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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Benish Shah, Office of Managing
Director, (202) 418–7866.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0004.
Title: Sections 1.1307 and 1.1311,
Guidelines for Evaluating the
Environmental Effects of
Radiofrequency Exposure.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals or
households, business or other for-profit,
not-for-profit institutions, and state,
local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 305,612
Respondents; 305,612 Responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.31
hours (average).
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement and third party
disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for this information collection
is contained in 47 U.S.C. 154, 302, 303
and 307.
Total Annual Burden: 50,065 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,396,150.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
There is a minimal exemption from the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5
U.S.C. 552(b)(4), and 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules, that is granted
for trade secrets, which may be
submitted to the Commission as part of
the documentation of test results. The
exemption is normally granted for a
short time (weeks to months) for
requests relating to routine
authorizations and for a longer time for
requests relating to experimental
authorizations. No other assurances of
confidentiality are provided to
respondents.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
will submit this expiring information
collection to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) after this 60-day
comment period in order to obtain the
full three-year clearance from them. The
Commission is requesting OMB
approval for an extension. The
Commission has adjusted the total
number of respondents/responses, the
total annual hourly burden, and the
total annual cost to respondents from
the previous estimates, based on a
division of reporting between licensing
and equipment authorization functions.
Licenses are typically issued to entities
(including individuals) to operate
specific facilities at specific locations;
an example would be a FM broadcast
license, which authorizes operation of
an FM broadcast transmitter at a specific
location that cannot be changed without
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FCC permission. Equipment
authorizations are typically issued to
entities to market equipment to the
public; an example would be a cellular
telephone, which can be purchased by
any individual and operated at-will
without a specific license. Additionally,
the portion of the information collection
relating to equipment authorization is
now being captured and reported in
OMB 3060–0057.
This information collection is a result
of responsibility placed on the FCC by
the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) of 1969. NEPA requires that
each federal agency evaluate the impact
of ‘‘major actions significantly affecting
the quality of the human environment.’’
It is the FCC’s opinion that this is the
most efficient and reasonable method of
complying with NEPA with regard to
the environmental issue of
radiofrequency radiation from FCCregulated transmitters.
The Commission requires applicants
to submit limited information during
the licensing and authorization process.
In many services, the Commission
simply requires licensees to provide
reliable service to specific geographic
areas, but does not require licensees to
file site-specific information. It does not
appear that the FCC’s present licensing
methods can provide public notification
of site-specific information without
imposing new and significant additional
burden to the Commission’s applicants.
However, we note that applicants with
the greatest potential to exceed the
Commission’s exposure limits are
required to perform an environmental
evaluation as part of the licensing and
authorization process.
The Commission advises concerned
members of the public, seeking sitespecific information, to contact the FCC
for the name and telephone number of
the service providers in the concerned
party’s area. The Commission
encourages all service providers to
provide site-specific, technical
information and environmental
evaluation documentation upon public
request. In addition, we note alternative
sources of information may be state and
local governments, which may collect
some site-specific information as part of
the zoning process.
Federal Communications Commission.
Gloria J. Miles,
Federal Register Liaison, Office of the
Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
Information Collection Being
Submitted for Review and Approval to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB)
Federal Communications
Commission (FCC).
ACTION: Notice; 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 FCC invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection.
Comments are requested concerning:
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;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimates; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; 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 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
PRA that does not display a valid OMB
Control Number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should
be submitted on or before July 16, 2014.
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 the Internet at
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and
to Leslie F. Smith, Office of Managing
Director (OMD), Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), via
the Internet at Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov. To
submit your PRA comments by email,
please send them to: PRA@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Leslie F. Smith, Office of Managing
Director (OMD), Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), at
SUMMARY:
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Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–1046.
Title: Part 64, Pay Telephone
Reclassification and Compensation
Provisions of the Telecommunications
Act of 1996.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 469
respondents; 3,725 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.50
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: 73,494 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
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: In the Order on
Reconsideration (FCC 04–251), the
Commission considered four petitions
for reconsideration of our Report and
Order. The Report and Order (FCC 03–
235) 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 amended (the
Act). The Payphone Compensation
Rules satisfy section 276 by identifying
the party liable for compensation and
establishing a mechanism for PSPs to be
paid. The Payphone Compensation
Rules: (1) Place liability to compensate
PSPs for payphone-originated calls on
the facilities-based long distance
carriers or switch-based resellers (SBRs)
from whose switches such calls are
completed; (2) 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 thirdparty auditor; (3) require Completing
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Carriers to file with PSPs a quarterly
report and 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) require quarterly
reporting obligations for other facilitiesbased long distance carriers in the call
path, if any, and define these carriers as
‘‘Intermediate Carriers;’’ (5) 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. The Order on Reconsideration did
not change this compensation
framework, but rather refined and built
upon its approach. While the
Commission increased the time carriers
must retain certain data and added
burden in that regard, the Commission
also removed potentially burdensome
paperwork requirements by encouraging
carriers to comply with the reporting
requirements through electronic means.
