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This notice constitutes a request for
public comment and an opportunity for
public hearing as required by the Clean
Air Act. All written comments received
by May 7, 2012 on this proposal will be
considered. EPA will conduct a public
hearing on this proposal only if a
written request for such is received by
EPA at the address above by May 7,
2012. If no written request for a hearing
is received, EPA will proceed to the
final determination. While notice of the
final determination will not be
published in the Federal Register,
copies of the determination can be
obtained by sending a written request to
Michael McGown at the above address.
Dated: March 22, 2012.
Michelle L. Pirzadeh,
Deputy Regional Administrator, Region 10.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
Information Collection Being
Submitted for Review and Approval to
the Office of Management and Budget
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
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. 3502–
3520), the Federal Communications
Commission invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collection(s).
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 estimates; (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
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a collection of information subject to the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that
does not display a valid OMB control
number.
Written Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before May 7, 2012. 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: Submit your PRA comments
to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), via fax
at 202–395–5167 or via Internet at
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and
to Judith B. Herman, Federal
Communications Commission, via the
Internet at Judith-b.herman@fcc.gov. To
submit your PRA comments by email
send them to: PRA@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing
Director, FCC, at 202–418–0214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–1147.
Title: Wireless E911 Phase II Location
Accuracy Requirements, Third Report
and Order, FCC 11–107.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals and
households; business or other for-profit
entities; Not-for-profit institutions and
State, Local, or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 4,898
respondents; 9,514 responses.
Estimated Time per Response:
5.5867143 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 47 U.S.C.
Sections 151, 154 and 332 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as
amended.
Total Annual Burden: 53,152 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
No questions of a confidential nature are
asked.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
obtained OMB approval for this new
collection in March 2011. The
Commission is now seeking OMB
approval for another revision to this
information collection. The Commission
will submit this information collection
to the OMB after publication of this 30
day notice.
The Commission adopted and
released a Third Report and Order, FCC
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11–107, PS Docket No. 07–114, which
provides that new Commercial Mobile
Radio Service (CMRS) providers,
meeting the definition of covered CMRS
providers in Section 20.18 and
deploying networks subsequent to the
effective date of the Third Report and
Order that are not an expansion or
upgrade of an existing CMRS network,
must meet the handset-based location
accuracy standard from the start.
Consequently, the rule requires new
CMRS providers launching new standalone networks during the eight-year
implementation period for handsetbased CMRS wireless licensees to meet
the applicable handset-based location
accuracy standard in effect of the time
of deployment. Therefore, new rule
section 20.18(h)(2)(iv) specifies that new
CMRS providers must comply with
paragraphs (h)(2)((i–iii) of Section 20.18,
which are the location accuracy
requirements for handset-based carriers.
OMB approved the information
collection for those rule paragraphs,
which the Second Report and Order
adopted, on March 30, 2011, under
OMB Control No. 3060–1147. The
Commission announced OMB’s
approval and the effective date in 76 FR
23713 of the Federal Register.
As a result, under the new rule
section adopted by Third Report and
Order, all new CMRS providers, in
delivering emergency calls for Enhanced
911 service, must satisfy the handsetbased location accuracy standard at
either a county-based or Public Safety
Answering Point (PSAP)-based
geographic level. Similarly, in
accordance with the new rule and under
the paragraph provision of Section
20.18(h)(2)(ii), new CMRS providers
may exclude up to 15 percent of the
counties or PSAP areas they serve due
to heavy forestation that limits handsetbased technology accuracy in those
counties or areas.
Therefore, new CMRS providers will
be required to file a list of the specific
counties where they are utilizing their
respective exclusions. In its September
2010 Second Report and Order, 75 FR
70604, 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.
When they have begun deploying
their new networks, the new CMRS
providers must submit initial reports, as
the Commission will announce after
OMB approval of this revised
information collection, with a list of the
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areas that they are permitted to exclude
from the handset-based location
accuracy requirements. Accordingly, the
Commission will specify the procedures
for electronic filing into PS Docket No.
