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2015-12-02; vol. 80 # 231 - Wednesday, December 2, 2015 80 FR 75431 - Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions
GPO FDSys: XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; announcement of effective date. 47 CFR 1.2204(a), (c), (d)(3), and (d)(5) and 73.3700(h)(4) and (6) and FCC Form 177, Application to Participate in a Reverse Incentive Auction, published at 79 FR 48442, August 15, 2014, are effective on December 2, 2015. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 73 Summary In this document, the Commission announces that, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved, on an emergency basis, for a period for six months, an information collection for FCC Form 177, Application to Participate in a Reverse Incentive Auction, and certain Commission's rules contained in the Report and Order, Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions, FCC 14-50. This document is consistent with the Report and Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing OMB approval and the effective date of the rules and requirements.
2015-11-30; vol. 80 # 229 - Monday, November 30, 2015 80 FR 74694 - Media Bureau Finalizes Reimbursement Form for Submission to OMB and Adopts Catalog of Expenses
GPO FDSys: XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final action; requirements and procedures. November 30, 2015. 47 CFR Part 73 Summary In this document, the Media Bureau adopts the following a final catalog of expenses; a procedure whereby reimbursement payments will be disbursed via the agency's internal vendor payment system; a procedural requirement that the Reimbursement Form, with supporting cost documentation, must be submitted each time an entity makes a request for reimbursement from the Fund; and a decision that cost documentation, as well as the name, address, and other identifying information pertaining to vendors, will not be made publicly available.
2015-11-17; vol. 80 # 221 - Tuesday, November 17, 2015 80 FR 71731 - Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions
GPO FDSys: XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective December 17, 2015, except for the amendments to §§ 27.1310 and 73.3700(b)(1)(iv)(B), which contain new or modified information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13, that are not effective until approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date once OMB approves. 47 CFR Parts 27 and 73 Summary This document resolves the remaining technical issues affecting the operation of new 600 MHz wireless licensees and broadcast television stations in areas where they operate on the same or adjacent channels in geographic proximity. Specifically, the Commission adopted the methodology and the regulatory framework for the protection of both wireless services and broadcasting in the post-auction environment that it proposed in October 2014. The Commission affirms its decision regarding the methodology to be used during the incentive auction to predict inter-service interference between broadcasting and wireless services. The Commission also affirmed its decision declining to adopt a cap on the aggregate amount of new interference a broadcast television station may receive from other television stations in the repacking process.
2015-11-02; vol. 80 # 211 - Monday, November 2, 2015 80 FR 67337 - Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions; Channel Sharing by Full Power and Class A Stations Outside the Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Context
GPO FDSys: XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective December 2, 2015, except for §§ 1.2204(c)(4) and 73.3700(b)(1), which contain new or modified information collection requirements that require approval by OMB under the PRA and will become effective after the Commission publishes a notice in the Federal Register announcing such approval and the relevant effective date. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 73 Summary In this document, the Commission refines the rules it adopted in the Incentive Auction Report and Order and the preceding Channel Sharing Report and Order to provide greater flexibility and certainty regarding channel sharing agreements (“CSAs”). Among other things, we modify our rules to allow broadcasters that relinquish rights in the incentive auction in order to channel share to enter into CSAs after the auction and, whether they enter into CSAs before or after the auction, to determine the length of their agreements.
80 FR 67344 - Channel Sharing by Full Power and Class A Stations Outside the Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Context
GPO FDSys: XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective December 2, 2015. 47 CFR Part 73 Summary In this Second Order on Reconsideration, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) provides more flexibility to broadcasters interested in the channel sharing option in the broadcast incentive auction by clarifying that back-up channel sharing agreements (“CSAs”) are permitted under its rules and providing more time for successful bidders to transition to shared facilities after the auction. The Commission also provides guidance regarding how the CSA exception to the prohibited communications rule applies with respect to back-up CSAs.
2015-10-29; vol. 80 # 209 - Thursday, October 29, 2015 80 FR 66429 - Application Procedures for Broadcast Incentive Auction Scheduled To Begin on March 29, 2016; Technical Formulas for Competitive Bidding
GPO FDSys: XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; requirements and procedures. Reverse Auction (Auction 1001) applications must be filed prior to 6 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on December 18, 2015; Forward Auction (Auction 1002) applications must be filed prior to 6 p.m. ET on January 28, 2016. 47 CFR Parts 1, 20, 27, and 73 Summary This document announces the final application procedures for the broadcast television spectrum incentive auction (Auction 1000), including the forward and reverse auctions (Auctions 1001 and 1002 respectively). This document also summarizes detailed information, instructions, and deadlines for filing applications, as well as certain post-auction procedures established by the Commission's prior orders.
