Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management and Budget, 64224-64226 [E7-22340]

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• FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 220 (Thursday, November 15, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64224-64226]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-22340]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

November 6, 2007.
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 Wilson, Federal Communications 
Commission, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington DC, 20554, (202) 418-2247 
or via the Internet at Dana.Wilson@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0439.
    OMB Approval Date: 10/10/2007.
    Expiration Date: 10/31/2010.
    Title: Section 64.201, Regulations Concerning Indecent 
Communications by Telephone.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1,632 hours.
    Needs and Uses: Under Section 223 of the Communications Act of 
1932, as amended, telephone companies are required, to the extent 
technically feasible, to prohibit access to indecent communications 
from the telephone of a subscriber who has not previously requested 
access. 47 CFR 64.201 of the Commission's rules implements Section 223 
of the Communications Act and contains several information collection 
requirements: (1) A requirement that certain common carriers block 
access to indecent messages unless the subscriber seeks access from the 
common carrier (telephone company) 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 carrier 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 Control No.: 3060-0665.
    OMB Approval Date: 10/10/2007.
    Expiration Date: 10/31/2010.
    Title: Section 64.707, Public Dissemination of Information by 
Providers of Operator Services.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1,744 hours.
    Needs and Uses: As required by 47 U.S.C. 226(d)(4)(b) of the 
Communication's Act, 47 CFR 64.707 of the Commission's rules, provides 
that operator service providers must regularly publish and make 
available upon request from consumers written materials that describe 
any changes in operator services and choices available to consumers. 
Consumers use the information to increase their knowledge of the 
choices available to them in the operator services marketplace.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0787.
    OMB Approval Date: 11/5/2007.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2010.
    Title: Implementation of the Subscriber Carrier Selection Changes 
Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Policies and Rules 
Concerning Unauthorized Changes of Consumers' Long Distance Carriers, 
CC Docket No. 94-129, FCC 03-42.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 105,901 hours.
    Needs and Uses: Section 258 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 
directed the Commission to prescribe rules to prevent the unauthorized 
change by telecommunications carriers of consumers' selections of 
telecommunications service providers (slamming). On March 17, 2003, the 
FCC released the Third Order on Reconsideration and Second Further 
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, CC Docket No. 94-129, FCC 03-42 (Third 
Order on Reconsideration), in which the Commission revised and 
clarified certain rules to implement section 258 of the 1996 Act. On 
May 23, 2003, the Commission also released an Order (CC Docket No. 94-
129, FCC 03-116) clarifying certain aspects of the Third Order on 
Reconsideration. The rules and requirements implementing section 258 
can be found primarily at 47 CFR part 64. These rules will continue to 
enable the Commission to deter slamming, while protecting consumers 
from carriers that take advantage of consumer confusion over different 
types of telecommunications services.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0973.
    OMB Approval Date: 10/10/2007.
    Expiration Date: 10/31/2010.
    Title: Section 64.1120(e), Sale or Transfer of Subscriber Base to 
Another Carrier (CC Dockets 00-257 and 94-129).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 525 hours.
    Needs and Uses: Pursuant to 47 CFR 64.1120(e) of the Commission's 
rules, an

