47 CFR 1 - PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
- SUBPART A — General Rules of Practice and Procedure (§§ 1.1 - 1.120)
- SUBPART B — Hearing Proceedings (§§ 1.201 - 1.364)
- SUBPART C — Rulemaking Proceedings (§§ 1.399 - 1.430)
- SUBPART D — [Reserved]
- SUBPART E — Complaints, Applications, Tariffs, and Reports Involving Common Carriers (§§ 1.701 - 1.824)
- SUBPART F — Wireless Radio Services Applications and Proceedings (§§ 1.901 - 1.981)
- SUBPART G — Schedule of Statutory Charges and Procedures for Payment (§§ 1.1101 - 1.1182)
- SUBPART H — Ex Parte Communications (§§ 1.1200 - 1.1216)
- SUBPART I — Procedures Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (§§ 1.1301 - 1.1319)
- SUBPART J — Pole Attachment Complaint Procedures (§§ 1.1401 - 1.1424)
- SUBPART K — Implementation of the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) in Agency Proceedings (§§ 1.1501 - 1.1530)
- SUBPART L — Random Selection Procedures for Mass Media Services (§§ 1.1601 - 1.1623)
- SUBPART M — Cable Operations and Licensing System (COALS) (§§ 1.1701 - 1.1707)
- SUBPART N — Enforcement of Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability In Programs or Activities Conducted By the Federal Communications Commission (§§ 1.1801 - 1.1870)
- SUBPART O — Collection of Claims Owed the United States (§§ 1.1901 - 1.1953)
- SUBPART P — Implementation of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (§§ 1.2001 - 1.2003)
- SUBPART Q — Competitive Bidding Proceedings (§§ 1.2101 - 1.2114)
- SUBPART R — Implementation of Section 4(g)(3) of the Communications Act: Procedures Governing Acceptance of Unconditional Gifts, Donations and Bequests (§§ 1.3000 - 1.3004)
- SUBPART S — Preemption of Restrictions That “Impair” the Ability To Receive Television Broadcast Signals, Direct Broadcast Satellite Services, or Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Services or the Ability To Receive or Transmit Fixed Wireless Communications Signals (§§ 1.4000 - 1.4000)
- SUBPART T — Exempt Telecommunications Companies (§§ 1.5000 - 1.5007)
- SUBPART U — Implementation of Section 325(e) of the Communications Act: Procedures Governing Complaints Filed by Television Broadcast Stations Against Satellite Carriers for Retransmission Without Consent (§§ 1.6000 - 1.6012)
- SUBPART V — Implementation of Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; Commission Collection of Advanced Telecommunications Capability Data (§§ 1.7000 - 1.7002)
- SUBPART W — FCC Registration Number (§§ 1.8001 - 1.8004)
- SUBPART X — Spectrum Leasing (§§ 1.9001 - 1.9080)
- SUBPART Y — International Bureau Filing System (§§ 1.10000 - 1.10018)
- SUBPART Z — Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (§§ 1.20000 - 1.20008)
- Appendix A to Part 1 - A Plan of Cooperative Procedure in Matters and Cases Under the Provisions of Section 410 of the Communications Act of 1934
- Appendix B to Part 1 - Nationwide Programmatic Agreement for the Collocation of Wireless Antennas
- Appendix C to Part 1 - Nationwide Programmatic Agreement Regarding the Section 106 National Historic Preservation Act Review Process
Title 47 published on 2011-10-01
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GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-23020 RIN WC Docket No. 05-25 RM-10593 FCC 12-92 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective October 18, 2012, 47 CFR Part 1 In this Report and Order, the Commission suspends, on an interim basis, the Commission's rules allowing for automatic pricing flexibility grants for special access services, pending adoption of new rules. The Commission suspends its pricing flexibility rules in light of evidence that the proxies for measuring actual and potential special access market competition, which are based on collocation by competitive carriers within a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), do not accurately predict whether competition is sufficient to constrain special access prices and deter anticompetitive practices by price cap local exchange carriers. In the Report and Order, the Commission also initiates a process to obtain data needed to conduct a special access market analysis. Based on this forthcoming data collection, the Commission will undertake a robust special access market analysis to determine the extent to which the special access market is competitive and develop special access pricing flexibility rules to replace the collocation-based competitive showings.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-22756 RIN GC Docket No. 10-44 DA 12-1401 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective October 17, 2012. 47 CFR Part 1 In this document, the Commission, via the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) provides notice of the implementation of a revised procedure for it to provide service of copies of orders, pleadings, and other documents to parties to a docketed proceeding when required by statute or regulation. Henceforth, that service will be made in an electronic format, rather than by mail.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-20704 RIN IB Docket No. 11-133 FCC 12-93 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective August 22, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 25 In this document, the Commission adopts a new approach to its review of foreign ownership in common carrier radio station licensees, where the foreign ownership is held in the licensee through U.S.-organized entities that do not control the licensee. This action responds to pleadings filed in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking initiating this docket and to the Public Notice in this docket seeking further comment on the new approach.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-18661 RIN MD Docket No. 12-116 FCC 12-76 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective September 4, 2012. 