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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested
October 4, 1999. SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden 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 of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13. An agency 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 Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that does not display a valid control number. 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 clarity of the information collected; and (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.
DATES: Written comments should be submitted on or before December 13, 1999. 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 comments to Les Smith, Federal Communications Commissions, 445 12th Street, S.W., Room 1-A804, Washington, DC 20554 or via the Internet to lesmith@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies of the information collections contact Les Smith at (202) 418-0217 or via the Internet at lesmith@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0076.
Title: Annual Employment Report for Common Carriers.
Form Number: FCC Form 395.
Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 4000 respondents.
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Estimated Time Per Response: 1 hour per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 4000 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Annually, Recordkeeping.
Needs and Uses: The Annual Employment Report is submitted by certain common carrier licensees and permittees. The data is intended to assess compliance with equal employment opportunity requirements. Data is used by the FCC, Congress, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, EEOC, NTIA and public interest groups.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0715.
Title: Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Telecommunications Carriers' Use of Customer Proprietary Network Information and Other Customer Proprietary Network.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 6832 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 86.2 hours per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 189,656 hours for modified collections. 588,917 hours for all collections under this control number.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $229,520.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, Recordkeeping, Third Party Disclosure.
Needs and Uses: On February 26, 1998, the Commission released the CPNI Order, 63 FR 20326, April 24, 1998, adopting rules implementing the new statutory framework governing carrier use and disclosure of customer proprietary network information (CPNI) created by section 222 of the Communications Act. CPNI includes, among other things, to whom, where, and when a customer places a call, as well as the types of service offerings to which the customer subscribes and the extent the service is used. The Commission issued an Order on Reconsideration which modified the CPNI Order, in part, to preserve the consumer protections mandated by Congress while more narrowly tailoring our rules, where necessary, to enable telecommunications carriers to comply with the law in a more flexible and less costly manner. The Order on Reconsideration reduces by half the burden of compliance with the customer approval requirement. If carriers choose to use CPNI to market telecommunications service offerings outside the customer's existing service, they must obtain customer approval. By expanding the concept of the total service approach to include CPE and information services, the rules were modified to allow carriers to use CPNI without customer approval in most instances to market CPE and information services. Where carriers are required to obtain customer approval, they may still do so through written, oral, or electronic means. The Order on Reconsideration removes the audit mechanism entirely but requires that carriers maintain records of sales and marketing campaigns. The Order on Reconsideration reduces by half the time required to comply with the recordkeeping requirement by limiting application to sales and marketing campaigns. Carriers using CPNI for sales and marketing campaigns must record the date and purpose of the campaign, and what products and services were offered to customers. Carriers are required to maintain these records for a period of at least one year. All the collections will be used to ensure that telecommunications carriers comply with the CPNI requirements and to implement section 222 of the statute.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0721.
Title: One-Time Report of Local Exchange Companies of Cost Accounting Studies.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 400 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 50 hours per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 20,000 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Needs and Uses: Local exchange companies must submit, on a one-time basis, cost accounting studies to identify the direct cost of central office coin services. The requirement would be used to ensure that LECs comply with their obligations under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0719.
Title: Quarterly Report of IntraLATA Carriers Listing Payphone Automatic Number Identifications (ANIs).
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 400 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 3.5 hours per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 5600 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
Needs and Uses: Pursuant to the mandate in Section 276(b)(1)(A) to ``establish a per call compensation plan to ensure that all payphone service providers are fairly compensated for each and every completed intrastate and interstate call'', 47 USC Section 276(b)(1)(A), intraLATA carriers are required to provide to interexchange carriers a quarterly report listing payphone ANIs. The report allows IXCs to determine which dial-around calls are made from payphones. The data, which must be maintained for at least 18 months after the close of a compensation period, will facilitate verification of disputed ANIs. The requirement is used to ensure that intraLATA carriers, and the IXCs comply with their obligations under the 1996 Act.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0724.
Title: Annual Report of Interexchange Carriers Listing the Compensation Amount Paid to Payphone Providers and the Number of Payees.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 275 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 2 hours per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 550 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Annually, Recordkeeping.
Needs and Uses: Interexchange carriers responsible for paying per- call compensation must submit annual reports to the Common Carrier Bureau listing the amount of compensation paid to payphone providers and the number of payees. IXCs will also be required to initiate an annual audit of their per-call tracking functions. This would help ensure that all interexchange carriers are paying their respective compensation obligations.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0726.
