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OMB Control No: 3060-0743	ICR Reference No: 199610-3060-006
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No:
Agency/Subagency: FCC	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 -- CC Docket No. 96-128
Type of Information Collection: New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 12/12/1996
	Date Received in OIRA: 10/03/1996
Terms of Clearance: This collection includes a number of third party and combined third party/FCC notifications involving the FCC implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 overhaul of the payphone compensation rules. While at OMB for review, the FCC, in response to public comments, issued an order upon reconsideration revising several of the items included in this submission and adding an additional requirement. These items are approved and the revised hours have been incorporated. The FCC should examine the costs and burden associated with the local call rate posting requirements for payphones and update this collection accordingly.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	12/31/1999	12/31/1999
Responses	4,542	0	0
Time Burden (Hours)	136,677	0	0
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: In the attached item, the FCC promulgates rules and requirements implementing section 276 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Among other things, the rules: (1) Establish a plan to ensure fair compensation for every completed intrastate and interstate payphone call, (2) discontinue intrastate and interstate carrier access charge payphone service elements and payments and intrastate and interstate payphone subsidies from basic exchange services, and (3) adopt guidelines for use by the States in establishing public interest payphones to be located where there would otherwise not be a payphone.

Authorizing Statute(s): None

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:

Federal Register Notices & Comments
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	4,542	4,542
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	136,677	136,677
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement:

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $0

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Is the Supporting Statement intended to be a Privacy Impact Assessment required by the E-Government Act of 2002? No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? Uncollected

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? Uncollected

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? Uncollected

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

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