Public Information Collection Requirements Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission for Extension Under Delegated Authority 5 CFR 1320.9.

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Public Information Collection Requirements Being Reviewed by the

Federal Communications Commission for Extension Under Delegated

Authority 5 CFR 1320.9.

October 25, 1994.

The Federal Communications Commission is reviewing the following

information collection requirements for possible 3-year extension under

delegated authority 5 CFR 1320.9, authority delegated to the Commission

by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on October 6, 1994. These

collections were all previously approved by OMB and are unchanged.

Public comments are invited on any of these collections for a period

ending December 1, 1994. Persons wishing to comment on these

information collections should contact Dorothy Conway, Federal

Communications Commission, 1919 M Street N.W. Room 242-B, Washington,

DC 20554. You may also send comments via Internet to DC[email protected].

Upon approval FCC will forward supporting material and copies of these

collections to OMB.

Copies of these submissions may be purchased from the Commission's

copy contractor, International Transcription Service, Inc., 2100 M

Street, N.W., Suite 140, Washington, DC 20037, (202) 857-3800. For

further information on these submissions contact Dorothy Conway,

Federal Communications Commission, (202) 418-0217.

OMB Number: 3060-0492

Title: Section 74.992 Access to channels licensed to wireless cable

entities

Form Number: FCC Form 330

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: State or local governments, businesses or other for profit

including small businesses, non-profit

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 10 responses; 6.5 hours burden per response;

65 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 74.992 requires that requests by Instructional

Television Fixed and/or Response Station(s) (ITFS) entities for access

to wireless cable facilities licensed on ITFS frequencies be made by

filing FCC Form 330. The data is used by FCC staff to determine if an

ITFS entity is eligible to demand access on the wireless cable

facility.

OMB Number: 3060-0493

Title: Section 74.986 Involuntary ITFS station modification

Form Number: FCC Form 330

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: State or local governments; businesses or other for profit

including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 20 responses; 8 hours burden per response; 160

hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 74.986 requires an application for involuntary

modification of an ITFS station be filed on FCC Form 330. FCC staff

uses the data to insure that ITFS licensees/permittees proposals to

modify ITFS facilities would provide comparable ITFS service and serve

the public interest in promoting the MMDS service.

OMB Number: 3060-0491

Title: Section 74.991 Wireless cable application procedures

Form Numbers: FCC Forms 330 and 494

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for profit including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 100 responses; 4.33 hours burden per response;

433 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 74.991 requires that a wireless cable

application be filed on FCC Form 330, Sections I and V, with a complete

FCC Form 494 appended. The application must include a cover letter

clearly indicating that the application is for a wireless cable entity

to operate on ITFS channels. FCC staff uses the data to insure that

proposals to operate a wireless cable system on ITFS channels do not

impair or restrict any reasonably foreseeable ITFS use.

OMB Number: 3060-0490

Title: Section 74.902 Frequency Assignments

Form Number: FCC Forms 330 and 327

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: State or local governments; businesses or other for

profit, including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 32 responses; 7.625 hours burden per response;

244 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 74.902 requires that an MDS applicant files the

appropriate application for suitable alternative spectrum when

involuntarily displacing a point to point ITFS station operating on MDS

channels E and F. FCC staff uses this data to insure that proposals to

displace point to point facilities of ITFS stations would provide

comparable point-to-point ITSF service and serve the public interest in

promoting the MMDS service.

OMB Number: 3060-0494

Title: Section 74.990 Use of available instructional television fixed

service frequencies by wireless cable entities

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for profit including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 100 responses; 2 hours burden per response;

200 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 74.990 requires a wireless cable applicant to

show that there are no multipoint distribution service or multichannel

distribution service channels available for application, purchase or

lease that could be used in lieu of the instructional television fixed

service frequencies applied for. This data is used by FCC staff to

insure that proposals to operate a wireless cable system on ITFS

channels do not impair or restrict any reasonably foreseeable ITFS use.

