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

January 10, 1995.

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.

[[Page 4164]] Public comments are invited on any of these collections

for a period ending February 21, 1995. Persons wishing to comment on

these information collections should contact Dorothy Conway, Federal

Communications Commission, 1919 M Street NW, 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, NW, 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: 3060-0224.

Title: Section 90.151 Request for waiver.

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other for-profit; not-for-profit

institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Annual Burden: 60 responses; 2 hours burden per response;

120 hours total annual burden.

Needs and Uses: Section 90.151 requires applicants requesting a

waiver of various radio spectrum rules submit information justifying

the waiver need. The FCC personnel use this information to determine if

an exception to the rules is warranted.

OMB Number: 3060-0226.

Title: Section 90.135(d) & (e) Modification of license.

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other for-profit; not-for-profit; State,

Local or Tribal Government.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Annual Burden: 1656 responses; 10 minutes burden per

response; 276 hours total annual burden.

Needs and Uses: Section 90.135(d) & (e) requires licensees who

change certain parameters (name, address, mobile units, etc) to inform

the Commission by form letter. This notification is necessary to

maintain accurate data utilized by the Commission, frequency

coordinators and the public in corresponding with licensees regarding

interference resolution and licensing matters.

OMB Number: 3060-0253.

Title: Part 68 - Connection of Telephone Equipment to the Telephone

Network (Sections 68.106, 68.108 and 68.110).

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Individuals or households; business or other for-

profit; not-for-profit institutions; farms; Federal Government; State,

Local or Tribal Government.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Annual Burden: 57,540 responses; .057 hours burden per

response; 3,280 hours total annual burden.

Needs and Uses: The requirements in Part 68 are necessary to

prevent the degradation of the telephone network. The collections are

designed to prevent harm to the telephone network when customer-

provided equipment is connected to the telephone company lines and

assures that customers will not overload the telephone lines with

excessive equipment which would degrade service to the customer and

others. Telephone companies and persons connecting certain equipment to

the network are the affected public.

OMB Number: 3060-0281.

Title: Section 90.651 Supplemental reports required of licensees

authorized under this subpart.

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other for-profit; not-for-profit; State,

Local or Tribal Government.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Annual Burden: 16,408 responses; 10 minutes burden per

response; 2,735 hours total annual burden.

Needs and Uses: Section 90.651 requires licensees to report the

actual number of mobil units served by each base station. The various

subparagraphs of the rule apply to different categories of licensees

and define exactly what information is required. The Commission

licensing personnel use the information to maintain an accurate data

base of frequency users which is used in spectrum planning,

interference resolution and licensing activities.

OMB Number: 3060-0284.

Title: Section 94.25(f) & (g) & (i) Filing of applications.

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Businesses or other for- profit; not-for-profit

institutions; State, Local and Tribal Government.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Annual Burden: 25 responses; 30 minutes burden per

response; 13 hours total annual burden.

Needs and Uses: Section 94.25 requires that applicants proposing

new or modified microwave transmitting facilities in the vicinity of

the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Naval Radio Research

Observatory, Table Mountain Radio Receiving Zone or the FCC monitoring

stations, consult with those parties to avoid interference to these

sites. The requirement is necessary to preserve interference-free

reception at these sites.

OMB Number: 3060-0291.

Title: Section 90.477 Interconnected Systems.

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other for-profit; not-for-profit

institutions; State, Local and Tribal Governments.

Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement.

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

recordkeeper; 1,000 hours total annual burden.

Needs and Uses: Section 90.477 allows private land mobile radio

licensees to use common point telephone interconnection with telephone

service costs distributed on a non-profit cost sharing basis. Records

of such arrangements must be placed in the licensees station records

and made available to participants in the sharing arrangement and the

Commission upon request. The information is used by the participating

licensees to effect the required cost sharing.

OMB Number: 3060-0300.

Title: Section 94.107 Posting of Station Authorization and

Transmitter Identification Cards, Plates or Signs.

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit.

Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping Requirement.

Estimated Annual Burden: 12,140 recordkeepers; 5 seconds per

recordkeeper; 17 hours total annual burden.

Needs and Uses: Section 94.107 requires licensees to keep the

original of each transmitter authorization posted or immediately

available at the address at which the station records are maintained,

and to post a copy at the transmitter location. This information is

used by field personnel to determine if a transmitter is operating in

conformance with its authorization.

OMB Number: 3060-0308.

Title: Section 90.505 Developmental operation showing required.

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other for-profit; not-for-profit

institutions; State, Local and Tribal Government.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Annual Burden: 100 responses; 2 hours burden per

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Needs and Uses: Section 90.505 requires licensees proposing

development of new uses of the radio communication facilities submit

information showing why such an authorization is necessary and its

uses. Commission personnel use the information to evaluate the

desirability of issuing such an authorization from spectrum use and

interference potential considerations.

OMB Number: 3060-0330.

Title: Part 62 - Applications to Hold Interlocking Directorates.

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Annual Burden: 10 responses; 2 hours burden response; 20

hours total annual burden.

Needs and Uses: Part 62 of the Commission Rules requires the

Commission to monitor the effect of interlocking directorates on the

telecommunications industry and ensure they will not have any

anticompetitive impact. The affected public is any entity desiring to

occupy such positions.

OMB Number: 3060-0439.

Title: Regulations Concerning Indecent Communications by Telephone.

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Individuals or households; business or other for-

profit.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Annual Burden: 10,200 responses; 10 minutes burden per

response; 1,632 hours total annual burden.

Needs and Uses: Section 64.201 contains several information

collections requirements including: (1) a requirement that certain

common carriers block access to indecent messages unless the subscriber

sees access from the common carrier in writing; (2) a requirement that

adult message service providers notify their carriers of the nature of

their programming; and (3) a requirement that a provider of adult

message services request that their carriers identify it as such in

bills to its subscribers. The information requirements are imposed on

carriers, adult message service providers and those who solicit their

services to ensure that minors are denied access to material deemed

indecent.

OMB Number: 3060-0450.

Title: Detariffing the Installation and Maintenance of Inside

Wiring Services; Reports on State Regulatory Activities (CC Docket No.

79-105).

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Individuals or households; business or other for-

profit.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Annual Burden: 68 responses; 2 hours burden per response;

136 hours total annual burden.

Needs and Uses: Certain local exchange carriers are required to

file copies of any state statute, rule, order, or other document that

regulates, or proposes to regulate, the prices for inside wiring

services. This information is used by the Commission to monitor the

actions of state agencies to ensure that their actions do not impede

federal policies.

OMB Number: 3060-0454.

Title: Regulation of International Accounting Rates (CC Docket No.

90-337).

Action: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other for-profit.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Annual Burden: 120 responses; 2 hours burden per

response; 240 hours total annual burden.

Needs and Uses: CC Docket No 90-337 implemented rules making it

easier for U.S. carriers engaged in international telecommunications to

negotiate lower accounting rates. Simple reductions in rates are made

pursuant to a notification approach; other changes are subject to ISP

waiver approach. Such carriers are required to file copies of operating

agreements. The information is used for monitoring and enforcement

purposes.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

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