Non-substantial Change Request

NON-SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE REQUEST

FOR OMB CONTROL NUMBER 3060-0854

The Federal Communications Commissions (“the Commission”) is submitting this change request to the Office of Management and Budget due to the following:

On April 27, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission adopted amendments to 47 CFR 64.2400 and 64.2401. One these amendments added a new subparagraph 64.2401(f) as follows:

(f) Blocking of third-party charges.

(1) Carriers that offer subscribers the option to block third-party charges from appearing on telephone bills must clearly and conspicuously notify subscribers of this option at the point of sale, on each telephone bill, and on each carrier’s website.

In adopting this rule, the Commission recognized that it would take longer for carriers to update their billing systems to add the notice to monthly telephone bills than it would take to update websites or to provide notices at the point of sale. It therefore set one effective date for the requirement to give the notice at the point of sale and on websites, and a later effective date for the requirement to provide the notice on telephone bills. After OMB approved these collections, the FCC published in the Federal Register a notice of the effective dates. After publication of the effective date notice, OFR realized that the same rule section had two different effective dates. It asked the FCC to make a correction so that each rule subsection had only one effective date. The FCC accomplished this breaking out the requirement to provide the notice on monthly bills into a separate subsection. Now, there is 64.2401(f)(1), which contains the requirement to provide the notice at the point of sale and on websites, and 64.2401(f)(2), which contains the requirement to provide the notice on monthly bills. The separation of the requirements has also been updated in the supporting statement.

The rule was reformatted solely to satisfy OFR’s requirement that each rule subsection have only one effective date. The burdens and costs on carriers nor the specific collection changed as a result of this reformatting of the rules. Therefore, this submission is classified as a non-substantial change.