[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 217 (Wednesday, November 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67006-67008]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28686]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget

October 31, 2000.
    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 Shoko B. Hair, Federal Communications Commission, (202) 418-
1379.

Federal Communications Commission

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0806.
    Expiration Date: 04/30/2001.
    Title: Universal Service--Schools and Libraries Universal Service 
Program.
    Form No.: FCC Forms 470 and 471.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 60,000 respondents; 7.3 hours per response 
(avg.). 440,000 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; Third Party Disclosure; 
Recordkeeping.
    Description: The Commission adopted rules providing support for all 
telecommunications services, internet access, and internal connections 
for all eligible schools and libraries. To participate in the program, 
schools and libraries must submit a description of the services desired 
to the Administrator via FCC Form 470. FCC Form 471 is submitted by 
schools and libraries that have ordered telecommunications services, 
internet access, and internal connections. The information is used to 
determine eligibility. OMB recently approved revisions made to the FCC 
Form 471. The forms are available via the universal service website 
(www.universalservice.org). Obligation to respond: Required to obtain 
or retain benefits.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0819.
    Expiration Date: 04/30/2001.
    Title: Lifeline Assistance (Lifeline) Connection Assistance (Link 
Up) Reporting Worksheet and Instructions (47 CFR Sections 54.400-
54.417).
    Form No.: FCC Form 497.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 18,000 respondents; 3 hours per response 
(avg.). 54,000 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; Quarterly; Monthly.
    Description: Eligible telecommunications carriers are permitted to 
receive universal service support reimbursement for offering certain 
services to qualifying low-income customers. The telecommunications 
carriers must file FCC Form 497 to solicit reimbursement.

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Collection of the data is necessary for the administrator to accurately 
provide settlements for the low-income programs according to Commission 
rules. FCC Form 497 has been revised to make it consistent with the 
requirements contained in CC Docket No. 96-45, FCC 00-208. In CC Docket 
No. 96-45, the Commission adopted measures to promote 
telecommunications subscribership within American Indian and Alaska 
Native tribal communities and mandated enhancements to the existing 
Lifeline and Link Up programs. The form is available via the universal 
service website (www.universalservice.org). Obligation to respond: 
Required to obtain or retain benefits.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0719.
    Expiration Date: 10/31/2003.
    Title: Quarterly Report of IntraLATA Carriers Listing Payphone 
Automatic Number Identifications (ANIs).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1600 respondents; 4 hours per response 
(avg.); 5600 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly; Third Party Disclosure; 
Recordkeeping.
    Description: Pursuant to the mandate in Section 276(b)(1)(A) to 
establish a per call compensation plan to ensure that all payphone 
service providers are fairly compensated for each and every completed 
intrastate and interstate call, IntraLATA carriers are required to 
provide to interexchange carriers a quarterly report. IntraLATA 
carriers must submit a quarterly list of payphone ANIs to the 
interexchange carriers. This will facilitate resolution of disputed 
ANIs in the per-call compensation context. The report allows IXCs to 
determine which dial-around calls are made from payphones. The data, 
which must be maintained for at least 18 months after the close of a 
compensation period, will facilitate verification of disputed ANIs. 
Obligation to respond: Mandatory.

    OMB Control No.: 3060-0743.
    Expiration Date: 10/31/2003
    Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and 
Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC 
Docket No. 96-128.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 4542 respondents; hours per response 
(avg.); 131,077 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Description: In CC Docket No. 96-128, the Commission promulgated 
rules and requirements implementing Section 276 of the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996. Among other things, the rules (1) 
establish fair compensation for every completed intrastate and 
interstate payphone call; (2) discontinue intrastate and interstate 
carrier access charge payphone service elements and payments, and 
intrastate and interstate payphone subsidies from basic exchange 
services; and (3) adopt guidelines for use by the states in 
establishing public interest payphones to be located where there would 
otherwise not be a payphone.
    (a) State Review and Removal of State Regulations Concerning 
Adequacy of Local Coin Rate Disclosure. States must review their 
regulations and remove them where necessary to ensure consistency with 
the Commission's regulations. (No. of respondents: 50; hours per 
response: 50 hours; total annual hour burden: 2500 hours).
    (b) State Review and Removal of Market Entry or Exit Requirements. 
States must review their regulations and remove them where necessary to 
ensure consistency with the Commission's regulations. (No. of 
respondents: 50; hours per response: 50 hours; total annual burden: 
2500 hours).
    (c) State Showing of Proof of Market Failure for Exception to 
Market-Rate Local Coin Call Requirement. States must comply with the 
Commission's market-rate local coin call requirement, except where they 
show proof of market failure. Such a showing could consist of, for 
example, a detailed summary of the record of a state proceeding that 
examines the costs of providing payphone service within that state and 
the reasons why the public interest is served by having the state set 
rates within that market. (No. of respondents: 50; hours per response: 
50 hours; total annual burden: 2500 hours).
    (d) State Review and Removal of Adequacy of Provision of Public 
Interest Payphones. Each state must review whether it has adequately 
provided for public interest payphones in a manner consistent with the 
Order. (No. of respondents: 50; hours per response: 50 hours; total 
annual burden: 2500 hours).
    (e) Payphone Providers' Transmission of Specific Payphone Coding 
Digits. All payphones are required to transmit specific payphone coding 
digits as a part of their automatic number identification (``ANI''), 
which will assist in identifying them to compensation payors. 
Currently, the local exchange carriers (``LECs'') are required to 
tariff federally originating line screening (``OLS'') services that 
provide a discrete code to identify payphones that are maintained by 
non-LEC providers. This requirement provides that LECs must furnish 
similar coding digits for their own payphones. (No. of respondents: 
197; hours per response: 20 hours; total annual burden: 3940 hours).
    (f) Interexchange Carriers' Provision of Tracking of All 
Compensable Calls. Carriers must provide tracking of all compensable 
calls received from payphones to ensure that each and every completed 
call from a payphone is receiving compensation. (No. of respondents: 
275; hours per response: 100 hours; total annual burden: 27,500 hours).
    (g) LEC Verification of Disputed ANIs and Maintaining and Making 
Available the Verification Data. LECs must provide verification of 
disputed ANIs on request and in a timely manner. In order to facilitate 
the process and provide efficient verification of disputed ANIs, the 
LECs must maintain and make available the verification data for at 
least 18 months after the close of the compensation period. (No. of 
respondents: 400; hours per response: 30 minutes quarterly; total 
annual burden: 800 hours).
    (h) LEC Timely Notification of Payphone Disconnection. LECs are 
required to notify the carrier-payors of each payphone's disconnection 
on a basis that is as timely as possible. (No. of respondents: 400; 
hours per response: 30 minutes; total annual burden: 200 hours).
    (i) LEC Indication on the Payphone's Monthly Bill That the Amount 
Due is for Payphone Services. LECs are required to affirmatively state 
on their bills to PSPs that the bills are for payphone service, to 
facilitate payment of compensation and to avoid disputes. (No. of 
respondents: 400; hours per response: 10 hours; total annual burden: 
4000 hours).
    (j) LEC Tariff Filings. Pursuant to the mandate in Section 
276(b)(1)(B) to remove payphone costs from the CCL charge, and all 
intrastate and interstate payphone subsidies from basic exchange and 
exchange access revenues, 47 U.S.C. Sec. 276(b)(1)(B), incumbent LECs 
must file revised tariffs for central office coin transmission services 
and CCL charges, to ensure that LEC services are priced reasonably and 
do not include subsidies. This also requires LECs to submit proposed 
interconnection requirements to the Commission. (No. of respondents: 
400; hours per response: 100 hours; total annual burden: 40,000 hours).

