[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 210 (Thursday, October 30, 2014)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 64515-64516]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-25275]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 64

[CG Docket Nos. 10-51 and 03-123; FCC 13-82]


Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Service Program; 
Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for 
Individuals With Hearing and Speech Disabilities

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date.

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SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, 
the information collection associated with the Commission's document 
Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Service Program; 
Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for 
Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities (VRS Reform Report and 
Order). This document is consistent with the VRS Reform Report and 
Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the 
Federal Register announcing the effective date of those rules.

DATES: 47 CFR 64.604(c)(13); 64.606(a)(4), (g)(3) and (g)(4); 
64.611(a)(3) and (4); 64.615(a); 64.631(a) through (d), (f); 64.634(b); 
64.5105(c)(4) and (c)(5); 64.5107; 64.5108; 64.5109; 64.5110; and 
64.5111, published at 78 FR 40582, July 5, 2013, are effective October 
30, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory Hlibok, Disability Rights 
Office, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, at (202) 559-5158, or 
email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document announces that, on September 
23, 2014, OMB approved, for a period of three years, the information 
collection requirements contained in the Commission's Report and Order, 
FCC 13-82, published at 78 FR 40582, July 5, 2013. The OMB Control 
Number is 3060-1201. The Commission publishes this document as an 
announcement of the effective date of the rules. If you have any 
comments on the burden estimates listed below, or how the Commission 
can improve the collections and reduce any burdens caused thereby, 
please contact Cathy Williams, Federal Communications Commission, Room 
1-C823, 445 12th Street SW., Washington, DC 20554. Please include the 
OMB Control Number, 3060-1201, in your correspondence. The Commission 
will also accept your comments via the Internet if you send them to 
[email protected].
    To request materials in accessible formats for people with 
disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic files, audio format), 
send an email to [email protected] or call the Consumer and Governmental 
Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432 (TTY).

Synopsis

    As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3507), the FCC is notifying the public that it received OMB approval on 
September 23, 2014, for the information collection requirements 
contained in the Commission's rules at 47 CFR 64.604(c)(13); 
64.606(a)(4), (g)(3) and (g)(4); 64.611(a)(3) and (4); 64.615(a); 
64.631(a) through (d), (f); 64.634(b); 64.5105(c)(4) and (c)(5); 
64.5107; 64.5108; 64.5109; 64.5110; and 64.5111.
    Under 5 CFR 1320, an agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection 
of information unless it displays a current, 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 
that does not display a current, valid OMB Control Number. The OMB 
Control Number is 3060-1201.
    The foregoing notice is required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, Pub. L. 104-13, October 1, 1995, and 44 U.S.C. 3507.
    The total annual reporting burdens and costs for the respondents 
are as follows:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-1201.
    OMB Approval Date: September 23, 2014.
    OMB Expiration Date: September 30, 2017.
    Title: Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Service Program; 
Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for 
Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities, CG Docket Nos. 10-51 
and 03-123; FCC 13-82.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: New collection. Respondents: Business or other for-
profit entities; Individuals or households; Not-for-profit institution; 
Federal Government.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 39 respondents; 9,876,603 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .005 hours to 80 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Annual, on-occasion, on-going, one-time, and 
quarterly reporting requirements; Recordkeeping requirement, Third 
party disclosure requirement.
    Obligation To Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for the information collection requirements is 
found at Sec. 225 of the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. 225. The law was 
enacted on July 26, 1990, as Title IV of the Americans with 
Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), Pub. L. 101-336, 104 Stat. 327, 366-69.

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    Total Annual Burden: 486,417 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: None.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: This information collection 
affects individuals or households. However, access to personally 
identifiable information (PII) is limited to the third party vendor and 
the Commission only pursuant to the requirements of the Privacy Act of 
1974, as amended.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: This information collection affects 
individuals or households. The Commission is not collecting personally 
identifiable information (PII) for the purpose of populating in the 
database, however, the database is made available and accessible by the 
Commission and the TRS Fund Administrator. Although TRS users are 
required to provide their personal identifiable information to register 
for using TRS service, such information is available only to the 
Commission, the TRS Fund Administrator, and a third-party independent 
vendor selected by the Commission's Managing Director and the 
Commission. The third party vendor and the Commission are required to 
maintain all registered information, including personal information, in 
the registration database confidential in accordance to the directives 
under contract between the third party vendor and the Commission's 
Managing Director. The FCC is completing the requirements for a new 
system of records notice (SORN), FCC/CGB-4, ``Internet-based 
Telecommunications Relay Service-User Registration Database (ITRS-
URD),'' which will cover the personally identifiable information (PII) 
that may be collected, maintained, used, and stored, and disposed of 
when obsolete, and which are part of the information associated with 
these information collection requirements, i.e., the new SORN will make 
this information collection comply with all requirements of the Privacy 
Act of 1974, as amended.
    Needs and Uses: On June 10, 2013, the Commission released the VRS 
Reform Report and Order, FCC 13-82, published at 78 FR 40582, July 5, 
2013, adopting further measures to improve the structure, efficiency, 
and quality of the VRS program, reducing the noted inefficiencies in 
the program, as well as reducing the risk of waste, fraud, and abuse, 
and ensuring that the program makes full use of advances in 
commercially-available technology. In the VRS Reform Report and Order, 
the Commission takes the following actions by: (1) Setting up an 
arrangement with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enable 
research designed to further the Commission's multiple goals of 
ensuring that TRS is functionally equivalent to voice telephone 
services and improving the efficiency and availability of TRS; (2) 
establishing a pilot iTRS National Outreach Program (iTRS-NOP) by 
selecting one or more independent iTRS Outreach Coordinators to conduct 
and coordinate IP Relay and VRS outreach nationwide under the 
Commission's (or the TRS Fund administrator's) supervision; (3) 
promoting the development and adoption of voluntary, consensus 
interoperability and portability standards, and facilitate compliance 
with those standards by directing the Managing Director to contract for 
the development and deployment of a VRS access technology reference 
platform; (4) establishing a central TRS user registration database 
(TRS-URD) which incorporates a centralized eligibility verification 
requirement to ensure accurate registration and verification of users, 
to achieve more effective fraud and abuse prevention; and (5) selecting 
a neutral party to build, operate, and maintain a neutral video 
communication service platform, which will allow eligible relay 
interpretation service providers to compete without having to build 
their own video communication service platforms.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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