Rule2022-02485
Advanced Methods To Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls, Fourth Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration
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Published
February 8, 2022
Effective
March 10, 2022
Issuing agencies
Federal Communications Commission
Abstract
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved the public information collections associated with the Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls, Fourth Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration. This document is consistent with the Fourth Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing OMB approval and the effective date of the information collection requirements.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 26 (Tuesday, February 8, 2022)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 7044-7045]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-02485]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 64
[CG Docket No. 17-59; FCC 20-187; FCC 21-126; FR ID 70178]
Advanced Methods To Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls,
Fourth Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date.
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SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission
(Commission or FCC) announces that the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) has approved the public information collections associated with
the Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls, Fourth
Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration. This document is
consistent with the Fourth Report and Order and Order on
Reconsideration which stated that the Commission would publish a
document in the Federal Register announcing OMB approval and the
effective date of the information collection requirements.
DATES: The additions of Sec. 64.1200(k)(10) and (n)(2), published at
86 FR 17726, April 6, 2021, and revision of Sec. 64.1200(k)(10),
published at 86 FR 74373, December 30, 2021, are effective March 10,
2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerusha Burnett,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bef4dbcccbcdd6df90fccbccd0dbcacafed8dddd90d9d1c8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="92d8f7e0e7e1faf3bcd0e7e0fcf7e6e6d2f4f1f1bcf5fde4">[email protected]</span></a> or (202) 418-0526, of the Consumer and
Governmental Affairs Bureau, Consumer Policy Division.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document announces that, on October 4,
2021, OMB approved the information collection requirements contained in
the Commission's Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful
Robocalls Fourth Report and Order, FCC 20-187, published at 86 FR
17726, April 6, 2021, and Order on Reconsideration, FCC 21-126,
published at 86 FR 74373, December 30, 2021. The OMB Control Numbers
are 3060-1292. The Commission publishes this document as an
announcement of the effective date of the information collection
requirements.
Synopsis
As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3507), the FCC is notifying the public that it received OMB approval
for the information collection requirements contained in the
Commission's rules on October 4, 2021 and the non-substantive changes
in the Order on Reconsideration were approved by OMB on January 20,
2022.
No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply
with a collection of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act
that does not display a current, valid OMB control number which is
3060-1292.
The foregoing notification is required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13, October 1, 1995, and 44 U.S.C. 3507.
The total annual reporting burdens and costs for the respondents
are as follows:
OMB Control No.: 3060-1292.
OMB Approval Date: October 4, 2021.
OMB Expiration Date: October 31, 2024.
Title: Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls,
Fourth Report and Order, CG Docket No. 17-59, FCC 20-187.
Form Number: N/A.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 6,493 respondents and 582,434 annual
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .25 to 40 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement, On-going
reporting requirement and Third-party Disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for these collections are contained in 47 U.S.C.
154(i), 201, 202, 217, 227, 251(e), 303(r) and 403.
Total Annual Burden: 199,412 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Needs and Uses: The Commission adopted a new information collection
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associated with the Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful
Robocalls Fourth Report and Order (``Call Blocking Fourth Report and
Order''), FCC 20-187. In 2019, Congress passed the Pallone-Thune
Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED)
Act. In addition to directing the Commission to mandate adoption of
caller ID authentication technology and encourage voice service
providers to block calls by establishing safe harbors, the TRACED Act
directs the Commission to ensure that both consumers and callers are
provided with transparency and effective redress when calls are blocked
in error. In the Call Blocking Fourth Report and Order, the Commission
adopted a notification requirement and a blocked calls list requirement
to better protect consumers from unwanted and illegal robocalls and
implement the TRACED Act. While most of the requirements the Commission
adopted in the Call Blocking Fourth Report and Order did not include an
information collection, two of the requirements required approval prior
to implementation.
First, 47 CFR 64.1200(n)(2) establishes an affirmative obligation
that voice service providers effectively mitigate illegal traffic when
notified of such traffic by the Commission's Enforcement Bureau. The
rule requires that voice service providers receiving notice from the
Commission report back with specific information about their
investigation and response to such investigation. This requirement
gives the Commission an important tool in the fight to stop illegal
calls.
Second, 47 CFR 64.1200(k)(10), in order to enhance transparency for
consumers, requires that any terminating voice service provider that
blocks calls on an opt-in or opt-out basis must provide, on the request
of the subscriber to a particular number, a list of all calls intended
for that number that the voice service provider or its designee has
blocked.
Subsequent to OMB approval of this information collection, the
Commission released an Order on Reconsideration, ``Advanced Methods to
Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls--Petition for Reconsideration
and Request for Clarification of USTelecom--The Broadband
Association,'' CG Docket No. 17-59, FCC 21-126, 86 FR 74373, December
30, 2021. Among other things, this Order on Reconsideration clarified
aspects of 47 CFR 64.1200(k)(10). In doing so, the Commission added
clarifying language to the existing rule. OMB approved the Commission's
non-substantive change request for this change on January 20, 2022.
Federal Communications Commission.
Katura Jackson,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-02485 Filed 2-7-22; 8:45 am]
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