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Respondents: Business or other forprofit, not-for-profit institutions, and 

state, local or tribal government. 

Number of Respondents: 160 

respondents; 160 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour. 

Frequency of Response: Third party 

disclosure requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

Total Annual Burden: 160 hours. 

Annual Cost Burden: N/A. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality. 

Needs and Uses: This collection will 

be submitted as an extension (no change 

in reporting requirements) after this 60- 

day comment period to Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) in order 

to obtain the full three year clearance. 

There is no change in the number of 

respondents or burden hours. 

Section 80.302 is necessary when 

changes occur in the operation of a 

public coast station which include 

discontinuance, reduction or 

suspension of a watch required to be 

maintained on 2182 kHz or 156.800 

MHz, notification must be made by the 

licensee to the nearest district office of 

the U.S. Coast Guard as soon as 

practicable. This notification must 

include the estimated or known 

resumption time of the watch. 

The information is used by the U.S. 

Coast Guard district office nearest to the 

coast station. Once the Coast Guard is 

aware that such a situation exists, it is 

able to inform the maritime community 

that radio coverage has or will be 

affected and/or seek to provide coverage 

of the safety watch via alternate means. 

OMB Control No.: 3060–0308. 

Title: Section 90.505, Developmental 

Operation, Showing Required. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit and state, local or tribal 

government. 

Number of Respondents: 100 

respondents; 100 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 2 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

Total Annual Burden: 200 hours. 

Annual Cost Burden: N/A. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality. 

Needs and Uses: This collection will 

be submitted as an extension (no change 

in reporting requirements) after this 60- 

day comment period to Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) in order 

to obtain the full three-year clearance. 

There is no change in the number of 

respondents or burden hours. 

Section 90.505 requires applicants 

proposing developmental operations to 

submit supplemental information 

showing why the authorization is 

necessary and what its use will be. This 

reporting requirement will be used by 

the Commission staff in evaluating the 

applicant’s need for such frequencies 

and the interference potential to other 

stations operating on the proposed 

frequencies. 

OMB Control No.: 3060–0807. 

Title: Section 51.803, Procedures for 

Commission Notification of a State 

Commission’s Failure to Act; and 

Supplemental Procedures for Petitions 

to Section 252(e)(5) of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit. 

Number of Respondents: 60 

respondents; 60 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 20–40 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirement and third party 

disclosure requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. 

Total Annual Burden: 1,600 hours. 

Annual Cost Burden: N/A. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality. 

Needs and Uses: This collection will 

be submitted as an extension (no change 

in reporting requirements) after this 60- 

day comment period to Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) in order 

to obtain the full three-year clearance. 

The Commission has adjusted the 

burden hours for this information 

collection due to an increase in the 

number of respondents. 

Any interested party seeking 

preemption of a state commission’s 

jurisdiction based on the state 

commission’s failure to act shall notify 

the Commission as follows: (1) File with 

the Secretary of the Commission a 

detailed petition, supported by an 

affidavit, that states with specificity the 

basis for any claim that it has failed to 

act; and (2) serve the state commission 

and other parties to the proceeding on 

the same day that the party serves the 

petition on the Commission. Within 15 

days of the filing of the petition, the 

state commission and parties to the 

proceeding may file a response to the 

petition. All of the requirements are 

used to ensure that petitioners have 

complied with their obligations under 

the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

OMB Control No.: 3060–0894. 

Title: Certification Letter Accounting 

for Receipt of Federal Support—CC 

Docket Nos. 96–45, and 96–262. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: State, local or tribal 

government. 

Number of Respondents: 52 

respondents; 52 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 3–5 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and annual reporting requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

Total Annual Burden: 162 hours. 

Annual Cost Burden: N/A. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality. 

Needs and Uses: This collection will 

be submitted as an extension (no change 

in reporting requirements) after this 60- 

day comment period to Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) in order 

to obtain the full three-year clearance. 

