Extension of the Commission's Rules Regarding Outage Reporting to Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol Service Providers and Broadband Internet Service Providers, 63757-63758 [2012-25201]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 201 / Wednesday, October 17, 2012 / Rules and Regulations
Community
No.
State and location
Olympia, City of, Thurston County ...
530191
Rainier, City of, Thurston County ....
530260
Tenino, City of, Thurston County .....
530302
Thurston County, Unincorporated
Areas.
Tumwater, City of, Thurston County
530188
530192
Yelm, City of, Thurston County ........
530310
63757
Date certain
Federal
assistance no
longer available in
SFHAs
Effective date authorization/cancellation
of sale of flood insurance in community
Current effective
map date
October 3, 1974, Emerg; February 17,
1982, Reg; October 16, 2012, Susp.
N/A, Emerg; March 29, 1999, Reg; October 16, 2012, Susp.
February 18, 1975, Emerg; June 4,
1980, Reg; October 16, 2012, Susp.
September 13, 1974, Emerg; December
1, 1982, Reg; October 16, 2012, Susp.
December 18, 1974, Emerg; August 1,
1980, Reg; October 16, 2012, Susp.
May 21, 1990, Emerg; June 19, 1999,
Reg; October 16, 2012, Susp.
......do ......................
Do.
......do ......................
Do.
......do ......................
Do.
......do ......................
Do.
......do ......................
Do.
......do ......................
Do.
* do = Ditto.
Code for reading third column: Emerg.—Emergency; Reg.—Regular; Susp.—Suspension.
Dated: October 9, 2012.
Edward L. Connor,
Deputy Associate Administrator, Federal
Insurance and Mitigation Administration,
Department of Homeland Security, Federal
Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2012–25557 Filed 10–16–12; 8:45 am]
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 4
[PS Docket No. 11–82; FCC 12–22]
Extension of the Commission’s Rules
Regarding Outage Reporting to
Interconnected Voice Over Internet
Protocol Service Providers and
Broadband Internet Service Providers
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Final rule; announcement of
effective date.
AGENCY:
In this document, the
Commission announces that the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) has
approved, for a period that expires on
September 30, 2015, the information
collection associated with the
Commission’s rules in the Extension of
the Commission’s Rules Regarding
Outage Reporting to Interconnected
Voice Over Internet Protocol Service
Providers and Broadband Internet
Service Providers Report and Order
(Order). This notice is consistent with
the Order, which stated that the
Commission would publish a document
in the Federal Register announcing the
effective date of those rules.
DATES: The amendments to 47 CFR 4.3,
4.7, and 4.9 published at 77 FR 25088,
April 27, 2012, are effective December
16, 2012.
erowe on DSK2VPTVN1PROD with
VerDate Mar<15>2010
18:06 Oct 16, 2012
Jkt 229001
Gregory F. Intoccia, Cybersecurity and
Communications Reliability Division,
Public Safety and Homeland Security
Bureau, at (202) 418–1470, or email:
gregory.intoccia@fcc.gov.
This
document announces that, on
September 17, 2012, OMB approved, for
a period that expires on September 30,
2015, the information collection
requirements contained in the
Commission’s Order, FCC 12–22,
regarding Interconnected Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) outage reporting
rules, published at 77 FR, 25088, April
27, 2012.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
BILLING CODE 9110–12–P
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Synopsis
As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3507), the Commission is notifying the
public that it received OMB approval on
September 17, 2012, for the information
collection requirements contained in the
modifications to the Commission’s rules
in 47 CFR Part 4. OMB approved the
Order under the PRA Submission, Form
OMB 83i, dated July 24, 2012, titled
Section 4.1 and 4.2 and Part 4 of the
Commission’s rules Concerning
Disruptions to Communications. Under
5 CFR 1320, an agency may not conduct
or sponsor a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number. The OMB control
number is 3060–0484. The foregoing
notice is required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104–13,
October 1, 1995, and 44 U.S.C. 3507.
The total annual reporting burdens
and costs for the respondents are as
follows:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0484.
OMB Approval Date: September 17,
2012.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2015.
PO 00000
Frm 00047
Fmt 4700
Sfmt 4700
Title: Extension of the Commission’s
Rules Regarding Outage Reporting to
Interconnected Voice over Internet
Protocol Service Providers and
Broadband Internet Service Providers
Form Number: N/A.
