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. Please see the
non-substantive change request justification for the details for
this change request submission to the Office of Management (OMB)
for review and approval.
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.
Nonsubstantive change request 3060-1202 (2015).docx
Improving 911 Reliability; Reliability and Continuity of Communications Including Networks, Broadband Technologies