47 CFR Part 1 The Commission revises its Schedule of Regulatory Fees to recover an amount of $339,844,000 that Congress has required the Commission to collect for fiscal year 2012. Section 9 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, provides for the annual assessment and collection of regulatory fees under sections 9(b)(2) and 9(b)(3), respectively, for annual “Mandatory Adjustments” and “Permitted Amendments” to the Schedule of Regulatory Fees.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-13610 RIN FCC 11-181 WT Docket Nos. 08-61 and 03-187 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; announcement of effective date. The rules amending 47 CFR Parts 1, 17, 22, 24, 25, 27, 80, 87, and 90 published at 77 FR 3935, January 26, 2012, are effective June 18, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1, 17, 22, 24, 25, 27, 80, 87, and 90 In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collections associated with the Commission's Migratory Bird Order on Remand ( Order ). This document is consistent with the Order, which stated that the rules will become effective upon Commission publication of a document in the Federal Register announcing their approval by OMB.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-13491 RIN GN Docket No. 09-51 CC Docket Nos. 01-92, 96-45 WC Docket No. 10-90, 07-135, 05-337, 03-109 and WT Docket No. 10-208 FCC 11-161 and DA 12-147 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; announcement of effective date. Effective date: Section 1.21001(b) through (d); 1.21002(c) and (d); 1.21004(a); and Section 54.1003; 54.1004(a), (c), and (d); 54.1005(a) and (b); 54.1006(a) through (e); 54.1007(a) and (b); 54.1008(a) and (e), published at 76 FR 78921, December 20, 2011, are effective June 5, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 54 In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with certain of the provisions of the rules adopted as part of the Connect America Fund & Intercarrier Compensation Reform Order ( Order ), FCC 11-161 and a Bureau Order, DA 12-147. This notice is consistent with the Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of those rules.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-9586 RIN WC Docket Nos. 11-42, 03-109, 12-23 and CC Docket No. 96-45 Report No. 2948 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; petition for reconsideration. Oppositions to the Petitions must be filed by May 7, 2012. Replies to an opposition must be filed May 15, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 0, 1, and 54 In this document, Petitions for Reconsideration (Petitions) have been filed in the Commission's Rulemaking proceeding concerning rules that comprehensively reform and modernize the Lifeline program to strengthen protections against waste, fraud and abuse; improve program administration and accountability; improve enrollment and consumer disclosures; initiate modernization of the program for broadband; and constrain the growth of the program.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-6946 RIN WT Docket No. 05-211 FCC 12-12 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective March 21, 2012. 47 CFR Part 1 The Federal Communications Commission removes two modifications to its competitive bidding rules pursuant to a mandate by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-2910 RIN MB Docket No. 07-42 FCC 11-119 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; announcement of effective date. The amendments to 47 CFR 1.221(h), 1.229(b)(3), 1.229(b)(4), 1.248(a), 1.248(b), 76.7(g)(2), 76.1302(c)(1), 76.1302(d), 76.1302(e)(1), and 76.1302(k) published at 76 FR 60652, September 29, 2011, are effective on February 8, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 76 In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with the Commission's rules contained in the Second Report and Order, FCC 11-119, pertaining to carriage of video programming vendors by multichannel video programming distributors (program carriage rules). This notice is consistent with the Secord Report and Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of those rules.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-1535 RIN WT Docket No. 08-61 WT Docket No. 03-187 FCC 11-181 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. The rules in this document contain information collection requirements that have not been approved by OMB. The Federal Communications Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date. 47 CFR Parts 1, 17, 22, 24, 25, 27, 80, 87 and 90 In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) adopts a rule that affects the process of tower construction by instituting a pre-application notification process so that members of the public will have a meaningful opportunity to comment on the environmental effects of proposed antenna structures that require registration with the Commission. As an interim measure pending completion of a programmatic environmental analysis and subsequent rulemaking proceeding, the Commission also requires that an EA be prepared for any proposed tower over 450 feet in height.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-1503 RIN WC Docket Nos. 10-90, 07-135, 05-337, 03-109 GN Docket No. 09-51 WT Docket No. 10-208 CC Docket Nos. 01-92 and 96-45 Report No. 2945 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; petition for reconsideration. Oppositions to the Petitions must be filed by February 9, 2012. Replies to an opposition must be filed February 21, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 0, 1, 20, 36, 51, 54, 61, 64 and 69 In this document, Petitions for Reconsideration (Petitions) have been filed in the Commission's Rulemaking proceeding concerning rules that comprehensively reform and modernize the universal service and intercarrier compensation systems to ensure that robust, affordable voice and broadband service, both fixed and mobile, are available to Americans throughout the nation.