07–114, consistent with the current
OMB approved information collection
for handset-based carriers, and new
CMRS providers must send copies of the
exclusion reports 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, the rules adopted by the
Commission’s September 2010 Second
Report and Order, 75 FR 70604, also
require that, two years after January 18,
2011, wireless carriers provide
confidence and uncertainty data on a
per call basis to PSAPs. Because the
new rule adopted by the Third Report
and Order considers new CMRS
providers as providers covered under
the definition of CMR providers
pursuant to section 20.18 of the
Commission’s rules, new CMRS
providers will also be subject to the
information collection requirement to
provide this confidence and uncertainty
data.
Additionally, in view of the amended
location accuracy requirements and the
timeframes and benchmarks for
handset-based wireless carriers to
comply with them, in its September
2010 Second Report and Order, 75 FR
70604, 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,
similarly, the supporting statement for
this information collection revision
recognizes that new CMRS providers
might file waiver requests and,
therefore, be subject to a collection and
reporting requirement.
The Third Report and Order found
that requiring all new CMRS network
providers to comply with the
Commission’s handset-based location
accuracy standard is consistent with the
regulatory principle of ensuring
technological neutrality. Providers
deploying new CMRS networks are free
to use network-based location
techniques, or to combine network and
handset-based techniques, to provide
911 location information, provided that
they meet the accuracy criteria
applicable to handset-based providers.
Given the long-term goal of universal
support for one location accuracy
standard, the Commission believed that
such a mandate allows appropriate
planning and ensures that new
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technology will comply with the most
stringent location accuracy standard
that applies to existing technology.
Section 47 CFR 20.18(h)(2)(iv)
requires that providers of new CMRS
networks that meet the definition of
covered CMRS providers under
paragraph (a) of this section must
comply with the requirements of
paragraphs (h)(2)(i)-(iii) of this section.
For this purpose, a ‘‘new CMRS
network’’ is a CMRS network that is
newly deployed subsequent to the
effective date of the Third Report and
Order in PS Docket No. 07–114 and that
is not an expansion or upgrade of an
existing CMRS network.
The information provided by wireless
carriers deploying new CMRS networks
to report the counties or PSAP service
areas where the carriers cannot provide
E911 location accuracy at either the
county or the PSAP level will furnish
the Commission, affected PSAPs, state
and local emergency agencies, public
safety organizations and other interested
stakeholders the supplementary data
necessary for public safety awareness of
those areas where it is most difficult to
measure location accuracy during the
benchmark periods for handset-based
wireless carriers.
The provision of confidence and
uncertainty data to PSAPs by the new
CMRS providers and the SSPs
responsible for transporting that data
between them and PSAPs will enhance
the PSAPs’ ability to efficiently direct
first responders to the correct location of
emergencies to achieve the emergency
response goals of the nation in
responding expeditiously to emergency
crisis situations and in ensuring
homeland security.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0400.
Title: Part 61, Tariff Review Plan
(TRP).
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities.
Number of Respondents: 2,840
respondents; 8,554 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .5
hours to 53 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion,
annual, biennial, and one time reporting
requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for this information collection
is contained in 47 U.S.C. Sections 201,
202, 203, and 251(b)(5) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as
amended.
Total Annual Burden: 121,656 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
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Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
Respondents are not being asked to
submit confidential information to the
Commission. If the Commission
requests respondents to submit
information which respondents believe
are confidential, respondents 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 revised information
collection to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) during this 30 day
comment period to obtain the full three
year approval from them. The hourly
burden has increased by 117,056 hours
which is due to an Order that was
adopted and released requiring or
permitting incumbent and competitive
local exchange carriers, as part of
transitioning regulation of interstate and
intrastate switched access rates and
reciprocal compensation rates to billand-keep under section 251(b)(5), to file
tariffs with state commissions and the
FCC. This transition affects different
switched access rates at specified
timeframes and establishes an Access
Recovery Charge by which carriers will
be able to assess end users a monthly
charge to recover some or all of the
revenues they are permitted to recover
resulting from reductions in intercarrier
compensation rates. Price cap LECs
must remove the rate elements in the
traffic-sensitive and trunking baskets
from price cap regulation on July 1,
2012. There interstate tariff filings will
require cost support that generally is
encompassed in the existing support
burdens and, in many cases, may be
satisfied through the data collection
encompassed by a new information
collection entitled ‘‘Intercarrier
Compensation and Universal Service
Compliance and Monitoring’’ which
will also be submitted to the OMB for
approval and assigned an OMB control
number (see description of new
information collection below). The
intrastate tariff filings may, depending
on state requirements, require
supporting materials to be filed that may
also largely be satisfied by submitting
the new information collection
referenced above.
