94-30705. Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to Office of Management and Budget for Review

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

 

Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to Office of 
Management and Budget for Review

December 5, 1994.
    The Federal Communications Commission has submitted the following 
information collection requirement to OMB for review and clearance 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3507).
    Copies of this submission may be purchased from the Commission's 
copy contractor, International Transcription Service, Inc., 2100 M 
Street, NW., Suite 140, Washington, DC 20037, [phone]. For 
further information on this submission contact Judy Boley, Federal 
Communications Commission, [phone]. Persons wishing to comment 
on this information collection should contact Timothy Fain, Office of 
Management and Budget, Room 10214 NEOB, Washington, DC 20503, (202) 
395-3561.

OMB Number: 3060-0616.
    Title: FCC Cable Services Bureau (Competition Division) 
Informational Survey in Connection with Annual Report to Congress on 
the Status of Competition in the Delivery of Video Programming: 
Overbuilds, Direct and Effective Competition and Ownership of Competing 
Technologies.
    Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: State or local governments and businesses or other 
for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 150 responses, 1.5 hours average burden 
per response, 225 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 628(g) of the Communications Act of 1934, 
as amended, requires the Federal Communications Commission to report to 
Congress on the status of competition in the market for the delivery of 
video programming. In furtherance of the Commission's ongoing statutory 
obligation to monitor competition, the Competition Division now wishes 
to revise the previously approved collection under OMB control number 
3060-0616, so that it may carry out further work and research, of a 
more comprehensive, detailed and sophisticated nature, in connection 
with overbuilt and directly competitive cable markets. An ``overbuild'' 
situation is where true, direct competition exists in a local cable 
market--i.e., where consumers have a choice of two cable operators from 
whom they can purchase services. In the overwhelming majority of the 
cable industry, consumers do not have such a choice, because, for 
various reasons, local cable franchises have historically been awarded 
to operators on an exclusive basis and have therefore, been 
monopolistic in nature. Overbuilt markets represent a very small 
portion of the industry. FCC staff now wishes to gather further and 
more detailed information on forty to fifty overbuilt markets, 
contacting two or three information sources in each market, for a total 
of 80 to 150 respondents. From the assembled data collected pursuant to 
the revised collection, the staff hopes to prepare an overbuild 
``census'' - an accurate and comprehensive listing of basic data on as 
many overbuild situations as possible.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-30705 Filed 12-13-94; 8:45 am]
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