OMB Number: 3060-0297

Title: 80.503 Cooperative use of facilities

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;

businesses or other for profit; non-profit institutions including small

businesses

Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement

Estimated Annual Burden: 100 recordkeepers; 16 hours burden per

recordkeeper; 1,600 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 80.503 recordkeeping requirements are necessary

to insure licensees which share private facilities operate within the

specified scope of service, on a non-profit basis, and do not function

as communications common carriers providing ship-shore public

correspondence services. FCC Field Operations Bureau staff use the data

during inspections and investigations to insure compliance with

applicable rules.

OMB Number: 3060-0222

Title: 97.213 Remote control of a station

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Individuals or households

Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement

Estimated Annual Burden: 500 recordkeepers; 12 minutes burden per

recordkeeper; 100 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 97.213 requires posting a photocopy of the

station license, a label with the name, address and telephone number of

the station license and the name of at least one authorized control

operator. This facilitates quick resolution of any harmful interference

problems in accordance with the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.

FCC Field Operations Bureau staff use this information during

inspections and investigations to assure that remotely controlled

amateur radio stations are licensed in accordance with applicable

rules, statutes and treaties.

OMB Number: 3060-0202

Title: Section 87.37 Developmental license

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;

businesses or other for profits; non-profit institutions including

small businesses

Frequency of Response: Annual

Estimated Annual Burden: 12 responses; 8 hours burden response; 96

hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: This requirement in Section 87.37 enables the FCC to

gather data on the results of developmental programs conducted in the

Aviation Services for which developmental authorizations have been

issued. The data is used to determine whether developmental

authorizations should be renewed and/or whether rule making proceedings

should be initiated to include such operations within the normal scope

of Aviation Services.

OMB Number: 3060-0197

Title: Section 87.31 Changes during license term

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;

businesses or other for profit; federal agencies or employees; non-

profit institutions; small businesses or organizations

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 100 responses; 1 hour burden per response; 100

hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: This requirement in Section 87.31 is necessary to

ensure name and/or address of licensee.

OMB Number: 3060-0264

Title: 80.413 On-board station equipment records

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;

businesses or other for profit; federal agencies or employees; non-

profit institutions; small businesses or organizations

Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement

Estimated Annual Burden: 1,000 recordkeepers; 2 hours burden per

recordkeeper; 2,000 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: The recordkeeping requirement in Section 80.413 is

necessary to document the number and type of transmitters operating

under an on-board station license. FCC Field Operations Bureau staff

use the information during inspections and investigations to determine

what mobile units and repeaters are associated with on-board stations

aboard a particular vessel.

OMB Number: 3060-0132

Title: Supplemental Information 72-76 MHz Operational Fixed Stations

Form Number: FCC Form 1068A

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;

businesses or other for profit; non-profit institutions; small

businesses or organizations

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 300 responses; 30 minutes burden per response;

150 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: This collection is required to evaluate applicants for

authorization in the Operational Fixed Private Land Mobile Stations in

the 72-76 MHz frequency band.

OMB Number: 3060-0021

Title: Civil Air Patrol Radio Station License

Form Number: FCC Form 480

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Non-profit institutions

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 12 responses; 5 minutes burden per response; 1

hour total annual burden

Needs and Uses: FCC Form 480 is used by apply for a new, renewal or

modified Civil Air Patrol Radio Station License. The data is used by

the Commission personnel to evaluate the application to issue licenses,

to provide information for enforcement and rulemaking proceedings and

to maintain a current inventory of licensees.

OMB Number: 3060-0182

Title: Section 73.1620 Program Tests

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit; non-profit institutions

including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 1,136 responses; 1.06 hours burden per

response; 1,204 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: The notification to FCC regarding program tests

(Section 73.1620(a)) alerts FCC that station construction is complete

and that the station is ready to broadcast program material. The

notification to UHF translator stations (Section 73.1620(f)) alerts the

station that the potential for interference exists. The report to FCC

regarding deviations (Section 73.1620(g)) ensure that comparative

promises relating to services are not inflated.

OMB Number: 3060-0348

Title: Section 76.79 Records available for public inspection

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for profit including small businesses

Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping

Estimated Annual Burden: 2,150 recordkeepers; 2 hours burden per

recordkeeper; 4,300 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 73.79 requires that every cable employment unit

with more than five full-time employees maintain, for public inspection

a file containing copies of all annual employment reports and related

documents. This data is used to assess the cable unit's equal

employment opportunity (EEO) efforts.