This is a list of United States Code sections, Statutes at Large, Public Laws, and Presidential Documents, which provide rulemaking authority for this CFR Part.
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§ 504 - Costs and fees of parties
§ 553 - Rule making
§ 5514 - Installment deduction for indebtedness to the United States
§ 79 to 79z–6 - Repealed.
§ 3701 - Definitions and application
§ 3711 - Collection and compromise
§ 3712 - Time limitations for presenting certain claims of the Government
§ 3713 - Priority of Government claims
§ 3714 - Keeping money due States in default
§ 3715 - Buying real property of a debtor
§ 3716 - Administrative offset
§ 3717 - Interest and penalty on claims
§ 3718 - Contracts for collection services
§ 3719 - Reports on debt collection activities
§ 3720E - Dissemination of information regarding identity of delinquent debtors
§ 3720D - Garnishment
§ 3720C - Debt Collection Improvement Account
§ 3720B - Barring delinquent Federal debtors from obtaining Federal loans or loan insurance guarantees
§ 3720A - Reduction of tax refund by amount of debt
§ 3720 - Collection of payments
§ 151 - Purposes of chapter; Federal Communications Commission created
§ 154 - Federal Communications Commission
§ 155 - Commission
§ 157 - New technologies and services
§ 225 - Telecommunications services for hearing-impaired and speech-impaired individuals
§ 303 - Powers and duties of Commission
§ 309 - Application for license
Executive Order ... 11609
Executive Order ... 12107
Title 47 published on 2011-10-01
The following are ALL rules, proposed rules, and notices (chronologically) published in the Federal Register relating to 47 CFR 1 after this date.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-27672 RIN CG Docket No. 12-129 FCC 12-129 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. This final rule contains new information collection requirements that have not been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Commission will publish a separate document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of that rule section. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 64 In this document, the Commission adopts rules to create a Do-Not-Call registry for public safety answering points (PSAPs) as required by the “Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012” (Tax Relief Act). Specifically, section 6507 of the Tax Relief Act requires the Commission, among other things, to establish a registry that allows PSAPs to register telephone numbers on a Do-Not-Call list and prohibit the use of automatic dialing equipment to contact those numbers. Therefore, the Commission adopts rules necessary for the creation and ongoing management of the Do-Not-Call registry, including requirements for adding PSAP telephone numbers, granting and tracking access by operators of automatic dialing equipment, and protecting the registry from unauthorized disclosure or dissemination of registered numbers. In addition, the Commission adopts specific monetary penalties for unauthorized disclosure or contact of any numbers on the PSAP registry. These provisions are designed to address concerns about the use automatic dialing equipment which can generate large numbers of phone calls in a short period of time, tie up public safety lines, divert critical responder resources away from emergency services, and impede access by the public to emergency lines.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-28224 RIN IB Docket No. 12-299 FCC 12-125 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Proposed rule. Submit comments on or before December 26, 2012, and replies on or before January 15, 2013. Written comments on the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) proposed information collection requirements must be submitted by the public, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other interested parties on or before January 25, 2013. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 63 In this document, the Commission is proposing to make changes to the criteria under which it considers applications and notifications from foreign carriers or affiliates of foreign carriers for entry into the U.S. market for international telecommunications services and facilities under section 214 of Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”) and section 2 of the Cable Landing License Act. By this document, the Commission seeks to eliminate outdated or unnecessary rules, simplify rules that it may retain, reduce regulatory costs and burdens imposed on applicants, and improve transparency with respect to filing requirements of the ECO Test. It also seeks to promote competition to achieve greater decisional flexibility in evaluating applications and notifications, and continue to protect important interests related to national security, law enforcement, foreign policy, and trade policy.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-27235 RIN Docket No. 12-268 FCC 12-118 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Proposed rule. Comments for this proceeding are due on or before December 21, 2012; reply comments are due on or before February 19, 2012. Written PRA comments on the proposed information collection requirements contained herein must be submitted by the public, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and other interested parties on or before January 22, 2013. 47 CFR Parts 1, 27, and 73 In the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, “Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions” ( NPRM ), released October 2, 2012, the Commission considers matters related to the implementation of Congress's mandate to conduct an incentive auction of broadcast television spectrum as set forth in the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Spectrum Act).
