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clarification of the requirement for
records retention that applied only to
NSF awards.
Response: Agree. The sentence was
removed and NSF will include in its
agency-specific terms and conditions
that supplement the core set of
administrative requirements.
Comment: A Federal organization
suggested adding a reference in Article
54 to National Security Decision
Directive (NSDD) 189, ‘‘National Policy
on the Transfer of Scientific, Technical
and Engineering Information,’’ as
recommended by the National
Academies in a Congressionally
requested report.
Response: Article 54 has been revised
to a more streamlined form, however,
the suggested reference to NSDD–189
was not added.
Comment: A Federal organization
recommended deleting paragraph (b) of
Article 72 ‘‘Subsequent adjustments and
continuing responsibilities.’’ The
commenter noted that paragraph (b) of
Article 72 was redundant because it
restated one of the requirements in
section ll .72 of OMB Circular A–110,
all of which already were incorporated
by Paragraph (a) of Article 72.
Response: Agree. Paragraph (b) of
Article 72 was deleted.
III. Final Administrative Requirements
and Future Steps
The final version of the standard
research terms and conditions which
incorporate the changes discussed in the
preceding Sections I and II of
Supplementary Information, may be
viewed at https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/
policy/rtc/index.jsp. Agencies will post
their plans for implementing the
administrative requirements either at
the RBM subcommittee Web site at:
https://rbm.nih.gov, or at its own Web
site (in which case the RBM
subcommittee will provide a link from
its site to the agency’s location).
To the Heads of Executive
Departments and Agencies:
Subject: Policy on Terms and
Conditions for Research Grants
1. Purpose: This policy allows all
research agencies to utilize a new
standard core set of administrative
terms and conditions on research and
research-related awards.
2. Authority: This policy is an
implementation of OMB Circular A–
110, ‘‘Uniform Administrative
Requirements for Grants and
Agreements With Institutions of Higher
Education, Hospitals, and Other NonProfit Organizations’’ (2 CFR part 215).
3. Background: This policy resulted
from an initiative of the Research
Business Models (RBM) Subcommittee
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of the Committee on Science (CoS), a
committee of the National Science and
Technology Council (NSTC). One of the
RBM Subcommittee’s priority areas is to
create greater consistency in the
administration of Federal research
awards. Given the increasing
complexity of interdisciplinary and
interagency research, it has become
increasingly important for Federal
agencies to manage awards in a similar
fashion.
4. Policy:
a. Use of Government-wide core set of
administrative requirements. Research
agencies and awarding offices
participating in the FDP must use the
core set of administrative requirements,
to the maximum practicable extent, in
research and research-related grant
awards to organizations that are subject
to 2 CFR part 215. Those agencies and
awarding offices may supplement the
core set with agency specific, program
specific, or award specific
administrative requirements, but should
limit supplemental requirements to
those that are: (1) Consistent with 2 CFR
part 215 or required by a statute that
supersedes that part; and (2) necessary
for programmatic purposes or good
stewardship of Federal funds. Other
agencies and awarding offices that are
not participating in the FDP are
encouraged to replace administrative
requirements in awards to organizations
that are subject to 2 CFR part 215 with
the core set of standard requirements
that the RBM subcommittee developed
and similarly limit their
supplementation of those standard
requirements.
b. Use of FDP national policy and
subaward requirements. Each agency
also is encouraged to use the documents
that the FDP maintains for national
policy requirements and requirements
that flow down to subrecipients. An
agency may revise the FDP documents
as needed for currency, completeness,
and applicability to the agency’s
programs. The documents are available
at the FDP site maintained by the
National Science Foundation (NSF):
https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/rtc/
index.jsp.
c. Maintenance of the administrative
requirements. As Federal requirements
evolve, the RBM subcommittee will
update the core set of administrative
requirements as needed to maintain it as
a standard implementation of 2 CFR
Part 215. Significant changes will be
coordinated with the Office of
Management and Budget, approved by
the Grants Policy Committee of the
Chief Financial Officers Council, and
adopted after opportunity for public
comment.
