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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information
Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission
March 31, 2005.
The Federal Communications
Commission, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork burden
invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collection(s), as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995, Public Law 104–13.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor
a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid control
number. No person shall be subject to
any penalty for failing to comply with
a collection of information subject to the
Paperwork Reduction Act that does not
display a valid control number.
Comments are requested concerning (a)
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;
(b) the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; and (d) 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.
DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before June 6, 2005. 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 contact listed below as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) comments to Les
Smith, Federal Communications
Commission, Room 1–A804, 445 12th
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554 or
via the Internet to Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or copies of the
information collection(s), contact Les
Smith at (202) 418–0217 or via the
Internet at Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0687.
Title: Access to Telecommunications
Equipment and Services by Person with
Disabilities.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection
SUMMARY:
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Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities.
Number of Respondents: 1,268.
Estimated Time per Response: 9.86
hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirements; Third party
disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 25,000 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $272,000.
Privacy Impact Assessment: No.
Needs and Uses: 47 CFR 68.224—
Notice of non-hearing aid compatibility.
Every non-hearing aid compatible
telephone offered for sale to the public
on or after August 17, 1989, whether
previously-registered, newly registered
or refurbished shall (a) contain in a
conspicuous location on the surface of
its packaging a statement that the
telephone is not hearing aid compatible,
or if offered for sale without a
surrounding package, shall be affixed
with a written statement that the
telephone is not hearing aid compatible;
and (b) be accompanied by instructions.
47 CFR 68.300—Labeling
requirements. As of April 1, 1997, all
registered telephones, including
cordless telephones, manufactured in
the United States (other than for export)
or imported for use in the United States,
that are hearing aid compatible (HAC)
shall have the letters ‘‘HAC’’
permanently affixed. The information
collections for both rules include third
party disclosure and labeling
requirements. The information is used
primarily to inform consumers who
purchase and/or use telephone
equipment to determine whether the
telephone is hearing aid compatible.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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COMMISSION
Public Information Collections
Approved by Office of Management
and Budget
April 1, 2005.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) has received Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
approval for the following public
information collections pursuant to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. An agency may not
conduct or sponsor and a person is not
required to respond to a collection of
information unless it displays a
currently valid control number.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dana Jackson, Federal Communications
Commission, 445 12th Street, SW.,
Washington DC, 20554, (202) 418–2247
or via the Internet at
Dana.Jackson@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No.: 3060–0833.
OMB Approval date: 3/25/2005.
Expiration Date: 3/31/2008.
Title: Implementation of Section 255
of the Telecommunications Act of 1996;
Complaint Filings/Designation of
Agents.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 11,827
responses; 0.5–5 hours average per
response.
Needs and Uses: This information
collection includes rules governing the
filing of complaints as part of the
implementation of section 255 of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, which
seeks to ensure that telecommunications
equipment and services are available to
all Americans, including those
individuals with disabilities. In
particular, telecommunications service
providers and equipment manufacturers
are asked for a one-time designation of
an agent who will receive and promptly
handle voluntary consumer complaints
of accessibility concerns. As with any
complaint procedure, a certain number
of regulatory and information burdens
are necessary to ensure compliance with
FCC rules.
OMB Control No.: 3060–1043.
OMB Approval date: 3/11/2005.
Expiration Date: 3/31/2008.
Title: Telecommunication Relay
Services and Speech-to-Speech Services
for Individual with Hearing and Speech
Disabilities, (Report and Order, Order
on Reconsideration), FCC 04–137.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 7
responses; 70 total annual burden hours;
10 hours average per response.
Needs and Uses: On June 30, 2004,
the Commission released the Report and
Order, Order on Reconsideration,
(Report and Order) In the Matter of
Telecommunication Relay Services and
Speech-to-Speech Services for
Individuals with Hearing and Speech
Disabilities, CC Docket No. 98–67 and
CC Docket No. 90–571, FCC 04–137. In
the Report and Order, the Commission
grants Video Relay Service (VRS) waiver
requests of the following
Telecommunications Relay Services
(TRS) mandatory minimum
requirements: (1) 47 CFR 64.604(a)(3)
types of calls that must be handled; (2)
47 CFR 64.604(a)(3)(iv) pay-per-call
services; (3) 47 CFR 64.604(a)(4)
emergency call handling; (4) 47 CFR
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64.604(b)(2) speed of answer; and (5) 47
CFR 64.604(b)(3) equal access to
interexchange carriers. These waivers
are granted provided that VRS providers
submit an annual report to the
Commission, in a narrative form,
detailing: (1) The provider’s plan or
general approach to meet the waived
standards; (2) any additional costs that
would be required to meet the
standards; (3) the development of any
new technology that may affect the
particular waivers; (4) the progress
made by the provider to meet the
standards; (5) the specific steps taken to
resolve any technical problems that
prohibit the provider from meeting the
standards; and (6) any other factors
relevant to whether the waivers should
continue in effect. Further, as requested
by the parties and for administrative
convenience, VRS providers may
combine the reporting requirement
established in the Report and Order
with existing VRS/IP Relay reporting
requirements, which are scheduled to be
submitted annually on April 16th of
each year pursuant to the IP Relay Order
on Reconsideration and Second
Improved TRS Order & NPRM. In the
Order on Reconsideration, the
Commission affirms, except as
otherwise specifically provided therein,
the cost recovery methodology for VRS
established in the June 30, 2003, Bureau
TRS Order. The Commission adjusts the
VRS compensation rate to a per-minute
compensation rate of $8.854.
On June 30, 2004, the Commission
also released a Further Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking, In the Matter of
Telecommunication Relay Services and
Speech-to-Speech Services for
Individuals with Hearing and Speech
Disabilities, CG Docket No. 03–123, FCC
04–137, that addressed a number of
outstanding issues with respect to VRS
and IP Relay, none of which have any
implications under the Paperwork
Reduction Act.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Deputy Secretary.
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End User Common Line Procedures
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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SUMMARY: This document establishes
final procedures for resolving End User
Common Line (EUCL) informal
complaints. The Commission’s actions
are necessary in order to resolve several
hundred longstanding informal
complaints previously filed by
payphone providers against local
exchange carriers (LEC). The intended
effect of the EUCL Procedures Order is
to notify EUCL informal complainants
that, if they intend to pursue their
claims and collect damages, they must
follow a number of specific procedures
between Friday, April 22, 2005 and
Friday, September 9, 2005, or risk losing
the right to pursue certain claims. All
informal complainants are strongly
encouraged to read closely the EUCL
Procedures Order.
DATES: EUCL informal complainants
must file their Notices of Intent to
Convert by Friday, April 22, 2005, if
they wish to pursue their claims via the
Commission’s formal complaint process.
The final deadline for actual conversion
of informal complaints to formal
complaints is extended to Friday,
September 9, 2005, for those complaints
for which a Notice of Intent to File is
filed by Friday, April 22, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit electronic
notification of intent to pursue existing
informal complaints at the following
Web address: https://www.fcc.gov/eb/
eucl, click on the Complainant
Notification Form. Alternatively, notice
of intent to proceed may be made by
certified mail (postmarked no later than
April 22, 2005) to: EB/MDRD, Federal
Communications Commission, 445 12th
Street, SW., Room 4–C366, Washington,
DC 20554, Attention: EUCL Notice. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for address
and mailing instructions for all
converted formal complaints.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sandra Gray-Fields, 202–418–7330.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March
25, 2005, the Enforcement Bureau of the
Federal Communications Commission
(Commission) released the EUCL
Procedures Order establishing final
procedures for resolving End User
Common Line (EUCL) informal
complaints. The critical legal issues
raised by the existing EUCL informal
complaints have been previously and
definitively addressed in consolidated
formal complaint proceedings before the
Commission, see, e.g., Communications
Vending Corporation of Arizona, Inc. et
al. v. Citizens Communications
Company f/k/a Citizens Utility
Company and Citizens
Telecommunications Company d/b/a
Citizens Telecom, et al., Memorandum
Opinion and Order, 17 FCC Rcd 24201
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(2002), Communications Vending
Corporation of Arizona, Inc., et al., v.
FCC, et al., 365 F.3d 1064 (D.C.Cir.
2004). Accordingly, the EUCL
Procedures Order informs all remaining
informal complainants that they must
initiate final resolution of their claims
within the next few months.
Specifically, each payphone provider
who previously filed a EUCL informal
complaint and who still wishes to
pursue its claims, must now take the
following actions: (1) notify the
Commission by Friday, April 22, 2005,
of its intent to pursue its claim by
inputting notification data into the
Commission’s Web site at https://
www.fcc.gov/eb/eucl, click on the
Complainant Notification Form, or
notice of intent to proceed may be made
by sending the information set forth in
Paragraph 8 of the EUCL Procedures
Order by certified mail (postmarked no
later than April 22, 2005) to: EB/MDRD,
Federal Communications Commission,
445 12th Street, SW., Room 4–C366,
Washington, DC 20554, Attention: EUCL
Notice; (2) make a good faith effort to
settle its claim against the LEC prior to
filing a formal complaint; and, (3) if
settlement efforts are unsuccessful, file
a formal complaint by Friday,
September 9, 2005, in accordance with
the streamlined procedures described in
the EUCL Procedures Order.
