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

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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