[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 98 (Wednesday, May 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27735-27736]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13370]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management
and Budget
May 15, 1997.
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.
Federal Communications Commission
OMB Control No.: 3060-0738.
Expiration Date: 04/30/2000.
Title: Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996:
Electronic Publishing and Alarm Monitoring Services--CC Docket No. 96-
152.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 7 respondents; 3000 hours per response
(avg.); 21,000 total annual burden hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Description: In the First Report and Order issued in CC Docket 96-
152, the Commission implements the non-accounting requirements
prescribed by Congress in sections 260 and 274 of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the Act) which respectively govern the
provision of telemessaging and electronic publishing services. The
Commission imposes this third-party disclosure requirement on Bell
Operating Companies (BOCs) in order to implement the nondiscrimination
requirement of section 274(c)(2)(A) of the Act, as amended. The
Commission requires that to the extent a BOC refers a customer to a
separated affiliate, electronic publishing joint venture of affiliate
during the normal course of its telemarketing operations, it must refer
that customer to all unaffiliated electronic publishers requesting the
referral service. In particular, the BOC must provide the customer the
names of all unaffiliated electronic publishers, in random order.
Compliance is mandatory.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0755.
Expiration Date: 05/31/2000.
Title: Infrastructure Sharing--CC Docket 96-237.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 1425 respondents; 1.63 hours per response
(avg.); 2325 total annual burden hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Description: In the Report and Order, Implementation of
Infrastructure Sharing Provisions in the Telecommunications Act of
1996, CC Docket No. 96-237, the Commission adopts rules to implement
Section 259 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. Section 259
requires incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs) to file any
arrangements showing the conditions under which they share
infrastructure per section 259. Section 259 also requires incumbent
LECs to provide information on deployments of new services and
equipment to qualifying carriers. The Commission also requires
incumbent LECs to provide 60 days notice prior to terminating section
259 agreements. The information collected under the requirement that
incumbent LECs file any tariffs, contracts or other arrangements for
infrastructure sharing would be made available for public inspection.
The information collected under the requirement that incumbent LECs
provide timely information on planned deployments of new services and
equipment would be provided to third parties (qualifying carriers). The
information collected under the requirement that providing incumbent
LECs furnish sixty days notice prior to termination of a section 259
sharing agreement would be provided to third parties, i.e., qualifying
carriers, to protect customers from sudden changes in service.
Compliance is mandatory.
Title: Written Contracts Filed with the Commission and Made
Publicly Available--Section 274(b)(3)(B), CC Docket No. 96-152 (FNPRM).
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 4200 respondents; 1.33 hours per response
(avg.); 3150 total annual burden hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Description: The Commission issued a Further Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking in CC Docket No. 96-152, to implement section 274 of the
Communications Act, as amended which governs BOC provision of
electronic publishing services. Section 274(b)(3)(B) of the Act
requires a separated affiliate or electronic publishing joint venture
established pursuant to section 274(a) and the Bell Operating Company
(BOC) with which it is affiliated to ``carry out transactions * * *
pursuant to written contracts or tariffs that are filed with the
Commission and made publicly available.'' The Further Notice notes that
the phrases ``filed with the Commission'' and ``made publicly
available'' in section 274(b)(3)(B) each can be read to apply to both
contracts and tariffs, or only tariffs. In seeking comment on the
proper interpretation of these phrases, the Further Notice proposed the
following new collections of information: (1) The filing of both
written contracts and tariffs with the Commission; and/or (2) the
making of those contracts ``publicly available.'' OMB approved the
proposed collections. If the collections are adopted, compliance would
be mandatory.
OMB Control No.: 3060-0704
Expiration Date: 08/31/1997
Title: Policy and Rules Concerning the Interstate, Interexchange
Marketplace: Implementation of Section 254(g) of the Communications Act
of 1934, as amended--CC Docket No. 96-61.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 519 respondents; 266.2 hours per response
(avg.); 138,175 total annual burden hours.
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Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $435,000.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Description: CC Docket 96-61 eliminates the requirement that
nondominant interexchange carriers file tariffs for interstate,
domestic, interexchange telecommunications services. In order to
facilitate enforcement of such carriers' statutory obligation to
geographically average and integrate their rates, and to make it easier
for customers to compare carriers' service offerings, the Commission
requires affected carriers to maintain, and to make available to the
public in at least one location, information concerning their rates,
terms and conditions for all of their interstate domestic,
interexchange services. The information collected under the tariff
cancellation requirement must be disclosed to the Commission, and will
be used to implement the Commission's detariffing policy. The
information collected under the recordkeeping and certification
requirements will be used by the Commission to ensure that affected
interexchange carriers fulfill their obligations under the
Communications Act, as amended. The information in the disclosure
requirement must be provided to third parties, and will be used to
ensure that such parties have adequate information to bring to the
Commission's attention any violations of geographic rate averaging and
rate integration requirements of Section 254(g) of the Communications
Act, as amended. Compliance is mandatory.
Public reporting burden for the collections of information is as
noted above. Send comments regarding the burden estimate or any other
aspect of the collections of information, including suggestions for
reducing the burden to Performance Evaluation and Records Management,
Washington, D.C. 20554.
Federal Communications Commission.
LaVera F. Marshall,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-13370 Filed 5-20-97; 8:45 am]
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