Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 191 / Monday, October 2, 2000 / Rules and Regulations 58661

invites the general public to comment

on the information collections

contained in this MO&O as required by

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13. Public and agency

comments are due December 1, 2000.

Comments should address: (a) Whether

the new 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; (3)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information collected; and

(4) 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.

In addition to the burdens included in

this submission, this decision also

slightly modifies the PRA submission

contained in OMB No. 3060–0910 by

extending the date by which carriers

must submit to the Commission, their

plans for implementing Phase II from

October 1, 2000, to November 9, 2000.

OMB Approval Number:

Title: Revision of the Commission’s

Rules to Ensure Compatibility with

Enhanced 911 Emergency Calling

Systems, Fourth MO&O.

Form No. N.A.

Type of Review: New information

collection.

Respondents: Business or other for

profit.

Number of Respondents: 2,500.

Estimated Time Per Response: 3

hours.

Total Annual Burden: 7,500 hours.

Cost to Respondents: .0.

Needs and Uses: The information

required to be included in a successful

request for waiver of the E911 Phase II

requirements will be used to assist the

Commission in judging whether the

request has merit.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 20

Communications common carrier,

Communications equipment, Radio.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

Rule Changes

For the reasons discussed in the

preamble, the Federal Communications

Commission amends 47 CFR part 20 as

follows:

PART 20—COMMERCIAL MOBILE

RADIO SERVICES

1. The authority citation for part 20

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 160, 251–254,

303, and 332 unless otherwise noted.

2. Section 20.18 is amended by

revising paragraphs (g)(1), (g)(2), and (i)

to read as follows:

§ 20.18 911 Service.

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(g) Phase-in for Handset-based

Location Technologies. Licensees

subject to this section who employ a

handset-based location technology may

phase in deployment of Phase II

enhanced 911 service, subject to the

following requirements:

(1) Without respect to any PSAP

request for deployment of Phase II 911

enhanced service, the licensee shall:

(i) Begin selling and activating

location-capable handsets no later than

October 1, 2001;

(ii) Ensure that at least 25 percent of

all new handsets activated are locationcapable no later than December 31,

2001;

(iii) Ensure that at least 50 percent of

all new handsets activated are locationcapable no later than June 30, 2002; and

(iv) Ensure that 100 percent of all new

digital handsets activated are locationcapable no later than December 31,

2002, and thereafter.

(v) By December 31, 2005, achieve 95

percent penetration of location-capable

handsets among its subscribers.

(2) Once a PSAP request is received,

the licensee shall, in the area served by

the PSAP, within six months or by

October 1, 2001, whichever is later:

(i) Install any hardware and/or

software in the CMRS network and/or

other fixed infrastructure, as needed, to

enable the provision of Phase II

enhanced 911 service; and

(ii) Begin delivering Phase II

enhanced 911 service to the PSAP.

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(i) Reports on Phase II plans.

Licensees subject to this section shall

report to the Commission their plans for

implementing Phase II enhanced 911

service, including the locationdetermination technology they plan to

employ and the procedure they intend

to use to verify conformance with the

Phase II accuracy requirements by

November 9, 2000. Licensees are

required to update these plans within

thirty days of the adoption of any

change. These reports and updates may

be filed electronically in a manner to be

designated by the Commission.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

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47 CFR Parts 32 and 64

[CC Docket No. 99–253; FCC 00–78]

Comprehensive Review of the

Accounting Requirements and ARMIS

Reporting Requirements for Incumbent

Local Exchange Carrier: Phase 1

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; announcement of

effective date.

SUMMARY: This document announces the

effective date of the rules and

information collections of the

Comprehensive Review of the

Accounting Requirements and ARMIS

Reporting Requirements for Incumbent

Local Exchange Carrier: Phase 1 Report

and Order adopted March 2, 2000.

DATES: Effective September 28, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

JoAnn Lucanik, Accounting Safeguards

Division, Common Carrier Bureau, at

(202) 418–0873 or Mika Savir,

Accounting Safeguards Division,

Common Carrier Bureau, at (202) 418–

0384.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March

2, 2000, the Commission adopted the

Comprehensive Review of the

Accounting Requirements and ARMIS

Reporting Requirements for Incumbent

Local Exchange Carrier: Phase 1 Report

and Order, 65 FR 16328 (March 28,

2000) in this Report and Order the

Commission eliminates the expense

matrix filing requirement; provides large

ILECs the option to obtain a biennial

attestation engagement to satisfy their

CAM audit obligation; establishes a

$500,000 de minimis exception to the

affiliate transactions fair market value

estimate requirement; eliminates the 15-

day pre-filing requirement for cost pool

and time reporting procedures changes;

eliminates the notification requirement

for temporary or experimental accounts;

eliminates the notification requirement

for extraordinary items, contingent

liabilities, and material prior period

adjustments; eliminates the

reclassification requirements for

property in Account 2002; and

eliminates the reclassification

requirements for property in Account

2003. The Commission substantially

streamlines the ARMIS 43–02 USOA

Report and significantly reduced the

reporting requirements for carriers. In

65 FR 16328 (March 28, 2000) The

Commission stated that the Report and

Order contained information collections

that had not been approved by the

58662 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 191 / Monday, October 2, 2000 / Rules and Regulations

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB). OMB approved the information

collections (see OMB numbers 3060–

0470 approved May 31, 2000; 3060–

0370, 3060–0395, and 3060–0734

approved June 19, 2000; and 3060–0384

approved September 1, 2000). In 65 FR

16328 (March 28, 2000) we also stated

that the Commission would publish a

document in the Federal Register

announcing the effective date of the

rules. This publication satisfies our

statement that the Commission would

publish a document in the Federal

Register announcing the effective date

of the information collections and the

new and/or modified sections of Parts

32 and 64 rules.

