On February 15, 2012, the Commission released a Report and Order in CG Docket No. 02-278, FCC 12-21, modifying the Commission's rules under the TCPA. Specifically, the Commission: (1) revises its rules to require prior express written consent for all autodialed or prerecorded telemarketing calls to any emergency telephone line (including any "911" line and any emergency line of a hospital, medical physician or service office, health care facility, poison control center, or fire protection or law enforcement agency), any telephone line of any guest room or patient room of a hospital, health care facility, elderly home, or similar establishment, or any telephone numbers assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other common carrier service or any service for which the called party is charged for the call and for all prerecorded telemarketing calls to residential lines, while maintaining flexibility in the form of consent needed for purely informational calls; (2) eliminates the established business relationship exemption for prerecorded telemarketing calls to residential lines; (3) adopts rules applicable to all prerecorded telemarketing calls that allow consumers to opt out of future robocalls during a robocall; and (4) revises its rules to limit permissible abandoned calls on a per-calling campaign basis to discourage intrusive calling campaigns. Finally, the Commission exempts from TCPA requirements prerecorded calls to residential lines made by health care-related entities governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
US Code:
47 USC 227
Name of Law: Communications Act of 1934, as amended
Due to the adoption of the Commission's Report and Order, FCC 12-21, the Commission has reevaluated its previous burdens associated with this information collection and makes the following assessments (program changes) described herein:
50,151 annual number of respondents; annual number of responses increased by +44,330, from 147,409,229 to 147,453,559 responses; annual burden hours increased by +27,707, from 684,433 to 712,140 annual hours; and $3,989,700 annual cost.
With this submission, the Commission used data from FCC Form 499-A filings and the FTC's Biennial Report to Congress to reexamined and reevaluated the data in this supporting statement.
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Karen Johnson 202 418-7706
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On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Supporting Statement OMB 3060-0519 (revision) for FCC 12-21 Report and Order 051512.doc
Rules and Regulations Implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, CG Docket No. 02-278