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-24514 RIN MD Docket No. 12-201 FCC 12-77 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of reply comment date. The comment period is reopened and the reply comment period is extended for the proposed rule published August 17, 2012, at 7 FR 49749. Interested parties may submit comments in response to the GAO Regulatory Fees Reform Report on or before October 9, 2012, and reply comments in response to both the GAO Regulatory Fees Reform Report and Regulatory Fees Reform Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on or before October 23, 2012. 47 CFR Part 1 In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission), via the Office of Managing Director, seeks comment on a report released by the Government Accountability Office Report on September 12, 2012, entitled, Federal Communications Commission, Regulatory Fee Process Needs To Be Updated. In addition, this document extends the reply comment date in response to the Commission's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on proposals to reform the Commission's policies and procedures for assessing and collecting regulatory fees.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-23020 RIN WC Docket No. 05-25 RM-10593 FCC 12-92 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective October 18, 2012, 47 CFR Part 1 In this Report and Order, the Commission suspends, on an interim basis, the Commission's rules allowing for automatic pricing flexibility grants for special access services, pending adoption of new rules. The Commission suspends its pricing flexibility rules in light of evidence that the proxies for measuring actual and potential special access market competition, which are based on collocation by competitive carriers within a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), do not accurately predict whether competition is sufficient to constrain special access prices and deter anticompetitive practices by price cap local exchange carriers. In the Report and Order, the Commission also initiates a process to obtain data needed to conduct a special access market analysis. Based on this forthcoming data collection, the Commission will undertake a robust special access market analysis to determine the extent to which the special access market is competitive and develop special access pricing flexibility rules to replace the collocation-based competitive showings.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-22756 RIN GC Docket No. 10-44 DA 12-1401 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective October 17, 2012. 47 CFR Part 1 In this document, the Commission, via the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) provides notice of the implementation of a revised procedure for it to provide service of copies of orders, pleadings, and other documents to parties to a docketed proceeding when required by statute or regulation. Henceforth, that service will be made in an electronic format, rather than by mail.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-20704 RIN IB Docket No. 11-133 FCC 12-93 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective August 22, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 25 In this document, the Commission adopts a new approach to its review of foreign ownership in common carrier radio station licensees, where the foreign ownership is held in the licensee through U.S.-organized entities that do not control the licensee. This action responds to pleadings filed in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking initiating this docket and to the Public Notice in this docket seeking further comment on the new approach.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-20203 RIN MD Docket No. 12-201 FCC 12-77 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Notice of proposed rulemaking. Comments are due September 17, 2012 and reply comments are due October 16, 2012. 47 CFR Part 1 The Commission seeks comment on proposals to reform the Commission's policies and procedures for assessing and collecting regulatory fees. Extensive changes have occurred in the communications marketplace, and in the Commission's regulatory efforts, since the Schedule of Regulatory Fees was enacted by Congress in 1994. In the period directly following enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, industry development and Commission regulation centered primarily on wireline local and long distance communications. Subsequently, however, the mobile wireless industry has grown exponentially, shifting Commission resources to, among other things, the wireless industry, while the costs of implementing the 1996 Telecommunications Act decreased. These changes have produced corresponding shifts in the Commission's regulatory activity. These shifts in the cost of the Commission's activities are not always reflected in our current regulatory fees. Although the Commission has made a number of discrete changes to the regulatory fee program since 1994, we have not revised the data on which our fees are based since 1998, nor have we undertaken a comprehensive analysis of all the substantive and procedural aspects of our regulatory fee program in light of the current state of the communications industry. This proceeding will serve as the means by which we will seek comment on the issues related to how the Commission should allocate its regulatory costs among different segments of the communications industry.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-18661 RIN MD Docket No. 12-116 FCC 12-76 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective September 4, 2012. 47 CFR Part 1 The Commission revises its Schedule of Regulatory Fees to recover an amount of $339,844,000 that Congress has required the Commission to collect for fiscal year 2012. Section 9 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, provides for the annual assessment and collection of regulatory fees under sections 9(b)(2) and 9(b)(3), respectively, for annual “Mandatory Adjustments” and “Permitted Amendments” to the Schedule of Regulatory Fees.