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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 July 9, 2001. 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

Commissions, 445 12th Street, SW.,

Room 1–A804, 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 No.: 3060–0824.

Title: Service Provider Information

Form.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: Extension.

Respondents: Business or Other for

Profit.

Number of Respondents: 10,000.

Estimated Time Per Response: 1 hour

per response (avg).

Total Annual Burden: 10,000 hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Needs and Uses: Pursuant to 47 CFR

sections 54.515 and 54.611, the

Administrator must obtain information

relating to: service provider name and

address, telephone number, Federal

employee identification number, contact

names and telephone numbers, and

billing and collection information. FCC

Form 498 has been designed to collect

this information from carriers and

service providers participating in the

universal service program. The

information will be used in the

reimbursement of universal service

support payments.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0804.

Title: Universal Service—Health Care

Providers Universal Service Program.

Form No.: FCC Forms 465, 466, 466-

A, 467 and 468.

Type of Review: Extension.

Respondents: Not for profit

institutions; Business or Other for Profit.

Number of Respondents: 5255.

Estimated Time Per Response: 1.85

hours per response (avg).

Total Annual Burden: 9755 hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion;.

Needs and Uses: The Commission

adopted rules providing support for all

telecommunications services, Internet

access, and internal connections for all

eligible health care providers. Health

care providers who want to participate

in the universal service program must

file several forms, including FCC Forms

465, 466, 466-A, 467, and 468. FCC

Form 465, Description of Service

Requested and Certification is filed by

rural health care providers to certify

their eligibility to receive discounted

telecommunications services. FCC Form

466, Funding Request and Certification

Form is used to ensure that health care

providers have selected the most costeffective method of providing the

requested services. FCC Form 466-A is

filed by rural health care providers

seeking support only for toll changes to

access the Internet. FCC Form 467,

Connection Certification is filed by rural

health care providers 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. FCC Form 468,

Telecommunications Carrier Form, is

submitted by rural health care providers

to ensure that the telecommunications

carrier receives the appropriate amount

of credit for providing

telecommunications services to eligible

health care providers.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0855.

Title: Telecommunications Reporting

Worksheet and Associated

Requirements, CC Docket No. 96–45.

Form No.: FCC Forms 499, 499–A and

499–Q.

Type of Review: Extension.

Respondents: Business or Other for

Profit.

Number of Respondents: 5000.

Estimated Time Per Response: 16.49

hours per response (avg).

Total Annual Burden: 82,487 hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion;

Monthly; Annually; Third Party

Disclosure; Recordkeeping.

Needs and Uses: Pursuant to the

Communications Act of 1934, as

amended, telecommunications carriers

(and certain other providers of

telecommunications services) must

contribute to the support and cost

recovery mechanisms for

telecommunications relay services,

numbering administration, number

portability, and universal service. The

Commission recently modified the

existing methodology used to assess

contributions that carriers make to the

federal universal service support

mechanisms. The modifications adopted

entail altering the current revenue

reporting requirements to which

interstate telecommunications carriers

are subject under 47 U.S.C. Sections

54.709 and 54.711. Carriers continue to

file FCC Form 499–A annually as they

are required to do under the existing

methodology. Carriers must now report

their revenues for each quarter on FCC

Form 499–Q. Carriers will file one

annual filing and four quarterly filings,

for a total of five revenue filings per

year.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

Notice of Public Information

Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the

Federal Communications Commission

for Extension Under Delegated

Authority, Comments Requested

May 1, 2001.

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(s), 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 July 9, 2001. If

you anticipate that you will be

submitting comments, but find it

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difficult to do so within the period of

time allowed by this notice, you should

advise the contact listed below as soon

as possible.

ADDRESS: Direct all comments to Les

Smith, Federal Communications

Commissions, Room 1A–804, 445

Twelfth Street, SW., 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 No.: 3060–0166.

Title: Part 42—Preservation of

Records of Communication Common

Carriers.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: Extension.

Respondents: Business or Other for

Profit.