As of November 2010, there are 92
total incumbent LECs that file interstate
tariffs. Of them, there are 39 ILECs that
file pursuant to price cap regulation
under Sections 61.41–61.49 of the
Commission’s rules. Outside of the
National Exchange Carrier Association
(NECA), there are 12 ILECs filing their
own tariffs pursuant to rate-of-return
regulation under Section 61.38 of the
Commission’s rules. The remaining 40
ILECs file their own tariffs pursuant to
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section 61.39 of the Commission’s rules.
NECA files one Tariff Review Plan for
approximately 1,000 Sections 61.38 and
61.39 ILECs. Therefore, we estimate 51
+ 40 +1 (NECA) = 92 filing entities.
We also estimate that 330 competitive
and incumbent LECs will have to make
a one-time interstate tariff filing to
permit them to assess access charges on
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
calls. We estimate that 2,840
competitive and incumbent LECs will
have to file intrastate tariffs annually
which may require supporting materials
to be filed. We also estimate that 2,840
competitive and incumbent LECs will
have to make a one-time intrastate tariff
filing to establish VoIP rates at interstate
rate levels that may require supporting
materials to be filed. Finally, we
estimate that 1,340 incumbent LECs
annually will certify, as part of their
tariff filings to the Commission and to
the relevant state commission, that they
are not seeking duplicative recovery in
the state jurisdiction for an Eligible
Recovery subject to the recovery
mechanism.
For those services still requiring cost
support, TRPs assist the Commission in
determining whether ILEC access
charges are just and reasonable as
required under the Communications Act
of 1934, as amended.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0298.
Title: Part 61, Tariffs (Other than the
Tariff Review Plan).
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities.
Number of Respondents: 3,210
respondents; 7,350 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 20
hours to 50 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion,
annual, biennial and one time reporting
requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for this information collection
is contained in 47 U.S.C. Sections 151–
155, 201–205, 208, 251–271, 403, 502
and 503 of the Communications Act of
1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 215,500 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,410,150.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
Respondents are not being asked to
submit confidential information to the
Commission. If the Commission
requests respondents to submit
information which respondents believe
are confidential, respondents may
request confidential treatment of such
information under 47 CFR 0.459 of the
Commission’s rules.
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Needs and Uses: The Commission is
seeking OMB approval for this revised
collection. The Commission will submit
this information collection to the OMB
after publication of this 30 day notice.
On November 18, 2011, the
Commission adopted the USF/ICC
Transformation Order, FCC 11–161, that
requires or permits incumbent and
competitive local exchange carriers as
part of transitioning regulation of
interstate and intrastate switched access
rates and reciprocal compensation rates
to bill-and-keep under section 251(b)(5)
of the Communications Act of 1934, as
amended, to file tariffs with state
commissions and the FCC. This
transition affects different switched
access rates at specified timeframes and
establishes an Access Recovery Charge
by which carriers will be able to assess
end uses a monthly charge to recover
some or all of the revenues they are
permitted to recover resulting from
reductions in intercarrier compensation
rates. We estimate that 40 rate-of-return
LECs will need to make an additional
interstate access tariff filing annually
and that 330 competitive and incumbent
LECs will have to make a one-time filing
to allow them to assess charges for
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). We
also estimate that an additional 2,840
competitive and incumbent LECs will
have to file intrastate tariffs annually.
Finally, we estimate that 2,840
competitive and incumbent LECs will
have to make a one-time intrastate tariff
filing to establish VoIP rates of interstate
rate levels.
The information collected through a
carrier’s tariff is used by the
Commission and state commissions 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: 3060–1122.