There is no change in respondents or 

burden hours. Each state is required to 

provide information to the Commission 

regarding the comparability of local 

rates in rural areas served by non-rural 

carriers within the state to urban rates 

nationwide. The certification process 

requirements address rate 

comparability. Pursuant to the 

certification process, each state is 

required to inform whether its rates in 

rural areas served by non-rural carriers 

are reasonably comparable to urban 

rates nationwide and explain the basis 

for its conclusion as well as its proposed 

remedies, if necessary. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–2995 Filed 2–21–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information 

Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 

Federal Communications Commission, 

Comments Requested 

February 15, 2007. 

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 


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following information collection(s), as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995, Public Law No. 104–

13. An agency 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 

that does not display a valid control 

number. 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; 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. 

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) comments should be 

submitted on or before March 26, 2007. 

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: You may submit all your 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 

comments by e-mail or U.S. postal mail. 

To submit your comments by e-mail 

send them to PRA@fcc.gov. To submit 

your comments by U.S. mail, mark them 

to the attention of Cathy Williams, 

Federal Communications Commission, 

Room 1–C823, 445 12th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20554 and Allison E. 

Zaleski, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10236 

NEOB, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503 or via fax at 

(202) 395–5167 or at 

Allison_E._Zaleski@omb.eop.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection(s) send an e-mail 

to PRA@fcc.gov or contact Cathy 

Williams at (202) 418–2918. If you 

would like to obtain a copy of the 

information collection, you may do so 

by visiting the FCC PRA Web page at: 

http://www.fcc.gov/omd/pra. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0692. 

Title: Home Wiring Provisions. 

Form Number: Not applicable. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit 

entities. 

Number of Respondents: 22,000. 

Estimated Time per Response: 5 

minutes—2 hours. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping requirement; On 

occasion reporting requirement; Annual 

reporting requirement; Third party 

disclosure requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

Total Annual Burden: 36,114 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: None. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality. 

Needs and Uses: This information 

collection accounts for the information 

collection requirement stated in 47 CFR 

76.613, where MVPDs causing harmful 

signal interference may be required by 

the Commission’s engineer in charge 

(EIC) to prepare and submit a report 

regarding the cause(s) of the 

interference, corrective measures 

planned or taken, and the efficacy of the 

remedial measures. 

47 CFR 76.802, Disposition of Cable 

Home Wiring, gives individual video 

service subscribers in single unit 

dwellings and MDUs the opportunity to 

purchase their cable home wiring at 

replacement cost upon voluntary 

termination of service. In calculating 

hour burdens for notifying individual 

subscribers of their purchase rights, we 

make the following assumptions: 

(1) There are approximately 20,000 

MVPDs serving approximately 

72,000,000 subscribers in the United 

States. 

(2) The average rate of churn 

(subscriber termination) for all MVPDs 

is estimated to be 1% per month, or 

12% per year. 

(3) MVPDs own the home wiring in 

50% of the occurrences of voluntary 

subscriber termination. 

(4) Subscribers or property owners 

already have gained ownership of the 

wiring in the other 50% of occurrences 

(e.g., where the MVPD has charged the 

subscriber for the wiring upon 

installation, has treated the wiring as 

belonging to the subscriber for tax 

purposes, or where state and/or local 

law treats cable home wiring as a 

fixture). 

(5) Where MVPDs own the wiring, we 

estimate that they intend to actually 

remove the wiring 5% of the time, thus 

initiating the disclosure requirement. 

We believe in most cases that MVPDs 

will choose to abandon the home wiring 

because the cost and effort required to 

remove the wiring generally outweigh 

its value. The burden to disclose the 

information at the time of termination 

will vary depending on the manner of 

disclosure, e.g., by telephone, customer 

visit or registered mail. Virtually all 

voluntary service terminations are done 

by telephone. In addition, 47 CFR 

76.802 states that if a subscriber in an 

MDU declines to purchase the wiring, 

the MDU owner or alternative provider 

(where permitted by the MDU owner) 

may purchase the home wiring where 

reasonable advance notice has been 

provided to the incumbent. 

