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This notice constitutes a request for 

public comment and an opportunity for 

public hearing as required by the Clean 

Air Act. All written comments received 

by May 7, 2012 on this proposal will be 

considered. EPA will conduct a public 

hearing on this proposal only if a 

written request for such is received by 

EPA at the address above by May 7, 

2012. If no written request for a hearing 

is received, EPA will proceed to the 

final determination. While notice of the 

final determination will not be 

published in the Federal Register, 

copies of the determination can be 

obtained by sending a written request to 

Michael McGown at the above address. 

Dated: March 22, 2012. 

Michelle L. Pirzadeh, 

Deputy Regional Administrator, Region 10. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

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. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burden and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3502– 

3520), the Federal Communications 

Commission invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection(s). 

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) 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 OMB 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 valid OMB control 

number. 

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) comments should be 

submitted on or before May 7, 2012. If 

you anticipate that you will be 

submitting PRA comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the FCC contact listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments 

to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), via fax 

at 202–395–5167 or via Internet at 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and 

to Judith B. Herman, Federal 

Communications Commission, via the 

Internet at Judith-b.herman@fcc.gov. To 

submit your PRA comments by email 

send them to: PRA@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing 

Director, FCC, at 202–418–0214. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1147. 

Title: Wireless E911 Phase II Location 

Accuracy Requirements, Third Report 

and Order, FCC 11–107. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Individuals and 

households; business or other for-profit 

entities; Not-for-profit institutions and 

State, Local, or Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 4,898 

respondents; 9,514 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 

5.5867143 hours (average). 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirement and third party 

disclosure requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. 

Statutory authority for this information 

collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 

Sections 151, 154 and 332 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 53,152 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: N/A. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

No questions of a confidential nature are 

asked. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

obtained OMB approval for this new 

collection in March 2011. The 

Commission is now seeking OMB 

approval for another revision to this 

information collection. The Commission 

will submit this information collection 

to the OMB after publication of this 30 

day notice. 

The Commission adopted and 

released a Third Report and Order, FCC 

11–107, PS Docket No. 07–114, which 

provides that new Commercial Mobile 

Radio Service (CMRS) providers, 

meeting the definition of covered CMRS 

providers in Section 20.18 and 

deploying networks subsequent to the 

effective date of the Third Report and 

Order that are not an expansion or 

upgrade of an existing CMRS network, 

must meet the handset-based location 

accuracy standard from the start. 

Consequently, the rule requires new 

CMRS providers launching new standalone networks during the eight-year 

implementation period for handsetbased CMRS wireless licensees to meet 

the applicable handset-based location 

accuracy standard in effect of the time 

of deployment. Therefore, new rule 

section 20.18(h)(2)(iv) specifies that new 

CMRS providers must comply with 

paragraphs (h)(2)((i–iii) of Section 20.18, 

which are the location accuracy 

requirements for handset-based carriers. 

OMB approved the information 

collection for those rule paragraphs, 

which the Second Report and Order 

adopted, on March 30, 2011, under 

OMB Control No. 3060–1147. The 

Commission announced OMB’s 

approval and the effective date in 76 FR 

23713 of the Federal Register. 

As a result, under the new rule 

section adopted by Third Report and 

Order, all new CMRS providers, in 

delivering emergency calls for Enhanced 

911 service, must satisfy the handsetbased location accuracy standard at 

either a county-based or Public Safety 

Answering Point (PSAP)-based 

geographic level. Similarly, in 

accordance with the new rule and under 

the paragraph provision of Section 

20.18(h)(2)(ii), new CMRS providers 

may exclude up to 15 percent of the 

counties or PSAP areas they serve due 

to heavy forestation that limits handsetbased technology accuracy in those 

counties or areas. 

Therefore, new CMRS providers will 

be required to file a list of the specific 

counties where they are utilizing their 

respective exclusions. In its September 

2010 Second Report and Order, 75 FR 

70604, the Commission found that 

permitting this exclusion properly but 

narrowly accounts for the known 

technical limitations of handset-based 

location accuracy technologies, while 

ensuring that the public safety 

community and the public at large are 

sufficiently informed of these 

limitations. 