2015-10-23; vol. 80 # 205 - Friday, October 23, 2015 80 FR 64354 - Broadcast Licensee-Conducted Contests
GPO FDSys: XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. This rule contains information collection requirements that have not been approved by OMB. The Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date. 47 CFR Part 73 Summary In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (“Commission”) amends the portion of its rules known as the “Contest Rule” to permit broadcast licensees to comply with their obligation to disclose material contest terms either by broadcasting those terms or by making them available in writing on a publicly accessible Internet Web site. In particular, the Commission amends the Contest Rule to allow licensees to satisfy their disclosure obligation by posting material contest terms on the station's Web site, the licensee's Web site, or, if neither the individual station nor the licensee has its own Web site, any Internet Web site that is readily accessible to the public. The Commission also adopts requirements that define the disclosure obligation in cases where a licensee has chosen to meet its obligation through an Internet Web site.
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Title 47 published on 2015-10-01
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2015-12-02; vol. 80 # 231 - Wednesday, December 2, 2015 80 FR 75431 - Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions
GPO FDSys XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; announcement of effective date. 47 CFR 1.2204(a), (c), (d)(3), and (d)(5) and 73.3700(h)(4) and (6) and FCC Form 177, Application to Participate in a Reverse Incentive Auction, published at 79 FR 48442, August 15, 2014, are effective on December 2, 2015. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 73 Summary In this document, the Commission announces that, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved, on an emergency basis, for a period for six months, an information collection for FCC Form 177, Application to Participate in a Reverse Incentive Auction, and certain Commission's rules contained in the Report and Order, Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions, FCC 14-50. This document is consistent with the Report and Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing OMB approval and the effective date of the rules and requirements.
2015-11-30; vol. 80 # 229 - Monday, November 30, 2015 80 FR 74694 - Media Bureau Finalizes Reimbursement Form for Submission to OMB and Adopts Catalog of Expenses
GPO FDSys XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final action; requirements and procedures. November 30, 2015. 47 CFR Part 73 Summary In this document, the Media Bureau adopts the following a final catalog of expenses; a procedure whereby reimbursement payments will be disbursed via the agency's internal vendor payment system; a procedural requirement that the Reimbursement Form, with supporting cost documentation, must be submitted each time an entity makes a request for reimbursement from the Fund; and a decision that cost documentation, as well as the name, address, and other identifying information pertaining to vendors, will not be made publicly available.
2015-11-17; vol. 80 # 221 - Tuesday, November 17, 2015 80 FR 71731 - Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions
GPO FDSys XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective December 17, 2015, except for the amendments to §§ 27.1310 and 73.3700(b)(1)(iv)(B), which contain new or modified information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13, that are not effective until approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date once OMB approves. 47 CFR Parts 27 and 73 Summary This document resolves the remaining technical issues affecting the operation of new 600 MHz wireless licensees and broadcast television stations in areas where they operate on the same or adjacent channels in geographic proximity. Specifically, the Commission adopted the methodology and the regulatory framework for the protection of both wireless services and broadcasting in the post-auction environment that it proposed in October 2014. The Commission affirms its decision regarding the methodology to be used during the incentive auction to predict inter-service interference between broadcasting and wireless services. The Commission also affirmed its decision declining to adopt a cap on the aggregate amount of new interference a broadcast television station may receive from other television stations in the repacking process.
2015-11-06; vol. 80 # 215 - Friday, November 6, 2015 80 FR 68815 - Review of Foreign Ownership Policies for Broadcast, Common Carrier and Aeronautical Radio Licensees
GPO FDSys XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Proposed rule. Submit comments on or before December 21, 2015, and replies on or before January 20, 2016. The NPRM contains potential information collection requirements subject to the PRA, Public Law 104-13. OMB, the general public, and other Federal agencies are invited to comment on the potential new and modified information collection requirements contained in this NPRM. If the information collection requirements are adopted, the Commission will submit the appropriate documents to OMB for review under Section 3507(d) of the PRA. OMB, the general public, and other Federal agencies will again be invited to comment on the new and modified information collection requirements adopted by the Commission. 47 CFR Parts 1, 25, 73, and 74 Summary In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) proposes to extend its foreign ownership rules and procedures that apply to common carrier licensees to broadcast licensees, with certain modifications to tailor them to the broadcast context. The Commission also seeks comment on whether and how to revise the methodology a licensee should use to assess its compliance with the 25 percent foreign ownership benchmark in section 310(b)(4) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, in order to reduce regulatory burdens on applicants and licensees. Finally, the Commission makes several proposals to clarify and update existing foreign ownership policies and procedures for broadcast, common carrier and aeronautical licensees.