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-15119 RIN CG Docket No. 12-129 FCC 12-56 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Proposed rule. Interested parties may file comments on or before July 23, 2012. Reply comments are due on or before August 6, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 64 In this document, the Commission initiates a proceeding to create a Do-Not-Call registry for public safety answering points (PSAPs) as required by the “Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012” (Tax Relief Act). Specifically, section 6507 of the Tax Relief Act requires the Commission, among other things, to establish a registry that allows PSAPs to register telephone numbers on a Do-Not-Call list and prohibit the use of automatic dialing equipment to contact those numbers. Therefore, the Commission seeks comment on a variety of issues relating to the establishment and ongoing management of the PSAP registry. The proposed rules are designed to address concerns about the use automatic dialing equipment, which can generate large numbers of phone calls in a short period of time, tie up public safety lines, divert critical responder resources away from emergency services, and impede access by the public to emergency lines.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-13610 RIN FCC 11-181 WT Docket Nos. 08-61 and 03-187 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; announcement of effective date. The rules amending 47 CFR Parts 1, 17, 22, 24, 25, 27, 80, 87, and 90 published at 77 FR 3935, January 26, 2012, are effective June 18, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1, 17, 22, 24, 25, 27, 80, 87, and 90 In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collections associated with the Commission's Migratory Bird Order on Remand ( Order ). This document is consistent with the Order, which stated that the rules will become effective upon Commission publication of a document in the Federal Register announcing their approval by OMB.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-13491 RIN GN Docket No. 09-51 CC Docket Nos. 01-92, 96-45 WC Docket No. 10-90, 07-135, 05-337, 03-109 and WT Docket No. 10-208 FCC 11-161 and DA 12-147 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; announcement of effective date. Effective date: Section 1.21001(b) through (d); 1.21002(c) and (d); 1.21004(a); and Section 54.1003; 54.1004(a), (c), and (d); 54.1005(a) and (b); 54.1006(a) through (e); 54.1007(a) and (b); 54.1008(a) and (e), published at 76 FR 78921, December 20, 2011, are effective June 5, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 54 In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with certain of the provisions of the rules adopted as part of the Connect America Fund & Intercarrier Compensation Reform Order ( Order ), FCC 11-161 and a Bureau Order, DA 12-147. This notice is consistent with the Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of those rules.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-11890 RIN MD Docket No. 12-116 FCC 12-48 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Notice of proposed rulemaking. Submit comments on or before May 31, 2012, and reply comments on or before June 7, 2012. 47 CFR Part 1 The Commission will revise its Schedule of Regulatory Fees in order to recover an amount of $339,844,000 that Congress has required the Commission to collect for fiscal year 2012. Section 9 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, provides for the annual assessment and collection of regulatory fees under sections 9(b)(2) and 9(b)(3), respectively, for annual “Mandatory Adjustments” and “Permitted Amendments” to the Schedule of Regulatory Fees.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-9623 RIN IB Docket No. 11-133 DA 12-573 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Proposed rule. Comments shall be filed May 15, 2012. Reply comments shall be filed May 25, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 25 In this document, the International Bureau, on behalf of the Commission, seeks further comment on an approach to policies and procedures that apply to foreign ownership of common carrier radio station licensees pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (“the Act”). It seeks comment because this approach was not discussed in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking initiating this docket or in the comments filed to date in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-9586 RIN WC Docket Nos. 11-42, 03-109, 12-23 and CC Docket No. 96-45 Report No. 2948 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; petition for reconsideration. Oppositions to the Petitions must be filed by May 7, 2012. Replies to an opposition must be filed May 15, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 0, 1, and 54 In this document, Petitions for Reconsideration (Petitions) have been filed in the Commission's Rulemaking proceeding concerning rules that comprehensively reform and modernize the Lifeline program to strengthen protections against waste, fraud and abuse; improve program administration and accountability; improve enrollment and consumer disclosures; initiate modernization of the program for broadband; and constrain the growth of the program.