When they have begun deploying 

their new networks, the new CMRS 

providers must submit initial reports, as 

the Commission will announce after 

OMB approval of this revised 

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areas that they are permitted to exclude 

from the handset-based location 

accuracy requirements. Accordingly, the 

Commission will specify the procedures 

for electronic filing into PS Docket No. 

07–114, consistent with the current 

OMB approved information collection 

for handset-based carriers, and new 

CMRS providers must send copies of the 

exclusion reports to the National 

Emergency Number Association, the 

Association of Public-Safety 

Communications Officials-International, 

and the National Association of State 

9–1–1 Administrators. 

Further, the rules adopted by the 

Commission’s September 2010 Second 

Report and Order, 75 FR 70604, also 

require that, two years after January 18, 

2011, wireless carriers provide 

confidence and uncertainty data on a 

per call basis to PSAPs. Because the 

new rule adopted by the Third Report 

and Order considers new CMRS 

providers as providers covered under 

the definition of CMR providers 

pursuant to section 20.18 of the 

Commission’s rules, new CMRS 

providers will also be subject to the 

information collection requirement to 

provide this confidence and uncertainty 

data. 

Additionally, in view of the amended 

location accuracy requirements and the 

timeframes and benchmarks for 

handset-based wireless carriers to 

comply with them, in its September 

2010 Second Report and Order, 75 FR 

70604, the Commission recognized that 

the waiver process is suitable to address 

individual or unique problems, where 

the Commission can analyze the 

particular circumstances and the 

potential impact to public safety. Thus, 

similarly, the supporting statement for 

this information collection revision 

recognizes that new CMRS providers 

might file waiver requests and, 

therefore, be subject to a collection and 

reporting requirement. 

The Third Report and Order found 

that requiring all new CMRS network 

providers to comply with the 

Commission’s handset-based location 

accuracy standard is consistent with the 

regulatory principle of ensuring 

technological neutrality. Providers 

deploying new CMRS networks are free 

to use network-based location 

techniques, or to combine network and 

handset-based techniques, to provide 

911 location information, provided that 

they meet the accuracy criteria 

applicable to handset-based providers. 

Given the long-term goal of universal 

support for one location accuracy 

standard, the Commission believed that 

such a mandate allows appropriate 

planning and ensures that new 

technology will comply with the most 

stringent location accuracy standard 

that applies to existing technology. 

Section 47 CFR 20.18(h)(2)(iv) 

requires that providers of new CMRS 

networks that meet the definition of 

covered CMRS providers under 

paragraph (a) of this section must 

comply with the requirements of 

paragraphs (h)(2)(i)-(iii) of this section. 

For this purpose, a ‘‘new CMRS 

network’’ is a CMRS network that is 

newly deployed subsequent to the 

effective date of the Third Report and 

Order in PS Docket No. 07–114 and that 

is not an expansion or upgrade of an 

existing CMRS network. 

The information provided by wireless 

carriers deploying new CMRS networks 

to report the counties or PSAP service 

areas where the carriers cannot provide 

E911 location accuracy at either the 

county or the PSAP level will furnish 

the Commission, affected PSAPs, state 

and local emergency agencies, public 

safety organizations and other interested 

stakeholders the supplementary data 

necessary for public safety awareness of 

those areas where it is most difficult to 

measure location accuracy during the 

benchmark periods for handset-based 

wireless carriers. 

The provision of confidence and 

uncertainty data to PSAPs by the new 

CMRS providers and the SSPs 

responsible for transporting that data 

between them and PSAPs will enhance 

the PSAPs’ ability to efficiently direct 

first responders to the correct location of 

emergencies to achieve the emergency 

response goals of the nation in 

responding expeditiously to emergency 

crisis situations and in ensuring 

homeland security. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0400. 

