[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 132 (Tuesday, July 11, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35745-35746]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16906]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to Office of
Management and Budget for Review
June 30, 1995.
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, (202) 857-3800. For
further information on this submission contact Dorothy Conway, Federal
Communications Commission, (202) 418-0217 or via internet at
[email protected] 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: N/A.
Title: Proposed Part 17--Antenna Registration.
Form No.: N/A.
Action: New Collection.
Respondents: Business or other-for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 307,200 responses; .12 hours burden per
response; 35,840 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: The requirement contained in the Notice of Proposed
Rule Making in WT 95-5 is necessary to implement uniform registration
procedures for owners of antenna structures. The antenna structure
owners will be required to provide tenants licensees with a copy of the
antenna registration and display the registration number on or around
the antenna structure.
OMB Number: N/A.
Title: Policies and Rules Concerning Unauthorized Changes of
Consumers' Long Distance Carriers (CC Docket 94-129)
Form No.: N/A.
Action: New Collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 500 responses; 2 hours burden per
response; 1,000 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Interexchange carriers (IXCs) are required to
provide consumers with letters of agency (LOAs) that are physically
separate or severable from any inducements or promotional materials.
The LOA must be written in clear and unambiguous language and printed
in a font size and style comparable to the inducements. The new rules
prohibit the potentially deceptive or confusing practice of combining
the LOA with promotional materials in the same document.
OMB Number: N/A.
Title: FCC Annual Survey of Cable Industry Prices.
Form No.: N/A.
Action: New Collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 816 responses; 3 hours burden per
response; 2,446 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Section 623(k) of the Cable Television Consumer
Protection and Competition Act of 1992 (``Cable Act'') requires the
Commission to publish an annual statistical report on average rates for
basic cable service, cable programming service and equipment. The
report must compare prices charged by cable systems subject to
effective competition and those not subject to effective competition.
The survey is to collect the data needed to prepare this report.
OMB Number: 3060-0548.
Title: Section 76.302 Required recordkeeping for must-carry
purposes and Section 76.56 Signal Carriage obligations.
Form No.: N/A.
Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 48,000 responses; 22.25 hours burden per
response; 267,000 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Section 76.302 requires the operator of every cable
television system to maintain a public inspection file containing must-
carry records. Section 76.56 requires that if a cable operator
authorizes subscribers to install additional receiver connections, but
does not provide the connections or equipment for such connections, the
operator must notify the subscriber of all broadcast stations that are
carried on the system which cannot be viewed without a converter box.
Operators must also respond to written requests for the identification
of signals carried on the system.
OMB Number: 3060-0547.
Title: Sections 76.61 Disputes concerning carriage and Sections
76.7 Special relief and must-carry procedures.
Form No.: N/A.
Action: Revision to a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 2,100 responses; 5 hours burden per
response; 10,500 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Section 76.61 requires local commercial televisions
or qualified low power television stations to notify a cable operator,
in writing, when that station believes that a cable operator has failed
to meet its carriage or channel positioning obligations. Section 76.7
states that on petition by an interested party, the Commission may
waive provisions of its cable television rules, impose additional or
different requirements, or issue a ruling on a complaint or disputed
question.
OMB Number: 3060-0519.
Title: Rules and Regulations Implementing the Telephone Consumer
Protection Act of 1991 (CC Docket No. 92-90).
Form No.: N/A.
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping Requirement.
Estimated Annual Burden: 30,000 recordkeepers; 31.2 hours burden
per recordkeeper; 936,000 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Parts 64 and 68 of the rules contain procedures for
avoiding unwanted telephone solicitations to residences, and to
regulate the use of automatic telephone dialling system, artificial or
prerecorded voice messages, and telephone facsimile machines. The rule
imposes a recordkeeping requirement on telemarketers to maintain lists
of telephone subscribers who do not wish to be contacted by telephone.
Maintenance of company-specific do not call lists serves as a mechanism
for prevent unwanted telephone solicitation.
OMB Number: N/A.
Title: Section 76.58 Notifications.
Form No.: N/A.
Action: New Collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions.