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d. Posting of the administrative
requirements. NSF will post the
Government-wide core set of
administrative requirements on the NSF
Web site: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/
policy/rtc/index.jsp. As changes are
made in the future, NSF will maintain
both the current version and an archive
of earlier versions.
e. Agency implementation plans. Each
CoS member agency will post its plan
for implementing the administrative
requirements either at the RBM
subcommittee site, https://rbm.nih.gov,
or at its own Web site (in which case the
RBM subcommittee will provide a link
from its site to the agency’s location).
f. Effective dates. This policy is
effective with publication of this notice
in the Federal Register. It remains in
effect as long as the core set of
requirements is consistent with
Government-wide administrative
requirements, which currently are in 2
CFR part 215. The core set will be
superseded when Government-wide
terms and conditions are established for
all Federal grants and cooperative
agreements, due to an initiative
currently under way as part of the
implementation of the Federal Financial
Assistance Management Improvement
Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106–107). Agencies
shall post their implementation plans as
noted in ‘‘e’’ above, no later than July
2008.
M. David Hodge,
Operations Manager, Office of Science and
Technology Policy.
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Notice of Public Information
Collection(s) being reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission,
Comments Requested
January 14, 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, 44 U.S.C. Sections 3501—
3520. 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
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(PRA) 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 comments should be
submitted on or before March 25, 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information about the
information collection(s), contact Leslie
F. Smith via e-mail at PRA@fcc.gov or
call (202) 418–0217.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0056.
Title: Part 68—Connection of
Terminal Equipment to the Telephone
Network.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 58,520 respondents; 70,450
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.5–24
hours.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement; recordkeeping
requirement; and third party disclosure
requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 32,027 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,160,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impacts.
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality:
The Commission is not requesting that
the respondents submit confidential
information to the FCC. Respondents
may, however, request confidential
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treatment for information they believe to
be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules.
Needs and Uses: The purpose of 47
CFR Part 68 is to protect the telephone
network from certain types of harm and
interference to other subscribers. To
ensure that consumers, providers of
telecommunications, the Administrative
Council, telecommunications
certification bodies (TCBs), and the
Commission are able to trace products
to the party responsible for placing
terminal equipment on the market, it is
essential to require manufacturers and
suppliers to provide the information
required by part 68. In addition, it is
necessary that incumbent local
exchange carriers (ILECs) provide the
information in part 68 to warn their
subscribers of impending disconnection
of service when subscriber terminal
equipment is causing telephone network
harm.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0370.
Title: Part 32—Uniform System of
Accounts for Telecommunications
Companies.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit, not-for-profit institutions, and
state, local and tribal government.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 239 respondents; 239
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1.07–
104 hours.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory as
required by 47 U.S.C. 220.
Frequency of Response: On-occasion
reporting requirement; recordkeeping
requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 1,516,702
hours.
Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impacts.
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality:
The Commission is not requesting that
the respondents submit confidential
information to the FCC. Respondents
may, however, request confidential
treatment for information they believe to
be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
adopting the Joint Conference’s
recommendations to reinstate the
following Part 32 Class A accounts:
Account 5230, Directory revenue;
Account 6621, Call completion services;
Account 6622, Number services;
Account 6623, Customer services;
Account 6561, Depreciation expenses—
telecommunications plant in service;
Account 6562, Depreciation expenses—
property held for future
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telecommunications use; Account 6563,
Amortization expense—tangible;
Account 6564, Amortization expense—
intangible; Account 6565, Amortization
expense—other. These accounting
changes are mandatory only for Class A
Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers
(ILECs). The reinstatement of these
accounts will impose a minor increase
(7%) in burden on Class A ILECs only.
