[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 206 (Wednesday, October 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54999-55000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-27137]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management
and Budget
October 9, 1996.
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.: 3060-0687
Expiration Date: 02/28/99.
Title: Access to Telecommunications Equipment and Services by
Persons with Disabilities, CC Docket No. 87-124.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,635,000 total annual hours; 2 hours per
respondent (avg.); 806,100 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $638,500.
Description: In CC Docket No. 87-124, the Commission adopted rules
that, among other things, require telephones with electro-magnetic coil
hearing aid compatibility to be stamped with the letters HAC. Section
68.112(b)(3)(E) requires that employees with fifteen or more employees
provide emergency telephones for use by employees with hearing
disabilities and that the employers ``designate'' such telephones for
emergency use. Section 68.224(a) requires a notice to be contained on
the surface of the packaging of a non-hearing aid compatible telephone
that the telephone is not hearing aid compatible.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0400
Expiration Date: 09/30/99.
Title: Tariff Review Plan.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 3,172 total annual hours; 61 hour per
respondent (avg.); 52 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: Certain local exchange carriers are required annually
to submit Tariff Review Plan in partial fulfillment of cost support
material required by 47 CFR Part 61. The information is used by FCC and
the public to determine the justness and reasonableness of rates, terms
and conditions in tariffs as required by the Communications Act of
1934, as amended.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0734
Expiration Date: 09/30/99.
Title: Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996:
Accounting Safeguards Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996--CC
Docket No. 96-150.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 140,419 total annual hours; 2988 hours per
respondent (avg.); 47 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $632,500.
Description: OMB approved the requirements contained in the Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued in CC Docket No. 96-150. In the
NPRM, the Commission considered rules to implement the accounting
safeguards provisions of Sections 260 and 271 through 276 of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996. These provisions relate to the carriers
entry into the following services: interLATA telecommunications and
information services, telecommunications equipment and customer
premises equipment manufacturing, electronic publishing, alarm
monitoring services and payphone service. The NPRM sought comment on
certain reporting requirements to implement the accounting safeguards
provisions of Sections 260 and 271 through 276 of the 1996 Act.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0736
Expiration Date: 09/30/99.
Title: Implementation of the Non-Accounting Safeguards of Sections
271 and 272 of the Communication Act of 1934, as amended--CC Docket No.
96-149.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 555 total annual hours; 111 hours per
respondent (avg.); 5 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: OMB approved the requirements contained in the Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued in CC Docket No. 96-149. In the
NPRM, the Commission solicited comment on several collections of
information including network disclosure, installation and maintenance
reporting, procurement procedures, nondiscriminatory information
provisions, and third party reporting, compliance monitoring and other
information collection requirements. All of the collections are to be
used to ensure that Bell Operating Companies comply with the
nondiscrimination requirements under the Telecommunications Act of
1996.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0738
Expiration Date: 09/30/99.
Title: Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996:
Telemessaging, Electronic Publishing, and Alarm Monitoring Services--CC
Docket No. 96-152.
Form No.: N/A.
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Estimated Annual Burden: 88,200 total annual hours; 63 hours per
respondent (avg.); 1400 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: OMB approved the requirements contained in the Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice) issued in CC Docket No. 96-152. In the
Notice, the Commission sought comment on, among other things, whether
nondiscrimination safeguards under the Computer III regulatory regime
and Open Network Architecture (``ONA'') are consistent with the
nondiscrimination requirements of Sections 260 and 275 of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996 relating to provision by incumbent LECs
of telemessaging and alarm monitoring, and Section 274, relating to BOC
provision of electronic publishing. The Notice sought comment on the
following requirements: installation and maintenance reporting, network
disclosure, annual report, and a biannual tariff report. All the
requirements are to be used to ensure that incumbent LECs comply with
the nondiscrimination requirements under Sections 260 and 275 of the
1996 Act, and that BOCs comply with the nondiscrimination requirements
of Section 274.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0720
Expiration Date: 09/30/99.
Title: Report of Bell Operating Companies of Modified Comparably
Efficient Interconnection Plans.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 42 total annual hours; 6 hours per
respondent (avg.); 7 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: Bell Operating Companies (BOC) must submit initial
Comparably Efficient Interconnection (CEI) plans describing how they
intend to comply with CEI equal access parameters with regard to
payphones. This will ensure that the BOCs do not discriminate in favor
of its own payphones.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0722
Expiration Date: 08/31/99.
Title: Initial Report of Bell Operating Companies of Comparably
Efficient Interconnect Plans.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 350 total annual hours; 50 hours per
respondent (avg.); 7 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: Bell Operating Companies (``BOCs) must submit initial
Comparably Efficient Interconnection (CEI) plans describing how they
intend to comply with CEI equal acccess parameters with regard to
payphones. This will ensure that the BOCs do not discriminate in favor
of its own payphones.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0725
Expiration Date: 08/31/99.
Title: Annual Filing of Nondiscrimination Reports (on Quality of
Service, Installation, and Maintenance) by Bell Operating Companies.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 350 total annual hours; 50 hours per
respondent (avg.); 7 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: Bell Operating Companies (BOCs) must submit non-
discrimination report with regard to payphones. This will prevent BOCs
from discriminating in favor of their own payphones.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0701
Expiration Date: 05/31/99.
Title: Revision of Filing Requirements--CC Docket No. 96-23.
Form No.: FCC Form 492.
Estimated Annual Burden: 45,686 total annual hours; 387 hours per
respondent (avg.); 118 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: OMB approved the Commission's proposal in CC Docket
No. 96-23 to eliminate certain reporting requirements and to reduce the
frequency of other reporting requirements. These reporting requirements
are variously applicable to interexchange carriers, Bell Operating
Companies, other local telephone companies, and record carriers. The
actions will improve the quality of information available to the
Commission, while at the same time reducing the reporting burden
imposed on carriers.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-27137 Filed 10-22-96; 8:45 am]
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