94-14642. Public Information Collection Requirements Submitted to Office of Management and Budget for Review

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

 

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

June 9, 1994.
    The Federal Communications Commission has submitted the following 
information collection requirements to OMB for review and clearance 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3507).
    Copies of these submissions 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 these submissions contact Judy Boley, Federal 
Communications Commission, [phone]. Persons wishing to comment 
on these information collections should contact Timothy Fain, Office of 
Management and Budget, Room 3221 NEOB, Washington, DC 20503, (202) 395-
3561.
    OMB Number: None.
    Title: Section 76.922, Rates for the basic service tier and cable 
programming services tiers.
    Action: Existing collection in use without OMB approval.
    Respondents: State or local governments, and businesses or other 
for-profit (including small businesses).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 300 responses; 12 hours average burden per 
response; 3,600 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 76.922 provides: (1) An eligible small 
system that elects to use the streamline rate reduction process must 
implement the required rate reduction and provide written notice of 
such reductions to local subscribers, the local franchising authority 
and the Commission; (2) the system must notify the franchising 
authority and its subscribers in writing that it is electing to set its 
regulated rates by the streamlined rate reduction process; (3) the 
system must provide a one month notice; (4) the rates must be 
implemented within thirty days after the written notification has been 
provided to subscribers and the local franchising authority; (5) if a 
complaint has been filed against the small system, they must provide a 
written notice stating the required rate reductions; and (6) a small 
system is required to give written notice of, and to implement, the 
rates that are produced by the streamlined rate reduction process only 
once. The information will be used by the Commission to determine 
whether or not small systems are eligible to use the streamlined rate 
reduction process and if so that they are in compliance with the rules 
and regulations of the FCC.

    OMB Number: None.
    Title: Section 76.934(d), Petition for extension of time.
    Action: Existing collection in use without an OMB control number.
    Respondents: State or local governments, businesses or other for-
profit (including small businesses).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 100 responses; 4 hours average burden per 
response; 400 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 76.934(d) states that small systems may 
obtain an extension of time to establish compliance with rate 
regulations provided they can demonstrate that timely compliance would 
result in severe economic hardship. The information will be used by the 
FCC and local franchise authorities to grant temporary relief to small 
systems who demonstrate a need for an extension of time to come into 
compliance with rate regulation.

    OMB Number: None.
    Title: Section 76.958, Notice to Commission of rate change while 
complaint pending.
    Action: Existing collection in use without an OMB control number.
    Respondents: State or local governments, businesses or other for-
profit (including small businesses).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 2,560 responses; .30 hours average burden 
per response; 768 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 76.958 states that a regulated cable 
operator that proposes to change any rate while a cable service tier 
complaint is pending before the Commission shall provide the Commission 
at least thirty days notice of the proposed change. The information 
will be used by FCC staff to determine whether or not a regulated cable 
operator carried out the correct procedures to propose change in any 
rate while a cable service their complaint is pending before the 
Commission.

    OMB Number: None.
    Title: Section 76.964(b), Notice to subscribers.
    Action: Existing collection in use without an OMB control number.
    Respondents: State or local governments, businesses or other for-
profit (including small businesses).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 400 responses; 1 hour average burden per 
response; 400 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 76.964(b) requires cable systems: (1) To 
give a thirty day written notice to both subscribers and local 
franchising authorities before implementing any rate or service change; 
(2) a notice stating the precise amount of any rate change and briefly 
explain in readily understandable fashion the cause of the rate change; 
(3) in addition to or deleting channels, each channel must be 
separately identified and a notice must be sent to subscribers 
informing them of their rights to file complaints about changes in 
cable programming service tier rates and services to the Commission 
within forty-five days. The information will be used by FCC staff to 
determine whether or not cable systems are in compliance with the rules 
and regulations before implementing any rate or service change.

    OMB Number: None.
    Title: Section 76.986, ``A la carte'' offerings.
    Action: Existing collection in use without an OMB control number.
    Respondents: State or local governments, businesses or other for-
profit (including small businesses).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 44,800 responses; 1 hour average burden 
per response; 44,800 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Section 76.986 (1) that local franchising 
authorities may make initial decisions addressing whether a collective 
offering of ``a la carte'' channels will be treated as an unregulated 
service or a regulated tier. (2) franchising authority may make this 
initial decision within the thirty day period established for review of 
basic cable rates and equipment costs or within the first sixty days of 
an extended 120 day period; (3) franchising authority shall provide 
notice of its decision to the cable system and shall provide public 
notice of its initial decision within seven days pursuant to local 
procedural rules for public notice and; (4) operators or consumers may 
make an interlocutory appeal of the initial decision to the Commission 
within 14 days of the initial decisions. The information will be used 
by FCC staff and local franchising authorities to determine which 
channels a cable operator is offering on an individual, unregulated 
basis.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-14642 Filed 6-15-94; 8:45 am]
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