Title: Preparation of Annual Reports
to Congress for the Collection and
Expenditures of Fees or Charges for
Enhanced 911 (E911) Services Under
the NET 911 Improvement Act of 2008.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: State, local or tribal
governments.
Number of Respondents: 56
respondents; 56 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 50
hours.
Frequency of Response: Annual
reporting requirement and
recordkeeping requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Voluntary.
Statutory authority for this information
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collection is contained in 47 U.S.C.
Sections 201(b), 219(b) and 220 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as
amended.
Total Annual Burden: 2,800 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
There are no assurances of
confidentiality provided to respondents.
The Commission’s rules address the
issue of confidentiality at 47 CFR 0.457,
0.459 and 0.461. These rules address
access to records that are not routinely
available to the public, requests and
requirements that materials submitted to
the Commission be withheld from
public inspection, and requests for
inspection of materials not routinely
available for public inspection.
Needs and Uses: The Commission is
seeking OMB approval for this revised
information collection in order to obtain
the full three year clearance from them.
There is no change in the Commission’s
previous burden estimates. The
Commission will submit this
information collection to the OMB after
publication of this 30 day notice.
The Commission proposes to ask the
following information:
1. A statement as to whether or not
your State, or any political subdivision,
Indian tribe, village or regional
corporation therein as defined by
Section 6(f)(1) of the NET 911 Act, has
established a funding mechanism
designated for or imposed for the
purposes of 911 or E911 support or
implementation (including a citation to
the legal authority for such mechanism).
2. The amount of the fees or charges
imposed for the implementation and
support of 911 or E911 services and the
total amount collected pursuant to the
assessed fees or charges, for the annual
period ending December 31, 20XX.
3. A statement describing how the
funds collected are made available to
localities, and whether your state has
established written criteria regarding the
allowable uses of the collected funds,
including the legal citation to such
criteria.
4. A statement identifying any entity
in your State that has the authority to
approve the expenditure of funds
collected for 911 or E911 purposes; a
description of any oversight procedures
established to determine that collected
funds have been made available or used
for the purposes designated by the
funding mechanism or otherwise used
to implement or support 911; and a
statement describing enforcement or
other corrective actions undertaken in
connection with such oversight, for the
annual period ending December 31,
20XX.
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5. A statement whether all the funds
collected for 911 or E911 purposes have
been made available or used for the
purposes designated by the funding
mechanism, or otherwise used for the
implementation or support of 911 or
E911.
6. A statement identifying what
amount of funds collected for 911 or
E911 purposes were made available or
used for any purposes other than the
ones designated by the funding
mechanism or used for purposes
otherwise unrelated to 911 or E911
implementation or support, including a
statement identifying the unrelated
purposes for which the funds collected
for 911 or E911 purposes were made
available or used.
7. A statement identifying which
specificity all activities, programs, and
organizations for whose benefit your
State, or political subdivision thereof,
has obligated or expended funds
collected for 911 or E911 purposes and
how these activities, programs, and
organizations support 911 or E911
services or enhancements of such
services.
8. A statement regarding whether your
State classifies expenditures on Next
Generation 911 as within the scope of
permissible expenditures of funds for
911 or E911 purposes, whether your
State has expended such funds on Next
Generation 911 programs, and if so, how
much your State has expended in the
annual period ending December 31,
20XX on Next Generation 911 programs.
9. Any other comments you may wish
to provide regarding the applicable
funding mechanism for 911 or E911.
The purpose of this information
collection is to meet the Commission’s
ongoing statutory obligations under the
New and Emerging Technologies 911
Improvement Act of 2008, Public Law
110–283, 122 Stat. 2620 (2008) (NET
911 Act), which requires the
Commission to submit an annual report
to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation of the
Senate and the Committee on Energy
and Commerce of the House of
Representatives, ‘‘detailing the status in
each State of the collection and
distribution of such fees or charges, and
including findings on the amount of
revenues obligated or expended by each
State or political subdivision thereof for
any purposes other than the purpose for
which any such fees or charges are
specified.’’
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Federal Communications Commission.
Bulah P. Wheeler,
Deputy Manager, Office of the Secretary,
Office of Managing Director.
