[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 247 (Monday, December 27, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81270-81273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-32472]


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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

December 15, 2010.
SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden 
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission invites the general 
public and other Federal agencies to comment on the following 
information collection. 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

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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 (PRA) that does 
not display a valid OMB control number.

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be 
submitted on or before January 26, 2011. 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, via fax at 202-395-5167 or the Internet at 
[email protected]; and to the Federal Communications 
Commission's PRA mailbox (e-mail address: [email protected]). Include in the 
e-mail the OMB control number of the collection as shown in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below, or if there is no OMB control 
number, include the Title as shown in the Supplementary Information 
section. If you are unable to submit your comments by e-mail, contact 
he person listed below to make alternate arrangements.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-1000.
    Title: Section 87.147, Authorization for Equipment.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 25 respondents; 25 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and one time reporting 
requirements and third party disclosure requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. sections 154, 303, and 307(e).
    Total Annual Burden: 25 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for 
confidentiality.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring 
information collection (IC) to the OMB during this comment period. The 
Commission is reporting no change in its burden estimates. The 
Commission is seeking OMB approval for an extension (there are no 
changes to the reporting and/or third party disclosure requirements).
    Section 87.147 is needed to require applicants for aviation 
equipment certification to submit a Federal Aviation Administration 
(FAA) determination of the equipment's compatibility with the National 
Airspace System (NAS). This will ensure that radio equipment operating 
in certain frequencies is compatible with the NAS, which shares system 
components with the military. The notification must describe the 
equipment, give the manufacturer's identification, antenna 
characteristics, rated output power, emission type and characteristics, 
the frequency or frequencies of operation, and essential receiver 
characteristics if protection is required.
    This information collected is used by FCC engineers to determine 
the interference potential of the proposed operation.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0484.
    Title: Section 4.1 and 4.2, and Part 4 of the Commission's Rules 
Concerning Disruptions to the Communications (NORS).
    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 governments.
    Number of Respondents: 71 respondents; 139 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 2 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 information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. sections 151, 154, 218, 219, 230, 256, 301, 302, 303, and 403, 
and 621.
    Total Annual Burden: 19,738 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: In accordance with 47 CFR 
section 4.2, of the Commission's rules, reports under part 4 are 
presumed confidential.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring 
information collection (IC) to the OMB during this comment period. The 
Commission is requesting OMB approval for an extension (no change in 
the reporting, recordkeeping and/or third party disclosure 
requirements). The Commission is reporting a 10,100 total annual burden 
hour increase. This increased adjustment is due to a recalculation of 
the number of responses and therefore the total annual burden hours 
have increased since the last time this collection was submitted to the 
OMB. The information collection is used in connection with the 
reporting of significant outages of voice and/or paging communications 
provided by wireline, wireless, cable circuit-switched telephony, and 
satellite communications providers.
    This information collection is necessary for the following reasons:
    (1) Collecting information on significant outages as defined in its 
rules enables the Federal Communications Commission (``FCC or 
Commission'') to analyze significant disruptions to telecommunications 
networks, and thereby fulfill its statutory obligations under the 
Communication Act by ensuring the reliability and security of the 
nation's telecommunications networks for the benefit of all Americans. 
Furthermore, these measures are necessary to support the efforts of 
public safety, national defense, and homeland security entities that 
rely upon the integrity of our Nation's telecommunications 
infrastructure to accomplish their own missions. In the absence of--or 
less frequent--reporting of significant outages as required by the 
Commission's rules, valuable information regarding telecommunications 
failures would escape timely FCC analysis, and thus impede the ability 
to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities involving the 
Nation's telecommunications infrastructure--particularly those having 
an adverse impact on public safety, homeland security and national 
defense priorities.
    (1) In addition, the information collected--particularly in cases 
involving major outage incidents--can be of a nature that constitutes 
``Critical Infrastructure Information'' as defined in 6 U.S.C. section 
131, which may be shared with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 
in furtherance of its missions to protect the United States from 
terrorist activity and to otherwise protect domestic security. 
Consequently, the collection and timely