Additionally, the Commission is
establishing a requirement that Class A
ILECs maintain subsidiary record
categories for unbundled network
element revenues, resale revenues,
reciprocal compensation revenues, and
other interconnection revenues in the
accounts in which these revenues are
currently recorded. The use of
subsidiary record categories allows
carriers to use whatever mechanisms
they choose, including those currently
in place, to identify the relevant
amounts as long as the information can
be made available to state and federal
regulators upon request. The use of
subsidiary record categories for
interconnection revenue does not
require massive changes to the ILECs’
accounting system and is a far less
burdensome alternative than the
creation of new accounts and/or
subaccounts.
OMB Control Number: 3060–XXXX.
Title: Service Quality Measurement
Plan for Interstate Special Access and
Monthly Usage Reporting Requirements.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: New Collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 3 respondents; 48 responses
annually.
Estimated Time per Response: 25–75
hours.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency of Response: Monthly and
quarterly reporting requirements; third
party disclosure.
Total Annual Burden: 3,000 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $135,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impacts.
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality:
The respondents may request
confidentiality protection for the special
access performance information. The
respondents are not required to file their
customers’ monthly usage information
with the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC).
Needs and Uses: The service quality
measurement plan for interstate special
access would require the respondents to
report special access performance
metrics on a quarterly basis. Because,
pursuant to Section 272(f)(1) Sunset of
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the BOC Separate Affiliate and Related
Requirements; 2000 Biennial Regulatory
Review Separate Affiliate Requirements
of Section 64.1903 of the Commission’s
Rules; Petition of AT&T Inc. for
Forbearance Under 47 U.S.C. 160(c)
with Regard to Certain Dominant Carrier
Regulations for In-Region, Interexchange
Services, WC Docket Nos. 02–112, 06–
120, CC Docket No. 00–175, Report and
Order and Memorandum Opinion and
Order, 22 FCC Rcd 16440 (2007)
(Section 272 Sunset Order), the
respondents are no longer required to
comply with the section 272 structural
safeguards, the special access
performance metrics reporting
requirements will ensure that these
carriers do not engage in non-price
discrimination in the provision of
special access services to unaffiliated
entities and will provide the FCC and
other interested parties with reasonable
tools to monitor these carriers’
performance in providing these special
access services to themselves and their
competitors. The monthly usage
reporting requirement would require the
respondents to provide each of their
residential customers who subscribe to
a call plan that establishes a single rate
for unlimited wireline local exchange
and long distance telecommunications
service with the total number of long
distance telecommunications service
minutes used by that customer each
month. This monthly usage reporting
requirement will help ensure that, as a
result of the relief granted in the Section
272 Sunset Order residential interstate
long distance consumers receive
adequate information regarding their
monthly usage in order to make
informed choices among alternative
long distance calling plans.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0823.
Title: Pay Telephone Reclassification,
Memorandum Opinion and Order, CC
Docket No. 96–128.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 400 respondents; 400
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 2–35
hours.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory as
required by 47 U.S.C. 276.
Frequency of Response: On occasion,
monthly, and quarterly reporting
requirements; recordkeeping
requirement; and third party disclosure
requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 44,700 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $480,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impacts.
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Nature of Extent of Confidentiality:
The Commission is not requesting that
the respondents submit confidential
information to the FCC. Respondents
may, however, request confidential
treatment for information they believe to
be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission’s
Common Carrier Bureau adopted and
released a Memorandum Opinion and
Order, Implementation of the Pay
Telephone Reclassification and
Compensation Provisions of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996 et al.,
CC Docket No. 96–128, DA 98–481, on
March 9, 1998, which clarified the
requirements established in the
Payphones Orders for the provision of
payphone-specific coding digits and for
tariffs that local exchange carriers
(LECs) must file pursuant to the
Payphone Orders. The Commission also
granted a waiver of Part 69 of the
Commission’s rules so that LECs can
establish rate elements to recover the
costs of implementing FLEX-ANI (a type
of switch software) to provide
payphone-specific coding digits for percall compensation. The Commission is
required to implement section 276 of
the Act, which it has done in the
Payphone Orders.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0298.