Title: Part 61, Tariff Review Plan 

(TRP). 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents: 2,840 

respondents; 8,554 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: .5 

hours to 53 hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion, 

annual, biennial, and one time reporting 

requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. Sections 201, 

202, 203, and 251(b)(5) of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 121,656 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: N/A. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

Respondents are not being asked to 

submit confidential information to the 

Commission. If the Commission 

requests respondents to submit 

information which respondents believe 

are confidential, respondents may 

request confidential treatment of such 

information under 47 CFR 0.459 of the 

Commission’s rules. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

will submit this revised information 

collection to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) during this 30 day 

comment period to obtain the full three 

year approval from them. The hourly 

burden has increased by 117,056 hours 

which is due to an Order that was 

adopted and released requiring or 

permitting incumbent and competitive 

local exchange carriers, as part of 

transitioning regulation of interstate and 

intrastate switched access rates and 

reciprocal compensation rates to billand-keep under section 251(b)(5), to file 

tariffs with state commissions and the 

FCC. This transition affects different 

switched access rates at specified 

timeframes and establishes an Access 

Recovery Charge by which carriers will 

be able to assess end users a monthly 

charge to recover some or all of the 

revenues they are permitted to recover 

resulting from reductions in intercarrier 

compensation rates. Price cap LECs 

must remove the rate elements in the 

traffic-sensitive and trunking baskets 

from price cap regulation on July 1, 

2012. There interstate tariff filings will 

require cost support that generally is 

encompassed in the existing support 

burdens and, in many cases, may be 

satisfied through the data collection 

encompassed by a new information 

collection entitled ‘‘Intercarrier 

Compensation and Universal Service 

Compliance and Monitoring’’ which 

will also be submitted to the OMB for 

approval and assigned an OMB control 

number (see description of new 

information collection below). The 

intrastate tariff filings may, depending 

on state requirements, require 

supporting materials to be filed that may 

also largely be satisfied by submitting 

the new information collection 

referenced above. 

As of November 2010, there are 92 

total incumbent LECs that file interstate 

tariffs. Of them, there are 39 ILECs that 

file pursuant to price cap regulation 

under Sections 61.41–61.49 of the 

Commission’s rules. Outside of the 

National Exchange Carrier Association 

(NECA), there are 12 ILECs filing their 

own tariffs pursuant to rate-of-return 

regulation under Section 61.38 of the 

Commission’s rules. The remaining 40 

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section 61.39 of the Commission’s rules. 

NECA files one Tariff Review Plan for 

approximately 1,000 Sections 61.38 and 

61.39 ILECs. Therefore, we estimate 51 

+ 40 +1 (NECA) = 92 filing entities. 

We also estimate that 330 competitive 

and incumbent LECs will have to make 

a one-time interstate tariff filing to 

permit them to assess access charges on 

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) 

calls. We estimate that 2,840 

competitive and incumbent LECs will 

have to file intrastate tariffs annually 

which may require supporting materials 

to be filed. We also estimate that 2,840 

competitive and incumbent LECs will 

have to make a one-time intrastate tariff 

filing to establish VoIP rates at interstate 

rate levels that may require supporting 

materials to be filed. Finally, we 

estimate that 1,340 incumbent LECs 

annually will certify, as part of their 

tariff filings to the Commission and to 

the relevant state commission, that they 

are not seeking duplicative recovery in 

the state jurisdiction for an Eligible 

Recovery subject to the recovery 

mechanism. 

For those services still requiring cost 

support, TRPs assist the Commission in 

determining whether ILEC access 

charges are just and reasonable as 

required under the Communications Act 

of 1934, as amended. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0298. 

Title: Part 61, Tariffs (Other than the 

Tariff Review Plan). 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents: 3,210 

respondents; 7,350 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 20 

hours to 50 hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion, 

annual, biennial and one time reporting 

requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. Sections 151– 

155, 201–205, 208, 251–271, 403, 502 

and 503 of the Communications Act of 

1934, as amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 215,500 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $1,410,150. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

Respondents are not being asked to 

submit confidential information to the 

Commission. If the Commission 

requests respondents to submit 

information which respondents believe 

are confidential, respondents may 

request confidential treatment of such 

information under 47 CFR 0.459 of the 

Commission’s rules. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission is 

seeking OMB approval for this revised 

collection. The Commission will submit 

this information collection to the OMB 

after publication of this 30 day notice. 