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-8405 RIN WT Docket No. 12-70 ET Docket No. 10-142 WT Docket No. 04-356 FCC 12-32 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Proposed rule; notice of inquiry. Submit comments on or before May 17, 2012. Submit reply comments on or before June 1, 2012. Written comments on the proposed information collection requirements, subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Public Law 104-13, should be submitted on or before June 18, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1, 2, 25, 27, and 101 In this document, the Commission proposes and/or seeks comments on service, technical, assignment, and licensing rules for flexible terrestrial use of spectrum currently assigned to the Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) in the 2 GHz band. These proposed rules are designed to increase the Nation's supply of spectrum for mobile broadband, provide for flexible use of this spectrum, encourage innovation and investment in mobile broadband, and provide a stable regulatory environment in which broadband deployment could develop. This proposal would carry out a recommendation in the National Broadband Plan that the Commission enable the provision of stand-alone terrestrial services in this spectrum. With this proceeding we intend to fulfill the Commission's previously stated plan to create a solid and lasting foundation for the provision of terrestrial services in the 2 GHz band. The Commission also seeks comment on an alternative band plan involving additional spectrum at 1695-1710 MHz that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has proposed to reallocate from Federal to commercial use.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-6946 RIN WT Docket No. 05-211 FCC 12-12 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective March 21, 2012. 47 CFR Part 1 The Federal Communications Commission removes two modifications to its competitive bidding rules pursuant to a mandate by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-5689 RIN WT Docket No. 12-40 RM-11510 FCC 12-20 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Proposed rule; interim procedures. Submit comments on or before May 15, 2012, and reply comments are due on or before June 14, 2012. Written comments on the Paperwork Reduction Act proposed information collection requirements must be submitted by the public, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and other interested parties on or before May 15, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 22 In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) proposes to amend the rules governing the 800 MHz Cellular Radiotelephone Service (Cellular Service). In the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ( NPRM ), the Commission proposes to transition the Cellular Service from a site-based licensing model to a geographic-based model by offering an “overlay” license for every Cellular Market Area (CMA) and corresponding channel block (Block A or Block B), in two stages, via auction. The Overlay Licensees would be obligated to protect existing licensees' Cellular operations from harmful interference. The NPRM also includes proposals to update various other Cellular Service rules. The Commission seeks comment on all its proposals as well as on alternative proposals. The companion Order imposes certain interim procedures, including a freeze on the filing of certain Cellular applications in certain markets and other interim procedures regarding currently pending applications to help ensure an orderly and efficient rulemaking proceeding while the Commission considers changes to the Cellular Service rules.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-2910 RIN MB Docket No. 07-42 FCC 11-119 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; announcement of effective date. The amendments to 47 CFR 1.221(h), 1.229(b)(3), 1.229(b)(4), 1.248(a), 1.248(b), 76.7(g)(2), 76.1302(c)(1), 76.1302(d), 76.1302(e)(1), and 76.1302(k) published at 76 FR 60652, September 29, 2011, are effective on February 8, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 76 In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with the Commission's rules contained in the Second Report and Order, FCC 11-119, pertaining to carriage of video programming vendors by multichannel video programming distributors (program carriage rules). This notice is consistent with the Secord Report and Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of those rules.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-1535 RIN WT Docket No. 08-61 WT Docket No. 03-187 FCC 11-181 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. The rules in this document contain information collection requirements that have not been approved by OMB. The Federal Communications Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date. 47 CFR Parts 1, 17, 22, 24, 25, 27, 80, 87 and 90 In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) adopts a rule that affects the process of tower construction by instituting a pre-application notification process so that members of the public will have a meaningful opportunity to comment on the environmental effects of proposed antenna structures that require registration with the Commission. As an interim measure pending completion of a programmatic environmental analysis and subsequent rulemaking proceeding, the Commission also requires that an EA be prepared for any proposed tower over 450 feet in height.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-1503 RIN WC Docket Nos. 10-90, 07-135, 05-337, 03-109 GN Docket No. 09-51 WT Docket No. 10-208 CC Docket Nos. 01-92 and 96-45 Report No. 2945 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; petition for reconsideration. Oppositions to the Petitions must be filed by February 9, 2012. Replies to an opposition must be filed February 21, 2012. 47 CFR Parts 0, 1, 20, 36, 51, 54, 61, 64 and 69 In this document, Petitions for Reconsideration (Petitions) have been filed in the Commission's Rulemaking proceeding concerning rules that comprehensively reform and modernize the universal service and intercarrier compensation systems to ensure that robust, affordable voice and broadband service, both fixed and mobile, are available to Americans throughout the nation.