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submitting comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all 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 Judith B. Herman, Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC). To 

submit your PRA comments by e–mail 

send them to: PRA@fcc.gov. To view a 

copy of this information collection 

request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go 

to web page: http://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, and (6) 

when the FCC list appears, look for the 

title of this ICR (or its OMB Control 

Number, if there is one) and then click 

on the ICR. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Judith B. Herman, OMD, 202–418–0214. 

For additional information about the 

information collection(s) send an e–mail 

to PRA@fcc.gov or contact Judith B. 

Herman, 202–418–0214, Judith– 

B.Herman@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control No: 3060–1044. 

Title: Review of the Section 251 

Unbundling Obligations of Incumbent 

Local Exchange Carriers, CC Docket No. 

03–338 and WC Docket No. 04–313, 

FCC 04–290, Order on Remand. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other for– 

profit; not–for–profit institutions, and 

state, local or tribal government. 

Number of Respondents: 645 

respondents; 645 responses. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 8 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirement, recordkeeping 

requirement and third party disclosure 

requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this collection of 

information is contained in 47 U.S.C. 

section 251 of the Telecommunications 

Act of 1996. 

Total Annual Burden: 5,160 hours. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

The Commission is not requesting 

respondents to submit or disclose 

confidential information. However, in 

certain circumstances, respondents may 

voluntarily choose to submit 

confidential information pursuant to 

applicable Commission confidentiality 

rules. 

Need and Uses: The Commission will 

submit this expiring information 

collection to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) during this comment 

period in order to obtain the full three 

year clearance from them. There is no 

change in the reporting, recordkeeping 

and/or third party disclosure 

requirements. There is no change in the 

Commission’s burden estimates. 

Section 251 is designed to accelerate 

private sector and deployment of 

telecommunications technologies and 

services by spurring competition. In 

order to foster competition in the local 

telephone market, the 

Telecommunications Act of 1996 

requires incumbent local exchange 

carriers (incumbent LECs) to share 

certain elements of their local telephone 

networks, providing them to other 

carriers at reasonable prices on an 

unbundled basis. These ‘‘unbundled 

network elements (UNEs)’’ are necessary 

for competition because the only 

alternative, building entire new 

telephone networks, would be 

prohibitively expensive for new 

entrants. 

In Order FCC 03–36, the Commission 

adopted rules and regulation designed 

to eliminate operation barriers to 

competition in the telecommunications 

services market and implement certain 

provisions of section 251, including the 

UNE obligations of incumbent LECs. 

In the Order on Remand, FCC 04–290, 

the Commission responded to a decision 

by the United States Court of Appeals 

for the District of Columbia that vacated 

the ‘‘sub–delegation’’ of authority to 

state commissions and vacated and 

remanded certain nationwide 

impairment findings, including mass 

market switching and dedicated 

transport. 

The information collection 

requirements in this submission to the 

OMB is to implement the requirements 

of section 251 of the Act. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, 

Office of the Secretary, 

Office of Managing Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–5150 Filed 3–10–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–S 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information Collection 

Being Submitted for Review and 

Approval to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB), Comments 

Requested 

March 8, 2010. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork burden 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection(s), as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. 

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 

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 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 currently valid OMB 

control number. 

DATES: Persons wishing to comments on 

this information collection should 

submit comments on or before April 12, 

2010. 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 contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all 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 Judith B. Herman, Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC). To 

submit your comments by e–mail send 

then to: PRA@fcc.gov. To view a copy of 

this information collection request (ICR) 

submitted to OMB: (1) Go to web page: 

http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain, (2) look for the section of the 

web page called ’’Currently Under 


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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, and (6) when the FCC list 

appears, look for the title of this ICR (or 

its OMB Control Number, if there is one) 

and then click on the ICR. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Judith B. Herman, OMD, 202–418–0214. 

For additional information about the 

information collection(s) send an e–mail 

to PRA@fcc.gov or contact Judith B. 

