[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 66 (Tuesday, April 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17006-17009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9020]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collections being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission
March 30, 1998.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commissions, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or
sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently
valid control number. 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. Comments are requested concerning (a) whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Commission, including whether the information
shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's
burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
DATES: Persons wishing to comment on this information collection should
submit comments June 8, 1998.
ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to Judy Boley, Federal Communications
Commissions, Room 234, 1919 M St., NW., Washington, DC 20554 or via
internet to jboley@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies
of the information collections contact Judy Boley at 202-418-0214 or
via internet at jboley@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0072.
Title: Airborne Mobile Radio Telephone License Application.
Form No.: FCC 409.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals and households.
Number of Respondents: 3,000.
Estimated Time Per Response: 5 minutes.
Total Annual Burden: 252 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
Needs and Uses: The FCC 409 is used in applying for authority to
operate an airborne mobile radio telephone by individual users who
intend to become subscribers to a common carrier service. The form is
subsequently used for modification and renewal of such licenses.
FCC 409 is required by 47 CFR Part 22. The applicant may be subject
to requirements in addition to those specified on the form.
The form has been redesigned to remove the fee filing data. FCC
Form 159, Fee Remittance Advice, is required to be submitted with any
payment to the FCC. Thus we are removing the duplicative data
collection from the FCC Form 409. This change will not affect the
average estimated completion time of the form.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0823.
Title: Pay Telephone Reclassification Memorandum Opinion and
Order, CC Docket No. 96-128.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
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Number of Respondents: 400.
Estimated Time Per Response: 112 hours per response (avg.)
Total Annual Burden: 44,700 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, monthly, quarterly, annually,
one-time reporting requirements.
Needs and Uses: In the Payphone Orders, the Commission adopted new
rules and policies governing the payphone industry to implement Section
276 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Those rules and policies in
part establish a plan to ensure fair compensation for ``each and every
completed intrastate and interstate call using [a] payphone.''
Specifically, the Commission established a plan to ensure that payphone
service providers (PSPs) were compensated for certain noncoin calls
originated from their payphones. As part of this plan, the Commission
required that by October 7, 1997, LECs provide payphone-specific coding
digits to PSPs, and that PSPs provide those digits from their payphones
to IXCs. The provision of payphone-specific coding digits is a
prerequisite to payphone per-call compensation payments by IXCs to PSPs
for subscriber 800 and access code calls. The Common Carrier Bureau, on
its own motion, subsequently provided a waiver until March 9, 1998, for
those payphones for which the necessary coding digits were not provided
to identify calls. In a Memorandum Opinion and Order (MO&O) (released
March 9, 1998), we clarify the requirements established in the Payphone
Orders for the provision for payphone-specific coding digits and for
tariffs that LECs must file pursuant to the Payphone Orders. We also
grant a waiver of Part 69 of the Commission's rules so that LECs can
establish rate elements to recover the costs of implementing FLEX-ANI
to provide payphone-specific coding digits for per-call compensation.
The Commission in the Memorandum Opinion and Order, therefore, is
effecting the following collections of information made in regard to
information disclosures required in the Payphone Orders to implement
Section 276 of the Act. The collection requirements are as follows:
(a). LEC Tariff to provide FLEX ANI to IXCs: The MO&O requires that
local exchange carriers (LECs) implement FLEX ANI to comply with the
requirements set forth in the Payphone Orders. LECs must provide to
IXCs through their interstate tariffs, FLEX ANI service so that IXCs
can identify which calls come from a payphone. LECs (and PSPs) must
provide FLEX ANI to IXCs without charge for the limited purpose of per-
call compensation, and accordingly, LECs providing FLEX ANI must revise
their interstate tariffs to reflect FLEX ANI as a nonchargeable option
to IXCs no later than March 30, 1998, to be effective no later than
April 15, 1998, in those areas that it is available. (No. of
respondents: 400; hours per response: 35 hours; total annual burden:
14,000 hours). (b). LEC Tariff to recover costs: LECs must file a
tariff to establish a rate element in their interstate tariffs to
recover their costs from PSPs for providing payphone-specific coding
digits to IXCs. This tariff must reflect the costs of implementing FLEX
ANI to provide payphone-specific coding digits for payphone
compensation, and provide for recovery of such costs over a reasonable
time period through a monthly recurring flat-rate charge. LECs must
provide cost support information for the rate elements they propose.