OMB Number: 3060-0187

Title: Section 73.3594 Local public notice of designation for hearing

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 48 responses; 4 hours burden per response; 192

hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 73.3594 request that applicants of any AM, FM

or TV broadcast station designated hearing must give notice of such

designation. This notice must be given in a daily newspaper of general

circulation published twice weekly for two consecutive weeks in the

community in which the station is or will be located. This notice gives

interested parties the opportunity to respond.

OMB Number: 3060-0488

Title: Section 73.30 Petition for authorization of an allotment in the

1605-1705 kHz band

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for profit including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 500 responses; 2 hours burden per response;

1,000 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 73.30 requires any party interested in applying

for an AM broadcast station to be operated on the 1605-1705 band to

first file a petition for the establishment of an allotment to its

proposed community of service. FCC staff uses the data to determine

whether applicants meet basic technical requirements to migrate to the

expanded band.

OMB Number: 3060-0218

Title: Section 90.41(b) Disaster Relief Organization ``Special

eligibility showing''

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Non-profit institutions; small businesses or organizations

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 75 responses; 10 minutes burden per response;

13 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Information used to establish the eligibility of

disaster relief organizations to use Special Emergency Radio Service

frequencies which are primarily used for emergency medical services.

This is necessary to assure efficient communications operations.

OMB Number: 3060-0259

Title: Section 90.263 Substitution of Frequencies below 25 MHz

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: State or local governments; businesses or other for profit

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 60 responses; 30 minutes burden per response;

30 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Applicants proposing operation in certain frequency

bands below 25 MHz must submit supplemental information showing such

frequencies are necessary from a safety of life standpoint. FCC

personnel uses this information to evaluate the applicants need for

such frequencies and the interference potential to other stations

operating on the proposed frequencies.

OMB Number: 3060-0295

Title: Sections 90.607(b)(1) & (c)(1) Supplemental information to be

furnished by applicants for facilities under this subpart

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: State or local government; businesses or other for profit

including small business

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 2,028 responses; 15 minutes burden per

response; 507 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Applicants must submit a list of any radio facility

they hold within 40 miles of the base station transmitter site being

applied for. This information is used to determine if an applicant's

proposed system is necessary in light of communications facilities it

already owns. Such a determination helps the Commission to equitably

distribute limited spectrum.

OMB Number: 3060-0221

Title: Section 90.155(b) Time in which station must be placed in

operation (exceptions)

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Individuals or households; state or local governments;

businesses or other for profit, including small businesses; non-profit

institutions

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 55 responses; 1 hour burden per response; 55

hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: state and local governments are must show a need if

they require longer than eight months to place a station in operation.

Commission licensing staff use the information to determine if an

exception to the eight month requirement is warranted.

OMB Number: 3060-0173

Title: Section 73.1207 Rebroadcasts

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses

non-profit institutions

Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping

Estimated Annual Burden: 1,012 recordkeepers; 30 minutes burden per

recordkeeper; 506 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 73.1207 requires licensees of broadcast

stations to obtain written permission from an originating station prior

to retransmitting any program or part thereof. A copy of the permission

must be kept in the station's file and made available to the FCC upon

request. This written consent assures the Commission that prior

authorization for retransmission of a program was obtained.

OMB Number: 3060-0190

Title: Section 73.3544 Application to obtain a modified station license

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small

businesses; non-profit institutions

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 272 responses; 1 hour burden per response; 272

hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 73.3544 requires broadcast licensees to file

informal applications with FCC to obtain modified station license when

prior authority is not required to make changes. FCC uses the data to

ensure changes are in accordance with FCC rules and regulations and to

issue a modified station license.

OMB Number: 3060-0489

Title: Section 73.37 Applications for broadcast facilities, showing

required

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 210 responses; 4.86 hours per response; 1,021

hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 73.37(d) requires applicants for new or major

change AM broadcast stations to make a satisfactory showing if new or

modified nighttime operations by a Class B station is proposed. Section

73.37(f) requires applicants seeking facilities modifications that

would result in spacing that fail to meet any of the separation

requirements to include a showing that an adjustment has been made to

the radiated signal which effectively results in a site-to-site

radiation that is equivalent to the radiation of a station with

standard Model 1 facilities. The FCC staff uses the data to ensure that

objectionable interference will not be caused to other authorized AM

stations.