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BILLING CODE 6712–01–P
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
Information Collection Being
Submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget for Review and Approval
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
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 take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collection(s).
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 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 May 7, 2012. 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: Submit your PRA comments
to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of
Management and Budget, via fax at 202–
395–5167 or via Internet at
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Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and
to Benish Shah, Federal
Communications Commission, via the
Internet at Benish.Shah@fcc.gov. To
submit your PRA comments by email
send them to: PRA@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Benish Shah, Office of Managing
Director, (202) 418–7866.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0636.
Title: Sections 2.906, 2.909, 2.1071,
2.1075, 2.1076, 2.1077 and 15.37,
Equipment Authorizations—Declaration
of Conformity.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities.
Number of Respondents: 5,000
respondents; 10,000 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 9.5
hours (average).
Frequency of Response: One-time
reporting requirement, recordkeeping
requirement and third party disclosure
requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for this information collection
is contained in 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 301,
302, 303(e), 303(r), 304 and 307.
Total Annual Burden: 95,000 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $17,500,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
No assurances of confidentiality are
provided to respondents.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
will submit this information collection
to Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) after this 60 day comment period
in order to obtain the full three year
clearance from them. The Commission
is requesting an extension, there is no
change in the reporting, recordkeeping
and/or third party disclosure
requirements. There is no change in the
estimated respondents/responses,
burden hours and/or annual costs.
In 1996, the Declaration of Conformity
(DoC) procedure was established in a
Report and Order, FCC 96–208, In the
Matter of Amendment of Parts 2 and 15
of the Commission’s Rules to Deregulate
the Equipment Authorization
Requirements for Digital Devices.
(a) The Declaration of Conformity
equipment authorization procedure, 47
CFR 2.1071, requires that a
manufacturers or equipment supplier
test a product to ensue compliance with
technical standards that limit radio
frequency emissions.
(b) Additionally, the manufacturer or
supplier must also include a DoC (with
the standards) in the literature furnished
with the equipment, and the equipment
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to
the Office of Management and Budget
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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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.
3502-3520), the Federal Communications Commission invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on the following information collection(s). 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 estimates; (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 May 7, 2012. 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: Submit your PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), via fax at 202-395-5167 or via Internet at
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and to Judith B. Herman, Federal
Communications Commission, via the Internet at Judith-b.herman@fcc.gov.
To submit your PRA comments by email send them to: PRA@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing
Director, FCC, at 202-418-0214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1147.
Title: Wireless E911 Phase II Location Accuracy Requirements, Third
Report and Order, FCC 11-107.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals and households; business or other for-
profit entities; Not-for-profit institutions and State, Local, or
Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 4,898 respondents; 9,514 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 5.5867143 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 47 U.S.C. Sections 151, 154 and
332 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 53,152 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: No questions of a
confidential nature are asked.
Needs and Uses: The Commission obtained OMB approval for this new
collection in March 2011. The Commission is now seeking OMB approval
for another revision to this information collection. The Commission
will submit this information collection to the OMB after publication of
this 30 day notice.
The Commission adopted and released a Third Report and Order, FCC
11-107, PS Docket No. 07-114, which provides that new Commercial Mobile
Radio Service (CMRS) providers, meeting the definition of covered CMRS
providers in Section 20.18 and deploying networks subsequent to the
effective date of the Third Report and Order that are not an expansion
or upgrade of an existing CMRS network, must meet the handset-based
location accuracy standard from the start. Consequently, the rule
requires new CMRS providers launching new stand-alone networks during
the eight-year implementation period for handset-based CMRS wireless
licensees to meet the applicable handset-based location accuracy
standard in effect of the time of deployment. Therefore, new rule
section 20.18(h)(2)(iv) specifies that new CMRS providers must comply
with paragraphs (h)(2)((i-iii) of Section 20.18, which are the location
accuracy requirements for handset-based carriers. OMB approved the
information collection for those rule paragraphs, which the Second
Report and Order adopted, on March 30, 2011, under OMB Control No.
3060-1147. The Commission announced OMB's approval and the effective
date in 76 FR 23713 of the Federal Register.