Title: Quarterly Report of Interexchange Carriers Listing the Number of Dial-Around Calls for Which Compensation is Being Paid to Payphone Owners.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 275 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 30 minutes per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 550 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
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Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
Needs and Uses: Interexchange carriers responsible for paying per- call compensation to payphone providers must submit a quarterly list of dial-around calls to those payphone providers. The payphone providers need the list to calculate the compensation to be paid by the interexchange carriers.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0729.
Title: Bell Operating Company Provision of Out-of-Region, Interstate, Interexchange Services, Report and Order, CC Docket No. 96- 21, (Affiliated Company Recordkeeping Requirement).
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 7 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 6056 hours per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 42,394 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping.
Needs and Uses: In CC Docket No. 96-21, the Commission removed dominant regulation for BOCs that provide out-of-region, interstate, interexchange services through an affiliate that complies with certain safeguards, in order to facilitate the efficient and rapid provision of out-of-region, domestic, interstate, interexchange services by the BOCs, as contemplated by the 1996 Act, while still protecting ratepayers and competition in the interexchange market. These safeguards requires, among other things, that the affiliate maintain separate books of account from the LEC. The recordkeeping requirement is to ensure that BOCs providing interexchange service through a separate affiliate are in compliance with the Communications Act and Commission policies and rules regarding BOC provision of out-of-region interexchange services.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0748.
Title: Disclosure Requirements for Information Services Provided Through Toll-Free Numbers, 47 CFR Section 64.1504.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 3750 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 2.8 hours per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 10,500 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Third Party Disclosure.
Needs and Uses: 47 CFR Section 64.1504 imposes disclosure requirements on entities that use toll-free numbers to provide information services. The requirements are intended to ensure that callers to toll-free numbers are: (1) Informed if charges will be levied and (2) receive the information necessary to make an informed decision whether to purchase an information service.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0743.
Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996--CC Docket No. 96-128.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; States.
Number of Respondents: 4542 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 30 hours per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 136,677 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Third Party Disclosures.
Needs and Uses: The rules adopted in CC Docket No. 96-128: (1) Establish a plan to ensure fair competition for each and every completed intrastate and interstate call using a payphone; (2) discontinue intrastate and interstate carrier access charge payphone service elements and payments and intrastate and interstate payphone subsidies from basic exchange services; (3) prescribe nonstructural safeguards for BOC payphones; (4) permit the BOCs to negotiate with the payphone location provider about a payphone's presubscribed interLATA carrier; (5) permit all payphone providers to negotiate with the location provider about a payphone's presubscribed interLATA carrier; and (6) adopt guidelines for use by the state in establishing public interest payphones to be located where there would otherwise not be a payphone. The requirements contained in the Order are: State must review their regulations concerning adequacy of local coin rate disclosure and review them where necessary. States must review their regulations concerning market entry or exit requirements and remove them where necessary to ensure consistency with the Commission's regulations. States must comply with the Commission's market-rate local coin call requirement, except where they show proof of market failure. Such a showing could consist of, for example, detailed summary of the record of a state proceeding that examines the costs of providing payphone service within that state and the reasons why the public interest is served by having the state set rates within that market. Each state must review whether it has adequately provided for public interest payphones in a manner consistent with the Order. All payphones are required to transmit specific payphone coding digits as a part of their automatic number identification which will assist in identifying them to compensation payors. Carriers must provide tracking of all compensable calls received from payphones to ensure that each and every completed call from a payphone is receiving compensation. Carriers are required to initiate an annual verification of their per call tracking functions for a period of two years to ensure that they are tracking all of the calls for which they are obligated to pay compensation. LECs must provide verification of disputed ANIs on request and in a timely manner. LECs are required to notify the carrier-payors of each payphone's disconnection on a basis that is as timely as possible. LECs are required to affirmatively state on their bills to PSPs that the bills are for payphone service to facilitate payment of compensation and to avoid disputes. Incumbent LECs must file revised tariffs for central office coin transmission services and CCL charges to ensure that LEC services are priced reasonably and to not include subsidies. Incumbent LECs and AT&T must either reclassify their payphone assets as nonregulated or transfer them to a separate affiliate engaged in nonregulated activities. If a payphone provider does not appear on the LEC-provided customer-owned, coin-operated telephone lists, it must provide alternative verification information to the IXC paying compensation. Payphone providers are required to post the local coin call rate within the informational placard on each payphone. LECs must supply to carrier-payors, on demand, a list of emergency numbers so that carrier-payors will know that they do not have to compensate payphone providers for emergency calls. All the requirements are used to ensure that interexchange carriers, payphone service providers, LECs, and the states, comply with their obligations under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0742.
