[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 47 (Thursday, March 11, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11535-11536]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5150]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


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

March 8, 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 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 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 currently valid OMB control number.

DATES: Persons wishing to comments on this information collection 
should submit comments on or before April 12, 2010. If you anticipate 
that you will be

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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, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No: 3060-1044.
     Title: Review of the Section 251 Unbundling Obligations of 
Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers, CC Docket No. 03-338 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. section 251 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
     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 Commission 
confidentiality rules.
     Need and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring 
information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
during this comment period in order to obtain the full three year 
clearance from them. There is no change in the reporting, recordkeeping 
and/or third party disclosure requirements. There is no change in the 
Commission's burden estimates.
    Section 251 is designed to accelerate private sector and deployment 
of telecommunications technologies and services by spurring 
competition. In order to foster competition in the local telephone 
market, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 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 regulation 
designed to eliminate operation 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 market switching and dedicated transport.
    The information collection requirements in this submission to the 
OMB is to implement the requirements of section 251 of the Act.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary,
Office of the Secretary,
Office of Managing Director.
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