96-17563. Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) For Review

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 10, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 36379]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17563]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) For Review

July 3, 1996.
    The Federal Communications Commission has submitted the following 
information collection requirement to OMB for review and clearance 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507. Persons 
wishing to comment on this information collection should contact 
Timothy Fain, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10236, NEOB, 
Washington, D.C. 20503, [phone]. For further information, 
contact Dorothy Conway, Federal Communications Commission, (202) 418-
0217.
    Please note: The Commission has requested emergency review of this 
collection by July 16, 1996, under the provisions of 5 C.F.R. Section 
1320.13.
    Title: Bell Operating Company Provision of Out-of-Region, 
Interstate, Interexchange Services, Report and Order, CC Docket No. 96-
21, (Affiliated Company Recordkeeping Requirement).
    Form No.: N/A
    OMB Control No.: None.
    Action: New Collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 7 respondents; 6056 hours per response; 
42,394 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: In the Report and Order issued in CC Docket No. 96-
21, the Commission removed dominant regulation for BOCs that provide 
out-of-region, interstate, interexchange services through an affiliate 
that complies with certain safeguards, in order to facilitate the 
efficient and rapid provisions of out-of-region, domestic, interstate, 
interexchange services by the BOCs, as contemplated by the 1996 Act, 
while still protecting ratepayers and competition in the interexchange 
market. These safeguards require that the affiliate: (1) maintain 
separate books of account from the LEC; (2) not jointly own 
transmission or switching facilities with the LEC; and (3) take any 
tariffed services from the affiliated LEC pursuant to the terms and 
conditions of the LEC's generally applicable tariff. This recordkeeping 
requirement will not impose any significant burden on BOC interexchange 
affiliates because we do not require that the interexchange affiliate 
maintain separate books of account that comply with our Part 32 rules. 
Instead, these affiliates must maintain separate books as would any 
separate corporation, as a matter of course.
    The foregoing estimates include the time for reviewing 
instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and 
maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the burden 
estimates or any other aspect of the collection of information 
including suggestions for reducing the burden to the Federal 
Communications Commission, Records Management Division, Paperwork 
Reduction Project, Washington, D.C. 20554.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-17563 Filed 7-9-96; 8:45 am]
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