Number of Respondents: 68.

Estimated Time Per Response: 2 hours

per response (avg).

Total Annual Burden: 136 hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion;

Recordkeeping.

Needs and Uses: Section 220 of the

Communications Act of 1934, as

amended, makes it unlawful for carriers

to willfully destroy information retained

for the Commission. 47 U.S.C. part 42

prescribes guidelines to ensure that

carriers maintain the necessary records

needed by the FCC for its regulatory

obligations. The requirements are

necessary to ensure the availability of

carrier records needed by Commission

staff for regulatory purposes.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0149.

Title: Application and Supplemental

Information Requirements—Part 63,

Section 214, and Sections 63.01–63.601.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: Extension.

Respondents: Business or Other for

Profit.

Number of Respondents: 255.

Estimated Time Per Response: 10

hours per response (avg).

Total Annual Burden: 2550 hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion;

Third Party Disclosure.

Needs and Uses: Section 214 of the

Communications Act of 1934, as

amended, requires that the FCC review

the establishment, lease, operations, and

extension of channels of

communications by interstate common

carriers. 47 CFR part 63 implements

section 214. Part 63 also implements

provisions of the Cable Communications

Policy Act of 1984 pertaining to video

programming by telephone common

carriers. The information received in

applications from dominant carriers is

used to determine if the facilities are

needed. The information received from

non-dominant carriers is used to

monitor the growth of the networks and

the availability of common carrier

services.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0814.

Title: Section 54.301, Local Switching

Support and Local Switching Support

Data Collection Form and Instructions.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: Extension.

Respondents: Business or Other for

Profit.

Number of Respondents: 192.

Estimated Time Per Response: 21.55

hours per response (avg).

Total Annual Burden: 4138 hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion;

Annually.

Needs and Uses: Pursuant to 47 CFR

Section 54.301, each incumbent local

exchange carrier that is not a member of

the NECA common line tariff, that has

been designated an eligible

telecommunications carriers, and that

serves a study area with 50,000 or fewer

access lines shall, for each study area,

provide the Administrator with the

projected total unseparated dollar

amount assigned to each account in

section 54.301(b). Average schedule

companies are required to file

information pursuant to 47 CFR Section

54.301(f). Both respondents must

provide true-up data. The data is

necessary to calculate certain revenue

requirement.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0736.

Title: Implementation of the NonAccounting Safeguards of Section 271

and 272 of the Communications Act of

1934, as amended, CC Docket No. 96–

149.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: Extension.

Respondents: Business or Other for

Profit.

Number of Respondents: 5.

Estimated Time Per Response: 60.6

hours per response (avg).

Total Annual Burden: 303 hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion;

Monthly; Annually; Third Party

Disclosure.

Needs and Uses: Section 272 of the

Telecommunications Act of 1996

requires that Bell Operating Companies

(BOCs) make information available to

third parties if it makes that information

available to its section 272(a) affiliates.

In CC Docket No. 96–149, the

Commission adopted safeguards to

govern BOCs entry into certain new

markets. BOCs are required to provide,

among other things, unaffiliated entities

with all listing information, including

unlisted and unpublished numbers as

well as the numbers of other local

exchange carriers’ customers, that the

BOC uses to provide E9II services. In a

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

issued in CC Docket No. 96–149, the

Commission proposed that BOCs make

certain information disclosures

available to unaffiliated entities and that

the BOCs submit an annual affidavit.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–11766 Filed 5–9–01; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

Public Information Collections

Approved by Office of Management

and Budget

May 1, 2001.

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.: 3060–0807.

Expiration Date: April 30, 2004.

Title: 47 CFR 51.803 and

Supplemental Procedures for Petitions

to Section 252(e)(5) of the

Communications Act of 1934, as

amended.

Form No.: N/A.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit.

Estimated Annual Burden: 52

respondents; 39.2 hours per response

(avg.); 2040 total annual burden hours

(for all collections approved under this

control number).

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion;

Third Party Disclosure.