Section 713 of the Communications Act
of 1934, as amended (the Act), which was added pursuant to section
305 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, required the Commission
to prescribe rules and implementation schedules for closed
captioning of video programming. In enacting section 713, Congress
generally required that video programming be closed captioned,
regardless of distribution technology, to ensure access to persons
with hearing disabilities. As indicated in more detail in the
supporting statement, the Commission initiated a rulemaking in July
2005 to review the current status of the closed captioning rules
that were adopted in 1997. On November 7, 2008, the Commission
released an Order adopting some changes to the rules, as proposed
in the 2005 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The purpose of this
submission is to extend the collection for the closed captioning
rules (found in 47 C.F.R. § 79.1) and bring current the estimates
of existing burdens that were included in the July 2009 Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) submission to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). The Commission is submitting this non-substantive
change request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to
amend the Commission's rules to require the electronic filing of
individual closed captioning exemption requests, comments on and
oppositions to such requests, and replies to comments or
oppositions in a machine readable format. This modification, which
will take the place of paper filings, is necessary to increase the
efficiency of Commission decision-making and modernize Commission
procedures.
US Code:
47
USC 613 Name of Law: Communications Act of 1934, as amended
This supporting statement
contains various adjustments to the collections of information
covered under OMB Control Number 3060-0761. Specifically, the
Commission generally reevaluated the assumptions underlying the
calculation of its total annual burden estimates for the existing
final information collections. Accordingly, the Commission has
re-evaluated the calculation of its total respondents, annual
number of responses, annual burden hours, and annual costs for this
information collection. These adjustments are reflected as follows:
-1,674 to the annual respondents, -31,640 to the annual number of
responses, -22,559 to the annual burden hours and $2,777,184 to the
annual cost burden. The Commission has program changes to this
information collection. These program changes are due to the
removal of the proposed information collection requirements that
were approved under OMB Control Number 3060-0761. The Commission
will consider those proposed requirements when it considers the
remaining pending matters from the 2005 Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking. The program changes are as follows: -12,183 to the
total annual number of responses and -73,098 hours to the total
annual burden hours.
$206,219
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Eliot Greenwald 202
418-2235
No
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.
nonsubstantive change request for 3060-0761 (2014).doc
Section 79.1, Closed Captioning