(1) According to the 2000 U.S. 

Census, the nation’s population was 

approximately 281,000,000. 

(2) The American Housing Survey for 

the United States, 2001, Table 2–25, and 

the 2000 Census stated that the total 

number of living units of all types in the 

United States was approximately 

106,000,000, or an average of 2.65 

people per unit. 

(3) The American Housing Survey 

also estimated that 24,600,000 occupied 

housing units were classified as ‘‘multiunits,’’ that is, they are in MDUs with 

two or more units per building. 

(4) The American Housing Survey 

data also found that there were 

approximately 7,600,000 buildings 

classified as MDUs in the United States. 

(5) Approximately 66,000,000 people 

resided in these 24,600,000 occupied 

housing units in these MDUs in 2000. 

(6) We estimate that 2,000 MDU 

owners will provide advance notice to 

the incumbent MVPD that the MDU 

owner wishes to use the home run 

wiring to receive service from an 

alternative video service provider. 

47 CFR 76.802 also states that, to 

inform subscribers of per-foot 

replacement costs, MVPDs may develop 

replacement cost schedules based on 

readily available information; if the 

MVPD chooses to develop such 

schedules, it must place them in a 

public file available for public 

inspection during regular business 

hours. We estimate that 50% of MVPDs 

will develop such cost schedules to 

place in their public files. Virtually all 

individual subscribers terminate service 

via telephone, and few subscribers are 

anticipated to review cost schedules on 

public file. 

47 CFR 76.804 Disposition of Home 

Run Wiring. We estimate the burden for 

notification and election requirements 

for building-by-building and unit-byunit disposition of home run wiring as 

described below. Note that these 

requirements apply only when an 

MVPD owns the home run wiring in an 

MDU and does not (or will not at the 

conclusion of the notice period) have a 

legally enforceable right to remain on 

the premises against the wishes of the 

entity that owns or controls the common 

areas of the MDU or have a legally 


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enforceable right to maintain any 

particular home run wire dedicated to a 

particular unit on the premises against 

the MDU owner’s wishes. 

We use the term ‘‘MDU owner’’ to 

include whatever entity owns or 

controls the common areas of an 

apartment building, condominium or 

cooperative. For building-by-building 

disposition of home run wiring, the 

MDU owner gives the incumbent service 

provider a minimum of 90 days’ written 

notice that its access to the entire 

building will be terminated. The 

incumbent then has 30 days to elect 

what it will do with the home run 

wiring. Where parties negotiate a price 

for the wiring and are unable to agree 

on a price, the incumbent service 

provider must elect among 

abandonment, removal of the wiring, or 

arbitration for a price determination. 

Also, regarding cable home wiring, 

when the MDU owner notifies the 

incumbent service provider that its 

access to the building will be 

terminated, the incumbent provider 

must, within 30 days of the initial 

notice and in accordance with our home 

wiring rules: 

(1) Offer to sell to the MDU owner any 

home wiring within the individual 

dwelling units which the incumbent 

provider owns and intends to remove, 

and 

(2) Provide the MDU owner with the 

total per-foot replacement cost of such 

home wiring. 

The MDU owner must then notify the 

incumbent provider as to whether the 

MDU owner or an alternative provider 

intends to purchase the home wiring not 

later than 30 days before the 

incumbent’s access to the building will 

be terminated. For unit-by-unit 

disposition of home run wiring, an 

MDU owner must provide at least 60 

days’ written notice to the incumbent 

MVPD that it intends to permit multiple 

MVPDs to compete for the right to use 

the individual home run wires 

dedicated to each unit. The incumbent 

service provider then has 30 days to 

provide the MDU owner with a written 

election as to whether, for all of the 

incumbent’s home run wires dedicated 

to individual subscribers who may later 

choose the alternative provider’s 

service, it will remove the wiring, 

abandon the wiring, or sell the wiring to 

the MDU owner. 

