Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested, 75464-75467 [2010-30410]

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


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

November 26, 2010.
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 (PRA) of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520. 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; (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; and (e) 
ways to further reduce the information collection burden on small 
business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
    The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information 
unless it displays a currently valid OMB 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 (PRA) that does 
not display a valid OMB control number.

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be 
submitted on or before February 1, 2011. If you anticipate that you 
will be submitting PRA comments, but find it difficult to do so within 
the period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the FCC 
contact listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 
Management and Budget, via fax at 202-395-5167 or via Internet at 
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and to the Federal Communications 
Commission. To submit your PRA comments by email send them to: 
PRA@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, contact 
Judith B. Herman at 202-418-0214 or via the Internet at Judith-B.Herman@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Control Number: 3060-0823.
    Title: Part 64, Pay Telephone Reclassification.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 400 respondents; 16,820 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 2.66 hours (average).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion, quarterly and monthly reporting 
requirements and third party disclosure requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this 
information collection is contained in the 47 U.S.C. 151, 154, 201-205, 
218, 226, and 276.
    Total Annual Burden: 44,700 hours.

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    Total Annual Cost: $652,000.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Confidentiality concerns are 
not relevant to these types of disclosures. The Commission is not 
requesting carriers or providers to submit confidential information to 
the Commission. If the Commission requests that carriers or providers 
submit information which they believe is confidential, the carriers or 
providers may request confidential treatment of such information under 
47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring 
information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
after this comment period to obtain the full, three year clearance from 
them. The Commission is not changing any of the reporting and/or third 
party disclosure requirements. The Commission is reporting no change in 
the hourly burden estimates. However, we are reporting a $32,000 
increase in annual costs. This adjustment is due to an increase in the 
tariff filing fee from $775 to $815.
    The Commission adopted rules and policies governing the payphone 
industry to implement section 276 of the Telecommunications Act of 
1996. Those rules and policies in part established a plan to ensure 
fair compensation for ``each and every completed intrastate and 
interstate call using [a] payphone.'' Specifically, the Commission 
established a plan to ensure that payphone service providers (PSPs) 
were compensated for certain non-coin calls originated from their 
payphones.
    As part of this plan, the Commission required that by October 7, 
1997, Local exchange carriers were to provide payphone-specific coding 
digits to PSPs, and that PSPs were to provide those digits from their 
payphones to interexchange carriers (IXCs).
    The provision of payphone-specific coding digits was a prerequisite 
to payphone per-call compensation payments by IXCs to PSPs for 
subscriber 800 and access code calls. The Commission's Wireline 
Competition Bureau subsequently provided a waiver until March 9, 1998, 
for those payphones for which the necessary coding digits were not 
provided to identify calls. The Bureau also on that date clarified the 
requirements established in the Payphones Orders for the provision of 
payphone-specific coding digits and for tariffs that LECs must file 
pursuant to the Payphone Orders.
    The Bureau 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 has 
identified five specific information collections under this OMB control 
number.
    The information disclosure rules and policies governing the 
payphone industry to implement section 276 of the Act will ensure the 
payment of per-call compensation by implementing a method for LECs to 
provide information to IXCs to identify calls. FLEX ANI is the most 
flexible method, and has the added capability of providing a number of 
additional coding digits, in real-time, that can uniquely identify a 
call as coming from a payphone. FLEX ANI is, therefore, the best 
method.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0057.
    Title: Application for Equipment Authorization.
    Form No.: FCC Form 731.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 600 respondents; 10,000 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 25 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third 
party disclosure requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in the 
47 U.S.C. 154(i), 301, 302, 303(e), 303(f), and 303(r).
    Total Annual Burden: 250,000 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $11,017,500.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Minimal exemption from the 
Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4) and FCC Rules under 47 
CFR 0.457(d)) is granted for trade secrets which may be submitted as 
attachments to the application form FCC Form 731. No other assurances 
of confidentiality are provided to respondents.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring 
information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
after this comment period to obtain the full, three year clearance from 
them. The Commission is not changing any of the reporting and/or third 
party disclosure requirements. The Commission is reporting no change in 
their previous burden estimates.
    Commission Rules require that manufacturers of radio frequency (RF) 
equipment file FCC Form 731 to obtain approval prior to marketing their 
equipment: (a) The RF equipment is regulated under certain rule 
sections of 47 CFR part 15 and part 18; (b) manufacturers may then 
market their RF equipment based on a showing of compliance with 
technical standards established in the FCC Rules for each type of 
equipment or device operated under the applicable FCC Rule part; and 
(c) in addition, rules governing certain RF equipment operating in the 
licensed services also require equipment authorization as established 
in the procedural FCC Rules in 47 CFR part 2. The RF equipment 
manufacturers comply with the information collection requirements 
(noted above) by: (a) Filing FCC Form 731 electronically with the 
Commission, or (b) submitting the information to a Telecommunications 
Certification Body (TCB), which acts on behalf of the FCC to issue 
grants of certification. The TCBs have flexibility in the format in 
which they require the collection of information: (a) TCBs may require 
applicants to submit the required information in FCC Form 731 format or 
in another format selected by the TCB, but (b) whatever the information 
collection method, the information required is governed by the 
procedural rules in 47 CFR part 2 and a showing of compliance with the 
FCC technical standards for the specific type of equipment. RF 
manufacturer applicants for equipment certification may also request 
``expedited authorization'' to market their equipment by: (a) Choosing 
to pay the fee levied by a TCB, and (b) submitting their request to a 
TCB in order for expedited authorization to market. The TCB processes 
the RF equipment manufacturer's application as follows: (a) The TCB 
receives and reviews the RF manufacturer's information submission/
application; and (b) the TCB enters the information into the FCC 
Equipment Authorization System database using an interface that 
provides the TCB with the tools to issue a standardized Grant of 
Equipment Authorization. Whichever method the RF manufacturers choose 
to submit their information--via either the FCC on FCC Form 731 or the 
TCB, FCC Rules require that applicants supply the following data: (a) 
Demographic information including Grantee name and address, contact 
information, etc; (b) information specific to the equipment including 
FCC Identifier, equipment class, technical specifications, etc; and (c) 
attachments that demonstrate compliance with FCC Rules that may include 
any combination of the following based on the applicable Rule parts for 
the equipment for which

