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time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the FCC contact listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 

Management and Budget, via fax at 202– 

395–5167 or via email to 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and 

to the Federal Communications 

Commission via email to PRA@fcc.gov 

and Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information, contact Cathy 

Williams on (202) 418–2918. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0633. 

Title – Sections 73.1230, 74.165, 

74.432, 74.564, 74.664, 74.765, 74.832, 

74.1265, Posting or Filing of Station 

Licenses. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Businesses or other for– 

profit entities, Not–for–profit 

institutions. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 2,584 respondents; 2,584 

responses. 

Estimated Hours per Response: 0.083 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping requirement; On 

occasion reporting requirement; Third 

party disclosure requirement. 

Obligation to Responds: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. The statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in Section 154(i) of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 214 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $24,860. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

No need for confidentiality required 

with this collection of information. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Needs and Uses: 47 CFR 73.1230 

requires that the station license and any 

other instrument of station 

authorization for an AM, FM or TV 

station be posted in a conspicuous place 

at the place the licensee considers to be 

the principal control point of the 

transmitter. 

47 CFR 74.165 requires that the 

instrument of authorization for an 

experimental broadcast station be 

available at the transmitter site. 

47 CFR 74.432(j) (remote pickup 

broadcast station) and 74.832(j) (low 

power auxiliary station) requires that 

the license of a remote pickup 

broadcast/low power auxiliary station 

shall be retained in the licensee’s files, 

posted at the transmitter, or posted at 

the control point of the station. These 

sections also require the licensee to 

forward the station license to the FCC in 

the case of permanent discontinuance of 

the station. 

47 CFR 74.564 (aural broadcast 

auxiliary stations) requires that the 

station license and any other instrument 

of authorization be posted in the room 

where the transmitter is located, or if 

operated by remote control, at the 

operating position. 

47 CFR 74.664 (television broadcast 

auxiliary stations) requires that the 

station license and any other instrument 

of authorization be posted in the room 

where the transmitter is located. 

Sections 74.765 (low power TV, TV 

translator and TV booster) and 74.1265 

(FM translator stations and FM booster 

stations), require that the station license 

and any other instrument of 

authorization be retained in the station’s 

files. In addition, the call sign of the 

station, together with the name, address 

and telephone number of the licensee or 

the local representative of the licensee, 

and the name and address of the person 

and place where the station records are 

maintained, shall be displayed at the 

transmitter site on the structure 

supporting the transmitting antenna. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, 

Office of the Secretary, 

Office of Managing Director. 

[FR Doc.2010–10761 Filed 5–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–S 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[CG Docket No. 10–51; DA 10–314] 

Structure and Practices of the Video 

Relay Service Program 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Commission, via the Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau (Bureau), 

addresses the compensability from the 

Interstate TRS Fund (Fund) of certain 

types of calls made through Video Relay 

Service (VRS), a form of 

Telecommunications Relay Service 

(TRS). First, the Bureau emphasizes that 

VRS calls made by or to a VRS 

provider’s employee, or the employee of 

a provider’s subcontractor, are not 

eligible for compensation from the TRS 

Fund on a per-minute basis from the 

Fund, but rather as business expenses. 

Second, the Bureau emphasizes that 

VRS calls placed for the purpose of 

generating compensable minutes are 

not, and never have been, compensable 

from the Fund. Finally, the Bureau 

emphasizes that two categories of calls 

do not meet the definition of TRS or 

otherwise are not compensable from the 

Fund under plain statutory language: (1) 

VRS Voice Carry Over (VCO) used to 

connect two hearing users and (2) VRS 

calls used to connect two users who are 

both outside the United States. This 

action is necessary to explain that 

certain types of TRS minutes are not 

compensable from the Fund. The 

intended impact of this action is to 

enhance the integrity of the TRS 

program. 

