28046 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 112 / Friday, June 12, 2009 / Notices 

07/13/2009, Contact: Emmanuel 

Sayoc 301–415–2989 

EIS No. 20090184, Final EIS, DOA, ID, 

Lakeview-Reeder Fuels Reduction 

Project, Proposed Fuels Reduction 

and Road Treatment Activities, Idaho 

Panhandle National Forests, Priest 

Lake Ranger District, Bonner County, 

ID, Wait Period Ends: 07/13/2009, 

Contact: David Cobb 208–443–6854 

EIS No. 20090185, Final EIS, COE, 00, 

Programmatic—Oyster Restoration in 

Chesapeake Bay Including the Use of 

a Native and/or Nonnative Oyster, 

Implementation, Chesapeake Bay, MD 

and VA, Wait Period Ends: 07/13/ 

2009, Contact: Craig Seltzer 757–201– 

7390 

EIS No. 20090186, Final EIS, FRC, CA, 

South Feather Power Project, (Project 

No. 2099–068), Application to 

Relicense its 104-megawatt, South 

Fork Feather River, Lost Creek and 

Slate Creek, Butte, Yuba, and Plumas 

Counties, CA, Wait Period Ends: 07/ 

13/2009, Contact: John Mudre 202– 

502–8902 

EIS No. 20090187, Final EIS, CDG, 00, 

Programmatic—Future of the U.S. 

Coast Guard Long Range Aids to 

Navigation (LORAN–C) Program, 

Implementation,, Wait Period Ends: 

07/13/2009, Contact: CDR Bob I. 

Feigenblatt 202–372–1558 

Dated: June 9, 2009. 

Robert W. Hargrove, 

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. E9–13862 Filed 6–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Commission Meeting 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission. 

DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, June 17, 

2009, 10 a.m. Eastern Time. 

PLACE: Commission Meeting Room on 

the First Floor of the EEOC Office 

Building, 131 M Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20507. 

STATUS: The meeting will be open to the 

public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

OPEN SESSION: 

1. Announcement of Notation Votes, 

and 

2. Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for 

the Americans with Disabilities Act 

(ADA)Amendments Act of 2008. 

Note: In accordance with the Sunshine Act, 

the meeting will be open to public 

observation of the Commission’s 

deliberations and voting. (In addition to 

publishing notices on EEOC Commission 

meetings in the Federal Register, the 

Commission also provides a recorded 

announcement a full week in advance on 

future Commission sessions.) 

Please telephone (202) 663–7100 (voice) 

and (202) 663–4074 (TTY) at any time for 

information on these meetings. The EEOC 

provides sign language interpretation at 

Commission meetings for the hearing 

impaired. Requests for other reasonable 

accommodations may be made by using the 

voice and TTY numbers listed above. Contact 

Person for More Information: Stephen 

Llewellyn, Executive Officer on (202) 663– 

4070. 

Dated: June 8, 2009. 

Stephen Llewellyn, 

Executive Officer, Executive Secretariat. 

[FR Doc. E9–13822 Filed 6–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6570–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Public Information Collections 

Approved by Office of Management 

and Budget 

June 9, 2009. 

The Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC) has received Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for the following public 

information collection 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: 

Contact Judith B. Herman, Federal 

Communications Commission, at (202) 

418–0214 or via the Internet at JudithB.Herman@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control No.: 3060–0999. 

Expiration Date: 06/30/2012. 

Title: Hearing Aid Compatibility 

Status Report and Section 20.19, 

Hearing Aid-Compatible Mobile 

Handsets (Hearing Aid Compatibility 

Act). 

Form No.: FCC Form 655—electronic 

only. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 925 

responses; 12,063 total annual hours; 

2.5 hours per response. 

Needs and Uses: In the Report and 

Order in WT Docket 01–309, FCC 03– 

168, adopted and released in September 

2003, the Federal Communications 

Commission modified the exemption for 

telephones used with public mobile 

services from the requirements of the 

Hearing Aid Compatibility Act of 1988 

(HAC Act). The Order required digital 

wireless phone manufacturers and 

service providers to make certain digital 

wireless phones capable of effective use 

with hearing aids, label certain phones 

they sold with information about their 

compatibility with hearing aids, and 

report to the Commission (at first every 

six months, then on an annual basis) on 

the numbers and types of hearing aid 

compatible phones they were producing 

or offering to the public. 

In February 2008, the Commission 

adopted final rules in a Report and 

Order (FCC 08–68) that updated several 

performance benchmarks and instituted 

new requirements. To assist the 

Commission in monitoring the 

implementation of the new 

requirements and to provide 

information to the public, the Report 

and Order also required manufacturers 

and service providers to continue to file 

annual reports on the status of their 

compliance with the requirements, and 

required manufacturers and service 

providers that maintain public websites 

to publish up-to-date information on 

those websites regarding their hearing 

aid-compatible handset models. 

Now, as part of its continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork burden, the 

Commission is eliminating the use of 

paper-based annual reports and will 

require annual reports filed by 

manufacturers and service providers to 

be submitted using electronic FCC Form 

655 beginning July 15, 2009. Use of the 

electronic FCC Form 655 will help filers 

ensure that their reports include all of 

the required information, will facilitate 

the Commission’s compilation of data 

from the reports, and will decrease the 

paperwork burden overall. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–13945 Filed 6–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[CG Docket No. 03–123; DA 09–211] 

Telecommunications Relay Service 

(TRS) Providers Requesting 

Compensation from the Interstate TRS 

Fund Must Comply with Standard 

Rounding Principles in Measuring the 

Conversation Time of TRS Calls 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Commission states that current rules 

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require that telecommunications relay 

service (TRS) providers submitting 

minutes for payment from the Interstate 

TRS Fund must measure the 

conversation time of each call to the 

nearest second, and when the time for 

such calls is expressed in decimal form, 

the TRS provider must round the time 

to the nearest tenth of a minute. 

