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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 64 

[WC Docket No. 13–39; FCC 13–135] 

Rural Call Completion Recordkeeping 

and Reporting Requirements 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule; announcement of 

effective date. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal 

Communications Commission 

(Commission) announces that the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) has 

approved, for a period of three years, the 

information collection associated with 

the Commission’s Report and Order 

(Order) WC Docket No. 13–39, FCC 13– 

135. This document is consistent with 

the Order, which stated that the 

Commission would publish a document 

in the Federal Register announcing 

OMB approval and the effective date of 

the requirements. 

DATES: 47 CFR 64.2103, 64.2105, 

64.2107, and the information collection 

in paragraph 67 of this Report and 

Order, which contains information 

collection requirements published at 78 

FR 76218, December 17, 2013 are 

effective on March 4, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Randy Clarke, Acting Division Chief, 

Wireline Competition Bureau, at (202) 

418–1587. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document announces that, on January 

29, 2015, OMB approved, for a period of 

three years, the information collection 

requirements contained in the 

Commission’s Order, FCC 13–135, 

published at 78 FR 76218, December 17, 

2013. The OMB Control Number is 

3060–1186. The Commission publishes 

this document as an announcement of 

the effective date of paragraphs 66 and 

67, of document WC Docket No. 13–39, 

FCC 13–135. If you have any comments 

on the burden estimates listed below, or 

how the Commission can improve the 

collections and reduce any burdens 

caused thereby, please contact Nicole 

Ongele, Federal Communications 

Commission, Room 1–620, 445 12th 

Street SW., Washington, DC 20554, or 

via email at: Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. 

Please include the OMB Control 

Number, 3060–1186, in your 

correspondence. The Commission also 

will accept comments via email. Please 

send them to PRA@fcc.gov. 

To request materials in accessible 

formats for people with disabilities 

(Braille, large print, electronic files, 

audio format), send an email to fcc504@

fcc.gov or call the Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 

418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432 

(TTY). 

Synopsis 

As required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507), 

the FCC is notifying the public that it 

received OMB approval on January 29, 

2015, for the information collection 

requirements contained in 64.2103, 

64.2105, and 64.2107 of the 

Commission’s Rules and the 

information collection in paragraph 67 

of the Order. 

Under 5 CFR part 1320, an agency 

may not conduct or sponsor a collection 

of information unless it displays a 

current, valid OMB 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 that does not 

display a current, valid OMB Control 

Number. The OMB Control Number is 

3060–1186. 

The foregoing notice is required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13, October 1, 1995, 

and 44 U.S.C. 3507. 

The total annual reporting burdens 

and costs for the respondents are as 

follows: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1186. 

OMB Approval Date: January 29, 

2015. 

OMB Expiration Date: January 31, 

2018. 

Title: Rural Call Completion 

Recordkeeping and Reporting 

Requirements. 

Form Number: FCC Form 480. 

Respondents: Businesses or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 225 respondents; 940 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 12.5 

hours (per quarter). 

Frequency of Response: Quarterly and 

one-time reporting requirements and 

recordkeeping requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 

201(b), 202(a), 218, 220(a), 251(a), 403. 

Total Annual Burden: 11,280 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $793,750. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: No 

impact (s). 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

An assurance of confidentiality is not 

offered because this information 

collection does not require the 

collection of personally identifiable 

information from individuals. If the FCC 

requests that respondents submit 

information which respondents believe 

is confidential, respondents may request 

confidential treatment of such 

information pursuant to Section 0.459 of 

the FCC’s rules, 47 CFR 0.459. 

Needs and Uses: On October 28, 2013, 

the Wireline Competition Bureau 

(Bureau) of the Federal Communications 

Commission adopted a Report and 

Order (Order), in WC Docket No. 13–39; 

FCC 13–135, 78 FR 76218, Rural Call 

Completion. Under the rules adopted by 

the Order, submission of Form 480 is 

mandatory for a ‘‘covered provider’’ as 

defined in 47 CFR 64.2101(c). A covered 

provider failing to file Form 480 in a 

timely fashion may be subject to 

penalties under the Communications 

Act, including sections 502 and 503(b). 

In the Order the Commission improves 

its ability to monitor problems with 

completing calls to rural areas, and 

enforce restrictions against blocking, 

choking, reducing, or restricting calls. 

The Order applies the new rules to 

‘‘covered providers,’’ meaning providers 

of long-distance voice service that make 

the initial long-distance call path choice 

for more than 100,000 domestic retail 

subscriber lines, counting the total of all 

business and residential fixed 

subscriber lines and mobile phones and 

aggregated over all of the providers’ 

affiliates. In most cases, this is the 

calling party’s long-distance provider. 

Covered providers include LECs, 

interexchange carriers (IXCs), 

commercial mobile radio service 

(CMRS) providers, and VoIP service 

providers. These rules do not apply to 

intermediate providers. Covered 

providers must file quarterly reports and 

retain the call detail records for at least 

six calendar months. Long-distance 

voice service providers that have more 

than 100,000 domestic retail subscriber 

lines but that, for reasons set forth in 

paragraph 67 of the Order, are not 

required to file quarterly reports are 

required to file a one-time letter in WC 

Docket No. 13–39 explaining that they 

do not make the initial long-distance 

call path choice for more than 100,000 

long-distance voice service subscriber 

lines and identifying the long-distance 

provider or providers to which they 

hand off their end-user customers’ calls. 

