[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 5, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 34901-34902]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16071]



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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 0

[DA 95-1397]


Reorganization To Create a Competition Division Within the Office 
of General Counsel

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: This amendment changes the Commission's Rules to incorporate a 
reorganization within the Office of General Counsel to create a 
Competition Division. This amendment also incorporates minor changes 
within the Office of General Counsel as a result of other 
reorganizations within the Commission.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 5, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nancy M. Camp, 202-418-0442.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Order

    Adopted: June 21, 1995.
    Released: June 22, 1995

    By the Managing Director:

    In the matter of Amendment of Part 0 of the Commission's Rules 
to Reflect a Reorganization of the Office of General Counsel.
    1. On September 27, 1994, the Commission adopted a proposed 
reorganization to create a Competition Division within the Office of 
General Counsel. The implementation of the proposed reorganization 
requires amendment to Part 0 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations. 
In accordance with the Commission's action, this Order makes the 
necessary revisions and other minor editorial changes in Part 0 of the 
Commission's Rules.
    2. The amendments adopted herein pertain to agency organization. 
The notice and comment and effective date provisions of Section 4 of 
the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. Sec. 553, are therefore 
inapplicable. Authority for the amendments adopted herein is contained 
in Sections (4)(i) and 5(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended.
    4. Accordingly, It Is Ordered, pursuant to the authority delegated 
under 47 C.F.R. 0.231(d) and effective upon publication in the Federal 
Register, that Part 0 of the Rules and Regulations be amended as set 
forth hereto.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 0

    Authority delegations (Government agencies), Organization and 
functions (Government agencies.)

Federal Communications Commission.
Andrew S. Fishel,

Managing Director.
Final Rules

    Part 0 of Chapter I of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations 
is amended as follows:

PART 0--COMMISSION ORGANIZATION

    1. The authority citation for part 0 continues to read as follows:
    Authority: Section 5, 48 Stat. 1068, as amended; 47 U.S.C. 155.

    2. Section 0.41 is amended by removing in paragraph (f) the title 
``Chief Engineer'' and adding in its place ``Office of Engineering and 
Technology''; revising paragraph (g); removing paragraph (j) and 
redesignating paragraphs (k) through (o) as (j) through (n) 
respectively; and revising newly redesignated paragraphs (m) and (n) to 
read as follows:

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Sec. 0.41  Functions of the Office.


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    (g) To serve as the Commission's advocate for competition 
throughout the telecommunications industry and, specifically, to help 
to ensure that Commission policy development employs uniform or 
consistent analysis and that FCC policy encourages and promotes 
competitive market structures in affected industry segments by 
providing bureaus/offices with the necessary support to identify, 
evaluate, and effectively resolve competitiveness issues.
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    (m) To advise the Commission in the preparation and revision of 
rules and the implementation and administration of ethics regulations 
and the Freedom of Information, Privacy, Government in the Sunshine and 
Alternative Dispute Resolution Acts.
    (n) To assist and make recommendations to the Commission, and to 
individual Commissioners assigned to review initial decisions, as to 
the disposition of cases of adjudication and such other cases as, by 
Commission policy, are handled in the same manner and which have been 
designated for hearing.
    1. Section 0.251 is amended by revising paragraph (b); and removing 
and reserving paragraphs (c), (d) and (e), to read as follows:


Sec. 0.251  Authority delegated.

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    (b) Insofar as authority is not delegated to any other Bureau or 
Office, and with respect only to matters which are not in hearing 
status, the General Counsel is delegated authority:
    (1) To act upon requests for extension of time within which briefs, 
comments or pleadings may be filed.
    (2) To dismiss, as repetitious, any petition for reconsideration of 
a Commission order which disposed of a petition for reconsideration and 
which did not reverse, change, or modify the original order.
    (3) To dismiss or deny petitions for rulemaking which are 
repetitive or moot or which, for other reasons, plainly do not warrant 
consideration by the Commission.
    (4) To dismiss as repetitious any petition for reconsideration of a 
Commission order denying an application for review which fails to rely 
on new facts or changed circumstances.
    (c) [Reserved]
    (d) [Reserved]
    (e) [Reserved]
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[FR Doc. 95-16071 Filed 7-3-95; 8:45 am]
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