Notice2025-23586
Information Collections Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission
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December 22, 2025
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Federal Communications Commission
Abstract
As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection. Comments are requested concerning: whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the information shall have practical utility; the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and ways to further reduce the information collection burden on small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 243 (Monday, December 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59822-59823]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23586]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-0823, OMB 3060-1151; FR ID 322453]
Information Collections Being Reviewed by the Federal
Communications Commission
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens,
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the
general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on the following information collection. Comments are requested
concerning: whether the proposed collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission,
including whether the information shall have practical utility; the
accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on the
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology; and ways to further reduce the
information collection burden on small business concerns with fewer
than 25 employees.
DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before February
20, 2026. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but
find it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this
notice, you should advise the contact listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f5a5a7b4b5939696db929a83"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="18484a59587e7b7b367f776e">[email protected]</span></a> and to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9ef0f7fdf1f2fbb0f1f0f9fbf2fbdef8fdfdb0f9f1e8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="640a0d070b08014a0b0a03010801240207074a030b12">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the
information collection, contact Nicole Ongele, (202) 418-2991.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control
number. No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply
with a collection of information subject to the PRA that does not
display a valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0823.
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Title: Part 64, Pay Telephone Reclassification.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 400 respondents; 16,820
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 2.66 hours (average).
Frequency of Response: On occasion, quarterly and monthly reporting
requirements and third party disclosure requirements.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47
U.S.C. 151, 154, 201-205, 218, 226 and 276.
Total Annual Burden: 44,700 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $832,000.
Needs and Uses: The Commission established a plan to ensure that
payphone service providers (PSPs) were compensated for certain non-coin
calls originated from their payphones. As part of this plan, the
Commission required that by October 7, 1997, local exchange carriers
were to provide payphone-specific coding digits to PSPs, and that PSPs
were to provide those digits from their payphones to interexchange
carriers. The provision of payphone-specific coding digits was a
prerequisite to payphone per-call compensation payments by IXCs to PSPs
for subscriber 800 and access code calls. The Commission's Wireline
Competition Bureau subsequently provided a waiver until March 9, 1998,
for those payphones for which the necessary coding digits were not
provided to identify calls. The Bureau also on that date clarified the
requirements established in the Payphone Orders for the provision of
payphone-specific coding digits and for tariffs that LECs must file
pursuant to the Payphone Orders.
OMB Control Number: 3060-1151.
Title: Sections 1.1411, 1.1412, 1.1415, and 1.1416 Pole Attachment
Access and Dispute Resolution Requirements.
Form Number: FCC Form 5653.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently-approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,359 respondents; 185,584
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.25--5 hours.
Frequency of Response: On-occasion reporting requirement,
recordkeeping requirement, and third-party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Mandatory or required to obtain or retain
benefits. Statutory authority for this information collection is
contained in 47 U.S.C. 224.
Total Annual Burden: 146,264 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,800.
Needs and Uses: The Commission is requesting Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) approval for a revision to a currently approved
information collection. In Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment
by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, WC Docket No. 17-84,
Fifth Report and Order, FCC 25-38 (rel. July 25, 2025) (Order), the
Commission adopted rules that implement the pole attachment
requirements in section 224 of the Communications Act of 1934, as
amended. The Order substantially revised 47 CFR 1.1411 and 47 CFR
1.1412.
Section 1.1411. In the Order, the Commission adopted regulations
requiring (1) greater collaboration and cooperation between utilities
and attachers, (2) a timeline for large pole attachment requests, (3)
improvements to the pole attachment timeline, and (4) improvements to
the contractor approval process. The Commission adopted these
requirements to help improve the attachment process and potentially
reduce disputes, thus facilitating broadband deployment. Specifically,
the Order requires (1) attachers to provide written notice to utilities
of forthcoming pole attachment orders for orders exceeding 300 poles or
0.5 percent of the utility's poles in a state up to the lesser of 3,000
poles or 5 percent of a utility's poles in the state associated with a
single network deployment and for orders exceeding the lesser of 3,000
poles or 5 percent of a utility's poles in the state up to the lesser
of 6,000 poles or ten percent of a utility's poles in a state; (2) that
an attacher that fails to provide timely advance notice of such orders
must, upon prompt notice from the utility, still wait the relevant
advance notice period before the applicable timeline begins; (3) a
meet-and-confer following the requisite advance notice for orders
exceeding the lesser of 3,000 poles or five percent of a utility's
poles in a state up to the lesser of 6,000 poles or ten percent of a
utility's poles in a state; and (4) a new set of timelines for
utilities to complete each pole access phase for large orders.
The Commission further revised its pole attachment timelines as
follows: (1) require utilities to notify attachers within 15 days of
receiving a complete application if they know or reasonably should know
that they cannot meet the survey deadline, and require utilities to
notify attachers within 15 days of payment of the estimate, and
existing attachers to notify utilities and new attachers within 15 days
of receiving notice from the utility, if they know or reasonably should
know that they cannot meet the make-ready deadline; (2) add a self-help
remedy for make-ready estimates, provided certain safeguards are met;
and (3) prohibit utility-imposed limits on application size and
frequency that have the effect of restricting the number of pole
attachments attachers may seek in a given timeframe.
Section 1.1412. In the Order, the Commission adopted improvements
to the contractor approval process by requiring utilities to respond to
a request to add contractors to a utility-approved list within 30 days
of receiving the request.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-23586 Filed 12-19-25; 8:45 am]
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