[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.


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Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-15314 Filed 6-12-97; 8:45 am]
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