[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 298-300]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-83]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management
and Budget
December 28, 1999.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public
information collections pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a
person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless
it displays a currently valid control number. For further information
contact Shoko B. Hair, Federal Communications Commission, (202) 418-
1379.
Federal Communications Commission
OMB Control No.: 3060-0848.
Expiration Date: 06/30/2000.
Title: Deployment of Wireline Services Offering Advanced
Telecommunications Capability, CC Docket No. 98-147.
Form No.: N/A.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Estimated Annual Burden: 1400 respondents; 10.7 hours per response
(avg.); 15,000 total annual burden hours for all collections.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: On occasion; Third Party Disclosures.
Description: In CC Docket 98-147, the Commission seeks to implement
Congress's goal of promoting innovation and investment by all
participating in the telecommunications marketplace, in order to
stimulate competition for all services, including advanced services as
mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The following are the
information collections:
(a) Showing Regarding Loop Condition.--Incumbent LECs who refuse a
competitive carrier's request to condition a loop must make an
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affirmative showing to the relevant state commission that conditioning
the specific loop in question will significantly degrade voiceband
services. See 47 CFR 51.319(h)(5). (No. of respondents: 1400; hours per
response: 2 hours; total annual burden: 2800 hours).
(b) Request for Alternative Physical Access.--Incumbent LECs must
provide requesting carriers with access to the loop facility for
testing, maintenance, and repair. An incumbent seeking to utilize an
alternative physical access methodology may request approval to do so
from the relevant state commission, but must show that the proposed
alternative method is reasonable, nondiscriminatory, and will not
disadvantage a requesting carrier's ability to perform loop or service
testing, maintenance or repair. See 47 CFR 51.319(h)(7). (No. of
respondents: 1400; hours per response: .50; total annual burden: 700
hours).
(c) Showing of Significant Degradation.--An incumbent LEC may not
deny a carrier's request to deploy a technology that is presumed
acceptable for deployment unless the incumbent LEC demonstrates to the
relevant state commission that deployment of the particular technology
will significantly degrade the performance of other advanced services
or traditional voiceband services. See 47 CFR 51.230(b) and (c). (No.
of respondents: 1400; hours per response: 1.5 hours; total annual
burden: 2100 hours).
(d) Information on Type of Technology.--A requesting carrier that
seeks access to a loop or a high frequency portion of a loop to provide
advanced services must provide to the incumbent LEC information on the
type of technology that the requesting carrier seeks to deploy. See 47
CFR 51.231(b)-(c). (No. of respondents: 1400; hours per response: 1.5
hours; total annual burden: 2100 hours).
(e) Petition.--Any party seeking designation of a technology as a
known disturber should file a petition for declaratory ruling. See 47
CFR 51.232(b). (No. of respondents: 100; hours per response: 1 hour;
total annual burden: 100 hours).
(f) Showing of Network Harm.--Where the degradation remains
unresolved by the deploying carrier(s), after a reasonable opportunity
to correct the problem, the carrier whose services are being degraded
must establish before the relevant state commission that a particular
technology deployment is causing the significant degradation. See 47
CFR Section 51.233(b)-(c). (No. of respondents: 100; hours per
response: 2 hours; total annual burden: 200 hours).
(g) List of Equipment, Affidavit.--Whenever an incumbent LEC
objects to collocation of equipment by a requesting telecommunications
carrier for the purposes within the scope of section 251(c)(6) of the
Act, the incumbent LEC shall prove to the state commission that the
equipment will not be actually used by the telecommunications carrier
for the purpose of obtaining interconnection or access to unbundled
network elements. An incumbent LEC that denies collocation of a
competitor's equipment, citing safety standards, must provide to the
competitive LEC within five business days a list of all equipment that
the incumbent LEC locates within the premises in question, together
with an affidavit attesting that all of that equipment meets or exceeds
the safety standard that the incumbent LEC contends the competitor's
equipment fails to meet. See 47 CFR 51.323(b). (No. of respondents:
1400; hours per response: 1 hour; total annual burden: 1400 hours).
(h) Space Limitation Documentation.--An incumbent LEC shall submit
to the state commission, subject to any protective order as the state
commission may deem necessary, detailed floor plans or diagrams of any
premises where the incumbent LEC claims that physical collocation is
not practical because of space limitations. An incumbent LEC that
contends space for physical collocation is not available in an
incumbent LEC premises must also allow the requesting carrier to tour
the entire premises in question, not just the room in which space was
denied, without charge, within ten days of the receipt of the incumbent
LEC's denial of space. See 47 CFR Section 51.321(f).
(i) Report of Available Collocation Space.--Upon request, an
incumbent LEC must submit to the requesting carrier within ten days of
the submission of the request a report indicating the incumbent LEC's
available collocation space in a particular LEC premises. This report
must specify the amount of collocation space available at each
requested premises, the number of collocators, and any modifications in
the use of the space since the last report. The incumbent LEC must
maintain a publicly available document, posted for viewing on the
Internet, indicating all premises that are full, and must update such a
document within ten days of the date at which a premises runs out of
physical collocation space. See 47 CFR Section 51.321(h). (No. of
respondents: 1400; hours per response: 1 hour; total annual burden:
1400 hours).
(j) Information on Security Training.--An incumbent LEC must
provide information to competitive LECs on the specific type of
security training a competitive LEC's employees must complete in order
for the incumbent LEC to maintain reasonable security measures for its
equipment and networks. See 47 CFR Section 51.323(i)(3). (No. of
respondents: 1400; hours per response: .50 hours; total annual burden:
700 hours).
(k) Access to Spectrum Management Procedures and Policies.--An
incumbent LEC must provide competitive LECs with nondiscriminatory
access to the incumbent LEC's spectrum management procedures and
policies. See 1st Report and Order, para. 72 and 47 CFR Section
51.231(a). (No. of respondents: 1400; hours per response: .50 hours;
total annual burden: 700 hours).
(l) Rejection and Loop Information.--An incumbent LEC must disclose
to requesting carriers information with respect to the rejection of the
requesting carrier's provision of advanced services, together with the
specific reason for the rejection. An incumbent LEC must also disclose
to requesting carriers information with respect to the number of loops
using advanced services technology within the binder and type of
technology deployed on those loops. See 1st Report and Order, para. 73
and 47 CFR Section 51.23(a). (No. of respondents: 1400; hours per
response: 1 hour; total annual burden: 1400 hours).
(m) Notification of Performance Degradation.--If a carrier claims a
service is significantly degrading the performance of other advanced
services or traditional voice band services, then that carrier must
notify the causing carrier and allow that carrier a reasonable
opportunity to correct the problem. Any claims of network harm must be
supported with specific and verifiable supporting information. See 1st
Report and Order, para. 75 and 47 CFR 51.233. (No. of respondents:
1400; hours per response: .50 hours; total annual burden: 700 hours).
All of the collections will be used by the Commission and by
competitive carriers to facilitate the deployment of advanced data
services and to implement section 706 of the Communications Act of
1934, as amended. Obligation to respond: Mandatory.
Public reporting burden for the collections of information is as
noted above. Send comments regarding the burden estimate or any other
aspect of the collections of information, including suggestions for
reducing the burden to
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Performance Evaluation and Records Management, Washington, D.C. 20554.
Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
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