82_FR_28686 82 FR 28566 - Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Services Program

82 FR 28566 - Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Services Program

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 120 (June 23, 2017)

Page Range28566-28567
FR Document2017-12957

In this document, the Commission sets aside the effectiveness, in part, of the VRS Interoperability Order, in which the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) incorporated certain technical standards on video relay service (VRS) interoperability into the Commission's telecommunications relay service (TRS) rules, pending the Commission's consideration of server-based routing.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 120 (Friday, June 23, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 120 (Friday, June 23, 2017)]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 64

[CG Docket Nos. 10-51 and 03-123; FCC 17-26]


Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Services Program

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; delay of compliance date.

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SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission sets aside the effectiveness, 
in part, of the VRS Interoperability Order, in which the Consumer and 
Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) incorporated certain technical 
standards on video relay service (VRS) interoperability into the 
Commission's telecommunications relay service (TRS) rules, pending the 
Commission's consideration of server-based routing.

DATES: Effective June 23, 2017 the compliance date for the VRS Provider 
Interoperability Profile, 47 CFR 64.621(b), as published at 82 FR 
19322, April 27, 2017 is delayed indefinitely.

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20554.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Aldrich, Consumer and Governmental 
Affairs Bureau, (202) 418-0996, email [email protected], or Eliot 
Greenwald, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, (202) 418-2235, 
email [email protected].

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's 
Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Service Program; 
Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for 
Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities, Order, document FCC 
17-26, adopted on March 23, 2017, and released on March 23, 2017 in CG 
Docket Nos. 10-51 and 03-123. The Notice of Inquiry and Further Notice 
of Proposed Rulemaking, FCC 17-26, adopted on March 23, 2017, and 
released on March 23, 2017, was published at 82 FR 17613, April 12, 
2017; and the Report and Order, FCC 17-26, adopted on March 23, 2017, 
and released on March 23, 2017, was published at 82 FR 17754, April 13, 
2017. The full text of these documents are available for public 
inspection and copying via ECFS, and during regular business hours at 
the FCC Reference Information Center, Portals II, 445 12th Street SW., 
Room CY-A257, Washington, DC 20554. To request materials in accessible 
formats for people with disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic 
files, audio format), send an email to [email protected] or call the 
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), 
(844) 432-2272 (videophone), or (202) 418-0432 (TTY).

Congressional Review Act

    The Commission sent a copy of document FCC 17-26 to Congress and 
the Government Accountability Office pursuant to the Congressional 
Review Act, see 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A).

Final Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 Analysis

    FCC 17-26 Report and Order contains a modified information 
collection. The Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce 
paperwork burdens, invites the general public to comment on the 
modified information collection requirements contained in FCC 17-26 
Report and Order, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), 
Public Law 104-13, in a separate published Federal Register Notice 
(Notice). Public and agency comments are due on or before August 11, 
2017. See Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal 
Communications Commission, Notice, published at 82 FR 26927, June 12, 
2017. In addition, this document does not contain any new or modified 
information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer 
than 25 employees, pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act 
of 2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(4).

Synopsis

Order on Server Based Routing

    1. By way of background, in the VRS Interoperability Order, DA 17-
76, the VRS Provider Interoperability Profile that was incorporated 
into the Commission's rules provides for the routing of inter-provider 
VRS and point-to-point video calls to a server of the terminating VRS 
provider that serves multiple VRS users and devices, rather than 
directly to a specific device. The technical standard specifies the 
inclusion of call routing information in the TRS Numbering Directory 
that contains, in addition to the call recipient's telephone number, a 
VRS provider domain name, rather than a user-specific IP address. 
However, 47 CFR 64.613(a) currently requires that the URI for a VRS 
user's telephone number ``shall contain the IP address of the user's 
device.''
    2. The Commission has determined that until it acts on the Further 
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in document FCC 17-26, which proposes to 
amend 47 CFR 64.613 to allow such server-based routing, 47 CFR 64.613 
does not authorize VRS providers to provide to and retrieve from the 
TRS Numbering Directory the routing information specified by the VRS 
Provider Interoperability Profile.
    3. Document DA 17-76 sets August 25, 2017 as the deadline for 
compliance with the VRS Provider Interoperability Profile. 47 CFR 
64.621(b)(1). To avoid the possibility of subjecting VRS providers to 
conflicting obligations pending Commission action on the Further Notice 
of Proposed Rulemaking, in document FCC 17-26 Order, the Commission 
sets aside on its own motion the effectiveness of document DA 17-76 and 
47 CFR 64.621(b)(1) with respect to the August 25, 2017 deadline for 
compliance with the VRS Provider Interoperability Profile.

