Notice2026-04108
Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Management and Budget
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March 2, 2026
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Federal Communications Commission
Abstract
As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, 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. Pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC seeks specific comment on how it might further reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees. The Commission may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 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 OMB control number.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 40 (Monday, March 2, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10091-10093]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-04108]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-0056; OMB 3060-0823; 3060-1151; FR ID 332528]
Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval
to Office of Management and Budget
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,
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. Pursuant to the Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC seeks specific comment on how it
might further reduce the information collection burden for small
business concerns with fewer than 25 employees. The Commission may not
conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a
currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 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 OMB control number.
DATES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be submitted on or before April 1, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information collection by selecting
``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using
the search function. Your comment must be submitted into
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a> per the above instructions for it to be considered. In
addition to submitting in <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a> also send a copy of your
comment on the proposed information collection to Nicole Ongele, FCC,
via email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#52020013123431317c353d24"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ecbcbeadac8a8f8fc28b839a">[email protected]</span></a> and to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e9a7808a86858cc7a6878e8c858ca98f8a8ac78e869f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e5ab8c868a8980cbaa8b82808980a5838686cb828a93">[email protected]</span></a>. Include in the
comments the OMB control number as shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION below.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies
of the information collection, contact Nicole Ongele at (202) 418-2991.
To view a copy of this information collection request (ICR) submitted
to OMB: (1) go to the web page <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>, (2) look for the section of the web page called ``Currently
Under Review,'' (3) click on the downward-pointing arrow in the
``Select Agency'' box below the ``Currently Under Review'' heading, (4)
select ``Federal Communications Commission'' from the list of agencies
presented in the ``Select Agency'' box, (5) click the ``Submit'' button
to the right of the ``Select Agency'' box, (6) when the list of FCC
ICRs currently under review appears, look for the Title of this ICR and
then click on the ICR Reference Number. A copy of the FCC submission to
OMB will be displayed.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork burdens, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), the FCC invited the general public and
other Federal Agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection. Comments are requested concerning:
(a) 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; (b) the accuracy
of the Commission's burden estimates; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d) 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. Pursuant to the Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(4), the FCC seeks specific comment on how it might further
reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns
with fewer than 25 employees.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0056.
Title: Part 68, Connection of Terminal Equipment to the Telephone
Network.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 41,403 respondents; 44,423
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.25 hours-40 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement, third
party disclosure requirement, and recordkeeping requirement.
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 and 303(r).
Total Annual Burden: 12,869 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $508,250.
Needs and Uses: The purpose of 47 CFR part 68 is to protect the
telephone network from certain types of harm and prevent interference
to subscribers. To (1) demonstrate that terminal equipment complies
with criteria for protecting the network and (2) ensure that consumers,
providers of telecommunications, the Commission and others are able to
trace products to the party responsible for ensuring compliance with
these criteria; it is essential to require manufacturers or other
responsible parties to provide the information required by Part 68. In
addition, incumbent local exchange carriers must provide the
information in Part 68 to warn their subscribers of impending
disconnection of service when subscriber terminal equipment is causing
telephone network harm, and to inform subscribers of a change in
network facilities that requires modification or alteration of
subscribers' terminal equipment.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0823.
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.
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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. 2026-04108 Filed 2-27-26; 8:45 am]
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