Title: Competitive Carrier Line Count
Report.
Form Number: FCC Form 525.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 1,300 respondents; 4,753
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 57
hours.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
and annual reporting requirements.
Total Annual Burden: 66,120 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impacts.
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality:
The respondents may request
confidentiality protection for the special
access performance information. The
respondents are not required to file their
customers’ monthly usage information
with the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC).
Needs and Uses: 47 CFR Part 61 of the
Commission’s rules establishes
procedures for filing tariffs which
contain the charges, practices, and
regulations of the common carriers,
supporting economic data and other
related documents. The supporting data
must conform to other parts of the Rules
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such as Parts 36 and 69. Part 61 also
prescribes the framework for the initial
establishment of and subsequent
revisions to tariffs. Tariffs that do not
conform to Part 61 may be required to
post their schedules or rates and
regulations. The information collected
through a carrier’s tariff is used by the
Commission to determine whether
services offered are just and reasonable
as the Act requires. The tariffs and any
supporting documentation are examined
in order to determine if the services are
offered in a just and reasonable manner.
OMB Control Number: 3060–1046.
Title: Pay Telephone Reclassification
and Compensation Provisions of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC
Docket No. 96–128, Order on
Reconsideration.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 1,023 respondents; 4,854
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 100
hours.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory, as
required by 47 U.S.C. 276.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly and
annual reporting requirements;
recordkeeping requirement; and third
party disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 485,400 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impacts.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
The Commission is not requesting that
the respondents submit Confidential
information to the FCC. Respondents
may, however, request confidential
treatment for Information they believe to
be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
released an Order on Reconsideration,
the Pay Telephone Reclassification and
Compensation Provisions of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC
Docket No. 96–128, FCC 04–251, on
October 22, 2004, which increased the
time carriers must retain certain data
and adds burden in that regard. It also
removed potentially burdensome
paperwork requirements by encouraging
carriers to comply with the reporting
requirements through electronic means.
We believe that the clarifications
adopted in the Order on
Reconsideration significantly decrease
the paperwork burden on carriers.
Specifically, the Commission: (1)
Clarified that Completing Carriers must
provide the Payphone Service Provider
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(PSP) with adequate notice of an
alternative compensation arrangement
(ACA) prior to its effective date with
sufficient time for the PSP to object to
an ACA, and also prior to the
termination of an ACA; (2) clarified any
paperwork burdens imposed on carriers
and allowed Completing Carriers to
provide notice of ACAs on a
clearinghouse’s Web site; (3) required
Completing Carriers to report only
completed calls in their quarterly
reports; and (4) extended the time
period from 18 to 27 months for
Completing Carriers and Intermediate
Carriers to retain certain payphone
records.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0816.
Title: Local Telephone Competition
and Broadband Reporting, Report and
Order, WC Docket No. 04–141, FCC 04–
266.
Form Number: FCC Form 477.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit; not-for-profit institutions; and
state, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 1,400 respondents; 2,800
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 46.0
hours.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory, as
required by the Commission’s rules
implementing section 706 of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47
U.S.C. 157nt, and the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 151–
155, 160, 161, 201–205, 215, 218–220,
251–271, 303(r), 332, 403, 502, and 503.
Frequency of Response: Semi-annual
reporting requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 128,800 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impacts.
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality:
Respondents may request confidential
treatment for competitively sensitive
information by using a drop-down box
located on the first page of Form 477. If
the Commission receives a request for
release pursuant to the Freedom of
Information Act, the respondent is
notified and afforded an opportunity to
show why the data should not be
released under 47 CFR 0.459(b) of the
Commission’s rules. Additionally, the
Commission only releases aggregated
(non-company specific) information in
its published reports.
