[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 9 (Monday, January 14, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2673-2674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-00555]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal 
Communications Commission

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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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 take this opportunity to comment 
on the following information collection(s). Comments are requested 
concerning: 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; the 
accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; ways to enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; 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 ways to further reduce 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 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 March 15, 2013. 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 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, (202) 418-0214.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0743.
    Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and

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Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC 
Docket No. 96-128.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 4,471 respondents; 10,071 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .50 hours to 100 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion, quarterly and monthly reporting 
requirements, 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. section 276 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 118,137 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting respondents to submit confidential information to the 
Commission. If the Commission requests respondents to submit 
information which respondents believe are confidential, respondents 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) 
after this comment period to obtain the full, three-year clearance from 
them. The Commission is seeking an extension for these requirements. 
There is no change in the Commission's previous burden estimates.
    The collection of information implements the following reporting, 
recordkeeping and/or third party disclosure 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 list of emergency 
numbers to carrier-payers will know that they do not have to compensate 
payphone providers for those calls.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0292.
    Title: Section 69.605, Reporting and Distribution of Pool Access 
Revenues, Part 69, Access Charges.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 1,250 respondents; 15,000 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .75 hours (45 minutes).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion, annual and monthly reporting 
requirements, 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 154, 201, 202, 203, 205, 218 and 403 of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 11,250 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy 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 after this comment period to obtain the full, 
three year clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 
The Commission is requesting approval for an extension (no change in 
the reporting and/or third party disclosure requirements. There is no 
change to the Commission's previous burden estimates.
    Part 69 of the Commission's rules and regulations establishes the 
rules for access charges for interstate or foreign access provided by 
telephone companies on or after January 1, 1984, Part 69 essentially 
consists of rules or the procedures for the computation of access 
charges which are not information collections as defined by OMB's 
rules, 5 CFR 1320. Any reporting or disclosure occurs in connection 
with particular tariff filings and other reporting requirements with 
the FCC, National Exchange Carriers Association (NECA), or state 
commissions or with records maintained in accordance with the Uniform 
System of Accounts (USOA). OMB approval of tariff filings and USOA 
records required by the FCC is contained under OMB Control Numbers 
3060-0298, 3060-0370 and 3060-0400.
    Section 69.605 requires that access revenues and cost data shall be 
reported by participants in association tariffs to the association for 
computation of monthly pool revenues distributions. The association 
shall submit a report on or before February 1 of each calendar year as 
well as the results of that process. For any revisions to the cost 
study results made or recommended by the association that would change 
the respective carrier's calculated annual common line or traffic 
sensitive revenue requirement by ten percent or more, the report shall 
include the following information: (1) Name of the carrier; (2) a 
detailed description of the revisions; (3) the amount of the revisions; 
(4) the impact of the revisions on the carrier's calculated common line 
and traffic sensitive revenue requirements; and (5) the carrier's total 
annual common line and traffic sensitive revenue requirement.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-00555 Filed 1-11-13; 8:45 am]
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