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for two consecutive weeks in a threeweek period. A copy of this notice must 

be placed in the public inspection file 

along with the application. 

On November 4, 2005, the 

Commission released the Notice of 

Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), In the 

Matter of Digital Television Distributed 

Transmission System Technologies, MB 

Docket No. 05–312; FCC 05–192. With 

this NPRM, the Commission proposes to 

revise FCC Form 340 to accommodate 

the use of a distributed transmission 

system (‘‘DTS’’) network. Applicants 

seeking to create a DTS network or add 

transmitters to an existing DTS network 

must file a minor change application 

using FCC Form 301. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 06–890 Filed 1–31–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–10–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Public Information Collections 

Approved by Office of Management 

and Budget 

January 24, 2006. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC) has received Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for the following public 

information collections pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor and a person is not 

required to respond to a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid control number. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

J. Laurenzano, Federal Communications 

Commission, 445 12th Street, SW., 

Washington DC, 20554, (202) 418–1359 

or via the Internet at plaurenz@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control No.: 3060–0147. 

OMB Approval Date: January 19, 

2006. 

Expiration Date: January 31, 2009. 

Title: Section 64.804—Extension of 

Unsecured Credit for Interstate and 

Foreign Communication Services to 

Candidates for Federal Office. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 13 

responses; 104 total annual burden 

hours; 8 hours per respondent. 

Needs and Uses: Communications 

common carriers with operating 

revenues exceeding $1 million who 

extend unsecured credit to a candidate 

or person on behalf of such candidates 

for Federal office must file with the FCC 

a report including due and outstanding 

balances. The information is used tor 

monitoring purposes. 

OMB Control No.: 3060–0704. 

OMB Approval Date: January 13, 

2006. 

Expiration Date: January 31, 2009. 

Title: Policy and Rules Concerning the 

Interstate, Interexchange Marketplace; 

Implementation of section 254(g) of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, CC Docket No. 96–61. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 519 

responses; 84,337 total annual burden 

hours; approximately .5–120 hours 

average per respondent. 

Needs and Uses: These collections of 

information are necessary to provide 

consumers ready access to information 

concerning the rates, terms, and 

conditions governing the provision of 

interstate, domestic and interexchange 

services offered by nondominant 

interexchange carriers (IXCs) in a 

detariffed and increasingly competitive 

environment. In the Second Order on 

Reconsideration issued in CC Docket 

No. 96–61, (March 1999), the 

Commission reinstated the public 

disclosure requirement and also 

required that nondominant 

interexchange carriers that have Internet 

Web sites to pass this information online in a timely and easily accessible 

manner. These carriers are also required 

to file annual certifications pursuant to 

section 254(g); maintain prices and 

service information; and are forborne 

from filing certain tariffs. The tariff 

cancellation requirement has been 

completed so the burden for that part of 

this collection has been removed. 

OMB Control No.: 3060–1009. 

OMB Approval Date: January 19, 

2006. 

Expiration Date: January 31, 2009. 

Title: Telecommunications Reporting 

Worksheet, CC Docket No. 96–45. 

Form No.: FCC 499 M. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 1 

response; 1 total annual burden hour; 1 

hour per respondent. 

Needs and Uses: In December 2002, 

the Commission issued a Second 

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

seeking comment on specific aspects of 

three connection-based proposals to 

further refine the record in its 

proceeding to revisit its universal 

service contribution methodology. First, 

the Commission sought comment on a 

contribution methodology that would 

impose a minimum contribution 

obligation on all interstate 

telecommunications carriers, and a flat 

charge for each end-user connection, 

depending on the nature or capacity of 

the connection. Next, the Commission 

sought comment on a proposal to assess 

all connections based purely on 

capacity. Finally, the Commission 

sought comment on a proposal to assess 

providers of switched connections 

based on their working telephone 

numbers. If adopted, the proposals may 

entail altering the current reporting 

requirements to which interstate 

telecommunications carriers are subject 

under Part 54 of the Commission’s rules. 

