Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget, 26790-26791 [2016-10354]

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• FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 86 (Wednesday, May 4, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26790-26791]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-10354]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-0292, 3060-0719]


Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval 
to the Office of Management and Budget

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, 
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) 
invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this 
opportunity to comment on the following information collections. 
Comments are requested concerning: Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the Commission, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; ways to 
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; 
ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on the 
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology; and ways to further reduce the 
information collection burden on small business concerns with fewer 
than 25 employees. The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) control number. No person shall be subject to any 
penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject 
to the PRA that does not display a valid OMB control number.

DATES: Written comments should be submitted on or before June 3, 2016. 
If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but find it 
difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice, 
you should advise the contacts below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB, via 
email Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov; and to Nicole Ongele, FCC, via 
email PRA@fcc.gov and to Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. Include in the comments 
the OMB control number as shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION 
section below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies 
of the information collection, contact Nicole Ongele at (202) 418-2991. 
To view a copy of this information collection request (ICR) submitted 
to OMB: (1) Go to the Web page https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the section of the Web page called ``Currently 
Under Review,'' (3) click on the downward-pointing arrow in the 
``Select Agency'' box below the ``Currently Under Review'' heading, (4) 
select ``Federal Communications Commission'' from the list of agencies 
presented in the ``Select Agency'' box, (5) click the ``Submit'' button 
to the right of the ``Select Agency'' box, (6) when the list of FCC 
ICRs currently under review appears, look for the OMB control number of 
this ICR and then click on the ICR Reference Number. A copy of the FCC 
submission to OMB will be displayed.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0292.
    Title: Section 69.605, Reporting and Distribution of Pool Access 
Revenues, Part 69--Access Charges.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,064 respondents; 12,757 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.75 hours--1 hour.
    Frequency of Response: Annual and monthly reporting requirements 
and third party disclosure requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. 154, 201, 202, 203, 205, 218 and 403 of the Communications Act 
of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 9,568 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: No cost.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for 
confidentiality.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission is requesting approval for an 
extension (no change in the reporting and/or third party disclosure 
requirements).
    Due to consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace, there 
is a decrease in the Commission's burden estimates. Section 69.605 
requires that access revenues and cost data shall be reported by 
participants in association tariffs to the association for computation 
of monthly pool revenues distributions. The association shall submit a 
report on or before February 1 of each calendar year describing the 
associations' cost study review process for the preceding calendar year 
as well as the results of that process. For any revisions to the cost 
study results made or recommended by the association that would change 
the respective carrier's calculated annual common line or traffic 
sensitive revenue requirement by ten percent or more, the report shall 
include the following information:
    (1) Name of the carrier;
    (2) A detailed description of the revisions;
    (3) The amount of the revisions;
    (4) The impact of the revisions on the carrier's calculated common 
line and traffic sensitive revenue requirements; and
    (5) The carrier's total annual common line and traffic sensitive 
revenue requirement. The information is used to compute charges in 
tariffs for access service (or origination and termination) and to 
compute revenue pool distributions. Neither process could be 
implemented without the information.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0719.

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    Title: Quarterly Report of Local Exchange Carriers Listing Payphone 
Automatic Number Identifications (ANIs).
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 400 respondents; 1,600 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 3.5 hours (8 hours for the initial 
submission; 2 hours per subsequent submission--for an average of 3.5 
hours per response).
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly reporting requirement, 
recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. 151, 154, 201-205, 215, 218, 219, 220, 226 and 276 of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 5,600 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: No cost.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting respondents to submit confidential information to the 
Commission. If the respondents wish confidential treatment of their 
information, they may request confidential treatment under 47 CFR 0.459 
of the Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission adopted rules and policies governing 
the payphone industry under section 276(b)(1)(A) of the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the Act) and established ``a per call 
compensation plan to ensure that all payphone service providers are 
fairly compensated for each and every completed intrastate and 
interstate call.'' Pursuant to this mandate, and as required by section 
64.1310(d) of the Commission's rules, Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) 
must provide to carriers required to pay compensation pursuant to 
section 64.1300(a), a quarterly report listing payphone ANIs. Without 
provision of this report, resolution of disputed ANIs would be rendered 
very difficult. Carriers would not be able to discern which ANIs 
pertain to payphones and therefore would not be able to ascertain which 
dial-around calls were originated by payphones for compensation 
purposes. There would be no way to guard against possible fraud. 
Without this collection, lengthy investigations would be necessary to 
verify claims. The report allows carriers to determine which dial-
around calls are made from payphones. The information must be provided 
to third parties. The requirement would be used to ensure that LECs and 
the carriers required to pay compensation pursuant to 47 CFR 64.1300(a) 
of the Commission's rules comply with their obligations under the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-10354 Filed 5-3-16; 8:45 am]
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