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authorization is requested: (1) Identification of equipment (47 CFR 
2.925); (2) attestation statements that may be required for specific 
equipments; (3) external photos of the equipment for which 
authorization is requested; (4) block diagram of the device; (5) 
schematics; (6) test report;
    [cir] Test setup photos;
    [cir] Users Manual;
    [cir] Internal Photos;
    [cir] Parts List/Tune Up Information;
    [cir] RF Exposure Information;
    [cir] Operational Description;
    [cir] Cover Letters;
    [cir] Software Defined Radio/Cognitive Radio Files
    In general, an applicant's submission is as follows: (a) FCC Form 
731 includes approximately two pages covering the demographic and 
equipment identification information; and (b) applicants must supply 
additional documentation and other information, as described above, 
demonstrating conformance with FCC Rules, which may range from 100-500 
pages. The supplemental information is essential to control potential 
interference to radio communications, which the FCC may use, as is 
necessary, to investigate complaints of harmful interference. In 
response to new technologies and in allocating spectrum, the Commission 
may establish new technical operating standards: (a) RF equipment 
manufacturers must meet the new standards to receive an equipment 
authorization, and (b) RF equipment manufacturers must still comply 
with the Commission's requirements in FCC Form 731 and demonstrate 
compliance as required by 47 CFR part 2 of FCC Rules. Thus, this 
information collection applies to a variety of RF equipment: (a) That 
is currently manufactured, (b) that may be manufactured in the future, 
and (c) that operates under varying technical standards. On July 8, 
2004, the Commission adopted a Report and Order, Modification of Parts 
2 and 15 of the Commission's Rules for Unlicensed Devices and Equipment 
Approval, ET Docket No. 03-201, FCC 04-165. The change requires that 
all paper filings required in 47 CFR Sections 2.913(c), 2.926(c), 
2.929(c), and 2.929(d) of the rules are outdated and now must be filed 
electronically via the Internet on FCC Form 731. The Commission 
believes that electronic filing speeds up application processing and 
supports the Commission in further streamlining to reduce cost and 
increase efficiency. Information on the procedures for electronically 
filing equipment authorization applications can be obtained from the 
Commission's rules, and from the Internet at: https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/cf/eas/index.cfm. Designated 
Telecommunications Certification Body (TCB).
    OMB Control Number: 3060-XXXX.
    Title: Wireless E911 Location Accuracy Requirements.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Type of Review: New collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit and state, local or 
tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 6,000 respondents; 13,700 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 11.85 hours (average).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and third 
party disclosure requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this 
information collection is contained in the 47 U.S.C. 151, 154, and 332.
    Total Annual Burden: 71,100 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: No questions of a 
confidential nature are asked.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this new information 
collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) after this 
comment period to obtain the full, three-year clearance from them.
    The Commission's Second Report and Order (FCC 10-176, PS Docket No. 
07-114) on September 23, 2010, the Commission released a Second Report 
and Order in PS Docket No. 07-114, FCC 10-176. With the Second Report 
and Order, the Commission adopts rules, amending requirements for 
wireless licensees subject to delivering emergency calls according to 
location accuracy standards for Enhanced 911 service, to satisfy these 
standards at either a county-based or Public Safety Answering Point 
(PSAP)-based geographic level. Specifically, the rules adopted require 
wireless carriers to take steps to provide more specific automatic 
location information in connection with 911 emergency calls to Public 
Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) in areas where they have not done so in 
the past. Further, the rules adopted provide a framework with interim 
benchmarks for wireless licensees to achieve the amended requirements, 
thereby ensuring an appropriate and consistent compliance methodology 
with respect to location accuracy standards.
    The Second Report and Order provides, however, that handset-based 
wireless carriers may exclude up to 15 percent of the counties or PSAP 
areas they serve due to heavy forestation that limits handset-based 
technology accuracy in those counties or areas. The Commission found 
that permitting this exclusion properly but narrowly accounts for the 
known technical limitations of handset-based location accuracy 
technologies, while ensuring that the public safety community and the 
public at large are sufficiently informed of these limitations. The 
Second Report and Order also provides a similar exclusion for network-
based carriers that permits them to exclude particular counties, or 
portions of counties, where triangulation of the geographical position 
of a 911 emergency call is not technically possible, such as locations 
where at least three cell sites are not sufficiently visible to a 
handset.
    The Second Report and Order requires both handset-based and network 
based carriers to file a list of the specific counties or portions of 
counties where they are utilizing their respective exclusions within 90 
days following approval from the Office of Management and Budget for 
the related information collection. The lists must be submitted 
electronically into PS Docket No. 07-114, and copies must be sent to 
the National Emergency Number Association, the Association of Public-
Safety Communications Officials-International, and the National 
Association of State 9-1-1 Administrators. For network-based carriers, 
the exclusion will sunset on [8 years after effective date] of the rule 
providing for the exclusion.
    The rules adopted by the Second Report and Order also require that 
wireless carriers provide confidence and uncertainty data on a per call 
basis to PSAPs. To ensure that confidence and uncertainty data is made 
available to requesting PSAPs, the adopted rules also require entities 
responsible for transporting this data between the wireless carriers 
and PSAPs, including LECs, CLECs, owners of E911 networks, and 
emergency service providers (collectively, System Service Providers 
(SSPs)), to implement any modifications to enable the transmission of 
confidence and uncertainty data provided by wireless carriers to the 
requesting PSAPs.
    In view of the amended location accuracy requirements and the 
timeframes and benchmarks for carriers to comply with them, the 
Commission recognized that the waiver process is suitable to address 
individual or unique problems, where the Commission can analyze the 
particular circumstances and the potential impact to public safety. 
Thus, the Commission recognized that wireless carriers might file 
waiver requests, therefore

