Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested, 3248-3251 [E8-741]

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 
Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested

January 9, 2008.
SUMMARY: 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 of 1995 (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520. An agency 
may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it 
displays a current valid 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 control number. 
Comments are

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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 PRA comments should be submitted on or before March 17, 
2008. 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: You may submit all PRA comments by e-mail or U.S. mail. To 
submit your comments by e-mail, send them to PRA@fcc.gov. To submit 
your comments by U.S. mail, send them to Leslie F. Smith, Federal 
Communications Commission, Room 1-C216, 445 12th Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20554, or via the Internet to PRA@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the 
information collection(s), contact Leslie F. Smith via the Internet at 
PRA@fcc.gov or call (202) 418-0217.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0410.
    Title: Forecast of Investment Usage Report and Actual Usage of 
Investment Report.
    Report Numbers: FCC Reports 495A and 495B.
    Form Numbers: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 94 respondents; 188 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 40 hours.
    Obligation To Respond: Mandatory--The ARMIS reporting requirements 
were established by the Commission in 1987 to facilitate the timely and 
efficient analysis of carrier operating costs and rates of return, to 
provide an improved basis for audits and other oversight functions, and 
to enhance the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of 
alternative policy proposals. Additional ARMIS Reports were added in 
1991 and 1992. Incumbent LECs must submit the ARMIS reports to the 
Commission annually on or before April 1. See Reporting Requirements of 
Certain Class A and Tier I Telephone Companies (Parts 31, 43, 67 and 69 
of the FCC's Rules), Order, 2 FCC Rcd 5770 (1987), modified on recon, 3 
FCC Rcd 6375 (1988) (ARMIS Order). Also, see 47 CFR Part 43, Section 
43.21.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 7,520 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: This collection addresses 
information of a confidential nature. Respondents have requested and 
filed for confidential treatment of information they believe should be 
withheld from public inspection under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's 
rules.
    Needs and Uses: The 495A Report provides the forecast and resulting 
investment allocation incorporated in a carrier's cost support for its 
access tariff. The 495B Report enables the Commission's staff to 
monitor actual and forecasted investment use. These reports help ensure 
that the regulated operations of the carriers do not subsidize the 
nonregulated operations of those same carriers. This information is 
also a part of the data necessary to support the Commission's audit and 
other oversight functions. This data provides the necessary detail to 
enable the Commission to fulfill it regulatory responsibility. There 
are no changes to the ARMIS Reports 495A and 495B.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0511.
    Title: ARMIS Access Report.
    Report Number: FCC Report 43-04.
    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: 79 respondents; 79 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 153 hours.
    Obligation To Respond: Mandatory--The ARMIS reporting requirements 
were established by the Commission in 1987 to facilitate the timely and 
efficient analysis of carrier operating costs and rates of return, to 
provide an improved basis for audits and other oversight functions, and 
to enhance the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of 
alternative policy proposals. Additional ARMIS Reports were added in 
1991 and 1992. Incumbent LECs must submit the ARMIS reports to the 
Commission annually on or before April 1. See Reporting Requirements of 
Certain Class A and Tier I Telephone Companies (Parts 31, 43, 67 and 69 
of the FCC's Rules), Order, 2 FCC Rcd 5770 (1987), modified on recon, 3 
FCC Rcd 6375 (1988) (ARMIS Order). Also, see 47 CFR Part 43, Section 
43.21.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 12,087 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: This collection does not 
address information of a confidential nature. Respondents may request 
confidential treatment for information they believe should be withheld 
from public inspection under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The ARMIS 43-04 provides jurisdictional separations 
and access charge data by Part 36 category of the Commission's rules 
and regulations. The ARMIS Report 43-04 enables the Commission to 
monitor revenue requirements, joint cost allocations, jurisdictional 
separations and access charges. This information is also a part of the 
data necessary to support the Commission's audit and other oversight 
functions. This data provides the necessary detail to enable the 
Commission to fulfill its regulatory responsibility.
    In this collection, we are revising the number of carriers filing 
this ARMIS report from 92 to 89 to reflect three carriers that were 
sold.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0395.
    Title: The ARMIS USOA Report (ARMIS Report 43-02); the ARMIS 
Service Quality Report (ARMIS Report 43-05); and the ARMIS 
Infrastructure Report (ARMIS Report 43-07).
    Report Numbers: FCC Reports 43-02, 43-05 and 43-07.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 47 respondents; 47 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 1264 hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory--The ARMIS reporting requirements 
were established by the Commission in 1987 to facilitate the timely and 
efficient analysis of carrier operating costs and rates of return, to 
provide an improved basis for audits and other oversight functions, and 
to enhance the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of 
alternative policy proposals. Additional ARMIS Reports were added in 
1991 and 1992. Incumbent LECs must