Estimated Time per Response: 1.25 to
2 hours.
Total Annual Burden: 29,647 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Obligation to Respond: The number of
respondents/responses is 118
respondents 15,444 responses. The
statutory authority for this information
collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151,
152, 154(i)–(k), 154(o), 218, 219, 230,
256, 301, 302(a), 303(f), 303(g), 303(j),
303(r), 403, 615a–l, 621(b)(3), 621(d),
1302(a) and 1302(b) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as
amended; and section 1704 of the
Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations Act of
1998, 44 U.S.C. 3504.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
Outage reports filed pursuant to part 4
of the Commission’s rules are presumed
confidential. The information in the
filings may be shared with the
Department of Homeland Security only
under appropriate confidential
disclosure provisions. Other persons
seeking disclosure must follow the
procedures delineated in 47 CFR 0.457
and 0.459 of the Commission’s rules for
requests for and disclosure of
information.
Privacy Act: No impact(s).
Needs and Uses: The Commission
extended mandatory outage reporting
rules to facilities-based and nonfacilities-based interconnected VoIP
service providers and applied the
current Part 4 definition of ‘‘outage’’ to
outages of interconnected VoIP service,
covering the complete loss of service
and/or connectivity to customers at least
30 minutes duration that potentially
affects at least 900,000 user minutes of
E:\FR\FM\17OCR1.SGM
17OCR1
erowe on DSK2VPTVN1PROD with
63758
Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 201 / Wednesday, October 17, 2012 / Rules and Regulations
interconnected VoIP services and results
in complete loss of service; or
potentially affects any special offices
and facilities such as a 911 facility.
Collecting data on significant outages of
interconnected VoIP services will help
the Commission to monitor compliance
with the statutory 911 obligations of
interconnected VoIP service providers,
as well as help ensure the Nation’s
current and future 911 systems are as
reliable and resilient as possible both on
a day-to-day basis and in times of a
major emergency. The Commission
recognizes that consumers are
increasingly relying on Internet Protocol
(IP)-based technologies as substitutes for
communications services provided by
older communications technologies, and
increasingly use interconnected VoIP
services in lieu of traditional telephone
service. As of December 31, 2010, 31
percent of the more than 87 million
residential telephone subscriptions in
the United States were users of
interconnected VoIP providers—an
increase of 21 percent (from 22.4
million to 27.1 million) from the end of
2009. Additionally, the Commission
estimates that approximately 31 percent
of residential wireline 911 calls are
made using VoIP service. The
information collected is administered by
the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland
Security Bureau (PSHSB) which
maintains an Internet Web site portal for
the electronic submission of the
required outage reports. In addition,
provision is made for the submission of
required data by other than electronic
means in cases where electronic
submission is not feasible.
First, Respondents must submit
electronically via the Network Outage
Reporting System (NORS) (See https://
transition.fcc.gov/pshsb/services/cip/
nors/nors.html) notification to the
Federal Communications Commission
within: (a) 240 minutes of discovering
that they have experienced on any
facilities that they own, operate, lease,
or otherwise utilize, an outage of at least
30 minutes duration that potentially
affects a 9–1–1 special facility, in which
case they also shall notify, as soon as
possible by telephone or other
electronic means, any official who has
been designated by the management of
the affected 9–1–1 facility as the
provider’s contact person for
communications outages at that facility;
in this case, the provider shall convey
to that person all available information
that may be useful to the management
of the affected facility in mitigating the
effects of the outage on efforts to
communicate with that facility; or (b) 24
hours of discovering that these
VerDate Mar<15>2010
15:01 Oct 16, 2012
Jkt 229001
providers have experienced on any
facilities that they own, operate, lease,
or otherwise utilize, an outage of at least
30 minutes duration that: Potentially
affects at least 900,000 user minutes of
interconnected VoIP service and results
in complete loss of service; or
potentially affects any special offices
and facilities. Second, Respondents
must submit electronically via NORS a
Final Communications Outage Report to
the Commission not later than thirty
days after discovering the outage.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012–25201 Filed 10–16–12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6712–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 660
[Docket No. 100804324–1265–02]
RIN 0648–BC61
Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions;
Fisheries Off West Coast States;
Biennial Specifications and
Management Measures; Inseason
Adjustments
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; inseason adjustments
to biennial groundfish management
measures.
