[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10144-10145]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-03879]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal 
Communications Commission Under Delegated Authority, Comments Requested

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden(s) 
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 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(s); 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 further ways to 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 April 25, 2014. 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 the 
Internet at [email protected] and to Leslie F. Smith, 
Office of Managing Director (OMD), Federal Communications Commission 
(FCC), via the Internet at [email protected]. To submit your PRA 
comments by email, send them to: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leslie F. Smith, Office of Managing 
Director (OMD), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), (202) 418-
0217, or via the Internet at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0526.
    Title: Section 69.123, Density Pricing Zone Plans, Expanded 
Interconnection with Local Telephone Company Facilities.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 17 respondents; 17 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 48 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Obligation To Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 154(j), 201-205, 303(r), and 403.
    Total Annual Burden: 816 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $13,855.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: No information of a 
confidential nature is being sought. However, respondents may request 
materials or information submitted to the Commission be withheld from 
public inspection under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission requires Tier 1 local exchange 
carriers (LECs) to provide expanded opportunities for third party 
interconnection with their interstate special access facilities. The 
LECs are permitted to establish a number of rate zones within study 
areas in which expanded interconnection are operational. In a previous 
rulemaking, Fifth Report and Order, CC Docket No. 96-262, the 
Commission allowed price cap LECs to define the scope and number of 
zones within a study area. These LECs must file and obtain approval of 
their pricing plans which will be used by FCC staff to ensure that the 
rates are just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-1005.
    Title: Numbering Resource Optimization-Phase 3.
    Form Number: 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 and Responses: 17 respondents; 17 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 40-50 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. 153, 154, 201-205, 207-209, 218, 225-227, 251-252, 271, and 332.
    Total Annual Burden: 830 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: No cost.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting respondents to submit confidential

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information to the Commission. If the Commission requests respondents 
to submit information which respondents believe is confidential, 
respondents may request confidential treatment of such information 
pursuant to 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission established a safety valve to ensure 
that carriers experiencing rapid growth in a given market will be able 
to meet customer demand. States may use this safety valve to grant 
requests from carriers that demonstrate the following:
    (1) The carrier will exhaust its numbering resources in a market or 
rate area within three months (in lieu of six months-to-exhaust 
requirement); and
    (2) Projected growth is based on the carrier's actual growth in the 
market or rate area, or in the carrier's actual growth in a reasonably 
comparable market, but only if that projected growth varies no more 
than 15 percent from historical growth in the relevant market.
    The Commission lifted the ban on service-specific and technology-
specific overlays (collectively, specialized overlays or SOs), allowing 
State commissions seeking to implement SOs to request delegated 
authority to do so on a case-by-case basis. To provide further guidance 
to State commissions, the Commission set forth the criteria that each 
request for delegated authority to implement a SO should address. This 
will enable us to examine the feasibility of SOs in a particular area, 
and determine whether the Commission's stated goals are likely to be 
met if the SO is implemented. Specifically, State commissions should 
also specifically address the following:
    (1) The technologies or services to be included in the SO;
    (2) The geographic area to be covered;
    (3) Whether the SO will be transitional;
    (4) When the SO will be implemented and, if a transitional SO is 
proposed, when the SO will become an all-services overlay;
    (5) Whether the SO will include take-backs;
    (6) Whether there will be 10-digit dialing in the SO and the 
underlying area code(s);
    (7) Whether the SO and underlying area code(s) will be subject to 
rationing; and
    (8) Whether the SO will cover an area in which pooling is taking 
place.
    The Commission uses the information it collects to assist the State 
commissions in carrying out their delegated authority over numbering 
resources.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
[FR Doc. 2014-03879 Filed 2-21-14; 8:45 am]
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