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Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) will be 

made available to the Commission upon 

request. 

If the proposal is adopted by the 

Commission, it is anticipated that new 

applications must be developed and 

revisions to the International Bureau 

Filing System (IBFS) will be necessary 

to accommodate off-axis EIRP 

requirement for earth stations. The 

specific data to be collected is not 

known at this time. It is contingent 

upon comments received from the 

public, agency funding, and approval by 

various senior Commission staff. If the 

proposal is adopted, the Commission 

will publish a Federal Register notice 

for public comment in the future. 

This information collection is used by 

the Commission staff in carrying out its 

duties under the World Trade 

Organization (WTO) Basic Telecom 

Agreement. The information is 

necessary to determine the technical 

and legal qualifications of applicants or 

licensees to operate a station transfer or 

assign a license, and to determine 

whether the authorization is in the 

public interest, convenience and 

necessity. Without such information, 

applicants and licensees would not 

obtain the authorization necessary to 

provide telecommunications services; 

the Commission would not be able to 

carry-out its mandate as required by 

statute; and applicants and licensees 

would not be able to provide services to 

the public effectively. 

OMB Control No.: 3060–0901. 

Title: Reports of Common Carriers and 

Affiliates. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit. 

Number of Respondents: 20 

respondents; 1,200 responses. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 5 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and one-time reporting requirements, 

and third party disclosure requirement. 

Total Annual Burden: 6,000 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: N/A. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Needs and Uses: Common carriers 

must file copies of all contracts entered 

into with a communications entity in a 

foreign point for the provision of 

common carrier service between the 

United States and that foreign point. 

Carriers are exempt from this 

requirement if the carrier enters into 

such a contract with a carrier that lacks 

market power in the relevant foreign 

market. The information is used by 

Commission staff to monitor the 

operating agreements of the U.S. carriers 

and their foreign correspondents that 

possess market power, and in particular, 

to monitor the international accounting 

rates of such carriers to ensure 

consistency with Commission policies 

and the public interest. Without the 

collection of information, the 

Commission could not preclude oneway bypass and safeguard its 

international settlements policy. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 05–21859 Filed 11–1–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Public Information Collections 

Approved by Office of Management 

and Budget 

October 24, 2005. 

SUMMARY: 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: Paul 

J. Laurenzano, Federal Communications 

Commission, 445 12th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20554, (202) 418–1359 

or via the Internet at plaurenz@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control No.: 3060–1081. 

OMB Approval date: 10/14/2005. 

Expiration Date: 10/31/2008. 

Title: Federal-State Joint Board on 

Universal Service, CC Docket No. 96–45. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 22 

responses; 242 total annual burden 

hours; approximately 11 hours average 

per respondent. 

Needs and Uses: In CC Docket No. 

96–45, the Commission adopted 

additional mandatory requirements for 

ETC designation proceedings in which 

the Commission acts pursuant to section 

241(e)(6) of the Communications Act of 

1934, as amended. Consistent with the 

recommendations of the Federal-State 

Joint Board on Universal Service, and 

expanding the mandatory requirements, 

the Commission imposed additional 

requirements for designation and annual 

certifications. These requirements will 

ensure that ETCs continue to comply 

with the conditions of the ETC 

designation and that universal service 

funds are used for their intended 

purposes. Specifically, every ETC must 

submit, on a annual basis: (1) Progress 

reports on the ETC’s five-year service 

quality improvement plan; (2) detailed 

information on any outage lasting at 

least 30 minutes; (3) the number of 

unfulfilled requests for service from 

potential customers within its service 

areas; (4) the number of complaints per 

1,000 handsets or lines; (5) certification 

that the ETC is complying with 

applicable service quality standards and 

consumer protection rules; (6) 

certification that the ETC is able to 

function in emergency situations; (7) 

certification that the ETC is offering a 

local usage plan comparable to that 

offered by the incumbent LEC in the 

relevant service areas; and (8) 

certification that the carrier 

acknowledges that the Commission may 

require it to provide equal access to long 

distance carriers in the event no other 

ETC is providing equal access within 

the service area. The Commission will 

use the information collected to ensure 

that each ETC satisfies its obligation 

under Section 214(e) of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, to provide services supported 

by the universal service mechanism 

throughout the areas for which each 

ETC is designated. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 05–21867 Filed 11–1–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information 

Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 

Federal Communications Commission 

for Extension Under Delegated 

Authority 

October 21, 2005. 

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 (PRA) 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 that does not