The Bureau will review these LEC rate element tariff filings, the
reasonableness of the costs, and the recovery period. LECs will recover
their costs over an amortization period of no more than ten years. The
rate element charges will discontinue when the LEC has recovered its
cost. (No. of respondents: 400; hours per response: 35 hours; total
annual burden 14,000 hours). (c). LECs must provide IXCs information on
payphones that provide payphone-specific coding digits for smart and
dumb payphones: LECs must provide IXCs information on the number and
location of smart and dumb payphones providing payphone-specific coding
digits, as well as the number of those that are not. (No. of
respondents: 400; hours per response: 24 hours; total annual burden:
9600 hours). (d). LECs must provide IXCs and PSPs information on where
FLEX ANI is available now and when it is to be scheduled in the future:
Within 30 days of the release of the MO&O, LECs should be prepared to
provide IXCs, upon request, information regarding their plans to
implement FLEX ANI by end office. LECs must provide IXCs and PSPs
information on payphones that provide payphone-specific coding digits
on end offices where FLEX ANI is available, and where it is not, on a
monthly basis. Pursuant to the waivers in this order, LECs must also
inform IXCs and PSPs proposed dates for its availability. (No. of
respondents: 400; hours per response: 16 hours; total annual burden:
6400 hours). (e). For a waiver granted to small or midsize LECs, a cost
analysis must be provided, upon request: In the MO&O, the Bureau grants
a waiver to midsize and small LECs that will be unable to recover the
costs of implementing FLEX ANI in a reasonable time period. LECs must
make this evaluation within 30 days of the release of the MO&O. The LEC
must then notify IXCs that they will not be implementing FLEX ANI
pursuant to this waiver, and provide the number of dumb payphones
providing the ``27'' coding digit and the number of smart phones for
which payphone-specific coding digits are unavailable. A LEC delaying
the implementation of FLEX ANI pursuant to this waiver provision, must
be prepared to provide its analysis, if requested by the Commission.
(No. of respondents: 20; hours per response: 35 hours; total annual
burden: 700 hours). The information disclosure rules and policies
governing the payphone industry to implement Section 276 of the Act
will ensure the payment of per-call compensation by implementing a
method for LECs to provide information to IXCs to identify calls, for
each and every call made from a payphone.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0512.
Title: The ARMIS Annual Summary Report.
Report No.: FCC Report 43-01.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 150.
Estimated Time Per Response: 220 hours per response (avg.)
Total Annual Burden: 33,000 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
Needs and Uses: The ARMIS Annual Summary Report contains financial
and operating data and is used to monitor the local exchange carrier
industry and to perform routine analyses of costs and revenues on
behalf of the Commission.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0395.
Title: Automated Reporting and Management Information Systems
(ARMIS)--Sections 43.21 and 43.22.
Report No.: FCC Reports 43-02, 43-03, 43-05.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for profit.
Number of Respondents: 50.
Estimated Time Per Response: 1,253 hours per response (avg.)
Total Annual Burden: 62,637 hours.
Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
Needs and Uses: FCC Report 43-02 contains company-wide data for
each account specified in the Uniform
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System of Accounts (USOA). It provides the annual operating results of
the carriers' activities for every account in the USOA. (No. of
respondents: 50; hours per response: 960 hours; total annual burden:
48,000 hours). FCC Report 43-05 collects data at the study area level
and holding company level and is designed to capture trends in service
quality under price cap regulation. It provides service quality
information in the areas of interexchange access service installation
and repair intervals, local service installation and repair intervals,
trunk blockage and total switch downtime for price cap companies. (No.
of respondents: 12 hours per response: 849 hours; total annual burden:
10,197.4 hours). FCC Report 43-07 is designed to capture trends in
telephone industry infrastructure development under price cap
regulation. It provides switch deployment and capabilities data. (No.
of respondents: 8; hours per response: 550 hours; total annual burden:
4400 hours).
OMB Control No.: 3060-0513.
Title: ARMIS Joint Cost Report.
Report No.: FCC Report 43-03.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for profit.
Number of Respondents: 150.
Estimated Time Per Response: 200 hours per response (avg.)
Total Annual Burden: 30,000 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping: $0.
Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
Needs and Uses: The Joint Cost Report is needed to administer our
joint cost rules (Part 64) and to analyze the regulated and
nonregulated cost and revenue allocations by study area in order to
prevent cross-subsidization of nonregulated operations by the regulated
operations.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0511.
Title: ARMIS Access Report.
Report No.: FCC Report 43-04.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 150.