On November 18, 2011, the 

Commission adopted the USF/ICC 

Transformation Order, FCC 11–161, that 

requires or permits incumbent and 

competitive local exchange carriers as 

part of transitioning regulation of 

interstate and intrastate switched access 

rates and reciprocal compensation rates 

to bill-and-keep under section 251(b)(5) 

of the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, to file tariffs with state 

commissions and the FCC. This 

transition affects different switched 

access rates at specified timeframes and 

establishes an Access Recovery Charge 

by which carriers will be able to assess 

end uses a monthly charge to recover 

some or all of the revenues they are 

permitted to recover resulting from 

reductions in intercarrier compensation 

rates. We estimate that 40 rate-of-return 

LECs will need to make an additional 

interstate access tariff filing annually 

and that 330 competitive and incumbent 

LECs will have to make a one-time filing 

to allow them to assess charges for 

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). We 

also estimate that an additional 2,840 

competitive and incumbent LECs will 

have to file intrastate tariffs annually. 

Finally, we estimate that 2,840 

competitive and incumbent LECs will 

have to make a one-time intrastate tariff 

filing to establish VoIP rates of interstate 

rate levels. 

The information collected through a 

carrier’s tariff is used by the 

Commission and state commissions to 

determine whether services offered are 

just and reasonable as the Act requires. 

The tariffs and any supporting 

documentation are examined in order to 

determine if the services are offered in 

a just and reasonable manner. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1122. 

Title: Preparation of Annual Reports 

to Congress for the Collection and 

Expenditures of Fees or Charges for 

Enhanced 911 (E911) Services Under 

the NET 911 Improvement Act of 2008. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: State, local or tribal 

governments. 

Number of Respondents: 56 

respondents; 56 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 50 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: Annual 

reporting requirement and 

recordkeeping requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Voluntary. 

Statutory authority for this information 

collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 

Sections 201(b), 219(b) and 220 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 2,800 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: N/A. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There are no assurances of 

confidentiality provided to respondents. 

The Commission’s rules address the 

issue of confidentiality at 47 CFR 0.457, 

0.459 and 0.461. These rules address 

access to records that are not routinely 

available to the public, requests and 

requirements that materials submitted to 

the Commission be withheld from 

public inspection, and requests for 

inspection of materials not routinely 

available for public inspection. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission is 

seeking OMB approval for this revised 

information collection in order to obtain 

the full three year clearance from them. 

There is no change in the Commission’s 

previous burden estimates. The 

Commission will submit this 

information collection to the OMB after 

publication of this 30 day notice. 

The Commission proposes to ask the 

following information: 

1. A statement as to whether or not 

your State, or any political subdivision, 

Indian tribe, village or regional 

corporation therein as defined by 

Section 6(f)(1) of the NET 911 Act, has 

established a funding mechanism 

designated for or imposed for the 

purposes of 911 or E911 support or 

implementation (including a citation to 

the legal authority for such mechanism). 

2. The amount of the fees or charges 

imposed for the implementation and 

support of 911 or E911 services and the 

total amount collected pursuant to the 

assessed fees or charges, for the annual 

period ending December 31, 20XX. 

3. A statement describing how the 

funds collected are made available to 

localities, and whether your state has 

established written criteria regarding the 

allowable uses of the collected funds, 

including the legal citation to such 

criteria. 

4. A statement identifying any entity 

in your State that has the authority to 

approve the expenditure of funds 

collected for 911 or E911 purposes; a 

description of any oversight procedures 

established to determine that collected 

funds have been made available or used 

for the purposes designated by the 

funding mechanism or otherwise used 

to implement or support 911; and a 

statement describing enforcement or 

other corrective actions undertaken in 

connection with such oversight, for the 

annual period ending December 31, 

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5. A statement whether all the funds 

collected for 911 or E911 purposes have 

been made available or used for the 

purposes designated by the funding 

mechanism, or otherwise used for the 

implementation or support of 911 or 

E911. 

