[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 8 (Thursday, January 12, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1932-1934]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-432]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to 
the Office of Management and Budget

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden 
and as required b y the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. 3502-3520), the Federal Communications Commission invites the 
general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to 
comment on the following information collection(s). 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 estimates; (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

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collection burden on 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 February 13, 2012. 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: Submit your PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB), via fax at (202) 395-5167 or via Internet 
at [email protected] and to Judith B. Herman, Federal 
Communications Commission, via the Internet at [email protected]. 
To submit your PRA comments by email send them to: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing 
Director, FCC, at (202) 418-0214.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0207.
    Title: Part 11--Emergency Alert System (EAS).
    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: 3,569,028 respondents; 3,569,028 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .0229776 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and 
recordkeeping requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Voluntary response for business or other 
for-profit and not-for-respondents. Mandatory response for state, local 
or tribal government. Statutory authority for this information 
collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 154(i) and 606 of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 82,008 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 to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
during this 30 day comment period in order to obtain the full three 
year clearance from them. The Commission is requesting OMB approval for 
an extension (no change in the reporting, recordkeeping and/or third 
party disclosure requirements).
    There is no change in the Commission's previous burden estimates.
    The Commission established a voluntary electronic method of 
complying with the reporting that EAS participants must complete as 
part of the national EAS test. This electronic sub mission system will 
impose a lesser burden on EAS test participants because they can input 
electronically (via a web-based interface) the same information into a 
confidential database that the Commission would use to monitor and 
assess the test. Test participants would submit the identifying data 
prior to the test date. On the day of the test, EAS test participants 
would be able to input immediate test results. They would input the 
remaining data called for by our reporting rules within the 45 day 
period. Structuring an electronic reporting system in this fashion will 
allow the participants to populate the database with known information 
prior to the test, and thus be able to provide the Commission with 
actual test data, both close to real time and within a reasonable 
period in a minimally burdensome fashion.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0763.
    Title: ARMIS Customer Satisfaction Report.
    Report No.: FCC Report 43-06.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 7 respondents; 7 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 720 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this 
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 161, 219(b) 
and 220 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 5,040 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Ordinarily questions of a 
sensitive nature are not asked in the ARMIS Customer Satisfaction 
Report. The areas in which detailed information is required are fully 
subject to regulation and the issue of data being regarded as sensitive 
will arise in special circumstances only. In such circumstances, the 
respondent is instructed on the appropriate procedures to follow to 
safeguard sensitive data. Any respondent who submits information to the 
Commission that the respondent believes is confidential may request 
confidential treatment of such information under 47 CFR 0.459 of the 
Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring 
information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
during this 30 day comment period in order to obtain the full three 
year clearance from them. The Commission is requesting OMB approval for 
an extension (no change in the reporting, recordkeeping and/or third 
party disclosure requirements).
    There is no change in the Commission's previous burden estimates.
    The information contained in FCC Report 43-06 has helped the 
Commission fulfill its regulatory responsibilities. Automated reporting 
of these data greatly enhances the Commission's ability to process and 
analyze the extensive amounts of data provided in the reports. 
Automating and organizing data submitted to the Commission facilitate 
the timely and efficient analysis of revenue requirements, rates of 
return and price caps, and provide an improved basis for auditing and 
other oversight functions. Automated reporting also enhances the 
Commission's ability to quantify the effects of policy proposals.
    The Commission has granted AT&T, Verizon, legacy Quest, and other 
similarly situated carriers conditional forbearance from FCC Report 43-
06. See Petition of AT&T Inc. for Forbearance under 47 U.S.C. section 
160 from Enforcement of Certain of the Commission's Cost Assignment 
Rules, WC Docket Nos. 07-21, 05-342, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 23 
FCC Rcd 7302 (2008) (AT&T Cost Assignment Forbearance Order, pet. for 
recon. pending; pet. for review pending, NASUCA v. FCC, Case No. 08-
1226 (DC Cir. Filed June 23, 2008); Service Quality, Customer 
Satisfaction, Infrastructure and Operating Data Gathering, WC Docket 
Nos. 08-190, 07-139, 07-204, 07-273, 07-21, Memorandum Opinion and 
Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 23 FCC Rcd 13647 (2008) 
(Verizon/Qwest Cost Assignment Forbearance Order, pet. for recon. 
pending, pet. for review pending, NASUCA v. FCC, Cast No. 08-1353 (D.C. 
Cir. Filed Nov. 4, 2008). Despite this forbearance, the Commission 
seeks OMB approval for the renewal (extension) of this information 
collection because petitions for reconsideration and review of those

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forbearance decisions are currently pending before the Commission and 
the court, respectively.

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