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
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Uncollected
Eliot Greenwald 202 418-2235
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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.
nonsubstantive change request for 3060-0761 (2014).doc
Section 79.1, Closed Captioning