[Federal Register: July 21, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 140)]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Approved by the Office
of Management and Budget

July 8, 2008.
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: For additional information contact
Thomas McCudden, Spectrum and Competition Policy Division, Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau at (202) 418-7769 or via Internet at
Thomas.McCudden@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0999.
    OMB Approval Date: 7/2/08.
    Expiration Date: 7/31/11.
    Title: Section 20.19, Hearing Aid-Compatible Mobile Handsets
(Hearing Aid Compatibility Act).
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 925 respondents; 950 responses; 13.2 hours
average burden per response; 12,600 annual burden hours.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits;
Statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in
Sections 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 157, 160, 201, 202, 208, 214, 301, 303,
308, 309(j), and 310.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Information requested in the
reports may include confidential information. However, covered entities
would be allowed to request that such materials submitted to the
Commission be withheld from public inspection. See 47 CFR 0.459.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission is revising this IC because it has
adopted final rules in a Report and Order, FCC 08-68, adopted on
February 26, 2008, and released on February 28, 2008, which updates
several of the performance benchmarks for the offering of hearing aid-
compatible handset models by manufacturers and service providers of
digital handsets used with public mobile services, institutes new
requirements for manufacturers to refresh their product lines and for
service providers to offer hearing aid-compatible handset models with
differing levels of functionality, adopts a new version of the
technical standard for measuring hearing aid compatibility, and
addresses the application of the rules to phones that operate in
multiple frequency bands or air interfaces.
    To assist the Commission in monitoring the implementation of the
new requirements and to provide information to the public, the Report
and Order also requires manufacturers and service providers to continue
to file annual reports on the status of their compliance with these
requirements, and requires manufacturers and service providers that
maintain public Web sites to publish up-to-date information on those
Web sites regarding their hearing aid-compatible handset models. The
annual reports required in this Order contain different and additional
information than in previous versions of this information collection.
Those requirements, along with the requirement to post certain
information on Web sites, are intended to give consumers the
information they need to navigate a technically complex and rapidly
changing world of hearing aid-compatible wireless phones, and to allow
the Commission to monitor compliance with its new regulations. Finally,
in order to avoid potential consumer confusion over technical
capabilities, the Order modified the product labeling requirements
slightly.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-16494 Filed 7-18-08; 8:45 am]

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