2015-11-02; vol. 80 # 211 - Monday, November 2, 2015 80 FR 67337 - Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions; Channel Sharing by Full Power and Class A Stations Outside the Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Context
GPO FDSys XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective December 2, 2015, except for §§ 1.2204(c)(4) and 73.3700(b)(1), which contain new or modified information collection requirements that require approval by OMB under the PRA and will become effective after the Commission publishes a notice in the Federal Register announcing such approval and the relevant effective date. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 73 Summary In this document, the Commission refines the rules it adopted in the Incentive Auction Report and Order and the preceding Channel Sharing Report and Order to provide greater flexibility and certainty regarding channel sharing agreements (“CSAs”). Among other things, we modify our rules to allow broadcasters that relinquish rights in the incentive auction in order to channel share to enter into CSAs after the auction and, whether they enter into CSAs before or after the auction, to determine the length of their agreements.
80 FR 67344 - Channel Sharing by Full Power and Class A Stations Outside the Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Context
GPO FDSys XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective December 2, 2015. 47 CFR Part 73 Summary In this Second Order on Reconsideration, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) provides more flexibility to broadcasters interested in the channel sharing option in the broadcast incentive auction by clarifying that back-up channel sharing agreements (“CSAs”) are permitted under its rules and providing more time for successful bidders to transition to shared facilities after the auction. The Commission also provides guidance regarding how the CSA exception to the prohibited communications rule applies with respect to back-up CSAs.
2015-10-29; vol. 80 # 209 - Thursday, October 29, 2015 80 FR 66429 - Application Procedures for Broadcast Incentive Auction Scheduled To Begin on March 29, 2016; Technical Formulas for Competitive Bidding
GPO FDSys XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; requirements and procedures. Reverse Auction (Auction 1001) applications must be filed prior to 6 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on December 18, 2015; Forward Auction (Auction 1002) applications must be filed prior to 6 p.m. ET on January 28, 2016. 47 CFR Parts 1, 20, 27, and 73 Summary This document announces the final application procedures for the broadcast television spectrum incentive auction (Auction 1000), including the forward and reverse auctions (Auctions 1001 and 1002 respectively). This document also summarizes detailed information, instructions, and deadlines for filing applications, as well as certain post-auction procedures established by the Commission's prior orders.
2015-10-23; vol. 80 # 205 - Friday, October 23, 2015 80 FR 64354 - Broadcast Licensee-Conducted Contests
GPO FDSys XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. This rule contains information collection requirements that have not been approved by OMB. The Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date. 47 CFR Part 73 Summary In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (“Commission”) amends the portion of its rules known as the “Contest Rule” to permit broadcast licensees to comply with their obligation to disclose material contest terms either by broadcasting those terms or by making them available in writing on a publicly accessible Internet Web site. In particular, the Commission amends the Contest Rule to allow licensees to satisfy their disclosure obligation by posting material contest terms on the station's Web site, the licensee's Web site, or, if neither the individual station nor the licensee has its own Web site, any Internet Web site that is readily accessible to the public. The Commission also adopts requirements that define the disclosure obligation in cases where a licensee has chosen to meet its obligation through an Internet Web site.
80 FR 64381 - Petitions for Reconsideration of Action in Rulemaking Proceeding
GPO FDSys XML | Text Additional Documents FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Petition for reconsideration. Oppositions to the Petitions must be filed on or before November 9, 2015. Replies to an opposition must be filed on or before November 17, 2015. 47 CFR Parts 15 and 73 Summary Petitions for Reconsideration (Petitions) have been filed in the Commission's Rulemaking Proceeding by Ari Q. Fitzgerald, on behalf of GE Healthcare; Ronald J. Bruno on behalf of The VideoHouse, Inc.; Benjamin Perez on behalf of Abacus Television; Lawrence Rogow on behalf of WMTM, LLC; and Larry E. Morton on behalf of KMYA, LLC.