Needs and Uses: The information is
necessary to evaluate the status of local
telephone competition and the status of
broadband services deployment. The
information assists the Commission in
preparing the report mandated by
section 706 of the Telecommunications
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Act of 1996, and it is used by the
Commission to evaluate the efficacy of
Commission rules and policies adopted
to implement the Telecommunications
Act of 1996.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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Notice of Public Information
Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission
for Extension Under Delegated
Authority, Comments Requested
January 16, 2008.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications
Commission, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork burdens,
invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to (PRA) of 1995 (PRA),
Public Law 104–13. An agency may not
conduct or sponsor a collection of
information unless it displays a
currently valid control number. Subject
to the PRA, no person shall be subject
to any penalty for failing to comply with
a collection of information 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 PRA comments should
be submitted on or before March 25,
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. post mail.
To submit your comments by e-mail,
send them to PRA@fcc.gov. To submit
your comments by U.S. mail, mark them
to the attention of Cathy Williams,
Federal Communications Commission,
Room 1–C823, 445 12th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20554.
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For
additional information about the
information collection(s), contact Cathy
Williams at (202) 418–2918 or send an
e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0084.
Title: Ownership Report for
Noncommercial Educational Broadcast
Station.
Form Number: FCC Form 323–E.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 2,636 hours.
Estimated Time per Response: One
hour.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement; biennial
reporting requirement; with renewal
reporting requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 2,636 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,054,400.
Nature of Response: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Confidentiality: No need for
confidentiality required.
Privacy Impact Assessment(s): No
impact(s).
Needs and Uses: Each licensee/
permittee of a noncommercial FM and
TV broadcast station is required to file
an Ownership Report for
Noncommercial Educational Broadcast
Station, FCC Form 323–E, within 30
days of the date of grant by the FCC of
an application for an original
construction permit. In addition,
licensee/permittee must file FCC Form
323–E on the application date for a
station license or with the license
renewal application and every two years
thereafter. Each licensee with a current,
unmodified FCC Form 323–E on file
with the Commission may electronically
review its current Report, validate its
accuracy, and be relieved of the
obligation to file a new Biennial
Ownership Report. The FCC 323–E must
also be filed within 30 days of
consummating authorized assignments
or transfers of permits and licenses.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) being reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested
January 14, 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, 44 U.S.C. Sections 3501--3520. 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
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(PRA) 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 comments should be submitted on or before March 25,
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the
information collection(s), contact Leslie F. Smith via e-mail at
PRA@fcc.gov or call (202) 418-0217.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0056.
Title: Part 68--Connection of Terminal Equipment to the Telephone
Network.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 58,520 respondents; 70,450
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.5-24 hours.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement;
recordkeeping requirement; and third party disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 32,027 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,160,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting that the respondents submit confidential information to the
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for
information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of the
Commission's rules.
Needs and Uses: The purpose of 47 CFR Part 68 is to protect the
telephone network from certain types of harm and interference to other
subscribers. To ensure that consumers, providers of telecommunications,
the Administrative Council, telecommunications certification bodies
(TCBs), and the Commission are able to trace products to the party
responsible for placing terminal equipment on the market, it is
essential to require manufacturers and suppliers to provide the
information required by part 68. In addition, it is necessary that
incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) provide the information in
part 68 to warn their subscribers of impending disconnection of service
when subscriber terminal equipment is causing telephone network harm.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0370.
Title: Part 32--Uniform System of Accounts for Telecommunications
Companies.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit, not-for-profit
institutions, and state, local and tribal government.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 239 respondents; 239
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1.07-104 hours.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory as required by 47 U.S.C. 220.