Title: Telephone Number Portability (47 CFR Part 52, Subpart C Sections 52.21-52.31).
Form Number: N/A.
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Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; States.
Number of Respondents: 237 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 4.75 hours per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 1,125 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Needs and Uses: In the Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration issued in CC Docket No. 95-116, released March 11, 1997, the Commission affirmed and clarified rules established in its First Report and Order in the proceeding. The proceeding implemented section 251(b)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, which requires all LECs to offer number portability in accordance with requirements prescribed by the Commission. The proceedings established the following collections. Carriers participating in a field test of number portability in the Chicago, Illinois areas were required to jointly file with the Commission a report of their findings with 30 days after completion of the test. Sections 52.23(b) and 52.31 require that long-term number portability be provided by LECs and CMRS providers inside the 100 largest MSAs in switches for which another carrier has made a specific request for number portability. A carrier must make its specific requests for deployment of number portability in particular switches at least in months before the deadline for completion of number portability in that MSA. After carriers have submitted requests for number portability, a wireline carrier or CMRS provider must make readily available upon request a list of its switches for which portability has been requested, and those for which portability has not been requested. Section 52.25 requires state regulatory commissions to file with the Commission a notification if they opt to develop a state-specific database for the provision of number portability in lieu of participating in a regional database system. Section 52.25 permits carriers to challenge decisions made by states to develop a state-specific number portability database in lieu of participating in the regional databases by filing a petition with the Commission. Sections 52.23 and 52.31 require carriers that are unable to meet the deadlines for implementing a long-term number portability solution to file with the Commission a petition to extend the time by which implementation in its network will be completed. The requirements were imposed to implement section 251 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0165.
Title: Part 41, Franks, Section 41.31--Records to be Maintained and Reports to be Filed.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 68 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 6 hours per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 408 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping.
Needs and Uses: Section 210 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, requires that common carriers subject to the Act maintain records to reflect the name, address, etc., of persons holding telephone or telegraph franks, so as to enable the Commission and/or carriers to compile, if needed, reports in this area. Section 41.31 of the Commission's rules implements Section 210. This information helps to ensure that franks are being addressed fairly.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0147.
Title: Extension of Unsecured Credit for Interstate and Foreign-- Section 64.804.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 13 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 8 hours per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 104 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Needs and Uses: Pursuant to Section 64.804 of the Commission's rules, communications common carriers with operating revenues exceeding $1 million who extend unsecured credit to a candidate or person on behalf of such candidates for Federal office must file with the FCC a report including due and outstanding balances. The information is used for monitoring purposes.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0749.
Title: Disclosure and Dissemination of Pay-Per Call Information,
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 25 respondents.
Estimated Time Per Response: 410 hours per response (avg.).
Total Annual Burden: 10,250 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Third party disclosure.
Needs and Uses: Section 64.1509 incorporates in the Commission's rules the requirements of Sections 228(c)(2) and 228(d)(2)-(3) of the Communications Act. Under these sections, common carriers that assign telephone numbers to pay-per-call services must disclose to all interested parties, upon request a list of all assigned pay-per-call numbers. For each assigned number, carriers must also make available: (1) A description of the pay-per-call service; (2) the total cost per minute or other fees associated with the service; and (3) the service provider's name, business address, and telephone number. In addition, carriers handling pay-per-call services must establish a toll-free number that consumer may call to receive information about pay-per-call services. Carriers are required to provide statements of pay-per-call rights and responsibilities to new telephone subscribers at the time service is established and, although not required by statute, to all subscribers annually. The disclosure requirements are intended to ensure that consumers are able to obtain information that will enable them to make informed choices about their use of pay-per-call services.
Federal Communications Commission. Magalie Roman Salas, Secretary.
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