83 FR 27327 - Information Collection Approved by the Office of Management and Budget

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 113 (June 12, 2018)

Page Range		27327-27328
FR Document		2018-12627

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a revision of a currently approved public information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 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 control number. Comments concerning the accuracy of the burden estimates and any suggestions for reducing the burden should be directed to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section below.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 113 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2018-12627]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-0999]


Information Collection Approved by the Office of Management and 
Budget

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a revision of a 
currently approved public information collection pursuant to the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 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 control number. 
Comments concerning the accuracy of the burden estimates 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: Cathy Williams, Office of the Managing 
Director, at (202) 418-2918, or email: Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The total annual reporting burdens and costs 
for the respondents are as follows:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0999.
    OMB Approval Date: June 5, 2018.
    OMB Expiration Date: June 30, 2021.
    Title: Hearing Aid Compatibility Status Report and Section 20.19, 
Hearing Aid-Compatible Mobile Handsets (Hearing Aid Compatibility Act).
    Form Number: FCC Form 655.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 934 respondents; 934 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 13 hours per response (average).
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and annual reporting 
requirements and third-party disclosure requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. Sections 151, 154(i), 157, 160, 201, 202, 208, 214, 301, 303, 
308, 309(j), 310 and 610 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 12,140 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: No costs.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Information requested in the 
reports may include confidential information. However, covered entities 
are allowed to request that such materials submitted to the Commission 
be withheld from public inspection.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: The revision of this collection implements the 
final rules promulgated in the 2015 Fourth Report and Order, FCC 15-155 
(Fourth Report and Order), which expanded the scope of the rules due to 
a shift from Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS) to digital mobile 
service. We estimate that there will be a small increase in the number 
of respondents/responses, total annual burden hours, and total annual 
cost from the previously approved estimates.
    This collection is necessary to implement certain disclosure 
requirements that are part of the Commission's wireless hearing aid 
compatibility rule. In a Report and Order in WT Docket No. 01-309, FCC 
03-168, adopted and released in September 2003, implementing a mandate 
under the Hearing Aid Compatibility Act of 1988, the Commission 
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. These reporting requirements were subsequently amended 
on several occasions, and the previous OMB-approved collection under 
this OMB control number included these modifications.

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    On November 19, 2015, the Commission adopted final rules in a 
Fourth Report and Order, FCC 15-155 (Fourth Report and Order), that, 
among other changes, expanded the scope of the Commission's hearing aid 
compatibility provisions to cover handsets used with any digital 
terrestrial mobile service that enables two-way real-time voice 
communications among members of the public or a substantial portion of 
the public, including through the use of pre-installed software 
applications. Prior to 2018, the hearing aid compatibility provisions 
were limited only to handsets used with two-way switched voice or data 
services classified as Commercial Mobile Radio Service, and only to the 
extent they were provided over networks meeting certain architectural 
requirements that enable frequency reuse and seamless handoff. As a 
result of the Fourth Report and Order, beginning January 1, 2018, all 
device manufacturers and Tier I carriers that offer handsets falling 
under the expanded scope of covered handsets are required to comply 
with the Commission's hearing aid compatibility provisions, including 
annual reporting requirements on FCC Form 655. For other service 
providers that are not Tier I carriers, the expanded scope of the 
Commission's hearing aid compatibility provisions applies beginning 
April 1, 2018.
    Following release of the Fourth Report and Order, the Commission 
was required to amend FCC Form 655 to reflect the newly expanded scope 
of handsets covered by the hearing aid compatibility provisions, as 
well as to capture information regarding existing disclosure 
requirements clarified by the Commission in the Fourth Report and 
Order. As a consequence of the Fourth Report and Order, FCC Form 655 
filing and other requirements will apply to those newly-covered 
handsets offered by device manufacturers and service providers that 
have already been reporting annually on their compliance with the 
Commission's hearing aid compatibility provisions, as well to any 
device manufacturers and service providers that were previously exempt 
because they did not offer any covered handsets or services prior to 
2018.
    As a result, the Commission requested a revision of this collection 
in order to implement the final rules promulgated in the Fourth Report 
and Order, which expanded the scope of the rules due to a shift from 
Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS) to digital mobile service. We 
estimate that the expanded scope will increase the potential number of 
respondents subject to this collection and correspondingly increase the 
responses and burden hours. The minor language changes to the 
instructions to FCC Form 655 and to the form itself clarifying this 
expanded scope will help the Commission compile data and monitor 
compliance with the current version of the hearing aid compatibility 
rules while making more complete and accessible information available 
to consumers.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
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FERC–917 (NON-DISCRIMINATORY OPEN ACCESS TRANSMISSION TARIFF) AND FERC–918 (INFORMATION TO BE POSTED
ON OASIS & AUDITING TRANSMISSION SERVICE INFORMATION)—Continued

Annual Average burden hours Total annual burden hour
number of Annual Cost per
Number of and cost 4 per and total
responses number of respondent
respondents response annual cost
per responses ($) ($) ($)
respondent

(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (3) (4) (3) * (4) = (5) (5) ÷ (1) = (6)