As a result, under the new rule section adopted by Third Report and
Order, all new CMRS providers, in delivering emergency calls for
Enhanced 911 service, must satisfy the handset-based location accuracy
standard at either a county-based or Public Safety Answering Point
(PSAP)-based geographic level. Similarly, in accordance with the new
rule and under the paragraph provision of Section 20.18(h)(2)(ii), new
CMRS providers 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.
Therefore, new CMRS providers will be required to file a list of
the specific counties where they are utilizing their respective
exclusions. In its September 2010 Second Report and Order, 75 FR 70604,
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.
When they have begun deploying their new networks, the new CMRS
providers must submit initial reports, as the Commission will announce
after OMB approval of this revised information collection, with a list
of the
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areas that they are permitted to exclude from the handset-based
location accuracy requirements. Accordingly, the Commission will
specify the procedures for electronic filing into PS Docket No. 07-114,
consistent with the current OMB approved information collection for
handset-based carriers, and new CMRS providers must send copies of the
exclusion reports 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, the rules adopted by the Commission's September 2010
Second Report and Order, 75 FR 70604, also require that, two years
after January 18, 2011, wireless carriers provide confidence and
uncertainty data on a per call basis to PSAPs. Because the new rule
adopted by the Third Report and Order considers new CMRS providers as
providers covered under the definition of CMR providers pursuant to
section 20.18 of the Commission's rules, new CMRS providers will also
be subject to the information collection requirement to provide this
confidence and uncertainty data.
Additionally, in view of the amended location accuracy requirements
and the timeframes and benchmarks for handset-based wireless carriers
to comply with them, in its September 2010 Second Report and Order, 75
FR 70604, 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, similarly, the supporting statement for this information
collection revision recognizes that new CMRS providers might file
waiver requests and, therefore, be subject to a collection and
reporting requirement.
The Third Report and Order found that requiring all new CMRS
network providers to comply with the Commission's handset-based
location accuracy standard is consistent with the regulatory principle
of ensuring technological neutrality. Providers deploying new CMRS
networks are free to use network-based location techniques, or to
combine network and handset-based techniques, to provide 911 location
information, provided that they meet the accuracy criteria applicable
to handset-based providers. Given the long-term goal of universal
support for one location accuracy standard, the Commission believed
that such a mandate allows appropriate planning and ensures that new
technology will comply with the most stringent location accuracy
standard that applies to existing technology.
Section 47 CFR 20.18(h)(2)(iv) requires that providers of new CMRS
networks that meet the definition of covered CMRS providers under
paragraph (a) of this section must comply with the requirements of
paragraphs (h)(2)(i)-(iii) of this section. For this purpose, a ``new
CMRS network'' is a CMRS network that is newly deployed subsequent to
the effective date of the Third Report and Order in PS Docket No. 07-
114 and that is not an expansion or upgrade of an existing CMRS
network.
The information provided by wireless carriers deploying new CMRS
networks to report the counties or PSAP service areas where the
carriers cannot provide E911 location accuracy at either the county or
the PSAP level will furnish the Commission, affected PSAPs, state and
local emergency agencies, public safety organizations and other
interested stakeholders the supplementary data necessary for public
safety awareness of those areas where it is most difficult to measure
location accuracy during the benchmark periods for handset-based
wireless carriers.
The provision of confidence and uncertainty data to PSAPs by the
new CMRS providers and the SSPs responsible for transporting that data
between them and PSAPs will enhance the PSAPs' ability to efficiently
direct first responders to the correct location of emergencies to
achieve the emergency response goals of the nation in responding
expeditiously to emergency crisis situations and in ensuring homeland
security.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0400.
Title: Part 61, Tariff Review Plan (TRP).
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 2,840 respondents; 8,554 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .5 hours to 53 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, annual, biennial, and one time
reporting requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. Sections 201, 202, 203, and 251(b)(5) of the Communications Act
of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 121,656 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Respondents are not being
asked to submit confidential information to the Commission. If the
Commission requests respondents to submit information which respondents
believe are confidential, respondents 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 revised information
collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during this 30
day comment period to obtain the full three year approval from them.