The Order also allows qualifying 

providers to certify that they meet the 

conditions for a Safe Harbor that would 

reduce reporting and retention 

obligations. In addition, the 

Commission has delegated to the 


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Bureau, in consultation with the 

Enforcement Bureau, the authority to act 

on requests from qualified providers for 

waiver of these rules. The Order also 

adopts a rule prohibiting all originating 

and intermediate providers from 

causing audible ringing to be sent to the 

caller before the terminating provider 

has signaled that the called party is 

being alerted. 

In the near future, the Bureau will 

issue a public notice providing detailed 

instructions and announcing the 

deadline for the submission of data and 

providing further filing information. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

48 CFR Parts 1001, 1002, 1016, 1019, 

1028, 1032, 1034, 1042, and 1052 

Department of the Treasury 

Acquisition Regulation; Technical 

Amendments 

AGENCY: Office of the Procurement 

Executive, Treasury. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury is amending the Department of 

the Treasury Acquisition Regulation 

(DTAR) in order to make editorial 

changes. These editorial changes are in 

response to updates made to the Federal 

Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Treasury 

bureau organizational restructuring, and 

other internal updates that have 

occurred since the 2013 edition. 

DATES: Effective: April 3, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas O’Linn, Procurement Analyst, 

Office of the Procurement Executive, at 

(202) 622–2092. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

DTAR, which supplement the Federal 

Acquisition Regulation, are codified at 

48 CFR Chapter 10. In order to update 

certain elements in 48 CFR part 10, the 

Department issued a proposed rule on 

December 23, 2014 (79 FR 76948) to 

solicit comments on certain editorial 

changes to the DTAR, which include 

updating Treasury bureau names and 

updating titles and dates, and other 

nonsubstantive revisions. This proposed 

rule also invited comments on removal 

of the Earned Value Management 

System provisions codified at section 

1052.234–72. There is no longer a need 

for Treasury-specific coverage in this 

area. 

The public comment period on the 

proposed rule closed on January 22, 

2015. No comments were received. 

Accordingly, the Department is 

adopting the provisions of the proposed 

rule without change. 

Regulatory Planning and Review 

This rule is not a significant 

regulatory action as defined in section 

3(f) of Executive Order 12866. Therefore 

a regulatory assessment is not required. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 

U.S.C. chapter 6) generally requires 

agencies to conduct an initial regulatory 

flexibility analysis and a final regulatory 

flexibility analysis of any rule subject to 

notice and comment rulemaking 

requirements, unless the agency certifies 

that the rule will not have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. 

It is hereby certified that this rule will 

not have a significant economic impact 

on a substantial number of small 

entities. Although the rule may affect a 

substantial number of small entities, the 

rule is limited to nonsubstantive, 

editorial changes to the DTAR, which 

are anticipated to have no economic 

impact. Therefore, a regulatory 

flexibility analysis is not required. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

The information collections contained 

in this rule have been previously 

approved by the Office of Management 

and Budget under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) 

and assigned OMB control numbers 

1505–0081; 1505–0080; and 1505–0107. 

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act, an 

agency may not conduct or sponsor and 

a person is not required to respond to 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a valid OMB control number. 

List of Subjects in 48 CFR Chapter 10 

Government procurement. 

Accordingly, the Department of the 

Treasury amends 48 CFR chapter 10 as 

follows: 

PART 1001—DEPARTMENT OF THE 

TREASURY ACQUISITION 

REGULATION (DTAR) SYSTEM 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 1001 

is revised to read as follows: 

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 1707. 

1001.670 [Amended] 

■ 2. Amend section 1001.670 by 

removing in the first sentence the word 

‘‘Technical’’ and revising ‘‘COTR’’ to 

read ‘‘COR’’ wherever it occurs. 

PART 1002—DEFINITIONS OF WORDS 

AND TERMS 

■ 3. The authority citation for part 1002 

is revised to read as follows: 

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 1707. 

■ 4. Section 1002.101 is revised to read 

as follows: 

1002.101 Definitions. 

Bureau means any one of the 

following Treasury organizations: 

(1) Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and 

Trade Bureau (TTB); 

(2) Bureau of Engraving & Printing 

(BEP); 

(3) Bureau of the Fiscal Service 

(formerly Bureau of Public Debt and 

Financial Management Service); 

(4) Departmental Offices (DO); 

(5) Financial Crimes Enforcement 

Network (FinCEN); 

(6) Office of the Inspector General 

(OIG); 

(7) Internal Revenue Service (IRS); 

(8) Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency (OCC); 

(9) Special Inspector General for the 

Troubled Asset Relief Program 

(SIGTARP); 

(10) Treasury Inspector General for 

Tax Administration (TIGTA); or 

(11) United States Mint. 

1002.70 [Amended] 

■ 5. Amend section 1002.70 by— 

■ a. Removing ‘‘COTR Contracting 

Technical Officer’s Representative’’ and 

adding ‘‘COR Contracting Officer’s 

Representative’’ in its place. 

■ b. Removing ‘‘IPP Internet Payment 

Platform’’ and adding ‘‘IPP Invoice 

Processing Platform’’ in its place. 

PART 1016—TYPES OF CONTRACTS 

■ 6. The authority citation for part 1016 

is revised to read as follows: 

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 1707. 

1016.505 [Amended] 

■ 7. Section 1016.505 is revised to read 

as follows: 

1016.505 Ordering. 

(b)(8) The HCA shall designate a task 

and delivery order ombudsman in 

accordance with bureau procedures and 

provide a copy of the designation to the 

agency task and delivery order 

ombudsman. Bureau task and delivery 

order ombudsmen shall review 

complaints from contractors concerning 

task and delivery orders placed by the 

contracting activity and ensure they are 

afforded a fair opportunity to be 

considered, consistent with the 

procedures in the contract. In the 

absence of a designation, the Bureau 


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