Posting of metrics for System Impact Stud- 134 1 134 100 hrs., $7,200.00 ......... 13,400 hrs.; $964,800.00 7,200.00
ies (Reporting).
Post all rules to OASIS (Record Keeping) ... 134 1 134 5 hrs., $163.70 ................ 670 hrs., $21,935.80 ....... 163.22
FERC–918, Sub-Total of Record Keeping ...................... ...................... ...................... .......................................... 6,030 hrs., $1,197,694.68 ......................
Requirements.
FERC–918, Sub-Total of Reporting Require- ...................... ...................... ...................... .......................................... 50,384.00 hrs., ......................
ments. $3,627,648.
FERC–918, Sub Total of Reporting and ...................... ...................... ...................... .......................................... 56,414 hrs., ......................
Recordkeeping Requirements. $4,825,342.68.
Total FERC–917 and FERC–918 (Reporting ...................... ...................... ...................... .......................................... 124,888 hrs., ......................
and Recordkeeping Requirements). $9,702,862.28.
Off-site storage cost ..................................... ...................... ...................... ...................... .......................................... $7,400,000 ....................... ......................

Dated: June 5, 2018. control number, and no person is may include confidential information.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., required to respond to a collection of However, covered entities are allowed
Deputy Secretary. information unless it displays a to request that such materials submitted
[FR Doc. 2018–12466 Filed 6–11–18; 8:45 am] currently valid control number. to the Commission be withheld from
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P Comments concerning the accuracy of public inspection.
the burden estimates and any Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
suggestions for reducing the burden impact(s).
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS should be directed to the person listed Needs and Uses: The revision of this
COMMISSION in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION collection implements the final rules
CONTACT section below. promulgated in the 2015 Fourth Report
[OMB 3060–0999] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and Order, FCC 15–155 (Fourth Report
Cathy Williams, Office of the Managing and Order), which expanded the scope
Information Collection Approved by
Director, at (202) 418–2918, or email: of the rules due to a shift from
the Office of Management and Budget
Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. Commercial Mobile Radio Services
AGENCY: Federal Communications SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The total (CMRS) to digital mobile service. We
Commission. annual reporting burdens and costs for estimate that there will be a small
ACTION: Notice. the respondents are as follows: increase in the number of respondents/
OMB Control Number: 3060–0999. responses, total annual burden hours,
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications OMB Approval Date: June 5, 2018. and total annual cost from the
Commission (FCC) has received Office OMB Expiration Date: June 30, 2021. previously approved estimates.
of Management and Budget (OMB) Title: Hearing Aid Compatibility This collection is necessary to
approval for a revision of a currently Status Report and Section 20.19, implement certain disclosure
approved public information collection Hearing Aid-Compatible Mobile requirements that are part of the
pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Handsets (Hearing Aid Compatibility Commission’s wireless hearing aid
Act of 1995. An agency may not conduct Act). compatibility rule. In a Report and
or sponsor a collection of information Form Number: FCC Form 655. Order in WT Docket No. 01–309, FCC
unless it displays a currently valid OMB Respondents: Business or other for-
03–168, adopted and released in
profit entities.
4 The estimated hourly cost (salary plus benefits) Number of Respondents and September 2003, implementing a
provided in this section is based on the salary Responses: 934 respondents; 934 mandate under the Hearing Aid
figures for May 2017 posted by the Bureau of Labor responses. Compatibility Act of 1988, the
Statistics for the Utilities sector (available at http://
Estimated Time per Response: 13 Commission required digital wireless
www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm) and phone manufacturers and service
benefits May 2017 (available at https://www.bls.gov/ hours per response (average).
oes/current/naics2_22.htm): Frequency of Response: On occasion providers to make certain digital
Legal (Occupation Code: 23–0000): $143.68. and annual reporting requirements and wireless phones capable of effective use
Consulting (Occupation Code: 54–1600): $89.00. third-party disclosure requirement. with hearing aids, label certain phones
Management Analyst (Occupation Code: 13– Obligation to Respond: Required to they sold with information about their
1111): $63.49. compatibility with hearing aids, and
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
Office and Administrative Support (Occupation report to the Commission (at first every
Code: 43–000): $40.89. authority for this information collection
Electrical Engineer (Occupation Code: 17–2071): is contained in 47 U.S.C. Sections 151, six months, then on an annual basis) on
the numbers and types of hearing aid-
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$68.12. 154(i), 157, 160, 201, 202, 208, 214, 301,
Information Security Analyst (Occupation Code: 303, 308, 309(j), 310 and 610 of the compatible phones they were producing
15–1122): $66.34. Communications Act of 1934, as or offering to the public. These reporting
File Clerk (Occupation Code: 43–4071): $32.74. requirements were subsequently
amended.
The skill sets are assumed to contribute equally, amended on several occasions, and the
so the hourly cost is an average [($143.68 + $89.00
Total Annual Burden: 12,140 hours.
+ $63.49 + $40.89 + $68.12 + $66.34 + 32.74) ÷ 7 Total Annual Cost: No costs. previous OMB-approved collection
= $72.04]. The figure is rounded to $72.00 per hour. Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: under this OMB control number
5 ATC-related standards. Information requested in the reports included these modifications.

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Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
sudoc Class		AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106:
Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice.
Dates		June 5, 2018.
Contact		Cathy Williams, Office of the Managing Director, at (202) 418-2918, or email: [email protected]
FR Citation		83 FR 27327