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acquiring carrier will self-certify to the Commission, in advance of 
the transfer, that the carrier will comply with the required 
procedures, including giving advance notice to the affected subscribers 
in a manner that ensures the protection of their interests. By 
streamlining the carrier change rules, the Commission will continue to 
protect consumers' interests and, at the same time, will ensure that 
its rules do not inadvertently inhibit routine business transactions. 
On July 16, 2004, the Commission released a First Order on 
Reconsideration and Fourth Order on Reconsideration which made a minor 
modification to 47 CFR 64.1120(e)(iii) of the Commission's rules.
    The modification in the rule did not impose any new or modified 
information collection requirements nor did it affect the existing 
annual hourly and cost changes.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1089.
    OMB Approval Date: 10/22/2007.
    Expiration Date: 10/31/2007.
    Title: Emergency Access Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and 
Internet-Protocol (IP) Relay/ Video Relay Service (VRS) Fraud Further 
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM); VRS Interoperability FNPRM, CG 
Docket No. 03-123.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 34,016 hours.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission has revised collection 3060-1089 to 
consolidate/merge the information collection requirements of 3060-1091 
into this collection. The Commission concluded that these two proposed 
information collections are similar because these collections involve 
the same respondents and contain similar data of identifiable 
information in order: (1) To facilitate 911 emergency calls; (2) to 
improve interoperability for VRS and IP Relay services; and (3) to 
curtail misuse of VRS and IP Relay services. The Commission does not 
collect this information. The Commission requires respondents to 
collect this information. On October 22, 2007, the Commission received 
OMB's approval to consolidate/merged the information collection 
requirements contained in 3060-1091 into information collection 
requirements of 3060-1089. Therefore, OMB Control No. 3060-1091 is 
discontinued and will be eliminated. On November 30 2005, the 
Commission released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), CG Docket 
No. 03-123, which addressed the issue of access to emergency services 
for Internet-based forms of Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS), 
namely VRS and IP Relay Service. The Commission sought to adopt means 
to ensure that such calls promptly reach the appropriate emergency 
service provider. By doing so, the NPRM sought comment on the following 
issues:
    (1) Whether the Commission VRS and IP Relay service providers to 
establish a registration process in which VRS and IP Relay service 
users provide, in advance, the primary location from which they will be 
making VRS or IP Relay service calls (the Registered Location), so that 
a communications assistant (CA) can identify the appropriate Public 
Safety Answering Point (PSAP) to contact; (2) whether VRS and IP Relay 
providers should be required to register their customers and obtain a 
Registered Location from their customers so that they will be able to 
make the outbound call to the appropriate PSAP; (3) whether there are 
other means by which VRS and IP Relay service providers may obtain 
Registered Location information, for example, by linking the serial 
number of the customer's VRS or IP Relay service terminal or equipment 
to their registered location; (4) whether any privacy considerations 
might be raised by requiring VRS and IP Relay service users to provide 
location information as a prerequisite to using these services; (5) 
whether, assuming some type of location registration requirement is 
adopted, the Commission should require specific information or limit 
the scope of information that providers should be able to obtain; (6) 
whether the Commission should require VRS and IP Relay providers to 
provide appropriate warning labels for installation on customer 
premises equipment (CPE) used in connection with VRS and IP Relay 
services; (7) whether the Commission should require VRS and IP Relay 
providers to obtain and keep a record of affirmative acknowledgement by 
every subscriber of having received and understood the advisory that 
E911 service may not be available through VRS and IP Relay or may be in 
some way limited by comparison to traditional E911 service; and (8) how 
the Commission may ensure that providers have updated location 
information, and the respective obligations of the providers and the 
consumers in this regard. On May 8, 2006, the Commission released the 
Misuse of IP Relay Service and VRS Further Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking, (IP Relay Fraud FNPRM), CG Docket No. 03-123, FCC 06-58 
which contained the following information collection requirements 
involving user registration, e.g., callers register to use VRS and IP 
Relay and provide their requisite information as necessary: The IP 
Relay Fraud FNPRM sought comment on: (1) Whether IP Relay and VRS 
providers should be required to implement user registration systems in 
which users provide certain information to their providers, in advance, 
as a means of curbing illegitimate IP Relay and VRS calls; (2) what 
information should users be required to provide; (3) whether there are 
steps that could be taken, or technology implemented, to prevent the 
wrongful use of registration information; and (4) whether the 
Commission should require VRS and IP Relay providers to maintain 
records of apparently illegitimate calls that were terminated by the 
providers.

    Note: The Commission merged the IP Relay Fraud FNPRM collection 
with the Emergency Access NPRM collection to avoid duplication.

    On May 9, 2006, the Commission released the VRS Interoperability 
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Interoperability FNPRM), In the Matter 
of Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for 
individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities, CG Docket No. 03-123, 
FCC 06-57. In the Interoperability FNPRM, the Commission sought comment 
on the feasibility of establishing a single, open, and global database 
of proxy numbers for VRS users that would be available to all service 
providers, so that a hearing person can call a VRS user through any VRS 
provider, and without having first to ascertain the VRS user's current 
IP address. The Commission also sought comment on nature of the proxy 
numbers that might be used and how they might be administered. The 
Commission sought comment on the role of the Commission in creating and 
maintaining the database. In the Interoperability FNPRM, the Commission 
recognized: (a) That when a hearing person contact a VRS user by 
calling a VRS provider, the calling party has to know in advance the IP 
address of the VRS user so that the calling party can give that address 
to the VRS CA (b) that because most consumers' IP addresses are 
dynamic, the VRS consumer may not know the IP address of his or her VRS 
equipment at a particular time; (c) that some VRS providers have 
created their own database of ``proxy'' or ``alias'' numbers that 
associate with the IP address of their customers, even if a particular 
person's IP address is dynamic and changes; (d) that databases are 
maintained by the service provider and, generally, are not shared with 
other service providers; and (e) that a person desiring to call a VRS 
consumer via the

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consumer's proxy number can only use the services of the VRS provider 
that generates the number.
    The Interoperability FNPRM proposed the following information 
collection requirements involving an open, global database of VRS proxy 
numbers. The Interoperability FNPRM sought comment on: (1) Whether VRS 
providers should be required to provide information to populate an 
open, global database of VRS proxy numbers and to keep the information 
current; (2) whether the Interstate TRS Fund administrator, a separate 
entity, or a consortium of service providers should be responsible for 
the maintenance and operation of an open, global database of VRS proxy 
numbers; (3) whether Deaf and hard of hearing individuals using video 
broadband communication need uniform and static end-point numbers 
should be linked to the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) that would 
remain consistent across all VRS providers so that they can contact one 
another and be contacted to the same extent that Public Switched 
Telephone Network (PSTN) and VoIP users are able to identify and call 
one another; (4) whether participation by service providers should be 
mandatory so that all VRS users can receive incoming calls.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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