DATES: Effective February 25, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Hlibok, Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 

559–5158 (VP), or e-mail: 

Gregory.Hlibok@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

synopsis of the Commission’s document 

DA 10–314, adopted and released on 

February 25, 2010. The full text of this 

document and copies of any 

subsequently filed documents in this 

matter will be available for public 

inspection and copying during regular 

business hours at the FCC Reference 

Information Center, Portals II, 445 12th 

Street, SW., Room CY–A257, 

Washington, DC 20554. This document 

and copies of subsequently filed 

documents in this matter may also be 

purchased from the Commission’s 

duplicating contractor at Portals II, 445 

12th Street, SW., Room CY–B402, 

Washington, DC 20554. Customers may 

contact the Commission’s duplicating 

contractor at their Web site: http:// 

www.bcpiweb.com or call 1–800–378– 

3160. To request materials in accessible 

formats for people with disabilities 

(Braille, large print, electronic files, 

audio format), send an e-mail to 

fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer 

and Governmental Affairs Bureau at 

(202) 418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432 

(TTY). Document DA 10–314 can also 

be downloaded in Word or Portable 

Document Format (PDF) at: http:// 

www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro. 

Synopsis 

VRS Calls Already Compensated 

Through the Rate Base 

1. In document DA 10–314, the 

Bureau emphasizes that VRS calls made 

by or to a VRS provider’s employee, or 

the employee of a provider’s 

subcontractor, are not eligible for 

compensation from the TRS Fund on a 

per-minute basis as part of the 

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the Fund administrator for payment. 

Instead, the costs of such calls are 

business expenses that can and should 

be included in the providers’ cost data 

submitted to the Fund administrator for 

purposes of setting VRS compensation 

rates. The Relay Services Data Request 

form, which is submitted to the Fund 

Administrator annually by each 

provider for purposes of determining 

the compensation rate, expressly 

identifies such expenses (e.g., for 

telecommunications expenses, 

operations support, human resources, 

and marketing and advertising) as 

business expenses. In this manner, the 

cost associated with providing 

telephone service for use by employees 

is properly reflected in the VRS 

compensation rate. Providers have had 

ample notice that such costs should be 

treated as business expenses. Because 

providers already are able to include the 

costs of providing telephone and 

telecommunications services for use by 

employees in their annual submissions 

to the Fund Administrator, to permit 

providers also to be compensated from 

the Fund for such calls on a per-minute 

basis would result in double recovery 

from the Fund. 

VRS Calls Placed for the Purpose of 

Generating Compensable Minutes 

2. The Bureau also emphasizes that 

individuals who place or arrange for 

VRS calls for the purpose of generating 

compensable minutes of use are not 

using the service as intended; that is, 

Congress intended TRS to provide the 

ability for individuals with hearing or 

speech disabilities to communicate over 

the telephone system with hearing 

individuals in a functionally equivalent 

manner. Using VRS as a means to 

generate compensation from the TRS 

Fund is antithetical to that statutory 

purpose. This includes, but is not 

limited to, calls to podcasts or other prerecorded material and calls ostensibly 

for marketing or outreach purposes, 

when initiated by or on behalf of VRS 

providers. This also includes paying 

independent marketing firms to have 

deaf employees place marketing calls 

through the providers’ VRS. Likewise, 

for example, when a provider directly or 

indirectly sponsors events (e.g., lectures, 

courses, story times) that deaf callers 

can listen to by placing VRS calls to a 

bridge number, that is encouraging users 

to place VRS calls that they would not 

ordinarily make. In these instances, but 

for the provider establishing the event 

for the deaf caller to call via VRS, no 

such call would occur. 

