The new rules adopted in FCC 13-158 require certain 911 service providers to certify annually whether they implement specific best practices or reasonable alternative measures to mitigate the risk of failure. This process includes an initial certification of 50 percent compliance one year after the effective date of the rules and a full, annual certification every year thereafter. The annual certification is contained in 47 C.F.R. §12.4(c) and covers three substantive areas: critical 911 circuit diversity, central office backup power, and diverse network monitoring. Service providers that have implemented every element of the certification may simply certify compliance at each covered facility without attaching additional information. If a service provider does not meet one or more certification requirements, it must provide a brief explanation of the alternative measures it has implemented in that area, or of why that element of the certification is not applicable to its network. Service providers must retain records to support their certification responses for two years. As discussed below, however, the Commission anticipates that such records will already be generated and retained in the normal course of business as part of the certification process, making any additional record-keeping burden minimal.
This is a new information collection which adds the following figures to OMB's inventory: 1,000 to the number of respondents, 1,000 to the annual number of responses, 169,982 to the annual burden hours and $0 to the annual burden cost from the information collection requirements that were adopted in FCC 13-158.
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-xxxx 911 Reliability PRA supp statement (2014).docx
Improving 911 Reliability; Reliability and Continuity of Communications Including Networks, Broadband Technologies