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Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 4,560 responses; 45 minutes burden per
response; 3,280 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Section 76.58 states that a cable operator must: a)
notify broadcast stations and subscribers before deleting the station
from carriage; b) notify qualified noncommercial educational television
stations of its designated principal headend; c) notify must-carry
stations of any change in the designation of the principal headend; d)
notify local educational stations that may not be entitled to carriage,
and e) mail a list of all broadcast stations carried on its system to
all local television stations.
OMB Number: N/A.
Title: Section 76.9 Order to show cause; forfeiture proceedings.
Form No.: N/A.
Action: New Collection.
Respondents: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit; Not-for-profit institutions.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 50 responses; 7 hours burden per response;
350 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Section 76.9 states that upon petition by any
interested person, the Commission may issue an order requiring a cable
television operator to show cause why it should not be directed to
cease and desist from violating Commission rules. The petition may be
submitted informally, by letter, but shall be accompanied by a
certificate of service on any interested person who may be directly
affected if an order to show cause is issued or a forfeiture proceeding
initiated. The petitions are used by the Commission to determine
whether or not the Commission's cable rules have been violated.
OMB Number: N/A.
Title: Section 76.502 Three year holding requirement.
Form No.: N/A.
Action: New Collection.
Respondents: Business or other-for-profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,000 responses; 15 minutes burden per
response; 250 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Section 76.502 states that a cable operator seeking
to assign or transfer control of a cable system must certify to the
local franchise authority that the proposed assignment or transfer of
control will not violate the three-year holding requirement. The
certification must be submitted to the franchise authority at the time
the cable operator submits the request for transfer approval, unless
local transfer approval is not required by the terms of the agreement.
OMB Number: N/A.
Title: Section 76.309 Customer Service Obligations and Section
76.964 Notice to subscribers.
Form No.: N/A.
Action: New Collection.
Respondents: Business or other-for-profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 125,000 responses; 20 minutes burden per
response; 40,917 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Sections 76.309 and 76.964 set forth customer
service obligations and notification requirements for changes in rates,
programming services and channel position. Section 76.309(c)(3)(i)(A)
states cable operators shall provide written information on each of the
following areas at the time of installation of service, at least
annually, and upon request to all subscribers: products and services
offered; prices and options for programming services and conditions of
subscription to programming and other services; installation and
service maintenance policies; instructions on using the cable service;
channel positions programming carried on the system; and billing and
complaint procedures, including the address and telephone number of the
local franchise authority cable office. Section 76.964(a) states that
customers will be notified of any changes in rates, programming service
or channel positions as soon as possible through announcements on the
cable system and in writing. Notice must be given at least 30 days in
advance of such changes if the changes is within the cable operators
control. Section 76.964(a) requires that cable operators give the
relevant franchising authority a minimum of 30 days written notice of
any changes in rates for cable programming service or associated
equipment. Section 76.964(b) states that cable systems shall give 30
days written notice to both subscribers and the local franchise
authority before implementing any rate change or change in service.
Section 76.964(c) states that cable systems shall provide written
notice to subscribers of their rights to file Commission complaints
concerning rate changes for cable programming services or associated
equipment.
OMB Number: 3060-0419.
Title: Syndicated Exclusivity/Network non-duplication Rights
Sections 76.94, 76.95, 76.155, 76.156, 76.157, 76.159.
Form No.: N/A.
Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 170,568 responses; 1.01 hour burden per
response; 170,768 hours total annual burden.
Needs and Uses: Notifications by TV stations and program suppliers
will provide cable systems with the information on programs for which
they can have syndicated exclusivity/network non-duplication rights.
The data provided to cable systems by TV stations will be used to
determine when programs subject to deletion will be aired, so that the
cable system can delete carriage of signals at the appropriate time.
OMB Number: N/A.
Title: Section 64.703(b) Consumer Information - Posting by
aggregators.
Form No.: N/A.
Action: New Collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; Federal Government; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden: 56,200 responses; 3.7 hours burden per
response; 206,566 hours total annual burden per response.
Needs and Uses: Section 64.703(b), requires that aggregators
(providers of telephones to the public or transient users) must post in
writing, on or near their phones, information about presubscribed
operator services, rates, carrier access, and the FCC address to which
consumers may direct complaints. Aggregators will disclose the
information via printed notice that is posted on or near the phones.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-16906 Filed 7-10-95; 8:45 am]
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