Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 26 / Wednesday, February 7, 2001 / Notices 9335

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

Public Information Collections

Approved by Office of Management

and Budget

January 30, 2001.

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 Shoko B.

Hair, Federal Communications

Commission, (202) 418–1379.

Federal Communications Commission

OMB Control No.: 3060–0971.

Expiration Date: 07/31/2001.

Title: Numbering Resource

Optimization, Second Report and Order,

Order on Reconsideration in CC Docket

No. 96–98 and CC Docket 99–200, and

Second Further Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking in CC Docket No. 99–200.

Form No.: N/A.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit; State, Local or Tribal

Government.

Estimated Annual Burden: 50,500

respondents; .035 hours per response

(avg.); 14,000 total annual burden hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion;

Third party disclosure.

Description: In the Second Report and

Order issued in CC Dockets 96–98 and

99–200, released December 29, 2000, the

Commission continues to implement

numbering resource optimization

measures, using its authority under

section 251(e) of the Communications

Act of 1934, as amended by the

Telecommunications Act of 1996. In

this proceeding, the Commission has

adopted two new requirements. Carriers

that report forecast and utilization data

semi-annually to the North American

Numbering Plan Administrator

(NANPA) or the Pooling Administrator

must duplicate such data for state

commissions upon request. Carriers will

be denied numbering resources if they

fail to comply with such state

commissions’ requests. In addition, to

request a ‘‘for cause’’ audit of a carrier,

the NANPA, the Pooling Administrator

or a state commission must draft a

request to the auditor stating the reason

for the request, such as misleading or

inaccurate data, and attach supporting

documentation. The information will be

used by the FCC, state commissions, the

NANPA and/or the Pooling

Administrator to verify the validity and

accuracy of such data and to assist state

commission in carrying out their

numbering responsibilities, such as area

code relief. Obligation to respond:

Required to obtain or retain benefits.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0782.

Expiration Date: 01/31/2004.

Title: Petitions for Limited

Modification of LATA Boundaries to

Provide Expanded Local Calling Service

(ELCS) at Various Locations.

Form No.: N/A.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit.

Estimated Annual Burden: 100

respondents; 8 hours per response

(avg.).; 800 total annual burden hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Description: In a Memorandum

Opinion and Order issued in CC Docket

No. 96–159, released July 27, 1997, the

Commission provided voluntary

guidelines for filing expanded local

calling service (ELCS) requests. The

guidelines ask that each ELCS request

include the following information: (1)

Type of proposed service; (2) direction

of proposed service; (3) telephone

exchanges involved; (4) names of

affected carriers; (5) state commission

approval; (6) number of access lines or

customers; (7) usage data; (8) poll

results if any; (9) community of interest

statement; (10) a map showing

exchanges and LATA boundary

involved; and (11) any other pertinent

information. The requested information

is used by the Commission to determine

whether the need for the proposed ELCS

routes outweighs the risk of potential

anti-competitive effects, and thus

whether requests for limited

modifications of LATA boundaries

should be granted. Obligation to

respond: Voluntary.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0786.

Expiration Date: 01/31/2004.

Title: Petitions for LATA Association

Changes by Independent Telephone

Companies.

Form No.: N/A.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit.

Estimated Annual Burden: 20

respondents; 6 hours per response

(avg.).; 120 total annual burden hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Description: In a Memorandum

Opinion and Order issued in CC Docket

No. 96–158, released August 6, 1997,

the Commission pursuant to the

provisions of the Communications Act

of 1934, as amended requests that

independent telephone companies

(ITCs) and Bell Operating Companies

(BOCs) provide certain information to

the Commission regarding ITC requests

for changes in local access and transport

area association and modification of

LATA boundaries to permit the change

in association. The Commission

provided voluntary guidelines to assist

ITCs in filing petitions for changes in

LATA association and connected

modification of LATA boundaries. The

guidelines ask that each LATA

association change request include the

following information: (1) Type of

request; (2) exchange information; (3)

number of access lines or customers; (4)

public interest statement; (5) a map

showing exchanges and LATA

boundaries involved; (6) a list of

extended local calling service routes

between the independent exchange and

the LATA with which it is currently

associated; and (7) a BOC supplement

requesting a modification of the LATA

boundary. The requested information is

used by the Commission to determine

whether the need for the proposed

changes in LATA association outweighs

the risk of potential anti-competitive

effects, and thus whether requests for

changes in LATA association and

connected modifications of LATA

boundaries should be granted.

Obligation to respond: Voluntary.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0895.

Expiration Date: 01/31/2004.

Title: Numbering Resource

Optimization, CC Docket No. 99–200.

Form No.: FCC Form 502.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit; State, Local or Tribal

Government.

Estimated Annual Burden: 2780

respondents; 1–44.4 hours per response;

181,890 total annual burden hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $7,858,650.

Frequency of Response: On occasion;

Semi-annually; One time;

Recordkeeping; Third party disclosure.

Description: Under the

Communications Act of 1934, as

amended by the Telecommunications

Act of 1996, the Commission was given

exclusive jurisdiction over those

portions of the North American

Numbering Plan that pertain to the

United States. Pursuant to that authority

the Commission conducted a

rulemaking that among other things

addressed regular reporting on

numbering use by United States carriers.

In its Report and Order in CC Docket

No. 99–200, released March 31, 2000,

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the Commission found that mandatory

data collection is necessary to efficiently

monitor and manage numbering use.