List of Subjects

47 CFR Part 32

Communications common carriers,

Reporting and recordkeeping

requirements, Telephone, Uniform

System of Accounts.

47 CFR Part 64

Communications common carriers,

Federal Communications Commission,

Radio, Reporting and recordkeeping

requirements, Telegraph, Telephone.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

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47 CFR Part 54

[CC Docket No. 96–45; FCC 00–332]

Federal-State Joint Board on Universal

Service: Promoting Deployment and

Subscribership in Unserved and

Underserved Areas, Including Tribal

and Insular Areas

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: In this document, the

Commission stays, on its own motion,

the implementation of recently adopted

federal Lifeline and Link Up assistance

rule amendments only to the extent that

they apply to qualifying low-income

consumers living near reservations.

DATES: Effective September 5, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul

Garnett, Attorney, Common Carrier

Bureau, Accounting Policy Division,

(202) 418–7400.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a

summary of the Commission’s Order

and Further Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking in CC Docket No. 96–45

released on August 31, 2000. The full

text of this document is available for

public inspection during regular

business hours in the FCC Reference

Center, Room CY–A257, 445 Twelfth

Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20554.

I. Introduction

1. In this Order, we stay, on our own

motion, the implementation of recently

adopted federal Lifeline and Link Up

assistance rule amendments only to the

extent that they apply to qualifying lowincome consumers living near

reservations. We emphasize that this

Order does not affect the

implementation of the enhanced

Lifeline and Link Up support for

qualifying low-income consumers living

on reservations. Those rules are

unaffected and became effective on

schedule on September 5, 2000, as

directed by the Commission. Finally, as

described in greater detail below, we

extend until September 22, 2000, the

date by which carriers may file data in

order to receive support during the

calendar year 2000 for enhanced

Lifeline and Link Up services provided

during the fourth quarter 2000.

II. Discussion

2. Following the adoption of the

definition of ‘‘tribal lands’’ in the

Twelfth Report and Order, 65 FR 47941

(August 4, 2000), we became aware that

the term ‘‘near reservation,’’ as it is

currently defined by the BIA, may

include wide geographic areas that do

not possess the characteristics that

warranted the targeting of enhanced

Lifeline and Link Up support to

reservations, such as geographic

isolation, high rates of poverty, and low

telephone subscribership. Such an

outcome may not further our goal, as

described in the Twelfth Report and

Order, of increasing

telecommunications deployment and

subscribership in the most historically

isolated and underserved regions of our

Nation. Therefore, on our own motion

we stay the implementation of the

above-described Lifeline and Link Up

assistance rule amendments to the

extent that they apply to qualifying lowincome consumers located ‘‘near

reservations,’’ as that phrase is defined

in section 20.1(r) of the BIA regulations.

A notation is added to § 54.400(e) of the

Commission’s rules stating that we have

stayed the implementation of enhanced

Lifeline and Link Up support for eligible

residents of tribal lands to the extent

that such support applies to qualifying

low-income consumers living ‘‘near’’

reservations. We do not stay the

application of enhanced Lifeline and

Link Up programs to low-income

individuals located on ‘‘reservations,’’

including on lands conveyed pursuant

to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement

Act.

3. In the Twelfth Report and Order,

we directed eligible carriers, interested

in receiving enhanced Lifeline and Link

Up support in the calendar year 2000 for

services provided in the fourth quarter

2000, to submit to the Universal Service

Administrative Company (USAC) by

September 1, 2000, a letter from a

corporate officer of the carrier

containing detailed information and

certifications regarding their provision

of services to qualifying low-income

consumers. In this Order, we extend

until September 22, 2000, the date by

which carriers may file data regarding

their provision of eligible services to

qualifying low-income consumers living

on reservations, as defined by the BIA.

III. Ordering Clauses

4. Pursuant to the authority contained

in sections 1–4, 201–205, 254, 303(r),

and 403 of the Communications Act of

1934, as amended, and § 1.3 and

§ 1.429(k) of the Commission’s rules,

this Order is adopted.

5. Pursuant to sections 1 and 4(i) of

the Communications Act, and § 1.3 and

§ 1.429(k) of the Commission’s rules, the

application of enhanced Lifeline and

Link Up programs to qualified lowincome consumers living near

reservations is stayed pending further

Commission action.

6. This order is effective upon release

September 5, 2000.

7. The Commission’s Consumer

Information Bureau, Reference

Information Center, shall send a copy of

this Order, to the Chief Counsel for

Advocacy of the Small Business

Administration.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 54

Reporting and recordkeeping

requirements, Telecommunications,

Telephone.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

Rule Changes

For the reasons set forth in the

preamble, 47 CFR part 54 is amended as

follows:

1. The authority citation for part 54

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 1, 4(i), 201, 205, 214,

and 254 unless otherwise noted.

2. A note is added to 47 CFR 54.400(e)

to read as follows: