Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 42 / Wednesday, March 4, 2015 / Notices 11673 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of 

the Managing Director. 

[FR Doc. 2015–04436 Filed 3–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[3060–1085] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– 

3520), the Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC or the Commission) 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

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; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; 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 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 control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

PRA that does not display a valid Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

control number. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before May 4, 2015. 

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 PRA comments to 

Benish Shah, FCC, via email PRA@

fcc.gov and to Benish.Shah@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact 

Benish.Shah@fcc.gov, (202) 418–7866. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1085. 

Title: Section 9.5, Interconnected 

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) 

E911 Compliance. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents: 12 

respondents; 14,971,342 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 50,062 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping requirement and third 

party disclosure requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. 

Statutory authority for this information 

collection is contained in 47. U.S.C. 

Sections 1, 4(i), and 251 (e)(3) of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 600,743 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $80,235,305. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality with 

this collection of information. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission is 

obligated by statute to promote ‘‘safety 

of life and property’’ and to ‘‘encourage 

and facilitate the prompt deployment 

throughout the United States of a 

seamless, ubiquitous, and reliable endto-end infrastructure’’ for public safety. 

Congress has established 911 as the 

national emergency number to enable 

all citizens to reach emergency services 

directly and efficiently, irrespective of 

whether a citizen uses wireline or 

wireless technology when calling for 

help by dialing 911. Efforts by federal, 

state and local government, along with 

the significant efforts of wireline and 

wireless service providers, have resulted 

in the nearly ubiquitous deployment of 

this life-saving service. 

The Order the Commission adopted 

on May 19, 2005, sets forth rules 

requiring providers of VoIP services that 

interconnect with the nation’s existing 

public switched telephone network 

(interconnected VoIP services) to supply 

E911 capabilities to their customers. To 

ensure E911 functionality for customers 

of VoIP service providers the 

Commission requires the following 

information collections: 

A. Location Registration. Requires 

providers to interconnected VoIP 

services to obtain location information 

from their customers for use in the 

routing of 911 calls and the provision of 

location information to emergency 

answering points. 

B. Provision of Automatic Location 

Information (ALI). Interconnected VoIP 

service providers will place the location 

information for their customers into, or 

make that information available 

through, specialized databases 

maintained by local exchange carriers 

(and, in at least one case, a state 

government) across the country. 

C. Customer Notification. Requires 

that all providers of interconnected 

VoIP are aware of their interconnected 

VoIP service’s actual E911 capabilities. 

That all providers of interconnected 

VoIP service specifically advise every 

subscriber, both new and existing, 

prominently and in plain language, the 

circumstances under which E911 

service may not be available through the 

interconnected VoIP service or may be 

in some way limited by comparison to 

traditional E911 service. 

D. Record of Customer Notification. 

Requires VoIP providers to obtain and 

keep a record of affirmative 

acknowledgement by every subscriber, 

both new and existing, of having 

received and understood this advisory. 

E. User Notification. In addition, in 

order to ensure to the extent possible 

that the advisory is available to all 

potential users of an interconnected 

VoIP service, interconnected VoIP 

service providers must distribute to all 

subscribers, both new and existing, 

warning stickers or other appropriate 

labels warning subscribers if E911 

service may be limited or not available 

and instructing the subscriber to place 

them on or near the customer premises 

equipment used in conjunction with the 

interconnected VoIP service. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of 

the Managing Director. 

[FR Doc. 2015–04416 Filed 3–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Notice of Agreements Filed 

The Commission hereby gives notice 

of the filing of the following agreements 

under the Shipping Act of 1984. 

Interested parties may submit comments 

on the agreements to the Secretary, 

Federal Maritime Commission, 

Washington, DC 20573, within twelve 

days of the date this notice appears in 

the Federal Register. Copies of the 

agreements are available through the 

Commission’s Web site (www.fmc.gov) 

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