Herman, 202–418–0214, Judith– 

B.Herman@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control No: 3060–0496. 

Title: ARMIS Operating Data Report. 

Report No.: FCC Report 43–08. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other for– 

profit. 

Number of Respondents: 55 

respondents; 55 responses. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 139 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: Annual 

reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. 

Statutory authority for this collection of 

information is contained in 47 U.S.C. 

sections 11, 219(b) and 220 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 7,645 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: N/A. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

Ordinarily questions of a sensitive 

nature are not requested in the ARMIS 

Operating Data Report. The Commission 

contends that areas in which detailed 

information is required are fully subject 

to regulation and the issue of data being 

regarded as sensitive will arise in 

special circumstances only. In such 

circumstances, the respondent is 

instructed on the appropriate 

procedures to follow to safeguard 

sensitive data. Section 0.459 of the 

Commission’s rules contains procedures 

for requesting confidential treatment of 

data. See 47 CFR 0.459 of the 

Commission’s rules. 

Need and Uses: The Commission will 

submit this expiring information 

collection to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) during this comment 

period in order to obtain the full three 

year clearance from them. There is no 

change in the annual reporting 

requirement. 

Section 220 of the Communications 

Act of 1934, as amended, allows the 

Commission, at its discretion, to 

prescribe the forms of any and all 

accounts, records and memoranda to be 

kept by carriers subject to this Act, 

including any accounts, records, and 

memoranda of the movement of traffic, 

as well as the receipts and expenditures 

of moneys. 

The Automated Reporting 

Management and Information System 

(ARMIS) was implemented to facilitate 

the timely and efficient analysis of 

revenue requirements, rates of return 

and price caps; to provide an improved 

basis for audits and other oversight 

functions; and to enhance the 

Commission’s ability to quantify the 

effects of alternative policy. The ARMIS 

Report 43–08 collects network operating 

data in a consistent format. The ARMIS 

Report 43–08 monitors network growth, 

usage and reliability. 

In this submission to the OMB, the 

Commission is adjusting the number of 

carriers filing this ARMIS report from 56 

to 55 to reflect the merger of two 

holding companies. The Commission, in 

its ARMIS Forbearance Order, noted 

that among other things, that the 

reporting carriers have committed to 

collecting and retaining all information/ 

data internally that was previously 

reported but will not be reported during 

this OMB approval period on the 

ARMIS Report 43–08, for 24 months. 

The information in the ARMIS Report 

43–08 provides the necessary detail to 

enable this Commission to fulfill its 

regulatory responsibilities. Automated 

reporting of these data greatly enhances 

the Commission’s ability to receive, 

process and analyze the extensive 

amounts of data that are needed to 

administer the rules. ARMIS facilitates 

the timely and efficient analysis of 

revenue requirements, rate of return and 

price caps, and provides an improved 

basis for auditing and oversight 

functions. It also enhances the 

Commission’s ability to quantify the 

effects of policy proposals. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, 

Office of the Secretary, 

Office of Managing Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–5173 Filed 3–10–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–S 

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice 

DATE AND TIME: Thursday, March 11, 

2010, at 10 a.m. 

PLACE: 999 E Street, NW., Washington, 

DC (Ninth floor). 

STATUS: This meeting will be open to the 

public. 

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED: Correction and 

Approval of Minutes. 

Draft Advisory Opinion 2010–02: 

West Virginia Republican Party, Inc. by 

its chairman, Douglas E. McKinney, 

M.D. 

EMILY’s List: Final Rules and 

Explanation & Justification. 

Management and Administrative 

Matters. 

Individuals who plan to attend and 

require special assistance, such as sign 

language interpretation or other 

reasonable accommodation, should 

contact Darlene Harris, Acting 

Commission Secretary, at (202) 694– 

1040, at least 72 hours prior to the 

hearing date. 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: 

(202) 694–1220. 

Darlene Harris, 

Acting Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–5037 Filed 3–10–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6715–01–M 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications also will be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Additional information on all bank 

holding companies may be obtained 


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