DATES: Effective June 12, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Chandler, Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau, Disability 

Rights Office at (202) 418–1475 (Voice), 

(202) 418–0597 (TTY), or e-mail at 

Thomas.Chandler@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s 

document DA 09–211, released 

February 10, 2009, addressing the 

proper accounting practice to be 

followed in rounding conversation 

minutes when seeking compensation for 

TRS service. Specifically, the Notice 

states that TRS providers must comply 

with standard rounding principles in 

measuring the conversation time of TRS 

calls. The full text of document DA 09– 

211 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. 

Document DA 09–211 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 

its Web site http://www.bcpiweb.com or 

by calling 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 09–211 

can also be downloaded in Word or 

Portable Document Format (PDF) at: 

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro. 

Synopsis 

It has come to the Commission’s 

attention that certain 

telecommunications relay service (TRS) 

providers may be improperly 

‘‘rounding’’ up conversation minutes 

that are submitted to the Interstate TRS 

Fund (Fund) each month for payment. 

Providers submitting minutes for 

payment from the Fund must measure 

the conversation time of each call to the 

nearest second, and when the time for 

such calls is expressed in decimal form, 

the relay provider must round the time 

to the nearest tenth of a minute, as set 

forth below. 

Specifically, when recording the 

actual conversation time of each 

completed call, the decimal 

representation of the seconds should 

extend to the tenth of a minute; 

providers may round up only in those 

circumstances where the number in the 

hundredth place is 5 or greater. If the 

number in the hundredth place is not 5 

or greater, then the number in the tenth 

place remains the same. 

For example, if the actual 

conversation time is 34 minutes and 46 

seconds, the decimal expression to the 

hundredth place is 34.76. Because the 

number in the hundredth place (6) is 5 

or greater, the number in the tenth place 

(7) may be rounded up to 8. Therefore, 

the actual conversation time, rounded to 

the nearest one-tenth of a minute and 

used to calculate total monthly 

conversation minutes, is 34.8 minutes. 

A contrasting example, where rounding 

up is not appropriate, is a situation 

where the actual conversation time is 34 

minutes and 32 seconds. For such a call, 

the decimal expression to the hundredth 

place is 34.53. Because the number in 

the hundredth place (3) is less than 5, 

the number in the tenth place (5) 

remains the same and the actual 

conversation time used to calculate total 

monthly conversation minutes is 34.5 

minutes. 

In determining total monthly 

conversation minutes reported to NECA, 

the total conversation minutes of all 

eligible calls (each measured to the 

tenth of a minute, as described above) 

are added together. That total is then 

rounded to the nearest whole number 

(full minute) under the same principle 

set forth above. For instance, if the total 

number of conversation minutes for all 

calls in a particular month is 123,456.8, 

that figure would be rounded up to 

123,457. Similarly, if the figure was 

123,456.4, the figure would be rounded 

down to 123,456. 

For the past several years, NECA has 

provided TRS providers with 

instructions for reporting minutes. 

Interstate Telecommunications Relay 

Service (TRS) Fund Instructions for 

Reporting Minutes Monthly (August 

2004) (Reporting Instructions). In the 

instructions, National Exchange Carrier 

Association (NECA), the Fund 

Administrator, advises that the actual 

conversation time of each completed 

call, in minutes/seconds or minutes/ 

tenths, should be recorded during the 

month, and at the end of the month, the 

provider should total the minutes/ 

seconds or minutes/tenths for each type 

of call by center and round to the 

nearest whole number. The Reporting 

Instructions provide examples of how 

these rounding principles apply in 

determining total monthly minutes, 

stating that: (1) A monthly total of 

180,095 minutes and 41 seconds, or 

180,095.68 minutes, would be rounded 

up to 180,096; and (2) a monthly total 

of 2,437 minutes and 15 seconds, or 

2,437.25 minutes, would be rounded 

down to 2,437. 

The examples set forth herein are 

consistent with these instructions and 

standard rounding principles. 

Therefore, unless and until directed 

otherwise, TRS providers should follow 

the guidelines provided in NECA’s 

Reporting Instructions and in this 

document. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Suzanne M. Tetreault, 

Acting Deputy Chief, Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau. 

[FR Doc. E9–13718 Filed 6–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS 

ADVISORY BOARD 

Release of Exposure Draft of Technical 

Bulletin 2009–1: Deferral of the 

Effective Date of Technical Bulletin 

2006–1, Recognition and Measurement 

of Asbestos-Related Cleanup Costs 

AGENCY: Federal Accounting Standards 

Advisory Board. 

ACTION: Notice of Release of Exposure 

Draft of Technical Bulletin 2009–1, 

Deferral of the Effective Date of 

Technical Bulletin 2006–1, Recognition 

and Measurement of Asbestos-Related 

Cleanup Costs. 

Board Action: Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 

3511(d), the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463), as 

amended, and the FASAB Rules of 

Procedure, as amended in April 2004, 

notice is hereby given that the Federal 

Accounting Standards Advisory Board 

(FASAB) has released the Exposure 

Draft of Technical Bulletin 2009–1, 

Deferral of the Effective Date of 

Technical Bulletin 2006–1, Recognition 

and Measurement of Asbestos-Related 

Cleanup Costs. 

The purpose of this proposed 

technical bulletin is to defer the 

effective date of Technical Bulletin 

2006–1, Recognition and Measurement 

of Asbestos-Related Cleanup Costs, for 

two years. 

The Technical Bulletin 2009–1 

Exposure Draft is available on the 

FASAB home page http:// 

www.fasab.gov/exposure.html. Copies