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notify the Commission at least sixty (60)
days prior to the withdrawal of its
election. The information collected will
be the CMS provider’s contact
information and its election, i.e., a ‘‘yes’’
or ‘‘no’’, on whether it intends to provide
commercial mobile service alerts.
The Commission will use the
information collected to meet its
statutory requirement under the WARN
Act to accept licensees’ election filings
and to establish an effective CMAS that
will provide the public with effective
mobile alerts in a manner that imposes
minimal regulatory burdens on affected
entities.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of
Managing Director.
[FR Doc. 2011–10636 Filed 5–2–11; 8:45 am]
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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
April 21, 2011.
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burden and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–
3520), the Federal Communications
Commission invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to comment
on the following information collection.
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 valid OMB control
number.
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Written Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before June 2, 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 the Internet at
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov; and
to the Federal Communications
Commission’s PRA mailbox (e-mail
address: PRA@fcc.gov.). Include in the
e-mail the OMB control number of the
collection as shown in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
below, or if there is no OMB control
number, include the Title as shown in
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.
If you are unable to submit your
comments by e-mail, contact the person
listed below to make alternate
arrangements.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing
Director, (202) 418–0214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–1046.
Title: Implementation of the Pay
Telephone Reclassification and
Compensation Provisions of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC
Docket No. 96–128, Order on
Reconsideration, FCC 04–251.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 924
respondents; 8,080 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .50
hours—200 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion,
annual and quarterly reporting
requirements, third party disclosure
requirements, and recordkeeping
requirement.
Obligation To Respond: Mandatory.
Statutory authority for this information
collection is contained in 47 U.S.C.
sections 151, 154 and 276.
Total Annual Burden: 160,184 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
The Commission is not requesting
respondents to submit confidential
information. Respondents may request
confidential treatment of their
information that they believe to be
confidential pursuant to 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
will submit this expiring information
DATES:
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collection (IC) to the OMB during this
comment period. The Commission is
seeking OMB approval for an extension
of this information collection. There is
no change in the reporting,
recordkeeping and/or third party
disclosure requirements. The
Commission is reducing its previous
burden estimates by 18,208 hours.
In an Order on Reconsideration (FCC
04–251), the Commission considered
four petitions for reconsideration of the
Commission’s Report and Order. The
Report and Order established detailed
rules (Payphone Compensation Rules)
ensuring that payphone service
providers or PSPs are ‘‘fairly
compensated’’ for each and every
completed payphone-originated call
pursuant to section 276 of the
Communications Act as follows:
(1) The Payphone Compensation
Rules place liability to compensate PSPs
for payphone-originated calls on the
facilities-based long distance carriers
from whose switches such calls are
completed.
(2) The Payphone Compensation
Rules define these responsible carriers
as ‘‘completing carriers’’ and require
them to develop their own system of
tracking calls to completion, the
accuracy of which must be confirmed
and attested to by a third-party auditor.
(3) Completing carriers must file with
PSPs a quarterly report and must also
submit an attestation by the chief
financial officer (CFO) that the payment
amount for that quarter is accurate and
is based on 100% of all completed calls.
(4) The rules also require reporting
obligations for other facilities-based
long distance carriers in the call path, if
any, and define these carriers as
‘‘intermediate carriers’’.
(5) Additionally, the rules give parties
flexibility to agree to alternative
compensation arrangements (ACA) so
that small completing carriers may
avoid the expense of instituting a
tracking system and undergoing an
audit.
(6) The Payphone Compensation
Rules satisfy section 276 by identifying
the party liable for compensation and
establishing a mechanism for PSPs to be
paid.
The information collected under the
Completing Carrier filing of quarterly
reports and Intermediate Carrier filing of
quarterly reports must be provided to
third parties. The information collected
under the completing carrier
establishment of call tracking system
must be provided to third parties and
submitted to the Commission. The
information is collected annually under
completing carrier establishment of call
tracking system. Completing carrier
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filing of quarterly reports and
intermediate carrier filing of quarterly
reports would be used to ensure that
completing carriers comply with their
obligations under the
Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Direct all PRA comments to
Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of
Management and Budget, via fax at 202–
395–5167 or the Internet at
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov; and
to the Federal Communications
Commission’s PRA mailbox (e-mail
address: PRA@fcc.gov.). Include in the
email the OMB control number of the
collection as shown in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
below, or if there is no OMB control
number, include the Title as shown in
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.
If you are unable to submit your
comments by email, contact the person
listed below to make alternate
arrangements.
ADDRESSES:
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of
Managing Director.
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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
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
April 19, 2011.
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burden and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–
3520), the Federal Communications
Commission invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to comment
on the following information collection.
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 valid OMB control
number.
SUMMARY:
Written Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before June 2, 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.
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DATES:
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Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing
Director, (202) 418–0214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0470.
Title: Section 64.901, Allocation of
Cost; Section 64.903, Cost Allocation
Manuals; and RAO Letters 19 and 26.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 1
respondent; 2 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 200
hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
and annual reporting requirements.
Obligation To Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for this information collection
is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 154, 201–
205, 215, and 218–220.
Total Annual Burden: 400 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
The information is not of a confidential
nature. Respondents who believe that
certain information to be of a
proprietary nature may solicit
confidential treatment in accordance
with 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission’s
rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
will submit this expiring information
collection (IC) to the OMB during this
comment period to obtain the three year
clearance from them. The Commission
is seeking OMB approval for a revision
of this information collection.