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reporting of data relating to significant outages as required by these 
rules is necessary in order for the Commission and DHS to successfully 
accomplish these critical missions for the benefit of the American 
people.
    (2) In addition, the mandatory reporting procedures requires three 
submissions to be transmitted electronically to the Commission's 
database by each affected provider for each reportable outage as 
follows:
    (a) a bare-bones Notification (``Notification'') not later than 120 
minutes after discovering a reportable outage;
    (b) a more detailed Initial Communications Outage Report (``Initial 
Report'') not later than 72 hours after discovering a reportable 
outage; and
    (c) a comprehensive Final Communications Outage Report (``Final 
Report'') not later than thirty (30) days after discovering a 
reportable outage.
    As noted above, the information provided in the data collected by 
providers (collectively ``Outage Reports'') is essential in enabling 
the Commission to monitor developments affecting telecommunications 
reliability and security; to facilitate improvements in 
telecommunications reliability and security; and to serve as a source 
of information for the public.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0971.
    Title: Section 52.15, Request for ``For Cause'' Audits and State 
Commission's Access to Numbering Resource Application Information.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit and state, local or 
tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 2,105 respondents; 63,005 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .166 hours to 3 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third 
party disclosure requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. sections 153, 154, 201-205, 207-209, 218, 225-227, 251-252, 271 
and 332.
    Total Annual Burden: 10,473 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Carrier numbering resource 
applications and audits of carrier compliance will be treated as 
confidential and will be exempt from public disclosure under 5 U.S.C. 
552(b)(4).
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring 
information collection (IC) to the OMB during this comment period. The 
Commission is reporting a 42 total hourly burden reduction adjustment. 
The adjustment is due to a recalculation of the previous estimates 
submitted to OMB in 2008. The Commission is now seeking OMB approval 
for an extension (there are no changes to the reporting and/or third 
party disclosure requirements) to keep this collection from lapsing OMB 
approval.
    There are two Paperwork Reduction Act related obligations under 
this OMB Control Number 3060-0971.
    1. The North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA), the 
Pooling Administrator, or a state commission may draft a request to the 
auditor stating the reason for the request, such as misleading or 
inaccurate data, and attach supporting documentation.
    2. Requests for copies of carriers' applications for numbering 
resources may be made directly to carriers.
    The information collected will be used by the FCC, state 
commissions, the NANPA and the Pooling Administrator to verify the 
validity and accuracy of such data and to assist state commissions in 
carrying out their numbering responsibilities, such as area code 
relief.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0972.
    Title: Multi-Association Group (MAG) Plan Order, Parts 54 and 69 
Filing Requirements for Regulation of Interstate Services of Non-Price 
Cap Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) and Interexchange Carriers 
(IXCs).
    Form Nos.: FCC Forms 507, 508 and 509.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit and not-for-profit 
institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 1,258 respondents; 10,849 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .166 hours to 3 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion, annual, quarterly, one time and 
every three years reporting requirements and third party disclosure 
requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. sections 1-4, 10, 154(i), 154(j), 201-205, 254, and 403.
    Total Annual Burden: 46,885 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $48,900.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission does not 
require that respondents submit confidential information to the 
Commission. If the Commission does request applicants to submit 
information that the respondents believe is confidential, respondents 
may do so under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring 
information collection (IC) to the OMB during this comment period The 
Commission is now seeking OMB approval for an extension (there are no 
changes to the reporting and/or third party disclosure requirements) to 
keep this collection from lapsing OMB approval. The Commission is 
reporting the following changes in burden since this was last submitted 
to the OMB. There is a 6,434 increase in the hourly burden which is due 
to an increase in the number of respondents/responses and a $3,705 
increase in annual costs. This increase adjustment in annual costs is 
due to an increase in filing fees.
    The 60 day notice that was published on September 9, 2010 (75 FR 
54878) cited an incorrect total annual burden estimate. It has been 
corrected in this 30-day notice. There are 14 Paperwork Reduction Act 
(PRA) related information collection requirements under this OMB 
Control Number 3060-0972.
    Following the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the 
Commission adopted interstate access charge and universal service 
support reforms. The reforms were designed to establish a ``pro-
competitive, deregulatory national policy framework'' for the United 
States telecommunications industry, and to carry out the universal 
service policies embodied in the 1996 Act. Specifically, the Commission 
aligned the interstate access rate structure more closely with the 
manner in which costs are incurred, and created a universal service 
support mechanism for rate-of-return carriers (Interstate Common Line 
Support (ICLS)) to replace implicit support in interstate access 
charges with explicit support that is portable to all eligible 
telecommunications carriers.
    The Commission's actions were also tailored to the needs of small 
and mid-sized local telephone companies serving rural and high-cost 
areas, and help to provide certainty and stability for rate-of-return 
carriers, encourage investment in rural America, and provide important 
consumer benefits.
    To administer the ICLS mechanism, the Administrator must collect 
certain data. Specifically, the Administrator must collect from each 
rate-of-return carrier projected cost and revenue data for the July 1--
June 30 funding year to accurately distribute prospective ICLS to those 
carriers. Line count data is reported on FCC Form 507. Projected

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cost data, including cost and revenue data is filed on FCC Form 508. 
And, the actual data, including cost and revenue data is reported on 
FCC Form 509.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-32472 Filed 12-23-10; 8:45 am]
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