The EUCL Procedures Order may have
a further impact on a complainant’s
right to recover damages. All informal
complainants should read thoroughly
the EUCL Procedures Order. If a
complainant fails to provide Notice of
Intent to File as described herein and in
the EUCL Procedures Order, that
complainant will not be able to pursue
its claim further via the Commission’s
formal complaint process. The
Enforcement Bureau has deferred the
mandatory filing date for the conversion
of informal complaints to formal
complaints numerous times, see, e.g.,
Informal Complaints filed by
Independent Payphone Service
Providers against Various Local
Exchange Carriers Seeking Refunds of
End User Common Line Charges, Order,
16 FCC Rcd 3669 (CCB 1999); Informal
Complaints filed by Independent
Payphone Service Providers against
Various Local Exchange Carriers
Seeking Refunds of End User Common
Line Charges, Order, 2004 WL 2973797,
File Nos. IC–98–42853, et al., DA No.
04–4022 (EB Rel. Dec. 22, 2004). The
extension of the conversion date in the
EUCL Procedures Order to September 9,
2005 is considered to be the final
extension. Formal complainants must
deliver the following copies of the
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management
and Budget
April 1, 2005.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public
information collections pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a
person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless
it displays a currently valid control number.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dana Jackson, Federal Communications
Commission, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington DC, 20554, (202) 418-2247
or via the Internet at Dana.Jackson@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No.: 3060-0833.
OMB Approval date: 3/25/2005.
Expiration Date: 3/31/2008.
Title: Implementation of Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act
of 1996; Complaint Filings/Designation of Agents.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 11,827 responses; 0.5-5 hours average per
response.
Needs and Uses: This information collection includes rules
governing the filing of complaints as part of the implementation of
section 255 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which seeks to
ensure that telecommunications equipment and services are available to
all Americans, including those individuals with disabilities. In
particular, telecommunications service providers and equipment
manufacturers are asked for a one-time designation of an agent who will
receive and promptly handle voluntary consumer complaints of
accessibility concerns. As with any complaint procedure, a certain
number of regulatory and information burdens are necessary to ensure
compliance with FCC rules.
OMB Control No.: 3060-1043.
OMB Approval date: 3/11/2005.
Expiration Date: 3/31/2008.
Title: Telecommunication Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech
Services for Individual with Hearing and Speech Disabilities, (Report
and Order, Order on Reconsideration), FCC 04-137.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 7 responses; 70 total annual burden hours;
10 hours average per response.
Needs and Uses: On June 30, 2004, the Commission released the
Report and Order, Order on Reconsideration, (Report and Order) In the
Matter of Telecommunication Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech
Services for Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities, CC
Docket No. 98-67 and CC Docket No. 90-571, FCC 04-137. In the Report
and Order, the Commission grants Video Relay Service (VRS) waiver
requests of the following Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS)
mandatory minimum requirements: (1) 47 CFR 64.604(a)(3) types of calls
that must be handled; (2) 47 CFR 64.604(a)(3)(iv) pay-per-call
services; (3) 47 CFR 64.604(a)(4) emergency call handling; (4) 47 CFR
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64.604(b)(2) speed of answer; and (5) 47 CFR 64.604(b)(3) equal access
to interexchange carriers. These waivers are granted provided that VRS
providers submit an annual report to the Commission, in a narrative
form, detailing: (1) The provider's plan or general approach to meet
the waived standards; (2) any additional costs that would be required
to meet the standards; (3) the development of any new technology that
may affect the particular waivers; (4) the progress made by the
provider to meet the standards; (5) the specific steps taken to resolve
any technical problems that prohibit the provider from meeting the
standards; and (6) any other factors relevant to whether the waivers
should continue in effect. Further, as requested by the parties and for
administrative convenience, VRS providers may combine the reporting
requirement established in the Report and Order with existing VRS/IP
Relay reporting requirements, which are scheduled to be submitted
annually on April 16th of each year pursuant to the IP Relay Order on
Reconsideration and Second Improved TRS Order & NPRM. In the Order on
Reconsideration, the Commission affirms, except as otherwise
specifically provided therein, the cost recovery methodology for VRS
established in the June 30, 2003, Bureau TRS Order. The Commission
adjusts the VRS compensation rate to a per-minute compensation rate of
$8.854.
On June 30, 2004, the Commission also released a Further Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking, In the Matter of Telecommunication Relay Services
and Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals with Hearing and Speech
Disabilities, CG Docket No. 03-123, FCC 04-137, that addressed a number
of outstanding issues with respect to VRS and IP Relay, none of which
have any implications under the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Deputy Secretary.
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