Estimated Time Per Response: 1,150 hours per response (avg.)
Total Annual Burden: 172,500 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
Needs and Uses: The Access Report is needed to administer the
results of the FCC's jurisdictional separations and access charge
procedures in order to analyze revenue requirements, joint cost
allocations, jurisdictional separations and access charges.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0763.
Title: The ARMIS Customer Satisfaction Report.
Report No.: FCC Report 43-06.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 8.
Estimated Time Per response: 720 hours per response (avg.)
Total Annual Burden: 5,760 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
Needs and Uses: The Customer Satisfaction Report collects data from
carrier surveys designed to capture trends in service quality.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0496.
Title: The ARMIS Operating Data Report.
Report No.: FCC Report 43-08.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 50.
Estimated Time Per Response: 160 hours per response (avg.)
Total Annual Burden: 8,000 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
Needs and Uses: The ARMIS Operating Data Report consists of
statistical schedules which are needed by the Commission to monitor
network growth, usage, and reliability.
ARMIS was implemented to facilitate the timely and efficient
analysis of revenue requirements and rate of return, to provide an
improved basis for audits and other oversight functions, and to enhance
the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of alternative policy.
The information contained in the reports provides the necessary detail
to enable the Commission to fulfill its regulatory responsibilities.
Automated reporting of these data greatly enhances the Commission's
ability to process and analyze the extensive amounts of data it needs
to administer its rules.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0824.
Title: Service Provider Information Form.
Form No.: FCC Form 498.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Businesses or other for profit.
Number of Respondents: 10,000.
Estimated Time Per Response: 1 hour.
Total Annual Burden: 10,000 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
Needs and Uses: Pursuant to 47 CFR Section 54.515 and 54.611, the
Administrator must obtain information relating to: service provider
name and address, telephone number, Federal Employee identification
number, contact names and telephone numbers, and billing and collection
information. FCC Form 498 has been designed to collect this information
from carriers and service providers participating in the universal
service program. The information will be used in the reimbursement of
universal service support payments.
OMB Approval Number: 3060-0332.
Title: Section 76.614, Cable Television System Regular Monitoring.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business and other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 9,300.
Estimated Time Per Response: .5 hours - 1 hour.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
Total Annual Burden to Respondents: 9,300 hours. The paperwork
burden for maintaining logs is estimated as follows: we estimate that
there are approximately 9,300 cable television systems currently
operating on aeronautical frequencies, of which approximately 50% do
not use computerized equipment that detect and automatically log cable
signal leaks. 9,300 x 50% = 4,650 systems. We estimate that there will
be an average of five leaks per system per month (60 annually) and that
the average burden of logging leaks is one minute per leak. 4,650
systems x 1 hour (60 leaks x 1 minute per leak) = 4,650 hours.
In addition, system operators undergo a recordkeeping burden for
keeping the signal leakage log on file for two years and making the
file available to authorized representatives of the Commission upon
request. We estimate the average annual recordkeeping burden to
respondents to be .5 hours. 9,300 systems x .5 hours = 4,650 hours.
Total estimated annual burden to respondents = 4,650 + 4,650 =
9,300 hours.
Total Annual Cost to Respondents: $32,550 calculated as follows:
The costs associated with stationery and photocopying for complying
with the logging requirement is estimated to be $5 per respondent.
4,650 respondents x $5 = $23,250. The costs associated with the
recordkeeping requirement is estimated to be $1 per respondent. 9,300
respondents x $1 = $9,300. Total
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estimated annual cost to respondents = $23,250 + $9,300 = $32,550.
Needs and Uses: Section 76.614 requires that cable television
operators transmitting carriers in the frequency bands 108-137 and 225-
400 MHz shall provide for a program of regular monitoring for signal
leakage by substantially covering the plant every three months. This
collection (3060-0332) accounts for the paperwork and recordkeeping
burden associated with maintaining logs that show the date and location
of each leakage source identified, the date on which the leakage was
repaired and the probable cause of the leakage. This data is used by
cable television systems and the Commission to prevent, locate and
eliminate harmful interference as it occurs, to help assure safe
operation of aeronautical and marine radio services and to minimize the
possibility of interference to these safety-of-life services. If this
collection of information is not conducted, there would be a greater
likelihood of harmful interference to aeronautical and safety radio
services, Commission efforts to locate and eliminate such interference
would be impaired, and there would be a potentially greater risk to
safety-of-life and property.
Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
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