[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 247 (Monday, December 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67551-67553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32485]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management
and Budget
December 16, 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.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0719.
Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
Title: Quarterly Report of IntraLATA Carriers Listing Payphone
Automatic Number Identifications (ANIs).
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 5600 total annual hours; 3.5 hours per
respondent (avg.); 400 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: 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 U.S.C. Section 276(b)(1)(A),
intraLATA carriers are required to provide to interexchange carriers
(``IXCs'') a quarterly report listing payphone automatic payphone
identifications (``ANIs''). Without provision of this report,
resolution of disputed ANIs would be rendered very difficult. IXCs
would not be able to discern which ANIs pertain to payphones and
therefore would not be able to ascertain which dial-around calls were
originated by payphones for compensation purposes. There would be no
way to guard against possible fraud. Without this collection, lengthy
investigations would be necessary to verify claims. 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 if disputed
ANIs.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0721.
Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
Title: One-Time Report of Local Exchange Companies of Cost
Accounting Studies.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 20,000 total annual hours; 50 hours per
respondent (avg.); 400 respondents.
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Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: 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 U.S.C. Section 276(b)(1)(A),
incumbent LECs are required to offer individual central office coin
transmission services to payphone service providers (``PSPs'') under a
nondiscriminatory, public tariffed offering if the LECs provide those
services for their own operations. Because the incumbent LECs may have
an incentive to charge their competitors unreasonably high prices for
these services, the Commission requires them to submit cost support for
their central office coin services, on a one-time basis. The report
would contain engineering studies, time and wage studies, and other
cost accounting studies to identify the direct cost of central office
coin services. This will ensure that the services are reasonably priced
and do not include subsidies.
OMB Control No. 3060-0723.
Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
Title: Public Disclosure of Network Information by Bell Operating
Companies.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 350 total annual hours; 70 hours per
respondent (avg.); 7 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: Pursuant to Section 276(b)(1)(C) provisions that
prescribe a set of nonstructural safeguards for BOC payphone services,
to foster development of competition in the provision of local
telephone service, 47 U.S.C. Section 276(b)(1)(C), the BOCs are
required to publicly disclose changes in their networks or new network
services at two different points in time. First, disclosure would occur
at the ``make/buy''point: when a BOC decides to make for itself, or
procure from an unaffiliated entity, any product whose design affects
or relies on the network interface. Second, a BOC would publicly
disclose technical information about a new service 12 months before it
is introduced. If the BOC would introduce the service within 12 months
of the make/buy point, it would make a public disclosure at the make/
buy point. In no event, however, would the public disclosure occur less
than six months before the introduction of the service. Without
provision of these reports, the industry would be unable to ascertain
whether the BOCs designing new network services or changing network
technical specifications are to the advantage of their own payphones,
or might disadvantage BOC payphone competitors. The requirement for a
minimum 6-month period of public disclosure prior to the introduction
of a new service is vital to ensure that BOCs do not design new network
services or change network technical specifications to the advantage of
their own payphones.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0724.
Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
Title: Annual Report of Interexchange Carriers Listing the
Compensation Amount Paid to Payphone Providers and the Number of
Payees.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 550 total annual burden hours; 2 hours per
respondent (avg.); 275 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: 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 U.S.C. Section(b)(1)(A), IXCs, who
are responsible for paying per-call compensation to payphone providers,
are required to provide annual reports to the Common Carrier Bureau
listing the amount of compensation paid to payphone providers and the
number of payees. Without provision of this report, the Commission
would be unable to ensure that all the IXCs are paying their respective
compensation obligations.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0726.
Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
Title: Quarterly Report of Interexchange Carriers Listing the
Number of Dial-Around Calls for Which Compensation is Being Paid to
Payphone Owners.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 550 total annual burden; 30 minutes per
respondent (avg.); 1100 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: 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 U.S.C. Section (b)(1)(A), IXCs,
who are responsible for paying per-call compensation to payphone
providers are required to provide to payphone providers a quarterly
report listing the dial-around calls made from each payphone provider's
payphones. Without provision of this report, payphone providers would
be unable to ascertain the compensation amount to be paid by the IXCs.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0743.
Expiration Date: 12/31/99.
Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and
Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996--CC
Docket No. 96-128.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 136,677 total annual hours; 30 hours per
respondent (avg.); 4542 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Description: 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 Bell Operating Company 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
intraLATA carrier; and (6) adopt guidelines for use by the states in
establishing public interest payphones to be located where there would
otherwise not be a payphone. All the information collection
requirements would be used to ensure that interexchange carriers,
payphone service providers, LECs, the states, comply with their
obligations under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0756.
Expiration Date: 06/30/97.
Title: Procedural Requirements and Policies for Commission
Processing of Bell Operating Company Applications for the Provision of
In-Region, InterLATA Services Under Section 271 of the Communications
Act.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 16,600 total annual burden; 291 hours per
respondent; 57 respondents.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden: $0.
Description: The Commission issued a Public Notice (FCC 96-469)
that establishes various procedural requirements and policies relating
to the Commission's processing of Bell Operating Company (BOC)
applications to provide in-region, interLATA services pursuant to
Section 271 of the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. Section 271.
Among other things, BOCs must file applications which provide
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information on which the applicant intends to rely in order to satisfy
the requirements of Section 271; state regulatory commission will file
written consultations relating to the applications; and the Department
of Justice will file written consultations relating to the
applications. All of the requirements would be used to ensure that BOCs
have complied with their obligations under the Communications At of
1934, as amended before being authorized to provide in-region,
interLATA services pursuant to Section 271.
Federal Communications Commission.
Shirley S. Suggs,
Chief, Publications Branch.
[FR Doc. 96-32485 Filed 12-20-96; 8:45 am]
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