Frequency of Response: On-occasion reporting requirement;
recordkeeping requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 1,516,702 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting that the respondents submit confidential information to the
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for
information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of the
Commission's rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission adopting the Joint Conference's
recommendations to reinstate the following Part 32 Class A accounts:
Account 5230, Directory revenue; Account 6621, Call completion
services; Account 6622, Number services; Account 6623, Customer
services; Account 6561, Depreciation expenses--telecommunications plant
in service; Account 6562, Depreciation expenses--property held for
future telecommunications use; Account 6563, Amortization expense--
tangible; Account 6564, Amortization expense--intangible; Account 6565,
Amortization expense--other. These accounting changes are mandatory
only for Class A Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs). The
reinstatement of these accounts will impose a minor increase (7%) in
burden on Class A ILECs only. Additionally, the Commission is
establishing a requirement that Class A ILECs maintain subsidiary
record categories for unbundled network element revenues, resale
revenues, reciprocal compensation revenues, and other interconnection
revenues in the accounts in which these revenues are currently
recorded. The use of subsidiary record categories allows carriers to
use whatever mechanisms they choose, including those currently in
place, to identify the relevant amounts as long as the information can
be made available to state and federal regulators upon request. The use
of subsidiary record categories for interconnection revenue does not
require massive changes to the ILECs' accounting system and is a far
less burdensome alternative than the creation of new accounts and/or
subaccounts.
OMB Control Number: 3060-XXXX.
Title: Service Quality Measurement Plan for Interstate Special
Access and Monthly Usage Reporting Requirements.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: New Collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 3 respondents; 48 responses
annually.
Estimated Time per Response: 25-75 hours.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency of Response: Monthly and quarterly reporting
requirements; third party disclosure.
Total Annual Burden: 3,000 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $135,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The respondents may request
confidentiality protection for the special access performance
information. The respondents are not required to file their customers'
monthly usage information with the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC).
Needs and Uses: The service quality measurement plan for interstate
special access would require the respondents to report special access
performance metrics on a quarterly basis. Because, pursuant to Section
272(f)(1) Sunset of
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the BOC Separate Affiliate and Related Requirements; 2000 Biennial
Regulatory Review Separate Affiliate Requirements of Section 64.1903 of
the Commission's Rules; Petition of AT&T Inc. for Forbearance Under 47
U.S.C. 160(c) with Regard to Certain Dominant Carrier Regulations for
In-Region, Interexchange Services, WC Docket Nos. 02-112, 06-120, CC
Docket No. 00-175, Report and Order and Memorandum Opinion and Order,
22 FCC Rcd 16440 (2007) (Section 272 Sunset Order), the respondents are
no longer required to comply with the section 272 structural
safeguards, the special access performance metrics reporting
requirements will ensure that these carriers do not engage in non-price
discrimination in the provision of special access services to
unaffiliated entities and will provide the FCC and other interested
parties with reasonable tools to monitor these carriers' performance in
providing these special access services to themselves and their
competitors. The monthly usage reporting requirement would require the
respondents to provide each of their residential customers who
subscribe to a call plan that establishes a single rate for unlimited
wireline local exchange and long distance telecommunications service
with the total number of long distance telecommunications service
minutes used by that customer each month. This monthly usage reporting
requirement will help ensure that, as a result of the relief granted in
the Section 272 Sunset Order residential interstate long distance
consumers receive adequate information regarding their monthly usage in
order to make informed choices among alternative long distance calling
plans.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0823.
Title: Pay Telephone Reclassification, Memorandum Opinion and
Order, CC Docket No. 96-128.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 400 respondents; 400
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 2-35 hours.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory as required by 47 U.S.C. 276.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, monthly, and quarterly
reporting requirements; recordkeeping requirement; and third party
disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 44,700 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $480,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting that the respondents submit confidential information to the
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for
information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of the
Commission's rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission's Common Carrier Bureau adopted and
released a Memorandum Opinion and Order, Implementation of the Pay
Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996 et al., CC Docket No. 96-128, DA 98-481,
on March 9, 1998, which clarified the requirements established in the
Payphones Orders for the provision of payphone-specific coding digits
and for tariffs that local exchange carriers (LECs) must file pursuant
to the Payphone Orders. The Commission also granted a waiver of Part 69
of the Commission's rules so that LECs can establish rate elements to
recover the costs of implementing FLEX-ANI (a type of switch software)
to provide payphone-specific coding digits for per-call compensation.