The hourly burden has increased by 117,056 hours which is due to an
Order that was adopted and released requiring or permitting incumbent
and competitive local exchange carriers, as part of transitioning
regulation of interstate and intrastate switched access rates and
reciprocal compensation rates to bill-and-keep under section 251(b)(5),
to file tariffs with state commissions and the FCC. This transition
affects different switched access rates at specified timeframes and
establishes an Access Recovery Charge by which carriers will be able to
assess end users a monthly charge to recover some or all of the
revenues they are permitted to recover resulting from reductions in
intercarrier compensation rates. Price cap LECs must remove the rate
elements in the traffic-sensitive and trunking baskets from price cap
regulation on July 1, 2012. There interstate tariff filings will
require cost support that generally is encompassed in the existing
support burdens and, in many cases, may be satisfied through the data
collection encompassed by a new information collection entitled
``Intercarrier Compensation and Universal Service Compliance and
Monitoring'' which will also be submitted to the OMB for approval and
assigned an OMB control number (see description of new information
collection below). The intrastate tariff filings may, depending on
state requirements, require supporting materials to be filed that may
also largely be satisfied by submitting the new information collection
referenced above.
As of November 2010, there are 92 total incumbent LECs that file
interstate tariffs. Of them, there are 39 ILECs that file pursuant to
price cap regulation under Sections 61.41-61.49 of the Commission's
rules. Outside of the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA),
there are 12 ILECs filing their own tariffs pursuant to rate-of-return
regulation under Section 61.38 of the Commission's rules. The remaining
40 ILECs file their own tariffs pursuant to
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section 61.39 of the Commission's rules. NECA files one Tariff Review
Plan for approximately 1,000 Sections 61.38 and 61.39 ILECs. Therefore,
we estimate 51 + 40 +1 (NECA) = 92 filing entities.
We also estimate that 330 competitive and incumbent LECs will have
to make a one-time interstate tariff filing to permit them to assess
access charges on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls. We
estimate that 2,840 competitive and incumbent LECs will have to file
intrastate tariffs annually which may require supporting materials to
be filed. We also estimate that 2,840 competitive and incumbent LECs
will have to make a one-time intrastate tariff filing to establish VoIP
rates at interstate rate levels that may require supporting materials
to be filed. Finally, we estimate that 1,340 incumbent LECs annually
will certify, as part of their tariff filings to the Commission and to
the relevant state commission, that they are not seeking duplicative
recovery in the state jurisdiction for an Eligible Recovery subject to
the recovery mechanism.
For those services still requiring cost support, TRPs assist the
Commission in determining whether ILEC access charges are just and
reasonable as required under the Communications Act of 1934, as
amended.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0298.
Title: Part 61, Tariffs (Other than the Tariff Review Plan).
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 3,210 respondents; 7,350 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 20 hours to 50 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, annual, biennial and one time
reporting requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. Sections 151-155, 201-205, 208, 251-271, 403, 502 and 503 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 215,500 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,410,150.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Respondents are not being
asked to submit confidential information to the Commission. If the
Commission requests respondents to submit information which respondents
believe are confidential, respondents may request confidential
treatment of such information under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's
rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission is seeking OMB approval for this
revised collection. The Commission will submit this information
collection to the OMB after publication of this 30 day notice.
On November 18, 2011, the Commission adopted the USF/ICC
Transformation Order, FCC 11-161, that requires or permits incumbent
and competitive local exchange carriers as part of transitioning
regulation of interstate and intrastate switched access rates and
reciprocal compensation rates to bill-and-keep under section 251(b)(5)
of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, to file tariffs with
state commissions and the FCC. This transition affects different
switched access rates at specified timeframes and establishes an Access
Recovery Charge by which carriers will be able to assess end uses a
monthly charge to recover some or all of the revenues they are
permitted to recover resulting from reductions in intercarrier
compensation rates. We estimate that 40 rate-of-return LECs will need
to make an additional interstate access tariff filing annually and that
330 competitive and incumbent LECs will have to make a one-time filing
to allow them to assess charges for Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP). We also estimate that an additional 2,840 competitive and
incumbent LECs will have to file intrastate tariffs annually. Finally,
we estimate that 2,840 competitive and incumbent LECs will have to make
a one-time intrastate tariff filing to establish VoIP rates of
interstate rate levels.