AGENCY:
This final rule announces
inseason changes to management
measures in the Pacific Coast groundfish
fisheries. This action, which is
authorized by the Pacific Coast
Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
(PCGFMP), is intended to allow
fisheries to access more abundant
groundfish stocks while protecting
overfished and depleted stocks.
DATES: Effective 0001 hours (local time)
November 1, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colby Brady (Northwest Region, NMFS),
phone: 206–526–6117, fax: 206–526–
6736, colby.brady@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Electronic Access
This final rule is accessible via the
Internet at the Office of the Federal
Register’s Web site at https://
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action.
Background information and documents
PO 00000
Frm 00048
Fmt 4700
Sfmt 4700
are available at the Pacific Fishery
Management Council’s Web site at
https://www.pcouncil.org/.
Background
The Pacific Coast Groundfish FMP
and its implementing regulations at title
50 in the Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR), part 660, subparts C through G,
regulate fishing for over 90 species of
groundfish off the coasts of Washington,
Oregon, and California. Groundfish
specifications and management
measures are developed by the Pacific
Fishery Management Council (Council),
and are implemented by NMFS. On
November 3, 2010, NMFS published a
proposed rule to implement the 2011–
2012 harvest specifications and
management measures for most species
of the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery
(75 FR 67810). The final rule to
implement the 2011–12 harvest
specifications and management
measures for most species of the Pacific
Coast Groundfish Fishery was published
on May 11, 2011 (76 FR 27508). This
final rule was subsequently amended by
several inseason actions (76 FR 39313,
76 FR 67092, 76 FR 79122, 77 FR 12503,
77 FR 22679, 77 FR 24634, 77 FR
47322). On September 27, 2011, NMFS
published a proposed rule to implement
final 2012 specifications for overfished
species and assessed flatfish species
pursuant to Secretarial Amendment 1 to
the Groundfish FMP (76 FR 59634).
That final rule was effective January 1,
2012.
The Council, in consultation with
Pacific Coast Treaty Indian Tribes and
the States of Washington, Oregon, and
California, recommended the changes to
current groundfish management
measures implemented by this action at
its September 12–September 17, 2012
meeting. The Council recommended
adjusting groundfish management
measures for the remainder of the
biennial period to respond to updated
fishery information and additional
inseason management needs. The
adjustments to fishery management
measures are not expected to result in
greater impacts to overfished species
than originally projected through the
end of 2012. Estimated mortality of
overfished and target species is the
result of management measures
designed to achieve, to the extent
possible, but not exceed, annual catch
limits (ACLs) of target species while
fostering the rebuilding of overfished
stocks by remaining within their
rebuilding ACLs.
E:\FR\FM\17OCR1.SGM
17OCR1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 17, 2012)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 63757-63758]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-25201]
=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 4
[PS Docket No. 11-82; FCC 12-22]
Extension of the Commission's Rules Regarding Outage Reporting to
Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol Service Providers and
Broadband Internet Service Providers
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period that expires on
September 30, 2015, the information collection associated with the
Commission's rules in the Extension of the Commission's Rules Regarding
Outage Reporting to Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol Service
Providers and Broadband Internet Service Providers Report and Order
(Order). This notice is consistent with the Order, which stated that
the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register
announcing the effective date of those rules.
DATES: The amendments to 47 CFR 4.3, 4.7, and 4.9 published at 77 FR
25088, April 27, 2012, are effective December 16, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory F. Intoccia, Cybersecurity and
Communications Reliability Division, Public Safety and Homeland
Security Bureau, at (202) 418-1470, or email: gregory.intoccia@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document announces that, on September
17, 2012, OMB approved, for a period that expires on September 30,
2015, the information collection requirements contained in the
Commission's Order, FCC 12-22, regarding Interconnected Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) outage reporting rules, published at 77 FR,
25088, April 27, 2012.