In a Memorandum Opinion and Order
in WC Docket No. 07–21 (FCC 08–120)
the Commission forbore from many of
its cost allocation rules as they apply to
the former Bell Operating Companies
(BOCs). Therefore, there are fewer
respondents affected by the
requirements of these rule sections.
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Section 64.901 requires carriers to
separate their regulated costs from
nonregulated costs using the attributable
cost method of cost allocation. Carriers
must follow the principles described in
section 64.901. Carriers subject to
section 64.901 are also subject to the
provisions of 47 CFR sections 32.23 and
32.27 of the Commission’s rules.
Section 64.903(a) requires each local
exchange carrier with annual operating
revenues that equal or exceed the
indexed revenue threshold, as defined
in 47 CFR 32.9000, to file with the
Commission a manual containing
information regarding its allocation of
costs between regulated and nonregulated activities.
Section 64.903(b) requires that
carriers update their cost allocation
manuals (CAMs) at least annually;
except that changes to the cost
apportionment table and the description
of time reporting procedures must be
filed at the time of implementation.
Proposed changes in the description of
time reporting procedures, the statement
concerning affiliate transactions, and
the cost apportionment table must be
accompanied by a statement quantifying
the impact of each change on regulated
operations. Changes in the description
of time reporting procedures and the
statement concerning affiliate
transactions must be quantified in
$100,000 increments at the account
level. Changes in the cost
apportionment table must be quantified
in $100,000 increments at the cost pool
level.
Moreover, filing of CAMs and
occasional updates are subject to the
uniform format and standard procedures
specified in Responsible Accounting
Officer (RAO) Letter 19. RAO Letter 26
provides guidance to carriers in revising
their CAMs to reflect changes to the
affiliate transactions rules pursuant to
the Accounting Safeguards Order (FCC
96–490).
The CAM is reviewed by the
Commission to ensure that all costs are
properly classified between regulated
and nonregulated activity. Uniformity in
the CAMs helps improve the joint cost
allocation process. In addition, this
uniformity gives the Commission greater
reliability in financial data submitted by
the carriers through the Automated
Reporting Management Information
System (ARMIS).
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of
Managing Director.
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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
April 21, 2011.
SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to comment on the following
information collection. 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 valid OMB control number.
DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before June 2, 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 the Internet at
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov; and to the Federal Communications
Commission's PRA mailbox (e-mail address: PRA@fcc.gov.). Include in the
e-mail the OMB control number of the collection as shown in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below, or if there is no OMB control
number, include the Title as shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section. If you are unable to submit your comments by e-mail, contact
the person listed below to make alternate arrangements.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing
Director, (202) 418-0214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1046.
Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and
Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC
Docket No. 96-128, Order on Reconsideration, FCC 04-251.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 924 respondents; 8,080 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .50 hours--200 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, annual and quarterly reporting
requirements, third party disclosure requirements, and recordkeeping
requirement.
Obligation To Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 151, 154 and
276.
Total Annual Burden: 160,184 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting respondents to submit confidential information. Respondents
may request confidential treatment of their information that they
believe to be confidential pursuant to 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's
rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection (IC) to the OMB during this comment period. The
Commission is seeking OMB approval for an extension of this information
collection. There is no change in the reporting, recordkeeping and/or
third party disclosure requirements. The Commission is reducing its
previous burden estimates by 18,208 hours.
In an Order on Reconsideration (FCC 04-251), the Commission
considered four petitions for reconsideration of the Commission's
Report and Order. The Report and Order established detailed rules
(Payphone Compensation Rules) ensuring that payphone service providers
or PSPs are ``fairly compensated'' for each and every completed
payphone-originated call pursuant to section 276 of the Communications
Act as follows:
(1) The Payphone Compensation Rules place liability to compensate
PSPs for payphone-originated calls on the facilities-based long
distance carriers from whose switches such calls are completed.
(2) The Payphone Compensation Rules define these responsible
carriers as ``completing carriers'' and require them to develop their
own system of tracking calls to completion, the accuracy of which must
be confirmed and attested to by a third-party auditor.
(3) Completing carriers must file with PSPs a quarterly report and
must also submit an attestation by the chief financial officer (CFO)
that the payment amount for that quarter is accurate and is based on
100% of all completed calls.
(4) The rules also require reporting obligations for other
facilities-based long distance carriers in the call path, if any, and
define these carriers as ``intermediate carriers''.
(5) Additionally, the rules give parties flexibility to agree to
alternative compensation arrangements (ACA) so that small completing
carriers may avoid the expense of instituting a tracking system and
undergoing an audit.
(6) The Payphone Compensation Rules satisfy section 276 by
identifying the party liable for compensation and establishing a
mechanism for PSPs to be paid.
The information collected under the Completing Carrier filing of
quarterly reports and Intermediate Carrier filing of quarterly reports
must be provided to third parties. The information collected under the
completing carrier establishment of call tracking system must be
provided to third parties and submitted to the Commission. The
information is collected annually under completing carrier
establishment of call tracking system. Completing carrier
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filing of quarterly reports and intermediate carrier filing of
quarterly reports would be used to ensure that completing carriers
comply with their obligations under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
[FR Doc. 2011-10633 Filed 5-2-11; 8:45 am]
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