[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 22, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10522-10523]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-3965]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal 
Communications Commission

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as part of its 
continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, invites the general 
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment 
on the following information collection, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995. 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

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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 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 control number. No person shall be 
subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of 
information subject to the PRA that does not display a valid Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) control number.

DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before April 23, 
2012. 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 Cathy Williams, FCC, via email 
[email protected] [email protected] and to 
[email protected] [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the 
information collection, contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418-2918.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0761.
    Title: Section 79.1, Closed Captioning of Video Programming, CG 
Docket No. 05-231.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; Individuals or 
households; and Not-for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 12,609 respondents; 78,633 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes (0.25 hours) to 10 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Annual and on occasion reporting 
requirements; Third party Disclosure requirement; Recordkeeping 
requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this obligation is found at section 713 of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 613, and implemented 
at 47 CFR 79.1.
    Total Annual Burden: 198,049 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $35,505,816.00.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Confidentiality is an issue 
to the extent that individuals and households provide personally 
identifiable information, which is covered under the FCC's system of 
records notice (SORN), FCC/CGB-1, ``Informal Complaints and 
Inquiries.'' As required by the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the 
Commission also published a SORN, FCC/CGB-1 ``Informal Complaints and 
Inquiries,'' in the Federal Register on December 15, 2009 (74 FR 66356) 
which became effective on January 25, 2010.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: Yes. The Privacy Impact Assessment for 
Informal Complaints and Inquiries was completed on June 28, 2007. It 
may be reviewed at <http://www.fcc.gov/omd/privacyact/Privacy_Impact_Assessment.html. The Commission is in the process of 
updating the PIA to incorporate various revisions made to the SORN.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission seeks to extend existing information 
collection requirements in its closed captioning rules (47 CFR 79.1), 
which require that, with some exceptions, all new video programming, 
and 75 percent of ``pre-rule'' programming, be closed captioned. The 
existing collections include petitions by video programming owners, 
producers and distributors for exemptions from the closed captioning 
rules, responses by viewers, and replies; complaints by viewers 
alleging violations of the closed captioning rules, responses by video 
programming distributors, and recordkeeping in support of complaint 
responses; and making video programming distributor contact information 
available to viewers in phone directories, on the Commission's Web site 
and the Web sites of video programming distributors (if they have 
them), and in billing statements (to the extent video programming 
distributors issue them).
    In addition, the Commission seeks to extend proposed information 
collection requirements. Specifically, on July 21, 2005, the Commission 
released Closed Captioning of Video Programming; Telecommunications for 
the Deaf, Inc. Petition for Rulemaking, CG Docket No. 05-231, Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking, FCC 05-142, published at 70 FR 56150 on September 
26, 2005 (Closed Captioning Notice of Proposed Rulemaking), which 
sought comment on several issues pertaining to these closed captioning 
rules (47 CFR 79.1). The Closed Captioning Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking sought comment, inter alia, on whether petitions for 
exemption from the closed captioning rules should be permitted (or 
required) to be filed electronically through the Commission's 
Electronic Comment Filing System, and whether video programming 
distributors should be required to submit compliance reports to the 
Commission in cases where the final required amount of captioning post 
phase-in (e.g., pre-rule programming) is not 100 percent. These 
proposed information collection requirements remain pending.

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