The information collected through a carrier's tariff is used by the
Commission and state commissions 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: 3060-1122.
Title: Preparation of Annual Reports to Congress for the Collection
and Expenditures of Fees or Charges for Enhanced 911 (E911) Services
Under the NET 911 Improvement Act of 2008.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: State, local or tribal governments.
Number of Respondents: 56 respondents; 56 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 50 hours.
Frequency of Response: Annual reporting requirement and
recordkeeping requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Voluntary. Statutory authority for this
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. Sections 201(b),
219(b) and 220 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 2,800 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There are no assurances of
confidentiality provided to respondents. The Commission's rules address
the issue of confidentiality at 47 CFR 0.457, 0.459 and 0.461. These
rules address access to records that are not routinely available to the
public, requests and requirements that materials submitted to the
Commission be withheld from public inspection, and requests for
inspection of materials not routinely available for public inspection.
Needs and Uses: The Commission is seeking OMB approval for this
revised information collection in order to obtain the full three year
clearance from them. There is no change in the Commission's previous
burden estimates. The Commission will submit this information
collection to the OMB after publication of this 30 day notice.
The Commission proposes to ask the following information:
1. A statement as to whether or not your State, or any political
subdivision, Indian tribe, village or regional corporation therein as
defined by Section 6(f)(1) of the NET 911 Act, has established a
funding mechanism designated for or imposed for the purposes of 911 or
E911 support or implementation (including a citation to the legal
authority for such mechanism).
2. The amount of the fees or charges imposed for the implementation
and support of 911 or E911 services and the total amount collected
pursuant to the assessed fees or charges, for the annual period ending
December 31, 20XX.
3. A statement describing how the funds collected are made
available to localities, and whether your state has established written
criteria regarding the allowable uses of the collected funds, including
the legal citation to such criteria.
4. A statement identifying any entity in your State that has the
authority to approve the expenditure of funds collected for 911 or E911
purposes; a description of any oversight procedures established to
determine that collected funds have been made available or used for the
purposes designated by the funding mechanism or otherwise used to
implement or support 911; and a statement describing enforcement or
other corrective actions undertaken in connection with such oversight,
for the annual period ending December 31, 20XX.
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5. A statement whether all the funds collected for 911 or E911
purposes have been made available or used for the purposes designated
by the funding mechanism, or otherwise used for the implementation or
support of 911 or E911.
6. A statement identifying what amount of funds collected for 911
or E911 purposes were made available or used for any purposes other
than the ones designated by the funding mechanism or used for purposes
otherwise unrelated to 911 or E911 implementation or support, including
a statement identifying the unrelated purposes for which the funds
collected for 911 or E911 purposes were made available or used.
7. A statement identifying which specificity all activities,
programs, and organizations for whose benefit your State, or political
subdivision thereof, has obligated or expended funds collected for 911
or E911 purposes and how these activities, programs, and organizations
support 911 or E911 services or enhancements of such services.
8. A statement regarding whether your State classifies expenditures
on Next Generation 911 as within the scope of permissible expenditures
of funds for 911 or E911 purposes, whether your State has expended such
funds on Next Generation 911 programs, and if so, how much your State
has expended in the annual period ending December 31, 20XX on Next
Generation 911 programs.
9. Any other comments you may wish to provide regarding the
applicable funding mechanism for 911 or E911.
The purpose of this information collection is to meet the
Commission's ongoing statutory obligations under the New and Emerging
Technologies 911 Improvement Act of 2008, Public Law 110-283, 122 Stat.
2620 (2008) (NET 911 Act), which requires the Commission to submit an
annual report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of
Representatives, ``detailing the status in each State of the collection
and distribution of such fees or charges, and including findings on the
amount of revenues obligated or expended by each State or political
subdivision thereof for any purposes other than the purpose for which
any such fees or charges are specified.''
Federal Communications Commission.
Bulah P. Wheeler,
Deputy Manager, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
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