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    (k) Reclassification of LEC-Owned Payphones. Pursuant to the 
mandate in Section 276(b)(1)(B) to remove payphone costs from the CCL 
charge and all intrastate and interstate payphone subsidies from basic 
exchange and exchange access revenues, 47 U.S.C. Sec. 276(b)(1)(B), 
incumbent LECs must either reclassify their payphone assets as 
nonregulated or transfer them to a separate affiliated engaged in 
nonregulated activities. Such reclassification or transfer includes 
establishing Part 64 cost pools, which are groupings of costs that 
maximize the extent to which cost causative allocation factors can be 
used to divide costs between regulated and nonregulated activities, as 
well as revising their cost allocation manuals. (No. of respondents: 
400; hours per response: 100 hours; total annual burden 40,000 hours).
    (l) Reclassification of AT&T Payphones. AT&T must either reclassify 
its payphone assets as nonregulated or transfer them to a separate 
affiliated engaged in nonregulated activities. Such reclassification or 
transfer includes establishing Part 64 cost pools, which are groupings 
of costs that maximize the extent to which cost causative allocation 
factors can be used to divide costs between regulated and nonregulated 
activities, as well as revising their cost allocation manuals. (No. of 
respondents: 1; hours per response: 100 hours; total annual burden: 100 
hours).
    (m) Payphone Provider's Verification of its Status to IXC Paying 
Compensation. Pursuant to the mandate in Section 276(b)(1)(A) that all 
payphone providers be fairly compensated for calls using their 
payphones, the Order established a definition of a payphone eligible 
for compensation as a payphone that appears on LEC-provided customer-
owned, coin-operated telephone (``COCOT'') lists. If a payphone 
provider does not appear on this list, it must provide alternative 
verification information to the IXC paying compensation. Otherwise, the 
IXC would be unable to verify that the particular payphone provider was 
in fact eligible for compensation. (No. of respondents: 197; hours per 
response: 1 hour; total annual burden: 197 hours).
    (n) Payphone Providers' Posting of Local Coin Call Rate on Each 
Payphone Placard. Pursuant to the mandate in Section 276(b)(1)(A) that 
the Commission establishes a fair compensation plan, the Commission 
decided to let the market set the price for individual calls originated 
by payphones. In order to ensure that callers have information about 
the price of the calls they make, payphone providers are required to 
post the local coin call rate within the informational placard on each 
payphone. (No. of respondents: 197; hours per response: 20 hours; total 
annual burden: 3940 hours).
    (o) LEC Provision of Emergency Numbers to Carrier-Payors. Pursuant 
to the mandate in Section 276(b)(1)(A) that emergency calls shall not 
be subject to per call compensation, 47 U.S.C. Section 276 (b)(1)(A), 
the rules in the Order on Reconsideration provide that LECs shall 
supply to carrier-payors, on demand, a list of emergency numbers so 
that carrier-payors will know that they do not have to compensate 
payphone providers for those calls. (No. of respondents: 400; hours per 
response: 1 hour; total annual burden: 400 hours).
    All of the requirements would be used to ensure that interexchange 
carriers, payphone service providers (``PSPs''), LECs, and the states, 
comply with their obligations under the 1996 Act. Obligation to 
respond: Mandatory.
    Public reporting burden for the collection of information is as 
noted above. Send comments regarding the burden estimate or any other 
aspect of the collections of information, including suggestions for 
reducing the burden to Performance Evaluation and Records Management, 
Washington, DC 20554.

Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-28686 Filed 11-8-00; 8:45 am]
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