[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 227 (Monday, November 28, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-29119]
[Federal Register: November 28, 1994]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collection Requirements Submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review
November 16, 1994.
The Federal Communications Commission has submitted the following
information collection requirements to OMB for review and clearance
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3507).
Copies of these submissions may be purchased from the Commission's
copy contractor, International Transcription Service, Inc., 2100 M
Street, NW., Suite 140, Washington, DC 20037, (202) 857-3800. For
further information on these submissions contact Judy Boley, Federal
Communications Commission, (202) 418-0214. Persons wishing to comment
on these information collections should contact Timothy Fain, Office of
Management and Budget, Room 10214 NEOB, Washington, DC 20503, (202)
395-3561.
OMB Number: 3060-0029.
Title: Application for TV Broadcast Station License.
Form Number: FCC Form 302-TV.
Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Non-profit institutions, and businesses or other for-
profit (including small businesses).
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
Estimated Annual Burden: 54 responses, 20.25 hours average burden
per response, 1,094 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: On 7/16/92, the OMB approved for use a new FCC Form
302-FM (3060-0506) to be used by licensees and permittees to apply for
a new or modified FM license. The FCC Form 302-FM was created through
the Total Quality Management (TQM) process. At the time of approval,
the current FCC 302 was to be used only for the AM and TV services. At
this time, the Commission is separating the AM and TV services into
separate forms. The FCC Form 302-TV will use the current OMB control
number (3060-0029). Licensees and permittees of TV broadcast stations
are required to file FCC Form 302-TV to obtain a new or modified
station license, and/or to notify the Commission of certain changes in
the licensed facilities of these stations. The data is used by FCC
staff to confirm that the station has been built to terms specified in
the outstanding construction permit, and to update FCC station files.
Data is then extracted from the FCC Form 302-TV for inclusion in the
subsequent license to operate the station. The FCC Form 302-AM will be
submitted to OMB as a new collection and will require a new OMB control
number.
OMB Number: 3060-0484.
Title: Amendment of Part 63 of the Commission's Rules to Provide
for Notification by Common Carriers of Service Disruptions (Section
63.100).
Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and Other:
Initial report due 120 minutes or three days after incident depending
on the number of potentially affected customers and type of disruption.
Final report due 30 days after initial report.
Estimated Annual Burden: 208 responses; 5 hours average burden per
response; hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Section 63.100 previously required that ``any local
exchange or interexchange common carrier that operates transmission or
switching facilities and provides access service or interstate or
international telecommunications service that experiences an outage
which potentially affects 50,000 or more of its customers on any
facilities which it owns or operates must notify the Commission if such
service outage continues for 30 or more minutes. Satellite carriers and
cellular carriers were exempt from this reporting requirement.'' An
initial and a final report is required for each outage. In addition to
those changes made in Section 63.100 in the Memorandum Opinion and
Order (MO&O) and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) adopted
by the Commission on 11/5/93, pursuant to the present Order and
previously approved by OMB, the amendments to this rule requires
carriers to report 911 outages when more than 25% of the lines serving
a PSAP are affected; to indicate, when specifying the types of services
affected by any reportable outage and 911 is one of those services,
whether more than 25% of the lines to any PSAP were disrupted; to
provide 911 managers, when more than 25% of the lines to a 911 PSAP are
affected, with any available information that will help those managers
mitigate the effects of the outage on 911 callers; and to report all
fire-related incidents affecting 1,000 or more lines. In the NPRM, it
was proposed that carriers report fire-related incidents affecting 100
or more lines, 911 outages were to be reported under different
criteria, carriers were not specifically asked to include information
as to the percentage of affected lines serving a PSAP in their reports
(though ``all available information'' was required), the carriers were
not asked to give PSAP management available information that would help
mitigate the affects of an outage. See Appendix A for the rules and
requirements.
These changes will eliminate confusion in the proposed 911
reporting requirements that resulted in unnecessary and even false 911
outage reports, eliminate unnecessary reports of small unavoidable
fires not related to any carrier activity, provide the Commission with
information as to the severity of the 911 effects of large outages that
are reported under numerical thresholds rather than as special
facilities outages. As a whole, the amendments to Section 63.100 will
enable the Commission to become aware of significant outages at the
earliest possible time so that we may monitor developments; to serve as
a source of information for the public; to encourage and, where
appropriate, to assist in dissemination of information to those
affected; to take immediate steps, as needed, and after analyzing the
information submitted, to determine what, if any, other action is
required. After extensive study, the additional reporting requirements
will increase the monitoring capacity of the FCC to include all tandems
that form the major interexchange carrier networks and 41% of the total
access lines of the twelve major local exchange carriers. In addition,
the reporting of outages affecting ``special'' facilities will add
another 9.5 million lines to the FCC's monitoring capacity. This will
allow the FCC to monitor through the required reports outages affecting
approximately half of the total access lines of the twelve major local
exchange carriers, almost a tripling of present coverage. With the
additional coverage, the FCC will be able to perform the functions
mentioned above far more efficiently. The reports for fire-related
incidents will allow the Commission to monitor the efficiency of
network fire prevention and control systems in the absence of major
fire-caused outages. This is necessary because fire-caused outages are
especially rare but especially extensive. The extent and gravity of
outages over the last few years shows the depth of the need for FCC
monitoring of outages to maintain a reliable telecommunications
network.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-29119 Filed 11-25-94; 8:45 am]
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