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submit the ARMIS reports to the Commission annually on or before April 
1. See Reporting Requirements of Certain Class A and Tier I Telephone 
Companies (Parts 31, 43, 67 and 69 of the FCC's Rules), Order, 2 FCC 
Rcd 5770 (1987), modified on recon, 3 FCC Rcd 6375 (1988) (ARMIS 
Order). Also, see 47 CFR Part 43, Section 43.21.
    Frequency of Reponse: Annual reporting requirements.
    Total Annual Burden: 20,754 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: This collection addresses 
information of a confidential nature for two of these reports. 
Respondents have requested and filed for confidential treatment of 
information they believe should be withheld from public inspection 
under 47 CFR Section 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: FCC Report 43-02 contains company-wide data for 
each account specified in the Uniform System of Accounts (USOA). It 
provides the annual operating results of the carriers' activities for 
every account in the USOA. In this report, we are adjusting the number 
of carriers filing the 43-02 ARMIS report from 28 respondents to 26 to 
reflect the sale of two respondents. We are also increasing the burden 
hours to reflect the Commission's requirement in its Report and Order 
and Memorandum Opinion and Order (MOO) released August 31, 2007. The 
Commission required AT&T, Qwest, and Verizon to include the imputation 
charges it debits to account 5280 accompanied by an explanatory 
footnote for each line item identifying the amount imputed in three 
ARMIS report filings. The MOO required this information in FCC Reports 
43-01, ARMIS Annual Summary Report; 43-02, ARMIS USOA Report; and, 43-
03, ARMIS Joint Cost Report.
    ARMIS Report 43-05 collects data at the study level and holding 
company level and is designed to capture trends in service quality 
under price cap regulation. It provides service quality information in 
the areas of interexchange access service installation and repair 
intervals, local service installation and repair intervals, trunk 
blockage, and total switch downtime for price cap companies. We are 
adjusting the number of respondents submitting the 43-05 from 15 to 14 
to reflect the merger of two respondents and the spin-off of their 
landline business.
    ARMIS Report 43-07 is designed to capture trends in telephone 
industry infrastructure development under price cap regulation. It 
provides switch deployment and capabilities data. The information is 
also part of the data necessary to support the Commission's audit and 
other oversight functions. This data provides the necessary detail to 
enable the Commission to fulfill its regulatory responsibility.
    There are no changes to the ARMIS Report 43-07.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0512.
    Title: ARMIS Annual Summary Report.
    Report Number: FCC Report 43-01.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 124 respondents; 124 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 90 hours.
    Obligation To Respond: Mandatory--The ARMIS reporting requirements 
were established by the Commission in 1987 to facilitate the timely and 
efficient analysis of carrier operating costs and rates of return, to 
provide an improved basis for audits and other oversight functions, and 
to enhance the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of 
alternative policy proposals. Additional ARMIS Reports were added in 
1991 and 1992. Incumbent LECs must submit the ARMIS reports to the 
Commission annually on or before April 1. See Reporting Requirements of 
Certain Class A and Tier I Telephone Companies (Parts 31, 43, 67 and 69 
of the FCC's Rules), Order, 2 FCC Rcd 5770 (1987), modified on recon, 3 
FCC Rcd 6375 (1988) (ARMIS Order). Also, see 47 CFR Part 43, Section 
43.21
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 11,196 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: This collection does not 
address information of a confidential nature. Respondents may request 
confidential treatment for information they believe should be withheld 
from public inspection under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: FCC Report 43-01 facilitates the annual collection 
of the results of accounting, rate base, and cost allocation 
requirements prescribed in Parts 32, 36, 64, 65 and 69 of the 
Commission's rules. ARMIS was implemented to facilitate the timely and 
efficient analysis of revenue requirements, rates of return and price 
caps; to provide an improved basis for audits and other oversight 
functions; and to enhance the Commission's ability to quantify the 
effects of alternative policy. The FCC Report 43-01 contains financial 
and operating data and is used to monitor the incumbent local exchange 
carriers and to perform routine analyses of cost and revenues. This 
information is also a part of the data necessary to support the 
Commission's audit and other oversight functions. This data provides 
the necessary detail to enable the Commission to fulfill it regulatory 
responsibility.
    The Commission uses an indexed revenue threshold to determine which 
carriers are required to file the ARMIS Reports. The revenue threshold 
for mid-sized carriers is currently $134 million. In this collection, 
we are revising the number of carriers filing this ARMIS report from 
126 to 124 to reflect one carrier that fell below the threshold and 
another carrier that was sold. We are also increasing the burden hours 
to reflect the Commission's requirement in its Report and Order and 
Memorandum Opinion and Order (MOO) released August 31, 2007. The 
Commission required AT&T, Qwest, and Verizon to include the imputation 
charges it debits to account 5280 accompanied by an explanatory 
footnote for each line item identifying the amount imputed in three 
ARMIS report filings. The MOO required this information in FCC Reports 
43-01, ARMIS Annual Summary Report; 43-02, ARMIS USOA Report; and, 43-
03, ARMIS Joint Cost Report.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0513.
    Title: ARMIS Joint Cost Report.
    Report Number: FCC Report 43-03.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 80 respondents; 80 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 52 hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory--The ARMIS reporting requirements 
were established by the Commission in 1987 to facilitate the timely and 
efficient analysis of carrier operating costs and rates of return, to 
provide an improved basis for audits and other oversight functions, and 
to enhance the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of 
alternative policy proposals. Additional ARMIS Reports were added in 
1991 and 1992. Incumbent LECs must submit the ARMIS reports to the 
Commission annually on or before April