Ordering Clauses

    Pursuant to sections 1, 2, 225, and 251 of the Communications Act 
of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 225, 251, document FCC 17-26 
is adopted.
    The Commission's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, 
Reference Information Center, has sent a copy of document FCC 17-26 to 
the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-12957 Filed 6-22-17; 8:45 am]
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This rule meets the applicable Disaster Relief and Emergency community suspension(s) included in standards of Executive Order 12988. Assistance Act not in connection with a this rule is a non-discretionary action Paperwork Reduction Act. This rule flood) may be provided for construction and therefore the National does not involve any collection of or acquisition of buildings in identified Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 information for purposes of the SFHAs for communities not U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) does not apply. Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. participating in the NFIP and identified Regulatory Flexibility Act. The 3501 et seq. for more than a year on FEMA’s initial Administrator has determined that this rule is exempt from the requirements of List of Subjects in 44 CFR Part 64 FIRM for the community as having the Regulatory Flexibility Act because Flood insurance, Floodplains. flood-prone areas (section 202(a) of the the National Flood Insurance Act of Accordingly, 44 CFR part 64 is Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 1968, as amended, Section 1315, 42 amended as follows: 42 U.S.C. 4106(a), as amended). This U.S.C. 4022, prohibits flood insurance prohibition against certain types of coverage unless an appropriate public PART 64—[AMENDED] Federal assistance becomes effective for body adopts adequate floodplain the communities listed on the date management measures with effective ■ 1. The authority citation for Part 64 shown in the last column. The enforcement measures. The continues to read as follows: Administrator finds that notice and communities listed no longer comply public comment procedures under 5 Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.; with the statutory requirements, and Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, 3 CFR, U.S.C. 553(b), are impracticable and after the effective date, flood insurance 1978 Comp.; p. 329; E.O. 12127, 44 FR 19367, unnecessary because communities listed will no longer be available in the 3 CFR, 1979 Comp.; p. 376. in this final rule have been adequately communities unless remedial action notified. takes place. § 64.6 [Amended] Each community receives 6-month, Regulatory Classification. This final ■ 2. The tables published under the 90-day, and 30-day notification letters rule is not a significant regulatory action authority of § 64.6 are amended as addressed to the Chief Executive Officer under the criteria of section 3(f) of follows: Date certain Federal Community Effective date authorization/cancellation of sale of flood Current effective State and location assistance no No. insurance in community map date longer available in SFHAs Region VIII Montana: Carbon County, 300139 March 23, 1978, Emerg; November 4, 1981, Reg; July 5, July 5, 2017 ...... July 5, 2017. Unincorporated Areas. 2017, Susp. * -do- = Ditto. Code for reading third column: Emerg.—Emergency; Reg.—Regular; Susp.—Suspension. Dated: June 14, 2017. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS interoperability into the Commission’s Michael M. Grimm, COMMISSION telecommunications relay service (TRS) Assistant Administrator for Mitigation, rules, pending the Commission’s Federal Insurance and Mitigation 47 CFR Part 64 consideration of server-based routing. Administration, Department of Homeland [CG Docket Nos. 10–51 and 03–123; FCC DATES: Effective June 23, 2017 the Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency. 17–26] compliance date for the VRS Provider Interoperability Profile, 47 CFR [FR Doc. 2017–12991 Filed 6–22–17; 8:45 am] Structure and Practices of the Video 64.621(b), as published at 82 FR 19322, BILLING CODE 9110–12–P Relay Services Program April 27, 2017 is delayed indefinitely. AGENCY: Federal Communications ADDRESSES:Federal Communications Commission. Commission, 445 12th Street SW., ACTION: Final rule; delay of compliance Washington, DC 20554. date. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Pmangrum on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with RULES SUMMARY: In this document, the Aldrich, Consumer and Governmental Commission sets aside the effectiveness, Affairs Bureau, (202) 418–0996, email in part, of the VRS Interoperability Robert.Aldrich@fcc.gov, or Eliot Order, in which the Consumer and Greenwald, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) Governmental Affairs Bureau, (202) incorporated certain technical standards 418–2235, email Eliot.Greenwald@ on video relay service (VRS) fcc.gov. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:39 Jun 22, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\23JNR1.SGM 23JNR1

