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OMB Control No: 3060-1147	ICR Reference No: 201112-3060-005
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201105-3060-016
Agency/Subagency: FCC	Agency Tracking No: PSHSB
Title: Wireless E911 Phase II Location Accuracy Requirements
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 05/17/2012
	Date Received in OIRA: 04/12/2012
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	05/31/2015	36 Months From Approved	03/31/2014
Responses	9,514	0	13,700
Time Burden (Hours)	53,152	0	71,100
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The Commission needs to collect, compile and maintain a list of counties, Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP) service areas, and specific parts for public safety awareness of areas where wireless carriers are unable to comply with requirements for location accuracy concerning the ability of PSAPs to determine the location of emergency wireless 911 calls. The Commission also needs to ensure that wireless carriers and third party systems service providers transport confidence and uncertainty data for the location of wireless E911 calls to PSAPs on a per-call basis upon a PSAP's request (two years after the effective date of the Second Report and Order, FCC 10-176). The Commission is submitting a revision due to adoption of the Third Report and Order, FCC 11-107. With the Third Report and Order, the Commission adopts a rule, providing that new CMRS network providers, meeting the definition of covered CMRS providers in Section 20.18 of the Commission's rules and deploying networks subsequent to the effective date of the Third R&O that are not an expansion or upgrade of an existing CMRS network must meet the handset-based location accuracy standard from the start. The rule requires new CMRS providers launching new stand-alone networks during the eight-year implementation period for handset-based CMRS wireless licensees to meet the applicable handset-based location accuracy standard in effect at the time of deployment. As a result, under the new rule section adopted by the Third R&O, all new CMRS providers in delivery emergency calls for Enhanced 911 service, must satisfy the handset-based location accuracy standard at either a county-based or Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)-based geographic level. Similarly, in accordance with the new rule and under he paragraph provision of Section 20.18(h)(2)(iii), new CMRS providers may exclude up to 15 percent of the counties or PSAP areas they serve due to heavy forestation that limits handset-based technology accuracy in those counties or areas.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 47 USC 151 Name of Law: Communications Act of 1934, as amended
   US Code: 47 USC 154 Name of Law: Communications Act of 1934, as amended
   US Code: 47 USC 332 Name of Law: Communications Act of 1934, as amended

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
3060-AJ52	Final or interim final rulemaking	76 FR 59916	09/28/2011

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	77 FR 3266	01/23/2012
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	77 FR 20629	04/05/2012
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	9,514	13,700	-4,186
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	53,152	71,100	-17,948
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

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

Burden Increase Due to: Changing Regulations

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

Burden Reduction Due to: Changing Regulations

Short Statement: The Commission initially estimated this new collection with 71,100 total annual burden hours in March 2011. Now we are reporting a decrease in burden, i.e., respondents, responses and total burden hours. The Commission is reporting a 17,948 program change decrease. With a change in requirements in the Third Report and Order, FCC 11-107, the Commission includes providers of new CMRS networks in its compilation and maintenance of a list of counties and Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) service areas for public safety awareness of areas where CMRS wireless carriers are unable to comply with requirements for location accuracy. The Commission also needs to ensure that the new CMRS providers and third party systems service providers, serving them, transport confidence and uncertainty data for the location of wireless E911 calls to PSAPs on a per-call basis upon a PSAP's request.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $331,665

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]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: David Siehl 202 418-1313 david.siehl@fcc.gov

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