[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7263-7264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4291]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collection Approved by Office of Management
and Budget
February 20, 1996.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public
information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Pub. L. 96-511. An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of
information unless it displays a currently valid control number. Not
withstanding any other provisions of law, no person shall be subject to
any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information
subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that does not display a
valid control number. Questions concerning the OMB control numbers and
expiration dates should be directed to Dorothy Conway, Federal
Communications Commission, (202) 418-0217.
Federal Communications Commission
OMB Control No.: 3060-0289.
Expiration Date: 2/28/99.
Title: Performance Tests - Section 76.601.
Estimated Annual Burden: 285,084 hours annual burden; average 19.4
hours per respondent; 14,673 respondents.
Description: Section 76.601 requires that every cable system
operator maintain a current listing of the cable television channels
which that system delivers to its subscribers. Section 76.601(c) and
(d) require cable systems with over 1,000 subscribers to conduct semi-
annual proof of performance tests and triennial proof of performance
tests for color testing. This collection is being revised to request
approval for the third party disclosure in section 76.601(d) requiring
local franchise authorities to notify the cable operators who will be
allowed third days to come in compliance with any perceived signal
quality problems which need to be corrected.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0028.
Expiration Date: 2/28/99.
Title: Application for Authorization in the Auxiliary Broadcast
Service.
Form: FCC Form 313.
Estimated Annual Burden: 7,749 total annual hours; average 5.166
hours per respondent; 1,500 respondents.
Description: FCC Form 313 is used by permitees or licensees of AM,
FM and TV Broadcast Stations and eligible networks when applying for
remote pickup, aural microwave, television microwave, and other
auxiliary broadcast stations. Data is used by FCC staff to determine if
proposal meets statutory requirements and to ensure that interference
will not occur.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0645.
Expiration Date: 2/28/99.
Title: Antenna Registration - Part 17.
Estimated Annual Burden: 40,965 total annual hours; average 1 hour
per respondent; 40,965 respondents.
Description: This recordkeeping requirement requires that those
licensees who experience problems with the lighting of their antenna
structure lighting to keep a record of the malfunction with the station
records. This information is used by FCC personnel to ensure that
antenna structure lighting systems are properly maintained.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0686.
Expiration Date: 2/28/99.
Title: Streamlining the International Section 214 Authorization
Process and Tariff Requirements.
Estimated Annual Burden: 3,448 total annual hours; average 8 hours
per respondent; 431 respondents.
Description: This collection contained in an NPRM proposes to
Streamline the International Section 214 authorization process and
tariff requirements. The proposed rules would greatly reduce the
regulatory burden on the applicants, authorized carriers and the
Commission. The NPRM proposes to reduce the need for carriers to file
multiple applications by enabling a non-dominant carrier to obtain a
global 214 authorization, which is not limited to specific carrier
facilities, and by eliminating several regulatory requirements that
require carriers to file multiple Section 214 applications. The global
Section 214 authorization would allow carriers to provide international
services on a facilities-basis to virtually all points in the world,
using any licensed facility. This authorization would be subject to an
exclusion list that the Commission would publish identifying countries
or facilities for which there are restrictions. In regard to regulatory
requirements being removed, Section 63.01 would be amended to make it
applicable only to applicants for domestic Section 214 authority. A new
rule is proposed that will detail the application requirements for
International Section 214 authority, and include the provisions for
filing a global Section 214 application. In addition, the proposed rule
will allow resellers to provide international resale services via an
authorized common carrier, except those affiliated with the reseller,
without obtaining additional authority. Also private line resale
carriers would be able to resell interconnected private lines for
switched services to all designated ``equivalent'' countries, without
obtaining additional authority to serve each equivalent country.
Section 63.15 is proposed to be amended to enable carriers to add
circuits on private satellite or cable systems, without obtaining prior
authority. The NPRM also proposes to simplify the section 214 and cable
landing license application process by reducing the detailed
information now required in Sections 63.01 and 1.767. The NPRM also
proposes to encourage filing of international Section 214 applications
electronically and on computer disk and to require that any information
contained in the application in a foreign language be accompanied with
certified English translation.
The NPRM further reduces filing requirements by allowing dominant
carriers to automatically convey transmission capacity in submarine
cables to other carriers without obtaining prior Section 214 authority.
Also, the NPRM propose to further streamline tariff requirements for
non-dominant international resale and facilities-based carriers by
permitting them to file their international tariff rates on one day's
notice instead of the current 14 day's notice.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0688.
Expiration Date: 2/28/99.
Title: Abbreviated Cost of Service Filing for Cable Network
Upgrades.
Form: FCC Form 1235.
Estimated Annual Burden: 47,250 total annual hours; average 20
hours per
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cable operator respondents and 10 hours per local franchising authority
respondents; 2,100 cable operator and 525 local franchising authority
respondents.
Description: Section 76.922(h) enables cable operators in some
circumstances to increase rates when undertaking significant network
upgrades. This form allows cable operators to justify rate increase
related to capital expenditures used to improve services to regulated
cable subscribers. Operators wishing to establish a network upgrade
rate increase should file the form 1235 following the end of the month
in which upgraded cable services become available and are providing
benefits to the customers. In addition this form can be filed for pre-
approval any time prior to the upgraded services becoming available to
the subscribers using projected upgrade costs. If the preapproval
option is exercised the operator must file the form again following the
end of the month in which upgraded cable services become available and
are providing benefits to the customers.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-4291 Filed 2-26-96; 8:45 am]
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