Synopsis
As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3507), the Commission is notifying the public that it received OMB
approval on September 17, 2012, for the information collection
requirements contained in the modifications to the Commission's rules
in 47 CFR Part 4. OMB approved the Order under the PRA Submission, Form
OMB 83i, dated July 24, 2012, titled Section 4.1 and 4.2 and Part 4 of
the Commission's rules Concerning Disruptions to Communications. Under
5 CFR 1320, an agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of
information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
The OMB control number is 3060-0484. The foregoing notice is required
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13, October 1,
1995, and 44 U.S.C. 3507.
The total annual reporting burdens and costs for the respondents
are as follows:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0484.
OMB Approval Date: September 17, 2012.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2015.
Title: Extension of the Commission's Rules Regarding Outage
Reporting to Interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol Service
Providers and Broadband Internet Service Providers
Form Number: N/A.
Estimated Time per Response: 1.25 to 2 hours.
Total Annual Burden: 29,647 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Obligation to Respond: The number of respondents/responses is 118
respondents 15,444 responses. The statutory authority for this
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 154(i)-(k),
154(o), 218, 219, 230, 256, 301, 302(a), 303(f), 303(g), 303(j),
303(r), 403, 615a-l, 621(b)(3), 621(d), 1302(a) and 1302(b) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended; and section 1704 of the Omnibus
Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1998, 44
U.S.C. 3504.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Outage reports filed pursuant
to part 4 of the Commission's rules are presumed confidential. The
information in the filings may be shared with the Department of
Homeland Security only under appropriate confidential disclosure
provisions. Other persons seeking disclosure must follow the procedures
delineated in 47 CFR 0.457 and 0.459 of the Commission's rules for
requests for and disclosure of information.
Privacy Act: No impact(s).
Needs and Uses: The Commission extended mandatory outage reporting
rules to facilities-based and non-facilities-based interconnected VoIP
service providers and applied the current Part 4 definition of
``outage'' to outages of interconnected VoIP service, covering the
complete loss of service and/or connectivity to customers at least 30
minutes duration that potentially affects at least 900,000 user minutes
of
[[Page 63758]]
interconnected VoIP services and results in complete loss of service;
or potentially affects any special offices and facilities such as a 911
facility. Collecting data on significant outages of interconnected VoIP
services will help the Commission to monitor compliance with the
statutory 911 obligations of interconnected VoIP service providers, as
well as help ensure the Nation's current and future 911 systems are as
reliable and resilient as possible both on a day-to-day basis and in
times of a major emergency. The Commission recognizes that consumers
are increasingly relying on Internet Protocol (IP)-based technologies
as substitutes for communications services provided by older
communications technologies, and increasingly use interconnected VoIP
services in lieu of traditional telephone service. As of December 31,
2010, 31 percent of the more than 87 million residential telephone
subscriptions in the United States were users of interconnected VoIP
providers--an increase of 21 percent (from 22.4 million to 27.1
million) from the end of 2009. Additionally, the Commission estimates
that approximately 31 percent of residential wireline 911 calls are
made using VoIP service. The information collected is administered by
the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) which
maintains an Internet Web site portal for the electronic submission of
the required outage reports. In addition, provision is made for the
submission of required data by other than electronic means in cases
where electronic submission is not feasible.
First, Respondents must submit electronically via the Network
Outage Reporting System (NORS) (See https://transition.fcc.gov/pshsb/services/cip/nors/nors.html) notification to the Federal Communications
Commission within: (a) 240 minutes of discovering that they have
experienced on any facilities that they own, operate, lease, or
otherwise utilize, an outage of at least 30 minutes duration that
potentially affects a 9-1-1 special facility, in which case they also
shall notify, as soon as possible by telephone or other electronic
means, any official who has been designated by the management of the
affected 9-1-1 facility as the provider's contact person for
communications outages at that facility; in this case, the provider
shall convey to that person all available information that may be
useful to the management of the affected facility in mitigating the
effects of the outage on efforts to communicate with that facility; or
(b) 24 hours of discovering that these providers have experienced on
any facilities that they own, operate, lease, or otherwise utilize, an
outage of at least 30 minutes duration that: Potentially affects at
least 900,000 user minutes of interconnected VoIP service and results
in complete loss of service; or potentially affects any special offices
and facilities. Second, Respondents must submit electronically via NORS
a Final Communications Outage Report to the Commission not later than
thirty days after discovering the outage.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-25201 Filed 10-16-12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6712-01-P
