[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 114 (Friday, June 13, 1997)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 32267-32268]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15314]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 101
[WT Docket No. 97-81; DA 97-839]
Multiple Address Systems
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: This action provides for an extension of time to file comments
and reply comments in this proceeding. The effect of this action is to
grant a short extension of time to file comments (ten extra days) and
reply comments (fifteen days thereafter). This action provides
additional time to respond to issues in this proceeding.
DATES: Comments on or before May 1, 1997, and Reply Comments on or
before May 16, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Magnotti of the Commission's
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau at (202) 418-0680.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's
Memorandum Opinion and Order, DA 97-839, adopted April 18, 1997, and
released April 18, 1997 (62 FR 11407, Mar. 12, 1997). The full text of
this Memorandum Opinion and Order is available for inspection and
copying during normal business hours in the FCC Reference Center (Room
239) 1919 M Street, NW, Washington, DC. The complete text may be
purchased from the Commission's copy contractor, ITS, Inc., 2100 M
Street NW, Suite 140, Washington, DC 20037, telephone (202) 857-3800.
Summary of Order
1. Before us are a Motion for Extension of Time filed by UTC, The
Telecommunications Association (``UTC''), for an extension of time to
file comments and reply comments in this proceeding, and its
concurrently filed Motion to Supplement the Record. Currently, comments
in this proceeding are due on April 21, 1997, and reply comments are
due on May 6, 1997. In support of its Motion for Extension of Time, UTC
argues that the Commission needs this additional time to respond to
UTC's Motion to Supplement the Record, and to allow the parties to
evaluate the material that UTC seeks to add to the record. In the
latter pleading, UTC requests the Commission to place in the record
``the applications or other information forming the factual basis of
the FCC's `preliminary examination' of the pending 932-941 MHz
[Multiple Address System (``MAS'')] applications,'' or ``the basis for
the FCC's characterization of the `vast majority' of the pending 932-
941 MHz MAS applicants as `seemingly proposing to use their licenses
principally to provide subscriber-based services.' '' UTC argues that
commenters should have a ``meaningful opportunity'' to respond to the
Commission's assessment that the MAS applications in question primarily
proposed to provide subscriber-based services, and, hence, that
competitive bidding procedures rather than random selection procedures
should be used to choose among mutually exclusive applicants in the MAS
service.
2. The Commission's assessment of the 932/941 MHz MAS applications
was made using its staff's expertise to review the applications both in
paper form and as input into its database. Unfortunately, the paper
versions of the applications were destroyed in a flood in Gettysburg on
June 18-19, 1996. Data recorded in the Commission's database from the
applications, however, have been and continue to be available to the
public from the Commission's Gettysburg Public Reference Room and from
the Commission's copy contractor, International Transcription Service
(ITS).
3. Since all existing data regarding the MAS applications are and
have been available to the public, UTC's stated reasons for an
extension of time are moot. To accommodate any confusion that may have
resulted from the circumstances described above, however, we will grant
a short extension of time to file comments (ten extra days) and reply
comments (fifteen days thereafter).
4. Accordingly, it is ordered, that the Motion to Supplement the
Record filed by UTC, The Telecommunications Association, is denied;
5. It is further ordered, that the Motion for Extension of Time
filed by UTC, The Telecommunications Association, is granted in part,
to allow the filing of comments on or before May 1, 1997, and reply
comments on or before May 16, 1997.
List of Subjects 47 CFR Part 101
Communications equipment, Radio.
[[Page 32268]]
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-15314 Filed 6-12-97; 8:45 am]
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