In other words, the incumbent service 

provider will be required to make a 

single election for how it will handle 

the disposition of individual home run 

wires whenever a subscriber wishes to 

switch service providers; that election 

will then be implemented each time an 

individual subscriber switches service 

providers. 

Where parties negotiate a price for the 

wiring and are unable to agree on a 

price, the incumbent service provider 

must elect among abandonment, 

removal of the wiring, or arbitration for 

a price determination. The MDU owner 

also must provide reasonable advance 

notice to the incumbent provider that it 

will purchase, or that it will allow an 

alternative provider to purchase, the 

cable home wiring when a terminating 

individual subscriber declines. If the 

alternative provider is permitted to 

purchase the wiring, it will be required 

to make a similar election during the 

initial 30-day notice period for each 

subscriber who switches back from the 

alternative provider to the incumbent 

MVPD. 

While the American Housing Survey 

estimates that there were some 

7,600,000 MDUs with 24,600,000 

resident occupants in the United States 

in 2000, we estimate that there will be 

only 12,500 notices and 12,500 elections 

being made on an annual basis. In many 

buildings, the MDU owner will be 

unable to initiate the notice and election 

processes because the incumbent MVPD 

service provider continues to have a 

legally enforceable right to remain on 

the premises. In other buildings, the 

MDU owner may simply have no 

interest in acquiring a new MVPD 

service provider. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–3005 Filed 2–21–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting; FCC 

Announces Details for Public Hearing 

on Media Ownership in Harrisburg, PA 

February 16, 2007. 

Washington, DC—The Federal 

Communications Commission today 

announced further details of its 

previously announced Harrisburg field 

hearing regarding media ownership (see 

press release dated February 8, 2007.) 

The hearing date, time, and location 

are as follows: 

DATE: Friday, February 23, 2007. 

TIME: 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m. 

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO

CHANGE): 9 a.m.–9:30 a.m.: Welcome/ 

Opening Remarks 

9:30 a.m.–11 a.m.: Panel Discussion 

11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Public Comment 

12:30 p.m.–1 p.m.: Break 

1 p.m.–2:30 p.m.: Public Comment 

LOCATION: Whitaker Center for Science 

and the Arts, Sunoco Performance 

Theater, 222 Market Street, Harrisburg, 

Pennsylvania 17101. 

Link to Whitaker Center: http:// 

www.whitakercenter.org. 

The purpose of the hearing is to fully 

involve the public in the process of the 

2006 Quadrennial Broadcast Media 

Ownership Review that the Commission 

is currently conducting. The hearing is 

open to the public, and seating will be 

available on a first-come, first-served 

basis. This hearing is the third in a 

series of media ownership hearings the 

Commission intends to hold across the 

country. 

There will be one panel of presenters 

followed by public comment. The 

hearing format will enable members of 

the public to participate via ‘‘open 

microphone.’’

Open captioning and sign language 

interpreters will be provided for this 

event. Other reasonable 

accommodations for people with 

disabilities are available upon request. 

Include a description of the 

accommodation you will need including 

as much detail as you can. Also include 

a way we can contact you if we need 

more information. Make your request as 

early as possible. Last minute requests 

will be accepted, but may not be 

possible to fill. Send an e-mail to 

fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer & 

Governmental Affairs Bureau: For 

reasonable accommodations: 202–418–

0530 (voice), 202–418–0432 (TTY). 

Further details including names of the 

panelists will be released prior to the 

hearing. 

For additional information about the 

hearing, please visit the FCC’s Web site 

at http://www.fcc.gov/ownership. Press 

inquiries should be directed to Clyde 

Ensslin, at 202–418–0506, or David 

Fiske, at 202–418–0513. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 07–819 Filed 2–20–07; 11:23 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Notice of Agreements Filed 

The Commission hereby gives notice 

of the filing of the following agreements 

under the Shipping Act of 1984. 

Interested parties may submit comments 

on agreements to the Secretary, Federal 

Maritime Commission, Washington, DC 

20573, within ten days of the date this 

notice appears in the Federal Register. 


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