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 120 / Friday, June 23, 2017 / Rules and Regulations 28567 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a Synopsis DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR summary of the Commission’s Structure Order on Server Based Routing Fish and Wildlife Service and Practices of the Video Relay Service Program; Telecommunications Relay 1. By way of background, in the VRS Services and Speech-to-Speech Services Interoperability Order, DA 17–76, the 50 CFR Part 17 for Individuals with Hearing and Speech VRS Provider Interoperability Profile [Docket No. FWS–R1–ES–2016–0102; Disabilities, Order, document FCC 17– that was incorporated into the FXES11130900000 178 FF09E42000] 26, adopted on March 23, 2017, and Commission’s rules provides for the released on March 23, 2017 in CG routing of inter-provider VRS and point- RIN 1018–BB74 Docket Nos. 10–51 and 03–123. The to-point video calls to a server of the Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Notice of Inquiry and Further Notice of terminating VRS provider that serves and Plants; Establishment of a Proposed Rulemaking, FCC 17–26, multiple VRS users and devices, rather Nonessential Experimental Population adopted on March 23, 2017, and than directly to a specific device. The of the Oregon Silverspot Butterfly in released on March 23, 2017, was technical standard specifies the Northwestern Oregon published at 82 FR 17613, April 12, inclusion of call routing information in 2017; and the Report and Order, FCC the TRS Numbering Directory that AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 17–26, adopted on March 23, 2017, and contains, in addition to the call Interior. released on March 23, 2017, was recipient’s telephone number, a VRS ACTION: Final rule. published at 82 FR 17754, April 13, provider domain name, rather than a 2017. The full text of these documents user-specific IP address. However, 47 SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and are available for public inspection and CFR 64.613(a) currently requires that Wildlife Service (Service or USFWS), copying via ECFS, and during regular the URI for a VRS user’s telephone with the support of the State of Oregon business hours at the FCC Reference number ‘‘shall contain the IP address of Parks and Recreation Department Information Center, Portals II, 445 12th the user’s device.’’ (OPRD), will reestablish the Oregon Street SW., Room CY–A257, 2. The Commission has determined silverspot butterfly (Speyeria zerene Washington, DC 20554. To request that until it acts on the Further Notice hippolyta)—a threatened species under materials in accessible formats for of Proposed Rulemaking in document the U.S. Endangered Species Act, as people with disabilities (Braille, large FCC 17–26, which proposes to amend amended (Act)—within its historical print, electronic files, audio format), 47 CFR 64.613 to allow such server- range at two sites in northwestern send an email to fcc504@fcc.gov or call based routing, 47 CFR 64.613 does not Oregon: Saddle Mountain State Natural the Consumer and Governmental Affairs authorize VRS providers to provide to Area (SNA) in Clatsop County, and Bureau at (202) 418–0530 (voice), (844) and retrieve from the TRS Numbering Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge 432–2272 (videophone), or (202) 418– Directory the routing information (NWR) in Tillamook County. This final 0432 (TTY). specified by the VRS Provider rule classifies the reintroduced Interoperability Profile. populations as a nonessential Congressional Review Act experimental population (NEP) under 3. Document DA 17–76 sets August The Commission sent a copy of the authority of section 10(j) of the Act 25, 2017 as the deadline for compliance document FCC 17–26 to Congress and and provides for allowable legal with the VRS Provider Interoperability the Government Accountability Office incidental taking of the Oregon Profile. 47 CFR 64.621(b)(1). To avoid pursuant to the Congressional Review silverspot butterfly within the defined the possibility of subjecting VRS Act, see 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A). NEP areas. providers to conflicting obligations DATES: This final rule is effective June Final Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 pending Commission action on the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 23, 2017. Analysis in document FCC 17–26 Order, the ADDRESSES: This final rule is available FCC 17–26 Report and Order contains Commission sets aside on its own on http://www.regulations.gov at Docket a modified information collection. The motion the effectiveness of document No. FWS–R1–ES–2016–0102 and on our Commission, as part of its continuing DA 17–76 and 47 CFR 64.621(b)(1) with Web site at https://www.fws.gov/ effort to reduce paperwork burdens, respect to the August 25, 2017 deadline oregonfwo/. Comments and materials invites the general public to comment for compliance with the VRS Provider we received, as well as supporting on the modified information collection Interoperability Profile. documentation we used in preparing requirements contained in FCC 17–26 this rule, are also available for public Report and Order, as required by the Ordering Clauses inspection at http:// Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), Public Pursuant to sections 1, 2, 225, and 251 www.regulations.gov. All comments, Law 104–13, in a separate published of the Communications Act of 1934, as materials, and documentation that we Federal Register Notice (Notice). Public amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 225, 251, considered in this rulemaking are and agency comments are due on or document FCC 17–26 is adopted. available for public inspection, by before August 11, 2017. See Information The Commission’s Consumer and appointment, during normal business Collection Being Reviewed by the Governmental Affairs Bureau, Reference hours, at the Newport Field Office, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Information Center, has sent a copy of Fish and Wildlife Service, 2127 SE Notice, published at 82 FR 26927, June document FCC 17–26 to the Chief Marine Science Drive, Newport, OR 12, 2017. In addition, this document Counsel for Advocacy of the Small 97365; telephone 541–867–4558. Pmangrum on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with RULES does not contain any new or modified Business Administration. Persons who use a telecommunications information collection burden for small device for the deaf (TDD) may call the business concerns with fewer than 25 Federal Communications Commission. Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800– employees, pursuant to the Small Marlene H. Dortch, 877–8339. Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Secretary. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Public Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C. [FR Doc. 2017–12957 Filed 6–22–17; 8:45 am] Laura Todd, Field Supervisor, at the 3506(c)(4). BILLING CODE 6712–01–P Newport Field Office, U.S. Fish and VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:26 Jun 22, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\23JNR1.SGM 23JNR1


Document Created: 2017-06-23 03:37:42
Document Modified: 2017-06-23 03:37:42
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionRules and Regulations
ActionFinal rule; delay of compliance date.
DatesEffective June 23, 2017 the compliance date for the VRS Provider Interoperability Profile, 47 CFR 64.621(b), as published at 82 FR 19322, April 27, 2017 is delayed indefinitely.
ContactBob Aldrich, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, (202) 418-0996, email [email protected], or Eliot Greenwald, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, (202) 418-2235, email [email protected]
FR Citation82 FR 28566 
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