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constituting a collection and reporting requirement. The Commission 
noted that financial considerations, among others, will be taken into 
account should a service provider request waiver relief. Additionally, 
an SSP that does not pass confidence and uncertainty data to PSAPs must 
demonstrate in a request for waiver relief that it cannot pass this 
data to the PSAPs due to technical infeasibility.
    The adopted rules strengthen and improve the ability of Public 
Safety Answering Points (PSAPs, or 9-1-1 call centers) to quickly 
locate wireless 9-1-1 callers and dispatch emergency responders to 
assist them during emergencies. As a result, emergency responders will 
be able to reach the site of an emergency more quickly and efficiently.
    The new rules will generate new collection and reporting 
requirements as discussed below:
    47 CFR 20.18(h)(1)(F) permits network-based wireless carriers to 
exclude from compliance particular counties, or portions of counties, 
where triangulation is not technically possible, such as locations 
where at least three cell sites are not sufficiently visible to a 
handset. However, carriers must file a list of the specific counties or 
portions of counties where they are utilizing this exclusion within 90 
days following approval from the Office of Management and Budget for 
the related information collection. This list must be submitted 
electronically into PS Docket No. 07-114, and copies must be sent to 
the National Emergency Number Association, the Association of Public-
Safety Communications Officials-International, and the National 
Association of State 9-1-1 Administrators. Further, carriers must 
submit in the same manner any changes to their exclusion lists within 
thirty days of discovering such changes. This exclusion will sunset on 
[8 years after effective date].
    47 CFR 20.18(h)(2)(C) requires that handset-based wireless carriers 
file a list of the specific counties or PSAP service areas where they 
are utilizing an exclusion to exclude 15 percent of counties or PSAP 
service areas from the 150 meter requirement based upon heavy 
forestation that limits handset-based technology accuracy in those 
counties or PSAP service areas. Such carriers must file the list within 
90 days following approval from the Office of Management and Budget for 
the related information collection. This list must be submitted 
electronically into PS Docket No. 07-114, and copies must be sent to 
the National Emergency Number Association, the Association of Public-
Safety Communications Officials-International, and the National 
Association of State 9-1-1 Administrators. Further, carriers must 
submit in the same manner any changes to their exclusion lists within 
thirty days of discovering such changes.
    47 CFR 20.18(h)(3) requires that two years after [effective date of 
the Order], all carriers subject to this section provide confidence and 
uncertainty data on a per-call basis upon the request of a PSAP. Once a 
carrier has established baseline confidence and uncertainty levels in a 
county or PSAP service area, ongoing accuracy shall be monitored based 
on the trending of uncertainty data and additional testing shall not be 
required. All entities responsible for transporting confidence and 
uncertainty between wireless carriers and PSAPs, including LECs, CLECs, 
owners of E911 networks, and emergency service providers (collectively, 
System Service Providers (SSPs)) must implement any modifications that 
will enable the transmission of confidence and uncertainty data 
provided by wireless carriers to the requesting PSAP. If an SSP does 
not pass confidence and uncertainty data to PSAPs, the SSP has the 
burden of proving that it is technically infeasible for it to provide 
such data.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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