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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection(s) contact Jerry 

Cowden via e-mail at PRA@fcc.gov or at 

202–418–0447. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Title: Information Collection 

regarding Emergency Backup Power for 

Communications Assets as set forth in 

the Commission’s rules (47 CFR 12.2). 

Form No.: Not applicable. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit. 

Number of Respondents: 73 

respondents; 93 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 70.32 

hours (average). 

Frequency of Response: One-time 

reporting. 

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. 

Total Annual Burden: 6,540 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: None. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: This 

information collection does not affect 

individuals or households, and 

therefore a privacy impact assessment is 

not required. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

All reports and plans required by 

Section 12.2 of the Commission’s rules 

will be automatically afforded 

confidentiality because the information 

in these reports and plans is sensitive 

for both national security and/or 

commercial reasons. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission, in 

order to help fulfill its statutory 

obligation to make wire and radio 

communications services available to all 

people in the United States for the 

purpose of the national defense and 

promoting safety of life and property, 

adopted an Order (FCC 07–107) that 

includes an emergency backup power 

rule (section 12.2). This rule, as 

modified in an Order on 

Reconsideration (FCC 07–177) obligates 

certain specified local exchange carriers 

(LECs) and commercial mobile radio 

service (CMRS) providers to file a report 

that enumerates whether the carriers 

meet the emergency backup power 

requirement for certain assets specified 

by the rule. 

Specifically, Section 12.2(c) requires 

LECs and CMRS providers to file reports 

with the Commission that identify the 

following information: (1) Each asset 

that was designed to comply with the 

applicable backup power requirement; 

(2) each asset where compliance is 

precluded due to risk to safety or life or 

health; (3) each asset where compliance 

is precluded by private legal obligation 

or agreement; (4) each asset where 

compliance is precluded by Federal, 

state, tribal or local law; and (5) each 

asset that was designed with less than 

the required emergency backup power 

capacity and that is not precluded from 

compliance by risk to safety of life or 

health, private legal obligation or 

agreement, or Federal, state, tribal or 

local law. LECs and CMRS providers 

must file these reports within six 

months of the effective date of this 

requirement, which is the date of 

Federal Register notice announcing 

OMB approval of the information 

collection contained in section 12.2 of 

the Commission’s rules. LECs and 

CMRS providers must include a 

description of facts supporting the basis 

of the LECs or CMRS provider’s claim 

of preclusion from compliance based on 

risk to safety of life or health, private 

legal obligation or agreement, or 

Federal, state, tribal or local law. 

Additionally, LECs and CMRS 

providers identifying assets designed 

with less than the emergency backup 

power capacity required in section 

12.2(a) and not otherwise precluded 

from compliance for one of the three 

reasons identified in section 12.2(b) 

must comply with the backup power 

requirement or file, within 12 months 

from the effective date of section 12.2, 

a certified emergency backup power 

compliance plan that is subject to 

Commission review. The emergency 

backup power compliance plan must 

certify and describe how, in the event of 

a commercial power failure, the LEC or 

CMRS provider will provide emergency 

backup power to 100 percent of the area 

covered by any non-compliant asset, 

relying on on-site and/or portable 

backup power sources or other sources 

as appropriate. This emergency backup 

power must be sufficient for service 

coverage as follows: A minimum of 24 

hours for assets inside central offices 

and eight hours for other assets such as 

cell sites, remote switches, and digital 

loop carrier system remote terminals. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 07–5697 Filed 11–14–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information 

Collection(s) Being Review by the 

Federal Communications Commission, 

Comments Requested 

November 8, 2007. 

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 ahve 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 January 14, 2008. 

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: You may submit all PRA 

comments by e-mail or U.S. mail. To 

submit your comments by e-mail, send 

them to PRA@fcc.gov. To submit your 

comments by U.S. mail, send them to 

Leslie F. Smith, Federal 

Communications Commission, Room 1–

C216, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, 

DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

Additional information about the 

information collection(s), contact Leslie 

F. Smith via e-mail at PRA@fcc.gov or 

call (202) 418–0217. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0774. 

Title: Universal Service Reporting, 

Disclosure, and Record Retention 

Requirements (47 CFR parts 36 and 54). 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities, not-for-profit institutions, 

and state, local, or tribal government. 

