The Commission is submitting this
revised information collection to transfer certain information
collection burdens associated with this OMB control number to
another OMB control number. This change is being made to reflect
the development of an online form for use by consumers in filing
complaints with the Commission that allege violations of the FCC’s
disability accessibility requirements. The online form is part of
an information collection reflected in OMB control number
3060-0874. The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video
Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA) directed the Commission to revise
its regulations to mandate closed captioning on IP-delivered video
programming that was published or exhibited on television with
captions after the effective date of the regulations. Accordingly,
the Commission requires video programming owners (VPOs) to send
program files to video programming distributors and providers
(hereinafter VPDs) with required captions, and it requires VPDs to
enable the rendering or pass through of all required captions to
the end user. The CVAA also directed the Commission to revise its
regulations to mandate that all apparatus designed to receive, play
back, or record video programming be equipped with built-in closed
caption decoder circuitry or capability designed to display
closed-captioned video programming, except that apparatus that use
a picture screen that is 13 inches or smaller and recording devices
must comply only if doing so is achievable. These rules are
codified at 47 CFR §§ 79.4 and 79.100 – 79.104.
Based on its experience, the
Commission decreased the burdens associated with this information
collection by updating the estimated number of complaints and
estimated hourly burdens related to the filing of complaints, and
transferred certain information collection burdens related to the
filing of complaints from this information collection to OMB
Control Number 3060-0874. Overall, the burdens associated with
these two information collections were decreased because filing a
complaint offline under this collection (OMB Control Number
3060-1162) was estimated to require one (1) hour and is now
estimated to require 0.50 hour (30 minutes) per complaint, and
filing a complaint online (burdens reflected in OMB Control Number
3060-0874) is estimated to require 0.25 hour (15 minutes) per
complaint. Therefore, there are adjustments/decreases to this
information collection, which are as follows: -150 from the annual
number of respondents (from 1,322 to 1,172), -325 from the annual
number of responses (from 3,666 to 3,341), and -865 from the annual
burden hours (from 10,062 hours to 9,197 hours). There are no
changes to the annual cost. Also, there are no program changes to
this information collection.
$37,841
No
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Diana Sokolow 202
418-0588
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.