95-18102. Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to Office of Management and Budget for Review

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 141 (Monday, July 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37896-37897]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-18102]



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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


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

July 17, 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 

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Service, Inc., 2100 M Street, NW., Suite 140, Washington, DC 20037, 
[phone]. For further information on this submission contact 
Dorothy Conway, Federal Communications Commission, [phone] 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: 3060-0613. 
    Title: Expanded Interconnection with Local Telephone Company 
Facilities, CC Docket No. 91-141, Transport Phase II (Third R&O).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: Revision to a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 64 responses; 13 hours burden per 
response; 832 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Tier 1 local exchange carriers (except NECA 
members) are required to make tariff filings to provide certain 
signalling information to interested parties so that those parties can 
provide tandem switching services. Tandem switching providers are 
required to provide certain billing information to those Tier 1 local 
exchange carriers. The tariffs and cost support information 
accompanying them are used by the FCC staff to ensure that the tariff 
rates are paid for signalling information are just, reasonable and 
nondiscriminatory, as Sections 201 and 202 of the Communications Act 
requires. Without this information the FCC would be unable to determine 
whether the rates for these services are just, reasonable, 
nondiscriminatory, and otherwise in accordance with the law. PIU and 
billing allocation information are used by LECs to bill IXCs properly 
for interstate and intrastate access.
OMB Number: 3060-0370.
    Title: Part 32 Uniform System of Accounts for Telecommunications 
Companies.
    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: 239 responses; 1,2686 hours burden per 
response; 3,031,868 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: The Uniform System of Accounts is a historical 
financial accounting system which reports the results of operational 
and financial events in a manner which enables both management and 
regulators to assess these results with a specified accounting period. 
Subject respondents are telecommunications companies. Entities having 
annual revenue from regulated telecommunications operations of less 
than $100 million are designated as Class B companies and are subject 
to a less detailed accounting system than those designated as Class A 
companies.
OMB Number: N/A.
    Title: Accounting and Reporting Requirements for Video Dailtone 
Service (RAO Letter 25).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: New collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 10 recordkeepers; 850 hours burden per 
respondent; 8,500 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: Carriers offering video dialtone service are 
required to establish two sets of subsidiary accounting records; one to 
capture the investment expense and revenue wholly dedicated to video 
dialtone, the other to capture the investment, expense and revenue 
shared between video dailtone and other services. This requirement is 
necessary to ensure that the subsidiary records maintained by the 
carriers include all relevant data and to ensure that the data is 
auditable.
OMB Number: 3060-0065.
    Title: Application for New or Modified Radio Station Authorization 
Under Part 5 of FCC Rules - Experimental Radio Service (Other than 
Broadcast).
    Form No.: FCC 442.
    Action: Revision of currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions; State, Local or Tribal Governments.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 700 responses; 4 hours burden per 
respondent; 2,800 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: FCC Form 442 is required to be filed by Section 
5.55(a), (b) and (c) of the FCC Rules and Regulations by applicants 
requiring an FCC license to operate a new or modified experimental 
radio station. The data is used to determine: (1) if the applicant is 
eligible for an experimental license; (2) the purpose of the 
experiment; (3) compliance with the requirements of Part 5 and (4) if 
the proposed operation with cause interference with existing 
operations.
OMB Number: N/A.
    Title: Section 64.1100 Policies and Rules Concerning Changing Long 
Distance Carriers (CC Docket No. 96-64).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Action: New Collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 75 responses; 1.2 hours burden per 
response; 93 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: This requirements require IXCs that generate orders 
for long distance service by telemarketing to perform one of four 
alternative verification procedures before placing the end user's 
primary interexchange carrier (PIC) change order with the LEC. IXC's 
with generate customer PIC change orders through telemarking must 
independently verify, by one of four alternatives that customers have 
agreed to change their long distance service before submitting these 
requests to the LECs. The IXC must first: (1) obtain a letter of 
authorization from the customer; (2) obtain the customer's electronic 
authorization by means of a toll-free phone number; (3) utilize an 
independent third-party to obtain the customer's oral authorization or 
(4) within three business days of the customer's request for a PIC 
change send each new customer an information package that contains 
information concerning the requested change and a postpaid postcard 
which the customer can use to deny, cancel, or confirm the order.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-18102 Filed 7-21-95; 8:45 am]
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