95-2679. Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to Office of Management and Budget for Review

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 23 (Friday, February 3, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6711-6712]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-2679]



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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

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

January 26, 1995.
    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: 3060-0536.
    Title: Rules and Requirements for Telecommunications Relay Services 
(TRS) Interstate Cost Recovery.
    Form Number: FCC Form 431.
    Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: Annually and on occasion reporting 
requirements
    Estimated Annual Burden: 5,000 responses, 9.266 hours average 
burden per response, 46,330 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) 
was enacted with the purpose of providing a clear and comprehensive 
national mandate to end discrimination against individuals with 
disabilities and to bring persons with disabilities into the economic 
and social mainstream of American life; to provide enforceable 
standards addressing discrimination against individuals with 
disabilities, and to ensure that the Federal government plays a central 
role in enforcing these standards on behalf of individuals with 
disabilities. On February 19, 1993, the Commission adopted an Order on 
Reconsideration, Second Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking in this proceeding (hereinafter referred to as TRS II). In 
TRS II, the Commission adopted a shared-funding mechanism to 
[[Page 6712]] implement interstate TRS cost recovery pursuant to Title 
IV of the ADA, and sought further comments on its proposed rules and 
requirements outlining the specifics of the shared-funding cost 
recovery plan. See 47 CFR 64.604(c)(4) (iii). Pursuant to Section 
64.604(c)(4)(iii)(A), every carrier providing interstate 
telecommunications services must contribute to the TRS Fund on the 
basis of its relative share of gross interstate revenues. The types of 
interstate services for which contributions must be made include, but 
are not limited to, cellular telephone and paging, mobile radio, 
operator services, personal communication service (PCS), interstate 
access, alternative access and special access, packet-switched, WATS, 
800, 900, message telephone service, interstate private line, telex, 
telegraph, video, satellite, international, interstate intraLATA and 
resale services. The FCC Form 431 has been revised to include PCS and 
mobile services. Also, where two carriers have merged during the year, 
the successor company should report total revenues for the year for 
both the predecessor and successor operations. However, the two 
carriers would continue to report separately if each maintained 
separate corporate identities and continued to operate. Additionally, 
the calculation of contribution rate changed for the 1995 filing year.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-2679 Filed 2-2-95; 8:45 am]
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