Requirements adopted in the Report and

Order include the following: (a)

Utilization/Forecast Report—All carriers

that receive numbering resources from

the NANPA or that receive numbering

resources from a Pooling Administrator

in thousands-blocks must report forecast

and utilization data semi-annually to

the NANPA. Carriers that receive

intermediate numbers must report

forecast and utilization data

semiannually to the NANPA. Carriers

whose forecast and utilization data have

not changed from the previous reporting

period may simply re-file the prior

submission and indicate that there has

been no change since the last reporting,

i.e., report ‘‘no change.’’ All carriers are

required to file their data electronically

via FCC Form 502. (No. of respondents:

2700; hours per response: 44.4 hours;

total annual burden: 119,880 hours). (b)

Application for Initial Numbering

Resources—Applications for initial

numbering resources must include

documentation proof that (1) the

applicant is authorized to provide

service in the area for which the

numbering resources are requested and

(2) the applicant is or will be capable of

providing service within 60 days of the

numbering resources activation date.

Specifically, carriers must provide, as

part of the applications for initial

numbering resources, evidence (e.g.,

state commission order or state

certification to operate as a carrier)

demonstrating that they are licensed

and/or certified to provide service in the

area in which they seek numbering

resources. Carriers requesting initial

numbering resources must also provide

to the NANPA appropriate evidence

(e.g., contracts for unbundled network

elements, network information showing

that equipment has been purchased and

that it is operational or will be

operational, business plans, or

interconnection agreements) that its

facilities are in place or will be in place

to provide service within 60 days of the

numbering resources activation date.

These requirements apply to carriers

requesting an initial NXX code and

those requesting an initial thousandsblock. See 47 CFR 52.15(g). (No.

respondents: 2730; hours per response:

2; total annual burden: 5460 hours). c.

Application for Growth Numbering

Resources—Applications for growth

numbering resources must include a

Months-To-Exhaust (MTE) worksheet.

To ensure that carriers obtain

numbering resources when and where

they are needed to provide service,

carriers are required to provide evidence

that, given their current utilization and

recent historical growth, they need

additional numbering resources. Nonpooling carriers must satisfy a minimum

utilization threshold before obtaining

additional numbering resources. See 47

CFR 52.15(g). (No. of respondents: 1700;

hours per response: 2 hours; total

annual burden: 3400 hours). d.

Recordkeeping Requirement—To

facilitate auditing by the NANPA and by

state commissions in the future, carriers

are required to maintain detailed

internal records of their number usage

in categories more granular than the five

for which they are required to report.

Carriers are required to maintain

internal records of their numbering

resources for the following

subcategories: soft dialtone numbers;

ported-out numbers; dealer number

pools; test numbers; employee/official

numbers; Local Routing Numbers;

Temporary Local Directory Numbers;

and wireless E911 emergency services

routing digits/key numbers. Carriers are

required to maintain these data for a

period of not less than 5 years. See also,

Report and Order, para. 62. (No. of

respondents: 2730; hours per response:

1 hour; total annual burden: 2730

hours). e. Notifications by State

Commissions—State commissions may

reduce the reporting frequency for NPAs

in their states to annual. State

commissions must notify the Common

Carrier Bureau and the NANPA prior to

exercising this delegated authority. See

47 CFR 52.15(g). (No. of respondents:

50; hours per response: 1 hour; total

annual burden: 50 hours). f.

Demonstration to State Commission—

Carriers that open a clean thousandsblock prior to utilizing in its entirety a

previously-opened thousands-block

should be prepared to demonstrate to

the state commission: (1) a genuine

request from a customer detailing the

specific need for telephone numbers; (2)

the inability on the part of the carrier to

meet the specific customer request for

telephone numbers from the supply of

numbers within the carrier’s currently

activated thousands-block. See 47 CFR

52.15(j). (No. of respondents: 850; hours

per response: 1 hour; total annual

burden: 850 hours). g. Petitions for

Additional Delegation of Numbering

Authority—States requesting pooling

authority from the FCC must include a

showing of specific criteria in their

petitions. Each petition must

demonstrate that: (1) That an NPA in its

state is in jeopardy, (2) the NPA in

question has a remaining life span of at

least a year, and (3) that NPA is in one

of the largest 100 MSAs, or

alternatively, the majority of wireline

carriers in the NPA are LNP-capable.

See also Report and Order, para. 170.

(No. of respondents: 50; hours per

response: 20 hours; total annual burden:

1000 hours). h. Cost Support Data—

Carriers are requested to submit cost

support data so that the Commission

can determine the cost associated with

thousands-block number pooling.

Carriers should include an analysis of

the differences between the shared

industry costs associated with

thousands-block number pooling and

the shared industry costs, if any,

associated with the current practices

that result in more frequent area code

changes. Carriers should provide cost

studies that assign costs according to the

following three categories: shared

industry costs; carrier-specific costs

directly related to thousands/block

pooling; and carrier-specific costs not

directly related to thousands-block

number pooling. See Report and Order,

paras. 215–226. (No. of respondents:

1213; hours per response: 40 hours; total

annual burden: 48,520 hours). The data

collected will be used by the FCC, state

regulatory commissions, and the North

American Numbering Plan

administrator (NANPA) to monitor

numbering resource utilization by all

carriers using the resource and to

project the dates of area code and North

American Numbering Plan exhaust.

Obligation to respond: Mandatory.

Public reporting burden for the

collection of information is as noted

above. Send comments regarding the

burden estimate or any other aspect of

the collections of information, including

suggestions for reducing the burden to

Performance Evaluation and Records

Management, Washington, DC 20554.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

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Notice of Public Information

Collection(s) Being Submitted to OMB

for Review and Approval

January 31, 2001.

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications

Commissions, 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, as

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13. An