94-16556. Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to Office of Management and Budget for Review

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

 

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

July 1, 1994.
    The Federal Communications Commission has submitted the following 
information collection requirement to OMB for review and clearance 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3507).
    Copies of this submission may be purchased from the Commission's 
copy contractor, International Transcription Service, Inc., 2100 M 
Street, N.W., Suite 140, Washington, DC 20037, [phone]. For 
further information on this submission contact Judy Boley, Federal 
Communications Commission, [phone]. Persons wishing to comment 
on this information collection should contact Timothy Fain, Office of 
Management and Budget, Room 10236 NEOB, Washington, DC 20503, (202) 
395-3561.
    OMB Number: None.
    Title: Expanded Interconnection with Local Telephone Company 
Facilities.
    Action: New collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting and Other: one-time 
tariff filing to be made by approximately 9/30/94.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 16 responses; 37 hours average burden per 
response; 592 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: In the attached Third Report and Order, the 
Commission concluded that the LECs should be required to provide 
certain cost support to justify the rate levels for the tariff charges 
to be paid by parties for the offered signalling information. The 
Commission required the price cap LECs to provide cost support for the 
signalling charge using the same methodology employed to support new 
services under the price cap rules. The Commission believes that this 
cost information is necessary to ensure the proper pricing of 
signalling information offerings since they will be used by the LECs' 
competitors. The LECs may use approved, commonly used public utility 
ratemaking methodologies to develop the required cost support, 
including sampling and averaging of certain costs, and thereby minimize 
the burden of this requirement. Absent these requirements, the 
Commission is concerned that the LECs would have a strong incentive to 
price these services in a manner that would undermine the growth of 
competition in interstate access. Unless parties can purchase expanded 
interconnection offerings at rates that are just, reasonable and 
nondiscriminatory, mandating expanded interconnection will not lead to 
effective competition and the anticipated benefits.

Federal Communications Commission.
LaVera F. Marshall,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-16556 Filed 7-7-94; 8:45 am]
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