PUBLIC NOTICE
     FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
     1919 M STREET N.W.
     WASHINGTON, D.C.  20554
     
     News media information 202/418-0500.
      
PRA 95-005

         PUBLIC INFORMATION COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS SUBMITTED TO
               OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET FOR REVIEW


The Federal Communications Commission has submitted the following information collection requirements
to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3507).

Copies of these submissions may be purchased from the Commission's copy contractor, International
Transcription Service, Inc., 2100 M Street, N.W., Suite 140, Washington, DC  20037, (202) 857-3800.  For
further information on this submission contact Dorothy Conway, Federal Communications Commission,
(202) 418-0217 or via internet at dconway@fcc.gov.  Persons wishing to comment on this information
collection should contact Timothy Fain, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10214 NEOB,
Washington, DC  20503, (202) 395-3561.

OMB Number:  3060-0169 
Title: Sections 43.51 and 43.53 - Reports and Records of Communications Common Carriers and Certain
Affiliates
Form No.: N/A
Action: Extension of a currently approved collection
Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit
Frequency of Response: On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden:  374 responses; 16.1 hour burden per response; 6,029 hours total annual
burden. 
Needs and Uses: Sections 43.51 and 43.53 require reports by which the Commission gathers information
concerning carriers which it examines relating to the activities of that carrier which may effect charges and
services and rendered.

OMB Number:  3060-  
Title:  Amendment of Part 65 and 69 of the Commission's Rules to Reform the Interstate Rate of Return
Presription and Enforcement Processes.
Form No.: N/A 
Action:  New Collection
Respondents:  Business or other for-profit
Frequency of Response:  On occasion
Estimated Annual Burden:  5 responses; 10,000 hours burden per response; 50,000 hours total annual
burden.
Needs and Uses:  The Order revises the Part 65 rules governing the procedures and methodologies for
prescribing and enforcing the rate of return for certain LECs.  Specifically, the Order replaces the existing
rule, which initiates represcription proceedings biennially, with a semiautomatic trigger activated by
changes in capital costs; modifies the paper hearing rules set out in Part 65; streamlines the methodolgies
used to estimate the cost of capital and removes the automatic refund rule.

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