OMB Number: 3060-0346

Title: Section 78.27 License Conditions

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Business or other for profit, including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 455 responses; 10 minutes burden per response;

76 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 78.27 requires licensees of Cable Television

Relay Service stations to notify the Commission when stations commence

operation and to request additional time to complete construction when

needed. FCC staff uses the data to provide accurate records of actual

CARS channel usage for frequency coordination purposes.

OMB Number: 3060-0570

Title: Section 76.982 Continuation of Rate Agreements

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: State and local governments; businesses or other for

profit, including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 150 persons; 30 minutes burden response; 75

hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 76.982 provides that franchise authorities who

were regulating basic cable rates pursuant to a rate agreement executed

before July 1, may continue to regulate rates during the remainder of

the agreement after notification to the FCC that it intends to do so.

This notification will give the FCC information needed to assess impact

of new regulatory scheme.

OMB Number: 3060-0314

Title: Section 76.209 Fairness doctrine, personal attacks, political

editorials

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 1,312 responses; 2.6 hours burden per

response; 3,411 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 76.209(b) requires that a cable television

system operator must notify a person or group on which a personal

attack was made of the date, time and identification of the cablecast.

They are to offer a script or tape of the attack and offer a reasonable

opportunity to respond to the attack over the licensees facilities.

Section 76.209(d) requires that when a cable television system operator

in an editorial endorses or opposes a candidate, the licensee must

notify the other qualified candidate(s) for the same office or the

candidate opposed, of the date and time of editorial, provide a script

or tape editorial and offer a reasonable opportunity to respond over

the system's facilities.

OMB Number: 3060-0561

Title: Section 76.913 Assumption of jurisdiction by the Commission

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: State or local governments; federal agencies or employees

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 500 responses; 8 hours burden per response;

4,000 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 76.913 provides that a franchise authority that

has insufficient resources to regulate rates or lacks the legal

authority may petition the Commission to regulate the rates for basic

cable service and associated equipment of its franchise. FCC uses the

data to identify situations where it should exercise jurisdiction.

OMB Number: 3060-0447

Title: Section 25.134 Licensing Provisions of Very Small Aperture

Terminal Network

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Business or other for profit, including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 10 responses; 120 hours burden per response;

1,200 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 25.134 requires applicants seeking higher

satellite carrier power density to make certain showings including a

copy of their engineering analyses output, accompanied with a narrative

summary and also proof of consent to all potentially affected parties.

The FCC uses this data to identify potential interference problems.

OMB Number: 3060-0560

Title: Section 76.911 Petition for reconsideration of certification

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 450 responses; 2 hours burden per response;

900 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 76.911(b)(2) requires competing video

programmers, when requested by cable operators to provide information

regarding the competitor's research and number of subscribers. The

information will be used by cable operators to rebut a franchising

authority's certification to the FCC that the cable system is not

subject to effective competition. FCC staff will use the data to

achieve the goals of the Communications and Cable Acts, by ensuring

that the threshold effective competition determination is based on a

complete record and to resolve disputes concerning the presence or

absence of effective competition.

OMB Number: 3060-0562

Title: Section 76.916, Petition for Recertification

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: State or local governments

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 1,300 responses; 2.5 hours burden per

response; 3,250 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: Section 76.916 provides that franchising authority

wishing to assume jurisdiction to regulate basic service and associated

equipment rates after its request for certification has been denied or

revoked must file a ``Petition for Reconsideration.'' If this

collection was not conducted, such franchise authorities would not have

the opportunity to establish their qualifications after their initial

request for certification was denied or revoked.

OMB Number: 3060-0486

Title: Document Index Terms

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection

Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, including small businesses

Frequency of Response: On occasion

Estimated Annual Burden: 21,120 responses; .017 hours burden per

response; 360 hours total annual burden

Needs and Uses: This information is used by the FCC to enter documents

into the Commissions Records Imaging Processing System (RIPS). This

system is used for storage and retrieval of docketed, rulemakings and

petitions for Rulemaking proceedings. The data assists the public in

assigning documents in the system.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

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