[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 228 (Monday, November 27, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70719-70721]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30059]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collections Approved By Office of Management 
and Budget

November 17, 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.: 3060-0511.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2003.
    Title: ARMIS Access Report.
    Form No.: FCC Report 43-04.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 150 respondents; 621 hours per response 
(avg.).; 93,150 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Description: Section 220 of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended, 47 U.S.C. 220, allows the Commission, at its discretion, to 
prescribe the forms of any and all accounts, records, and memoranda to 
be kept by carriers subject to this Act, including the accounts, 
records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic, as well as the 
receipts and expenditures of moneys. Section 219(b) of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 219(b), authorizes 
the Commission by a general or special orders to require any carrier 
subject to this Act to file monthly reports concerning any matters with 
respect to which the Commission is authorized or required by law to 
act. ARMIS was implemented to facilitate the timely and efficient 
analysis of revenue requirements, rates of return and price caps; to 
provide an improved basis for audits and other oversight functions; and 
to enhance the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of 
alternative policy. The ARMIS 43-04 Report provides jurisdictional 
separations and access charge data by Part 36 category of the 
Commission's Rules and Regulations. The ARMIS 43-04 Report monitors 
revenue requirements, joint cost allocations, jurisdictional 
separations and access charges. The information contained in the ARMIS 
43-04 Report provides the necessary detail to enable the Commission to 
fulfill its regulatory responsibilities. Obligation to respond: 
Mandatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0512.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2003.
    Title: ARMIS Annual Summary Report.
    Form No.: FCC Report 43-01.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 150 respondents; 135 hours per response 
(avg.).; 20,250 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Description: Section 220 of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended, 47 U.S.C. 220, allows the Commission, at its discretion, to 
prescribe the forms of any and all accounts, records, and memoranda to 
be kept by carriers subject to this Act, including the accounts, 
records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic, as well as of the 
receipts and expenditures of moneys. Section 219(b) of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 219(b), authorizes 
the Commission by a general or special orders to require any carriers 
subject to this Act to file annual reports concerning any matters with 
respect to which the Commission is authorized or required by law to 
act. ARMIS was implemented to facilitate the timely and efficient 
analysis of revenue requirements, rates of return and price caps; to 
provide an improved basis for audits and other oversight functions; and 
to enhance the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of 
alternative

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policy. The ARMIS 43-01 Report contains financial and operating data 
and is used to monitor the incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) 
and to perform routine analyses of costs and revenues. ARMIS 43-01 
Report facilitates the annual collection of the results of accounting, 
rate base, and cost allocation requirements prescribed in Parts 32, 36, 
64, 65, and 69 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations. The 
information contained in the ARMIS 43-01 Report provides the necessary 
detail to enable the Commission to fulfill its regulatory 
responsibilities. Obligation to respond: Mandatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0513.
    Expiration Date: ARMIS Joint Cost Report.
    Title: ARMIS Joint Cost Report.
    Form No.: FCC Report 43-03.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 150 respondents; 83 hours per response 
(avg.).; 12,450 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Description: Section 220 of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended, 47 U.S.C. 220, allows the Commission, at its discretion, to 
prescribe the forms of any and all accounts, records, and memoranda to 
be kept by carriers subject to this Act, including the accounts, 
records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic, as well as the 
receipts and expenditures of moneys. Section 219(b) of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 219(b), authorizes 
the Commission by a general or special orders to require any carrier 
subject to this Act to file monthly reports concerning any matters for 
which the Commission is authorized, or required by law, to act. ARMIS 
was implemented to facilitate the timely and efficient analysis of 
revenue requirements, rates of return and price caps; to provide an 
improved basis for audits and other oversight functions; and to enhance 
the Commission's ability to quantify the effects of alternative policy. 
The ARMIS Joint Cost Report, FCC Report 43-03, contains financial and 
operating data. The ARMIS 43-03 Report details the incumbent local 
exchange carriers (ILECs) regulated and nonregulated cost and revenue 
allocations by study area pursuant to Part 64 of the Commission's 
Rules. The information contained in the ARMIS 43-03 Report provides the 
necessary detail to enable the Commission to fulfill its regulatory 
responsibilities. Obligation to respond: Mandatory.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0804.
    Expiration Date: 10/31/2003.
    Title: Universal Service--Health Care Providers Universal Service 
Program.
    Form No.: FCC Forms 465, 466, 
466-A, 467, and 468.
    Respondents: Not for profit institutions; Business or other for-
profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 5255 respondents; 1.85 hours per response 
(avg.).; 9755 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; third party disclosure.
    Description: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 Act) directed 
the Commission to initiate a rulemaking reform to our system of 
universal service so that universal service is preserved and advanced 
as markets move toward competition. On May 8, 1997, the Commission 
adopted rules providing, among other things, that rural health care 
providers receive access to advanced telecommunications services at 
rates that are reasonably comparable to those available in urban areas. 
All rural health care providers planning to order eligible 
telecommunications services at discounted rates under the universal 
service program must file the following forms: FCC Form 465, 
Description of Service Requested & Certification. Rural health care 
providers ordering discounted telecommunications services under the 
universal service program must submit FCC Form 465, Description of 
Service Requested and Certification to the Administrator. Rural health 
care providers must certify their eligibility to receive discounted 
telecommunications services. 47 CFR 54.615(c). The Administrator will 
then post a description of the services sought on a website for all 
potential competing service providers to see and respond to as if they 
were requests for proposals (RFPs). (No. of respondents: 1200; hours 
per response: 2.5 hours; total annual burden: 3000 hours). b. FCC Form 
466, Funding Request and Certification. Rural health care providers 
that have ordered telecommunications under the universal service 
discount program must file FCC Form 466, Funding Request and 
Certification Form, with the Administrator. The data reported will be 
used to ensure that health care providers have selected the most cost-
effective method of providing the requested services. 47 CFR 
54.603(b)(4). (No. of respondents: 1350; hours per response: 2 hours; 
total annual burden: 2700 hours). c. FCC Form 466-A, Internet Toll 
Charge Discount Request. If a rural health care provider is only 
seeking support for toll charges to access the Internet, it must submit 
Form 466-A. (No. of respondents: 5; hours per response: 1 hour; total 
annual burden: 5 hours). d. FCC Form 467, Connection Certification. 
Rural health care providers participating in the universal service 
support mechanism must submit Form 467 to inform the Administrator that 
they have begun to receive, or have stopped receiving, the 
telecommunications services for which universal service support has 
been allocated. The data reported will be used to ensure that universal 
service support is distributed to telecommunications carriers serving 
eligible health care providers pursuant to 47 CFR 54.611. (No. of 
respondents: 1350; hours per response: 1.5 hours; total annual burden: 
2025 hours). e. FCC Form 468, Telecommunications Carrier Form. Rural 
health care providers ordering telecommunications services under the 
universal service support mechanism must submit FCC Form 468, 
Telecommunications Carrier Form to the Administrator. The data reported 
will be used to ensure that the telecommunications carrier receives the 
appropriate amount of credit for providing telecommunications services 
to eligible health care providers. 47 CFR 54.605-611. (No. of 
respondents: 1350; hours per response: 1.5 hours; total annual burden: 
2025 hours). Obligation to respond: Required to obtain or retain 
benefits.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0292.
    Expiration Date: 11/30/2003.
    Title: Part 69--Access Charges.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 5832 respondents; 4.74 hours per response 
(avg.).; 27,702 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; monthly; annually; biennially.
    Description: Part 69 of the Commission's rules and regulations 
establishes the rules for access charges for interstate or foreign 
access provided by telephone companies on or after January 1, 1984. 
Part 69 essentially consists of rules or the procedures for the 
computation of access charges. (a) Section 69.3 requires the biennial 
or annual submission of access charge tariffs. (b) Section 69.116(c) 
and 69.117(c) require local exchange carriers to file information with 
NECA semi-annually pertaining to the number of lines in their study 
areas and the interexchange carriers to which such

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lines are presubscribed. This information will be used by NECA to 
assess revenue requirements needed to fund the Universal Service Fund 
and Lifeline Assistance programs. (c) Section 69.104(k)(1) requires 
that a state or local telephone company wishing to implement an end 
user common line reduction or waiver for its subscribers file 
information with the Commission demonstrating that its state lifeline 
assistance plan meets certain criteria. This is a one-time filing 
requirement which as effective until December 31,1997. (d) Section 
69.104(l) requires local telephone carriers to calculate for NECA their 
projected revenue requirements for the lifeline assistance program 
until December 31, 1997. (e) Section 69.605 requires carriers who are 
participating in the pool to report access revenues and cost data so 
that NECA may compute monthly pool revenues distributions. The 
information is used to compute charges in tariffs for access service 
(or origination and termination) and to compute revenue pool 
distributions. Neither process could be implemented without the 
information. Obligation to respond: Required to obtain or retain 
benefits.
    OMB Control No.: 3060-0952.
    Expiration Date: 10/31/2003.
    Title: Proposed Demographic Information and Notifications, Second 
FNPRM, CC Docket No. 98-147 and Fifth NPRM, CC Docket No. 96-98.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1400 respondents; 4 hours per response 
(avg.).; 5600 total annual burden hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion; Third Party Disclosure.
    Description: In CC Docket No. 98-147, the Commission solicited 
comment on whether requesting carriers should receive demographic and 
other information from incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) to 
determine whether they wish to collocate at particular remote 
terminations. In CC Docket No. 98-96, comment was sought on whether 
ILECs should provide certain notifications to completing carriers. If 
adopted, the proposed requirements will implement section 706 of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, to promote deployment of 
advanced services without significantly degrading the performance of 
other services. Obligation to respond: Mandatory.
    Public reporting burdens for the collections of information are as 
noted above. Send comments regarding the burden estimates 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. 00-30059 Filed 11-24-00; 8:45 am]
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