OMB Control No.: 3060–1085. 

OMB Approval date: January 13, 2006. 

Expiration Date: January 31, 2009. 

Title: Collection of Location 

Information, Provision of Notice and 

Reporting on Interconnected Voice Over 

Internet Protocol (VoIP) E911 

Compliance. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 14,238,254 

responses; 435,894 total annual burden 

hours; approximately .09–16 hours 

average per respondent. 

Needs and Uses: On June 3, 2005, the 

Commission released a First Report and 

Order in WC Docket No. 04–36 and a 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in WC 

Docket No. 05–196, FCC 05–116 (Order) 

in which the Commission established 

rules requiring providers of 

interconnected VoIP—meaning VoIP 

service that allows a user generally to 

receive calls originating from and to 

terminate calls to the public switched 

telephone network (PSTN)—to provide 

enhanced 911 (E911) capabilities to 

their customers as a standard feature of 

service. 

The Order requires collection of 

information in six requirements: 

A. Location Registration. The Order 

requires providers of interconnected 

VoIP services to obtain location 

information from their customers for use 

in the routing of 911 calls and the 

provision of location information to 

emergency answering points. 

B. Provision of Automatic Location 

Information (ALI). In order to meet the 

obligations set forth in the Order, 

interconnected VoIP service providers 

will place the location information for 

their customers into, or make that 

information available through, 

specialized databases maintained by 

local exchange carriers (and, in at least 

one case, a state government) across the 

country. 

C. Customer Notification. In order to 

ensure that consumers of interconnected 

VoIP services are aware of their 

interconnected VoIP service’s actual 

E911 capabilities, the Order requires 

that all providers of interconnected 

VoIP service specifically advise every 

subscriber, both new and existing, 


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prominently and in plain language, the 

circumstances under which E911 

service may not be available through the 

interconnected VoIP service or may be 

in some way limited by comparison to 

traditional E911 service. 

D. Record of Customer Notification. 

The Order requires VoIP providers to 

obtain and keep a record of affirmative 

acknowledgement by every subscriber, 

both new and existing, of having 

received and understood this advisory. 

E. User Notification. In addition, in 

order to ensure to the extent possible 

that the advisory is available to all 

potential users of an interconnected 

VoIP service, interconnected VoIP 

service providers must distribute to all 

subscribers, both new and existing, 

warning stickers or other appropriate 

labels warning subscribers if E911 

service may be limited or not available 

and instructing the subscriber to place 

them on and/or near the customer 

premises equipment used in 

conjunction with the interconnected 

VoIP service. 

F. Compliance Letter. The Order 

requires all interconnected VoIP 

providers to submit a letter to the 

Commission detailing their compliance 

with the rules set forth in the Order no 

later than 120 days after the effective 

date of the Order. This letter will enable 

the Commission to ensure that 

interconnected VoIP providers have 

achieved E911 compliance by the 

established deadline. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 06–891 Filed 1–31–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[CC Docket No. 94–129; DA 05–3131] 

Policies and Rules Concerning 

Unauthorized Changes of Consumers’

Long Distance Carriers 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; comments requested. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Consumer & Governmental Affairs 

Bureau (Bureau) seeks comment on an 

application for review filed by a group 

of rural local exchange carriers (Rural 

LECs) regarding the obligations of local 

exchange carriers (LECs) when 

executing preferred interexchange 

carrier (IXC) changes. The Rural LECs 

request that the Bureau’s initial ruling 

denying their petition regarding the 

Commission’s carrier change 

verification rules be reversed and their 

petition granted. 

