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###### Federal Communications Commission

# SUMMARY:

                        The Federal Communications Commission has received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public information collection(s) pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520). An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number, and no person is required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Comments concerning the accuracy of the burden estimate(s) and any suggestions for reducing the burden should be directed to the person listed in the                         **FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT**                         section below.                    

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

                        Leslie Haney,                         *Leslie.Haney@fcc.gov,*                         (202) 418-1002.                    

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

*OMB Control Number:*                     3060-1085.                

*OMB Approval Date:*                     June 9, 2009.                

*Expiration Date:*                     June 30, 2012.                

*Title:*                     Section 9.5, Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) E911 Compliance.                

*Form No.:*                     Not applicable.                

*Estimated Annual Burden:*                     14,320,000 responses; 24.90 hours per response (average); 574,945 hours total annual burden hours; and $80,235,305 in annual cost.                

*Obligation to Respond:*                     Mandatory. Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 152(a), 153(33), 153(52), and 251(e)(3).                

*Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:*                     The Commission is not requesting that respondents submit confidential information to the Commission.                

*Needs and Uses:*                     The Commission requesting an extension (no change in recordkeeping and/or third party disclosure requirements) in order to obtain the full three year clearance from the OMB. There has been a significant decrease in recalculating the number of respondents/responses since this was last submitted to OMB in 2006. The Commission has also increased the total annual burden hours and annual costs due to a recalculation of the estimates.                

The Commission is obligated by statute to promote “safety of life and property” and to “encourage and facilitate the prompt deployment throughout the United States of a seamless, ubiquitous, and reliable end-to-end infrastructure” for public safety. Congress has established 911 as the national emergency number to enable all citizens to reach emergency services directly and efficiently, irrespective of whether a citizen uses wireline or wireless technology when calling for help by dialing 911. Efforts by Federal, State and local government, along with the significant efforts of wireline and wireless service providers, have resulted in the nearly ubiquitous deployment of this life-saving service.

                    The                     *Order*                     the Commission adopted on May 19, 2005, sets forth rules requiring providers of VoIP services that interconnect with the nation's existing public switched telephone network (interconnected VoIP services) to supply E911 capabilities to their customers. To ensure E911 functionality for customers of VoIP service providers the Commission requires the following information collections:                

                    A.                     *Location Registration.*                     Requires providers to interconnected VoIP services to obtain location information from their customers for use in the routing of 911 calls and the provision of location information to emergency answering points.                

                    B.                     *Provision of Automatic Location Information (ALI).*                     Interconnected VoIP service providers will place the location information for their customers into, or make that information available through, specialized databases maintained by local exchange carriers (and, in at least one case, a state government) across the country.                

                    C.                     *Customer Notification.*                     Requires that all providers of interconnected VoIP are aware of their interconnected VoIP service's actual E911 capabilities. That all providers of interconnected  VoIP service specifically advise every subscriber, both new and existing, prominently and in plain language, the circumstances under which E911 service may not be available through the  interconnected VoIP service or may be in some way limited by comparison to traditional E911 service.                

                    D.                     *Record of Customer Notification.*                     Requires VoIP providers to obtain and keep a record of affirmative acknowledgement by every subscriber, both new and existing, of having received and understood this advisory.                

                    E.                     *User Notification.*                     In addition, in order to ensure to the extent possible that the advisory is available to all potential users of an interconnected VoIP service, interconnected VoIP service providers must distribute to all subscribers, both new and existing, warning stickers or other appropriate labels warning subscribers if E911 service may be limited or not available and instructing the subscriber to place them on or near the customer premises equipment used in conjunction with the interconnected VoIP service.                

Federal Communications Commission.

Marlene H. Dortch,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. E9-14322 Filed 6-17-09; 8:45 am]

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