Number of Respondents: 7,061,552 

respondents; 7,621,931 responses. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 0.084–

1500 hours 

Frequency of Response: On occasion, 

quarterly, annual, and five-year 


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reporting requirements; recordkeeping 

requirement; and third party disclosure 

requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

Total Annual Burden: 1,502,333 

hours 

Total Annual Cost: $0.00 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impacts. 

Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: 

This collection does not address 

information of a confidential nature. 

Needs and Uses: The 

Telecommunication Act of 1996 (1996 

Act) directed the Commission to initiate 

a rulemaking to reform the system of 

universal service so that universal 

service is preserved and advanced as 

markets move toward competition. To 

fulfill that mandate, on March 8, 1996, 

the Commission adopted a Notice of 

proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in CC 

Docket No. 96–45 to implement the 

congressional directives set out in 

section 254 of the Communications Act 

of 1934, as amended by the 1996 Act. 

Pursuant to section 254(a)(1), the NPRM 

also referred numerous issues related to 

universal service to a Federal-State Joint 

Board for recommended decision. On 

November 8, 1996, the Joint Board 

released a Recommended Decision in 

which it made recommendations to 

assist and counsel the Commission in 

the creation of an effective universal 

service support mechanism that would 

ensure that the goals of affordable, 

quality service and access to advanced 

services are met by means that enhance 

competition. On November 18, 1996, the 

Commission’s Common Carrier Bureau 

released a Public Notice (DA 96–1891) 

seeking public comment on the issues 

addressed and recommendations made 

by the Joint Board in the Recommended 

Decision. In a Report and Order issued 

in CC Docket No. 96–45, released on 

May 8, 1997, and other proceedings, the 

Commission adopted rules that were 

designed to implement the universal 

service provisions of section 254. On 

August 29, 2007, the Commission 

released the Report and Order, 2007 

Comprehensive Review of the Universal 

Service Fund Management, 

Administration and Oversight, WC 

Docket Nos. 05–195, 02–60, 03–109 and 

CC Docket Nos. 96–45, 02–6, 97–21, 

FCC 07–150. In this order, the 

Commission took several further steps 

to safeguard the Universal Service Fund 

from waste, fraud, and abuse, including 

imposing document retention rules on 

all universal service programs and 

program contributors. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 07–5699 Filed 11–14–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–M 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information 

Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 

Federal Communications Commission 

for Extension Under Delegated 

Authority, Comments Requested 

November 7, 2007. 

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 January 14, 2008. 

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: You may submit all PRA 

comments by e-mail or U.S. mail. To 

submit your comments by e-mail, send 

them to PRA@fcc.gov. To submit your 

comments by U.S. mail, send them to 

Leslie F. Smith, Federal 

Communications Commission, Room 1–

C216, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, 

DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection(s), contact Leslie 

F. Smith via e-mail at PRA@fcc.gov or 

call (202) 418–0217. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0384. 

Title: Sections 64.904 and 64.905, 

Auditor’s Attestation and Certification. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents: 13 

respondents. 

Estimated Time per Response: 35–250 

hours. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

Frequency of Response: On-occasion, 

biennial, and annual reporting 

requirements. 

Total Annual Burden: 1,535 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $1,200,000. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impacts. 

Nature of Extent of Confidentiality: 

This collection does not address 

information of a confidential nature. 

Needs and Uses: 47 CFR 64.904(a) 

requires each incumbent LEC required 

to file a cost allocation manual is 

required to either have an attest 

engagement or have a financial audit 

performed by an independent auditor 

biennially. Mid-sized carriers are 

required to file a certification with the 

Commission stating that they are in 

compliance with 47 CFR 64.905. The 

requirements are imposed to ensure that 

the carriers are properly complying with 

Commission rules. They serve as an 

important aid in the Commission’s 

monitoring program. 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0470. 

Title: Sections 64.901–64.903, 

Allocation of Cost, Cost Allocation 

Manual, and RAO Letters 19 and 26. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents: 6 

respondents. 

Estimated Time per Response: 400 

hours (avg.). 

Frequency of Response: On-occasion 

and annual reporting requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

Total Annual Burden: 2,400 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $0.00. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No 

impacts. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

This collection does not address 

information of a confidential nature. 

Needs and Uses: 47 CFR 64.901 

requires carriers to separate their 


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