The Commission is required to implement section 276 of the Act, which
it has done in the Payphone Orders.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0298.
Title: Competitive Carrier Line Count Report.
Form Number: FCC Form 525.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,300 respondents; 4,753
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 57 hours.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency of Response: On occasion and annual reporting
requirements.
Total Annual Burden: 66,120 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The respondents may request
confidentiality protection for the special access performance
information. The respondents are not required to file their customers'
monthly usage information with the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC).
Needs and Uses: 47 CFR Part 61 of the Commission's rules
establishes procedures for filing tariffs which contain the charges,
practices, and regulations of the common carriers, supporting economic
data and other related documents. The supporting data must conform to
other parts of the Rules such as Parts 36 and 69. Part 61 also
prescribes the framework for the initial establishment of and
subsequent revisions to tariffs. Tariffs that do not conform to Part 61
may be required to post their schedules or rates and regulations. The
information collected through a carrier's tariff is used by the
Commission to determine whether services offered are just and
reasonable as the Act requires. The tariffs and any supporting
documentation are examined in order to determine if the services are
offered in a just and reasonable manner.
OMB Control Number: 3060-1046.
Title: Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions
of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC Docket No. 96-128, Order on
Reconsideration.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,023 respondents; 4,854
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 100 hours.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory, as required by 47 U.S.C. 276.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly and annual reporting requirements;
recordkeeping requirement; and third party disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 485,400 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting that the respondents submit Confidential information to the
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for
Information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of the
Commission's rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission released an Order on
Reconsideration, the Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation
Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC Docket No. 96-128,
FCC 04-251, on October 22, 2004, which increased the time carriers must
retain certain data and adds burden in that regard. It also removed
potentially burdensome paperwork requirements by encouraging carriers
to comply with the reporting requirements through electronic means. We
believe that the clarifications adopted in the Order on Reconsideration
significantly decrease the paperwork burden on carriers. Specifically,
the Commission: (1) Clarified that Completing Carriers must provide the
Payphone Service Provider
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(PSP) with adequate notice of an alternative compensation arrangement
(ACA) prior to its effective date with sufficient time for the PSP to
object to an ACA, and also prior to the termination of an ACA; (2)
clarified any paperwork burdens imposed on carriers and allowed
Completing Carriers to provide notice of ACAs on a clearinghouse's Web
site; (3) required Completing Carriers to report only completed calls
in their quarterly reports; and (4) extended the time period from 18 to
27 months for Completing Carriers and Intermediate Carriers to retain
certain payphone records.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0816.
Title: Local Telephone Competition and Broadband Reporting, Report
and Order, WC Docket No. 04-141, FCC 04-266.
Form Number: FCC Form 477.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit; not-for-profit
institutions; and state, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,400 respondents; 2,800
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 46.0 hours.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory, as required by the Commission's
rules implementing section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996,
47 U.S.C. 157nt, and the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47
U.S.C. 151-155, 160, 161, 201-205, 215, 218-220, 251-271, 303(r), 332,
403, 502, and 503.
Frequency of Response: Semi-annual reporting requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 128,800 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $0.00.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impacts.
Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: Respondents may request
confidential treatment for competitively sensitive information by using
a drop-down box located on the first page of Form 477. If the
Commission receives a request for release pursuant to the Freedom of
Information Act, the respondent is notified and afforded an opportunity
to show why the data should not be released under 47 CFR 0.459(b) of
the Commission's rules. Additionally, the Commission only releases
aggregated (non-company specific) information in its published reports.
Needs and Uses: The information is necessary to evaluate the status
of local telephone competition and the status of broadband services
deployment. The information assists the Commission in preparing the
report mandated by section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996,
and it is used by the Commission to evaluate the efficacy of Commission
rules and policies adopted to implement the Telecommunications Act of
1996.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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