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OMB Control No.: 3060–0806.

Title: Universal Service—Schools and

Libraries Universal Service Program.

Form No.: FCC Forms 470 and 471.

Type of Review: Extension.

Respondents: Business or Other for

Profit.

Number of Respondents: 40,000.

Estimated Time Per Response: 7.3 hrs

(avg.).

Total Annual Burden: 660,000 hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion;

Recordkeeping; Third Party Disclosure.

Needs and Uses: 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 Control No.: 3060–0819.

Title: Lifeline Assistance (Lifeline)

Connection Assistance (Link Up)

Reporting Worksheet and Instructions

(47 CFR 54.400–54.417).

Form No.: FCC Form 497.

Type of Review: Extension.

Respondents: Business or Other for

Profit.

Number of Respondents: 18,000.

Estimated Time Per Response: 3 hrs

(avg.).

Total Annual Burden: 54,000 hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion;

Monthly; Quarterly.

Needs and Uses: Eligible

telecommunications carriers are

permitted to receive universal service

support reimbursement for offering

certain services to qualifying lowincome customers. The

telecommunications carriers must file

FCC Form 497 to solicit reimbursement.

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.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0798.

Title: FCC Application for Wireless

Telecommunications Bureau Radio

Service Authorization.

Form No.: FCC 601.

Type of Review: Revision of an

existing collection.

Respondents: Individuals or

households; Business or other for-profit;

Not-for-profit institutions; State, Local

or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 240,320.

Estimated Time Per Response: 1.25

hours.

Total Annual Burden: 210,280 hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden:

$48,364,000, which includes

application filing fees.

Needs and Uses: FCC 601 is used as

the general application (long form) for

market based licensing and site-by-site

licensing in the Wireless

Telecommunications Radio Services.

The purpose of this revision is to make

the necessary form changes for the

Tribal Lands bidding credits, to make

the necessary adjustments to the

instructions for implementation of Coast

and Ground Radio Services to ULS, to

add a general certification statement for

RF certification as adopted in Report

and Order, FCC–96–326, and to further

clarify various instructions for the

applicants. We sought emergency

clearance on these changes in order to

allow form changes to be in place for the

auctions scheduled for the beginning of

November and are now seeking a 3 year

clearance. The information is used by

the Commission to determine whether

the applicant is legally, technically and

financially qualified to be licensed.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

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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 forprofit; 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 forprofit.

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 lowincome 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 forprofit.

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 forprofit.

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. § 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. § 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 customerowned, 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.

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Notice of Public Information

Collection(s) being Submitted to OMB

for Review and Approval

October 30, 2000.

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

following information collection, as

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995, Public Law 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 (PRA) 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 comments should be

submitted on or before December 8,

2000. 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: Direct all comments to Les

Smith, Federal Communications

Commission, Room 1–A804, 445 12th

Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20554 or

via the Internet to lesmith@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

additional information or copies of the

information collections contact Les

Smith at (202) 418–0217 or via the

Internet at lesmith@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB

Control Number: 3060–0935.

Title: Cable Industry Survey on

Channel Capacity and Retransmission

Consent.

Form Number: N/A.

Type of Review: Extension of a

currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities.

Number of Respondents: 16.

Estimate Time Per Response: 12

hours.

Frequency of Response: One time

reporting requirement.

Total Annual Burden: 192 hours.

Total Annual Costs: $17,280.

Needs and Uses: The Commission

will use the data collected in this survey

to build a record and to determine how

to proceed on the mandatory carriage

issues in the pending rulemaking. The

data gleaned from the survey will be

incorporated in the next Report and

Order in CS Docket NO. 98–120.

Federal Communications Commission

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

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