6. A statement identifying what 

amount of funds collected for 911 or 

E911 purposes were made available or 

used for any purposes other than the 

ones designated by the funding 

mechanism or used for purposes 

otherwise unrelated to 911 or E911 

implementation or support, including a 

statement identifying the unrelated 

purposes for which the funds collected 

for 911 or E911 purposes were made 

available or used. 

7. A statement identifying which 

specificity all activities, programs, and 

organizations for whose benefit your 

State, or political subdivision thereof, 

has obligated or expended funds 

collected for 911 or E911 purposes and 

how these activities, programs, and 

organizations support 911 or E911 

services or enhancements of such 

services. 

8. A statement regarding whether your 

State classifies expenditures on Next 

Generation 911 as within the scope of 

permissible expenditures of funds for 

911 or E911 purposes, whether your 

State has expended such funds on Next 

Generation 911 programs, and if so, how 

much your State has expended in the 

annual period ending December 31, 

20XX on Next Generation 911 programs. 

9. Any other comments you may wish 

to provide regarding the applicable 

funding mechanism for 911 or E911. 

The purpose of this information 

collection is to meet the Commission’s 

ongoing statutory obligations under the 

New and Emerging Technologies 911 

Improvement Act of 2008, Public Law 

110–283, 122 Stat. 2620 (2008) (NET 

911 Act), which requires the 

Commission to submit an annual report 

to the Committee on Commerce, 

Science, and Transportation of the 

Senate and the Committee on Energy 

and Commerce of the House of 

Representatives, ‘‘detailing the status in 

each State of the collection and 

distribution of such fees or charges, and 

including findings on the amount of 

revenues obligated or expended by each 

State or political subdivision thereof for 

any purposes other than the purpose for 

which any such fees or charges are 

specified.’’ 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Bulah P. Wheeler, 

Deputy Manager, Office of the Secretary, 

Office of Managing Director. 

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BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Information Collection Being 

Submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget for Review and Approval 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burden and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– 

3520), the Federal Communications 

Commission invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection(s). 

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 burden 

for 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 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that 

does not display a valid OMB control 

number. 

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) comments should be 

submitted on or before May 7, 2012. If 

you anticipate that you will be 

submitting PRA comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the FCC contact listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments 

to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 

Management and Budget, via fax at 202– 

395–5167 or via Internet at 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and 

to Benish Shah, Federal 

Communications Commission, via the 

Internet at Benish.Shah@fcc.gov. To 

submit your PRA comments by email 

send them to: PRA@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Benish Shah, Office of Managing 

Director, (202) 418–7866. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0636. 

Title: Sections 2.906, 2.909, 2.1071, 

2.1075, 2.1076, 2.1077 and 15.37, 

Equipment Authorizations—Declaration 

of Conformity. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents: 5,000 

respondents; 10,000 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 9.5 

hours (average). 

Frequency of Response: One-time 

reporting requirement, recordkeeping 

requirement and third party disclosure 

requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 301, 

302, 303(e), 303(r), 304 and 307. 

Total Annual Burden: 95,000 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $17,500,000. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

No assurances of confidentiality are 

provided to respondents. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

will submit this information collection 

to Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) after this 60 day comment period 

in order to obtain the full three year 

clearance from them. The Commission 

is requesting an extension, there is no 

change in the reporting, recordkeeping 

and/or third party disclosure 

requirements. There is no change in the 

estimated respondents/responses, 

burden hours and/or annual costs. 

In 1996, the Declaration of Conformity 

(DoC) procedure was established in a 

Report and Order, FCC 96–208, In the 

Matter of Amendment of Parts 2 and 15 

of the Commission’s Rules to Deregulate 

the Equipment Authorization 

Requirements for Digital Devices. 

(a) The Declaration of Conformity 

equipment authorization procedure, 47 

CFR 2.1071, requires that a 

manufacturers or equipment supplier 

test a product to ensue compliance with 

technical standards that limit radio 

frequency emissions. 

(b) Additionally, the manufacturer or 

supplier must also include a DoC (with 

the standards) in the literature furnished 

with the equipment, and the equipment 


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