Federal Register: June 12, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 112)
DOCID: fr12jn09-62 FR Doc E9-13945
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Federal Communications Commission
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr12jn09-62
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Public Information Collections Approved by Office of Management and Budget
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
June 9, 2009.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 10413. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number.
SUMMARY:
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
DOCUMENT BODY 2:
June 9, 2009.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 10413. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
OMB Control No.: 30600999.
Expiration Date: 06/30/2012.
Title: Hearing Aid Compatibility Status Report and Section 20.19, Hearing AidCompatible Mobile Handsets (Hearing Aid Compatibility Act).
Form No.: FCC Form 655electronic only.
Estimated Annual Burden: 925 responses; 12,063 total annual hours; 2.5 hours per response.
Needs and Uses: In the Report and Order in WT Docket 01309, FCC 03168, adopted and released in September 2003, the Federal Communications Commission modified the exemption for telephones used with public mobile services from the requirements of the Hearing Aid Compatibility Act of 1988 (HAC Act). The Order 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.
In February 2008, the Commission adopted final rules in a Report and Order (FCC 0868) that updated several performance benchmarks and instituted new requirements. To assist the Commission in monitoring the implementation of the new requirements and to provide information to the public, the Report and Order also required manufacturers and service providers to continue to file annual reports on the status of their compliance with the requirements, and required manufacturers and service providers that maintain public websites to publish uptodate information on those websites regarding their hearing aidcompatible handset models.
Now, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden,
the Commission is eliminating the use of paperbased annual reports and
will require annual reports filed by manufacturers and service
providers to be submitted using electronic FCC Form 655 beginning July
15, 2009. Use of the electronic FCC Form 655 will help filers ensure
that their reports include all of the required information, will
facilitate the Commission's compilation of data from the reports, and will decrease the paperwork burden overall.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Contact Judith B. Herman, Federal Communications Commission, at (202) 4180214 or via the Internet at JudithB.Herman@fcc.gov.