agency. However, if the respondents wish to request confidential 
treatment of their information, they may do so under 47 CFR 0.459 of 
the Commission's rules.
     Need and Uses: This collection of information implements the 
following requirements under section 276 of the Telecommunications Act 
of 1996. They are: a) state showing of proof of market failure for 
exception to market-rate local coin call requirement; b) state review 
of adequacy of provision of public interest payphone; c) payphone 
providers' transmission of specific payphone coding digits; d) LEC 
verification of disputed ANIS and maintaining and making available the 
verification data; e) LEC timely notification of payphone 
disconnection; f) LEC indication on the payphone's monthly bill that 
the amount due is for payphone service; g) LEC tariff filing; h) 
reclassification of LEC-owned payphones; i) payphone provider's 
verification of its status to payer of compensation; j) payphone 
providers' posting of local coin call rate on each payphone placard; 
and k) LEC provision of emergency numbers to carrier-payers.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
[FR Doc. 2010-402 Filed 1-12-10; 8:45 am]
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