[Federal Register: July 18, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 139)]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested
July 11, 2008.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on the following information collection(s), as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Public Law No. 104-13. An agency
may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid control number. Subject to the PRA, no
person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information that does not display a
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valid control number. Comments are requested concerning (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
Commission's burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information on the respondents, including
the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before September
16, 2008. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but
find it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this
notice, you should advise the contact listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may submit all PRA comments by e-mail or
U.S. post mail. To submit your comments by e-mail, send them to
PRA@fcc.gov and/or to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. To submit your comments
by U.S. mail, mark them to the attention of Cathy Williams, Federal
Communications Commission, Room 1-C823, 445 12th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20554.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the
information collection(s), contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418-2918 or
send an e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov and/or Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1089.
Title: Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech
Services for Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities; E911
Requirements for IP-Enabled Service Providers CG Docket No. 03-123 and
WC Docket No. 05-196, FCC 08-151.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; Individuals or
households; Not-for-profit institutions; State, local or tribal
government.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 11 respondents; 1,068,000
responses.
Estimated Time per response: 3 minutes (.05 hours) to 1 hour.
Frequency of Response: One-time and on occasion reporting
requirements; Recordkeeping requirement; Third party disclosure
requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The
statutory authority is contained in sections 1, 2, 4(i), (4)(j), 225,
251, and 303(r) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47
U.S.C. 151, 152, 154(i), 154(j), 225, 251, 303(r).
Total Annual Burden: 130,618 hours.
Total Annual Costs: $4,224,000.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: An assurance of
confidentiality is not offered because the Commission has no direct
involvement in the collection of personally identifiable information
(PII) from individuals and/or households.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
Needs and Uses: On November 30, 2005, the Commission released
Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for
Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities; Access to Emergency
Services, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (VRS/IP Relay 911 NPRM), CG
Docket No. 03-123, FCC 05-196, published at 71 FR 5221 (February 1,
2006), which addressed the issue of access to emergency services for
Internet-based forms of Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS), namely
Video Relay Service (VRS) and Internet Protocol (IP) Relay. The
Commission sought to adopt means to ensure that such calls promptly
reach the appropriate emergency service provider. By doing so, the VRS/
IP Relay 911 NPRM sought comment on the following issues: (1) Whether
the Commission should require VRS and IP Relay service providers to
establish a registration process in which VRS and IP Relay service
users provide, in advance, the primary location from which they will be
making VRS or IP Relay service calls (the Registered Location), so that
a communications assistant (CA) can identify the appropriate Public
Safety Answering Point (PSAP) to contact; (2) whether VRS and IP Relay
providers should be required to register their customers and obtain a
Registered Location from their customers so that they will be able to
make the outbound call to the appropriate PSAP; (3) whether the
Commission should require VRS and IP Relay providers to provide
appropriate warning labels for installation on customer premises
equipment (CPE) used in connection with VRS and IP Relay services; and
(4) whether the Commission should require VRS and IP Relay providers to
obtain and keep a record of affirmative acknowledgement by every
subscriber of having received and understood the advisory regarding
possible limitations when placing emergency calls.
On May 8, 2006, the Commission released Telecommunications Relay
Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals with Hearing and
Speech Disabilities; Misuse of IP Relay Service and Video Relay
Service, Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (IP Relay/VRS Misuse
FNPRM), CG Docket No. 03-123, FCC 06-58, published at 71 FR 31131 (June
1, 2006), which sought further comment on whether IP Relay and VRS
providers should be required to implement user registration systems and
what information users should provide, as a means of curbing
illegitimate IP Relay and VRS calls.
On May 9, 2006, the Commission released Telecommunications Relay
Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals with Hearing and
Speech Disabilities, Declaratory Ruling and Further Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (Interoperability Declaratory Ruling and FNPRM), CG Docket
No. 03-123, FCC 06-57, published at 71 FR 30818 and 71 FR 30848 (May
31, 2006). In the Interoperability Declaratory Ruling and FNPRM, the
Commission sought comment on the feasibility of establishing a single,
open, and global database of proxy numbers for VRS users that would be
available to all service providers, so that a hearing person can call a
VRS user through any VRS provider, and without having first to
ascertain the VRS user's current IP address.
The Interoperability Declaratory Ruling and FNPRM proposed
information collection requirements involving an open, global database
of VRS proxy numbers, and sought comment on: (1) Whether VRS providers
should be required to provide information to populate an open, global
database of VRS proxy numbers and to keep the information current; (2)
whether deaf and hard of hearing individuals using video broadband
communication need uniform and static end-point numbers linked to the
North American Numbering Plan (NANP), and that would remain consistent
across all VRS providers, so that users can contact one another and be
contacted to the same extent that Public Switched Telephone Network and
VoIP users are able to identify and call one another; and (3) whether
participation by service providers should be mandatory so that all VRS
users can receive incoming calls. The proposed information collection
requirements were asserted to be necessary in order: (1) To ensure that
Internet-based TRS users can be reached by voice telephone users in the
same way that voice telephone users are called; and (2) to ensure that
emergency calls placed by Internet-based TRS users will be routed
directly and automatically to the appropriate
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emergency services authorities by Internet-based TRS providers.
On June 24, 2008, the Commission released Telecommunications Relay
Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals with Hearing and
Speech Disabilities; E911 Requirements for IP-Enabled Service
Providers, Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
(Report and Order), CG Docket No. 03-123 and WC Docket No. 05-196, FCC
08-151, addressing the issues raised in these notices. The Report and
Order provides VRS and IP Relay users with a reliable and consistent
means by which others (including emergency personnel) can identify or
reach them by, among other things, integrating VRS and IP Relay users
into the ten-digit, NANP numbering system.
First, to complete a telephone call to an Internet-based TRS user,
a provider must have some method of logically associating the telephone
number dialed by the caller to the Internet-based TRS user's device.
That method, known as the TRS Numbering Directory, is a central
database that maps each user's telephone number to routing information
needed to find that user's device on the Internet. The Report and Order
requires VRS and IP Relay providers to collect and maintain the routing
information from their registered users and to provision that
information to the TRS Numbering Directory so that this mapping can
occur.
Second, because there is no reliable means for VRS and IP Relay
providers, unlike wireline carriers, to automatically know the physical
location of their users, the Report and Order requires VRS and IP Relay
providers to collect and maintain the Registered Location of their
registered users. And to ensure that authorities can retrieve a user's
Registered Location (along with the provider's name and CA's
identification number for callback purposes), the Report and Order
requires VRS and IP Relay providers to provision that information into,
or make that information available through, ALI databases across the
country.
Third, to ensure that VRS and IP Relay users are aware of their
providers' numbering and E911 service obligations and to inform those
users of their providers' E911 capabilities, the Report and Order
requires each VRS and IP Relay provider to post an advisory on its Web
site, and in any promotional materials directed to consumers,
addressing numbering and E911 services for VRS or IP Relay. Providers
also must obtain and keep a record of affirmative acknowledgement from
each of their registered users of having received and understood the
user notification.
The new or modified information collection requirements are
contained in 47 CFR 64.605 (a) and (b), and 47 CFR 64.611 (a), (b), (c)
and (f), and subject to the PRA must be approved by the Office of
Management and Budget before becoming effective.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Deputy Secretary.
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