Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget, 68242-68243 [2014-26990]

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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 220 (Friday, November 14, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68242-68243]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26990]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-1186]


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 burdens, 
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) 
invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this 
opportunity to comment on the following information collections. 
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;

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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 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 comments should be submitted on or before December 15, 
2014. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but find 
it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice, 
you should advise the contacts below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB, via 
email Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov; and to Nicole Ongele, FCC, via 
email PRA@fcc.gov and to Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. Include in the comments 
the OMB control number as shown in the Supplementary Information 
section below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies 
of the information collection, contact Nicole Ongele at (202) 418-2991.
    To view a copy of this information collection request (ICR) 
submitted to OMB: (1) Go to the Web page <https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain>, (2) look for the section of the Web page called 
``Currently Under Review,'' (3) click on the downward-pointing arrow in 
the ``Select Agency'' box below the ``Currently Under Review'' heading, 
(4) select ``Federal Communications Commission'' from the list of 
agencies presented in the ``Select Agency'' box, (5) click the 
``Submit'' button to the right of the ``Select Agency'' box, (6) when 
the list of FCC ICRs currently under review appears, look for the OMB 
control number of this ICR and then click on the ICR Reference Number. 
A copy of the FCC submission to OMB will be displayed.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control Number: 3060-1186.
    Title: Rural Call Completion, WC Docket No. 13-39.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 225 respondents; 940 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 12.5 hours (per quarter).
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly and one-time reporting 
requirements and recordkeeping.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefit. The 
statutory authority for the information collection requirements are 
contained in section contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 201(b), 
202(a), 218, 220(a), 251(a), 403.
    Total Annual Burden: 11,280 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $793,750.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: An assurance of 
confidentiality is not offered because this information collection does 
not require the collection of personally identifiable information from 
individuals. If the FCC requests that respondents submit information 
which respondents believe is confidential, respondents may request 
confidential treatment of such information pursuant to Section 0.459 of 
the FCC's rules, 47 CFR 0.459.
    Needs and Uses: The rules adopted in the Rural Call Completion 
Report and Order (``Order''), WC Docket No. 13-39, FCC 13-135, require 
covered providers to record, retain and report call completion data. 
Covered providers are providers of long-distance voice service that 
make the initial long-distance call path choice for more than 100,000 
domestic retail subscriber lines. These providers generally must 
collect call completion data, retain such data for six months, and file 
quarterly reports with the Commission. The collection of this data will 
give the Commission the information it needs to investigate rural call 
completion problems. In addition to the recordkeeping, retention, and 
reporting obligations described above, the Order also requires certain 
providers to file a one-time letter in the docket explaining that they 
do not make the initial long-distance call path choice and identifying 
the long-distance provider or providers to which they hand off their 
end-user customers' calls. Finally, the Order encourages rural 
incumbent local exchange carriers to report quarterly on the number of 
incoming long-distance call attempts received, the number answered on 
its network, and the call answer rate calculation for each of the 
previous three months. The Commission subsequently made minor 
modifications to this information collection in the Rural Call 
Completion Reconsideration Order (``Reconsideration Order''), WC Docket 
No. 13-39, FCC 14-175. In the Reconsideration Order, the Commission 
granted USTelecom/ITTA's request that the reporting requirements 
exclude on-net intraLATA toll calls that are not handed off to 
unrelated carriers and are delivered directly to the terminating local 
exchange carrier or to the tandem that it subtends. The Commission 
found that this traffic comprises a small portion of on-net traffic 
(traffic that is not handed off to unrelated carriers) in general, that 
other on-net traffic will provide an adequate benchmark for off-net 
performance, and that the cost of applying the rules to this particular 
subset of traffic outweigh the benefits.

Gloria J. Miles,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-26990 Filed 11-13-14; 8:45 am]
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