Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Management and Budget, 6866-6867 [2022-02491]

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• FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 25 (Monday, February 7, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6866-6867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-02491]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-0292 and OMB 3060-0743; FR ID 69908]


Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval 
to 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, 
as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal 
Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the general 
public and other Federal Agencies to take this opportunity to comment 
on the following information collection. Pursuant to the Small Business 
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC seeks specific comment on how it 
might ``further reduce the information collection burden for small 
business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.''
    The Commission may not conduct or sponsor a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management 
and Budget (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 and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be submitted on or before March 9, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting 
``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using 
the search function. Your comment must be submitted into 
www.reginfo.gov per the above instructions for it to be considered. In 
addition to submitting in www.reginfo.gov also send a copy of your 
comment on the proposed information collection to Nicole Ongele, FCC, 
via email to [email protected] and to [email protected]. Include in the 
comments the OMB control number as shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION 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 Title of this ICR and 
then click on the ICR Reference Number. A copy of the FCC submission to 
OMB will be displayed.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of its continuing effort to reduce 
paperwork burdens, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), the FCC invited the general public and 
other Federal Agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the 
following information collection. Comments are requested concerning: 
(a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the 
proper performance of the functions of the Commission, including 
whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy 
of the Commission's burden estimates; (c)

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ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
collected; and (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. 
Pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 
107-198, see 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(4), the FCC seeks specific comment on 
how it might ``further reduce the information collection burden for 
small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.''

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0292.
    Title: Part 69--Access Charges (Section 69.605, Reporting and 
Distribution of Pool Access Revenues).
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 732 respondents; 8,773 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.75 hours-1 hour.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained 47 
U.S.C. 154, 201, 202, 203, 205, 218 and 403 of the Communications Act 
of 1934, as amended.
    Frequency of Response: Annual and monthly reporting requirements 
and third party disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 6,580 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: No cost.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting that the respondents submit confidential information to the 
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for 
information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR Section 0.459 
of the Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: Section 69.605 requires that access revenues and 
cost data shall be reported by participants in association tariffs to 
the association for computation of monthly pool revenues distributions. 
The association shall submit a report on or before February 1 of each 
calendar year describing the association's cost study review process 
for the preceding calendar year as well as the results of that process. 
For any revisions to the cost study results made or recommended by the 
association that would change the respective carrier's calculated 
annual common line or traffic sensitive revenue requirement by ten 
percent or more, the report shall include the following information:
    (1) Name of the carrier;
    (2) A detailed description of the revisions;
    (3) The amount of the revisions;
    (4) The impact of the revisions on the carrier's calculated common 
line and traffic sensitive revenue requirements; and
    (5) The carrier's total annual common line and traffic sensitive 
revenue requirement.
    The information is used by the Commission to compute charges in 
tariffs for access service (or origination and termination) and to 
compute revenue pool distributions. Neither process could be 
implemented without this information.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0743.
    Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and 
Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC 
Docket No. 96-128.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 4,471 respondents; 10,071 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.50-100 hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority is contained in 47 U.S.C. 276 of the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996, as amended.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion, quarterly and monthly reporting 
requirements, recordkeeping requirement and third-party disclosure 
requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 118,137 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: No cost.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting that the respondents submit confidential information to the 
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for 
information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR Section 0.459 
of the Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: This collection will be submitted as an extension 
of a currently approved collection to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) in order to obtain the full three-year clearance. The 
Commission promulgated rules and reporting requirements implementing 
section 276 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Among other things, 
the rules: (1) Establish fair compensation for every completed 
intrastate and interstate payphone calls; (2) discontinue intrastate 
and interstate access charge payphone service elements and payments, 
and intrastate and interstate payphone subsidies from basic exchange 
services; and (3) adopt guidelines for use by the states in 
establishing public interest payphones to be located where there would 
otherwise not be a payphone. The information collected is provided to 
third parties and to ensure that interexchange carriers, payphone 
service providers (``PSP'') LECs, and the states comply with their 
obligations under the 1996 Act.

Federal Communications Commission.
Katura Jackson,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-02491 Filed 2-4-22; 8:45 am]
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