Advanced Methods to Target
and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls, Fourth Report and Order, CG
Docket no. 17-59, FCC 20-187
No
material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved
collection
No
Regular
01/07/2022
Requested
Previously Approved
10/31/2024
10/31/2024
582,434
582,434
199,412
199,412
0
0
The Federal Communications Commission
seeks to establish a new information collection associated with the
Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls Fourth
Report and Order (“Call Blocking Fourth Report and Order”), FCC
20-187. Unwanted and illegal robocalls have long been the Federal
Communication Commission’s (“Commission”) top source of consumer
complaints and one of the Commission’s top consumer protection
priorities. In 2019, Congress passed the Pallone-Thune Telephone
Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act. In
addition to directing the Commission to mandate adoption of caller
ID authentication technology and encourage voice service providers
to block calls by establishing safe harbors, the TRACED Act directs
the Commission to ensure that both consumers and callers are
provided with transparency and effective redress when calls are
blocked in error. In the Call Blocking Fourth Report and Order, the
Commission took several steps to better protect consumers from
unwanted and illegal robocalls, and implement the TRACED Act. The
Commission expanded the existing safe harbor for blocking of calls,
established affirmative requirements to ensure that voice service
providers better police their networks against illegal calls, and
adopted several transparency and redress requirements to ensure
that erroneous blocking can be quickly identified and remedied.
Please see the non-substantive change request justification for the
reason behind this change request submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for review and approval.
This is a new information
collection. Once OMB approves the collection, the following figures
will be added into OMB’s inventory: 6,493 to the number of
respondents, 582,434 to the annual number of responses, and 199,412
to the annual burden hours.
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.