VRS Voice Carry Over (VCO) Calls 

3. Some providers offer VCO service 

to deaf or hard of hearing consumers 

who use VRS. VRS VCO permits the 

deaf or hard of hearing user to speak to 

the other party to the call rather than 

communicate via ASL; in return, the CA 

signs in ASL to the consumer what the 

other party to the call (the voice 

telephone user) has said. Such calls are 

generally set up by having the VRS CA, 

after the VRS user has initiated the 

video call to the CA, call back the VRS 

user on a voice telephone line. As a 

result, the VRS user has both the video 

link to the CA (to see, in ASL, what the 

called party has said) and a voice 

telephone link to the called party so that 

the VRS user can speak directly to that 

party. 

4. To the extent that some users have 

abused VRS by using VRS VCO to make 

voice-to-voice calls for the purpose of 

making a free long distance call, the 

Bureau takes this opportunity to remind 

VRS providers of Congress’s explicit 

limitation that VRS calls ‘‘provide the 

ability for an individual who has a 

hearing impairment or speech 

impairment to engage in communication 

* * * with a hearing individual.’’ 47 

U.S.C. 225(a)(3). Therefore, VRS VCO 

may be used only when a person who 

is deaf or hard of hearing wants to use 

his or her own voice to speak to the 

hearing party during the VRS call. If it 

becomes clear that what was initially set 

up as a VRS VCO call is in fact a call 

between two voice telephone users, the 

call is no longer a TRS call compensable 

from the Fund. 

VRS Calls That Originate and 

Terminate Outside of the United States 

5. The Bureau also reminds providers 

that VRS calls that both originate and 

terminate outside of the United States 

are not compensable from the Fund 

under section 225 of the Act. Section 

225 of the Act provides that ‘‘the 

Commission shall ensure that interstate 

and intrastate telecommunications relay 

services are available, to the extent 

possible and in the most efficient 

manner, to hearing-impaired and 

speech-impaired individuals in the 

United States.’’ 47 U.S.C. 225(b)(1). 

Because section 225 of the Act expressly 

states that TRS is for individuals ‘‘in the 

United States,’’ the statute does not 

authorize compensation from the Fund 

for VRS or other TRS calls that do not 

either originate or terminate in the 

United States. Similarly, as part of the 

registration and verification 

requirements applicable to the provision 

of ten-digit, North American Numbering 

Plan (NANP), telephone numbers to 

Internet-based TRS users, providers 

must verify that only persons with 

hearing or speech disabilities residing in 

the United States may obtain from them, 

and be registered with, a ten-digit NANP 

number. 

Congressional Review Act 

The Commission will not send a copy 

of this [Report & Order, etc.] pursuant to 

the Congressional Review Act, see 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A), because the adopted 

rules are: Rules of particular 

applicability; 

Ordering Clauses 

Pursuant Sections 1, 2, 4(i), and 225 

of the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 154(i), 

and 225, and §§ 0.141, 0.361 and 1.2 of 

the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 0.141, 

0.361 and 1.2, document DA 10–314 IS 

adopted. 

Mark Stone, 

Deputy Bureau Chief, Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau, Federal 

Communications Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10859 Filed 5–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

Pursuant to the provisions of the 

‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5 

U.S.C. 552b), notice is hereby given that 

the Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation’s Board of Directors will 

meet in open session at 10 a.m. on 

Tuesday, May 11, 2010, to consider the 

following matters: 

Summary Agenda: No substantive 

discussion of the following items is 

anticipated. These matters will be 

resolved with a single vote unless a 

member of the Board of Directors 

requests that an item be moved to the 

discussion agenda. 

Disposition of minutes of previous 

Board of Directors’ Meetings. 

Summary reports, status reports, 

reports of the Office of Inspector 

General, and reports of actions taken 

pursuant to authority delegated by the 

Board of Directors. 

Memorandum and resolutions re: 

Honoring Employees with 35-Years of 

Federal Service. 

Memorandum and resolution re: 

Retiring Executive Manager. 

Discussion Agenda: 

Memorandum and resolution re: 

Rulemaking on Treatment by the FDIC 

as Conservator or Receiver of Financial 

Assets Transferred by an Insured 


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