We believe that the clarifications
adopted in the Order on
Reconsideration significantly decrease
the paperwork burden on carriers.
Specifically, the Commission did the
following: (1) Clarified alternative
arrangements for small businesses
requiring a Completing Carrier to give
the PSP adequate notice of an ACA prior
to its effective date with sufficient time
for the PSP to object to an ACA, and
also prior to the termination of an ACA;
(2) clarified any paperwork burdens
imposed on carriers allowing
Completing Carriers the ability to give
PSPs adequate notice of payphone
compensation requirements by placing
notice on a clearinghouse Web site or
through electronic methods; (3) required
Completing Carriers and Intermediate
Carriers to report only completed calls
in their quarterly reports; and (4)
extended the time period from 18 to 27
months for Completing Carriers and
Intermediate Carriers to retain certain
payphone records.
Federal Communications Commission.
Gloria J. Miles,
Federal Register Liaison, Office of the
Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
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Notice and request for
comments.
ACTION:
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:
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;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimate; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; 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 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 July 16, 2014. 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 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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Approval Number: 3060–1113.
Title: Commercial Mobile Alert
System (CMAS).
Form No: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
SUMMARY:
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
ACTION: Notice; 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 FCC invites the general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following
information collection. Comments are requested concerning: 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; the accuracy of the
Commission's burden estimates; ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information collected; 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 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 PRA that does not display a valid OMB
Control Number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before July 16,
2014. 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 the
Internet at Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and to Leslie F. Smith,
Office of Managing Director (OMD), Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), via the Internet at Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov. To submit your PRA
comments by email, please send them to: PRA@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leslie F. Smith, Office of Managing
Director (OMD), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), at
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202-418-0217, or via the Internet at: Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1046.
Title: Part 64, Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation
Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 469 respondents; 3,725 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.50 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: 73,494 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
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: In the Order on Reconsideration (FCC 04-251), the
Commission considered four petitions for reconsideration of our Report
and Order. The Report and Order (FCC 03-235) 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 amended (the Act). The Payphone Compensation Rules satisfy
section 276 by identifying the party liable for compensation and
establishing a mechanism for PSPs to be paid. The Payphone Compensation
Rules: (1) Place liability to compensate PSPs for payphone-originated
calls on the facilities-based long distance carriers or switch-based
resellers (SBRs) from whose switches such calls are completed; (2)
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) require Completing Carriers to file with
PSPs a quarterly report and 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) require
quarterly reporting obligations for other facilities-based long
distance carriers in the call path, if any, and define these carriers
as ``Intermediate Carriers;'' (5) 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. The Order on Reconsideration did not change this
compensation framework, but rather refined and built upon its approach.
While the Commission increased the time carriers must retain certain
data and added burden in that regard, the Commission also removed
potentially burdensome paperwork requirements by encouraging carriers
to comply with the reporting requirements through electronic means. We
believe that the clarifications adopted in the Order on Reconsideration
significantly decrease the paperwork burden on carriers. Specifically,
the Commission did the following: (1) Clarified alternative
arrangements for small businesses requiring a Completing Carrier to
give the PSP adequate notice of an ACA prior to its effective date with
sufficient time for the PSP to object to an ACA, and also prior to the
termination of an ACA; (2) clarified any paperwork burdens imposed on
carriers allowing Completing Carriers the ability to give PSPs adequate
notice of payphone compensation requirements by placing notice on a
clearinghouse Web site or through electronic methods; (3) required
Completing Carriers and Intermediate Carriers to report only completed
calls in their quarterly reports; and (4) extended the time period from
18 to 27 months for Completing Carriers and Intermediate Carriers to
retain certain payphone records.
Federal Communications Commission.
Gloria J. Miles,
Federal Register Liaison, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing
Director.
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