Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Comments Requested, 7564-7565 [2011-2956]

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[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 28 (Thursday, February 10, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7564-7565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-2956]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for 
Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 
Comments Requested

February 2, 2011.
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 for 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 currently valid OMB control number.

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be 
submitted on or before March 14, 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 the Internet at 
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and to the Federal Communications 
Commission via e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov. To view a copy of this 
information collection request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go to the 
Web page https://reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the section 
of the Web page called ``Currently Under Review'', (3) click on the 
downward-pointing arrow in the ``Select Agency'' box below the 
``Currently Under Review'' heading, (4) select ``Federal Communications 
Commission'' from the list of agencies presented in the ``Select 
Agency'' box, (5) click the ``Submit'' button to the right of the 
``Select Agency'' box, and (6) when the list of FCC ICRs currently 
under review appears, look for the title of this ICR (or its OMB 
Control Number, if there is one) and then click on the ICR Reference 
Number to view detailed information about this ICR.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing 
Director, (202) 418-0214. For additional information or copies of the 
information collection(s), contact Judith B. Herman, OMD, 202-418-0214 
or e-mail judith-b.herman@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0823.
    Title: Part 64, Pay Telephone Reclassification.
    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; 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 requirements.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this 
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 154, 201-205, 
218, 226 and 276.
    Total Annual Burden: 44,700 hours.
    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 their 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) 
during this comment period. 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 estimate. However,

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we are reporting a $32,000 increase in annual costs. This adjustment 
increase is due to an increase in the tariff filing fee from $775 to 
$815.
    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.
    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 Payphone Orders for the provision of 
payphone-specific coding digits and for tariffs that LECs must file 
pursuant to the Payphone Orders.


Federal Communications Commission.
Bulah P. Wheeler,
Deputy Manager, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
[FR Doc. 2011-2956 Filed 2-9-11; 8:45 am]
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