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1. See Reporting Requirements of Certain Class A and Tier I Telephone 
Companies (Parts 31, 43, 67 and 69 of the FCC's Rules), Order, 2 FCC 
Rcd 5770 (1987), modified on recon, 3 FCC Rcd 6375 (1988) (ARMIS 
Order). Also, see 47 CFR Part 43, Section 43.21.
    Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 4,160 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: This collection does not 
address information of a confidential nature. Respondents may request 
confidential treatment of information they believe should be withheld 
from public inspection under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The ARMIS Joint Cost Report, FCC Report 04-03, 
contains financial and operating data. The Report details the incumbent 
local exchange carriers regulated and nonregulated cost and revenue 
allocations by study area pursuant to Part 64 of the Commission's 
rules. This information is also a part of the data necessary to support 
the Commission's audit and other oversight functions. This data 
provides the necessary detail to enable the Commission to fulfill it 
regulatory responsibility. The Commission is revising the number of 
respondents filing this ARMIS report from 83 to 80 to reflect three 
carriers that were sold. We are also increasing the burden hours to 
reflect the Commission's requirement in its Report and Order and 
Memorandum Opinion and Order (MOO) released August 31, 2007. The 
Commission required AT&T, Qwest, and Verizon to include the imputation 
charges it debits to Account 5280 accompanied by an explanatory 
footnote for each line item identifying the amount imputed in three 
ARMIS report filings. The MOO required this information in FCC Reports 
43-01, ARMIS Annual Summary Report; 43-02, ARMIS USOA Report; and, 43-
03, ARMIS Joint Cost Report.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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