DATES: Comments are due on or before 

February 13, 2006, and reply comments 

are due on or before February 16, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and/or 

rulemaking number, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Federal Communications 

Commission’s Web site: http:// 

www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Parties who choose to file by 

paper should also submit their comment 

on diskette. These diskettes should be 

submitted, along with three paper 

copies to Kelli Farmer, Consumer & 

Governmental Affairs Bureau, Policy 

Division, 445 12th Street, SW., Room 5–

A866, Washington, DC 20554. Such a 

submission should be on a 3.5 inch 

diskette formatted in an IBM compatible 

formatted using Word 97 or compatible 

software. The diskette should be 

accompanied by a cover letter and 

should be submitted in ‘‘read only’’

mode. The diskette should be clearly 

labeled with the commenter’s name, 

proceeding (including the lead docket 

number in this case CC Docket No. 94–

129), type of pleading (comment or 

reply comment), date of submission, 

and the name of the electronic file on 

the diskette. The label should also 

include the following phrase: ‘‘Disk 

Copy-Not an Original.’’ Each diskette 

should contain only one party’s 

pleadings, preferably in a single 

electronic file. In addition, commenters 

must send diskette copies to the 

Commission’s contractor at Portals II, 

445 12th Street, SW., Room CY–B402, 

Washington, DC 20554. 

• People with Disabilities: Contact 

the FCC to request reasonable 

accommodations (accessible format 

documents, sign language interpreters, 

CART, etc.) by e-mail: FCC504@fcc.gov 

or phone: 202–418–0530 or TTY: 202–

418–0432. 

For detailed instructions for 

submitting comments and additional 

information on the rulemaking process, 

see the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section of this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Marks, Consumer Policy Division, 

Consumer & Governmental Affairs 

Bureau, (202) 418–2512 (voice), 

David.Marks@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s 

document, DA 05–3131, released 

December 2, 2005. The full text of 

document DA 05–3131, the Rural LECs’

submission, and copies of any 

subsequently filed documents in this 

matter will be available for public 

inspection and copying during regular 

business hours at the FCC Reference 

Information Center, Portals II, 445 12th 

Street, SW., Room CY–A257, 

Washington, DC 20554. Document DA 

05–3131, the Rural LECs’ submission, 

and copies of subsequently filed 

documents in this matter may also be 

purchased from the Commission’s 

contractor at Portals II, 445 12th Street, 

SW., Room CY–B402, Washington, DC 

20554. Customers may contact the 

Commission’s contractor at their Web 

site http://www.bcpiweb.com or call 1–

800–378–3160. A copy of the Rural 

LECs’ submission may also be found by 

searching ECFS at http://www.fcc.gov/ 

cgb/ecfs (insert CC Docket No. 94–129 

into the proceeding block). To request 

materials in accessible formats for 

people with disabilities (Braille, large 

print, electronic files, audio format), 

send an e-mail to fcc504@fcc.gov or call 

the Consumer & Governmental Affairs 

Bureau at 202–418–0530 (voice), 202–

418–0432 (TTY). Document DA 05–3131 

can also be downloaded in Word or 

Portable Document Format (PDF) at 

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/policy. Pursuant 

to §§ 1.415 and 1.419 of the 

Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 1.415, 

1.419, interested parties may file 

comments and reply comments on or 

before the dates indicated on the first 

page of this document. Comments may 

be filed using: (1) The Commission’s 

Electronic Comment Filing System 

(ECFS), (2) the Federal Government’s 

eRulemaking Portal, or (3) by filing 

paper copies. See Electronic Filing of 

Documents in Rulemaking Proceedings, 

63 FR 24121 (1998). 

• Electronic Filers: Comments may be 

filed electronically using the Internet by 

accessing the ECFS: http://www.fcc.gov/ 

cgb/ecfs/ or the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 

Filers should follow the instructions 

provided on the website for submitting 

comments. 

• For ECFS filers, if multiple docket 

or rulemaking numbers appear in the 

caption of this proceeding, filers must 

transmit one electronic copy of the 

comments for each docket or 

rulemaking number referenced in the 

caption. In completing the transmittal 

screen, filers should include their full 

name, U.S. Postal Service mailing 

address, and the applicable docket or 

rulemaking number. Parties may also 

submit an electronic comment by 

Internet e-mail. To get filing 

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