[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 133 (Tuesday, July 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 42697]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17501]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[MD Docket No. 00-58; FCC 00-240]


Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2000

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Commission is revising its Schedule of Regulatory Fees in 
order to recover an amount of $185,754,000 in regulatory fees that 
Congress has required it to collect for Fiscal Year 2000. This summary 
of the FCC's FY 2000 Regulatory Fees decision will be followed by 
publication in the Federal Register of the full text at a later date. 
The dates for collecting regulatory fees will be September 11, 2000 
through September 20, 2000.

DATES: Effective September 10, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terry Johnson, Office of Managing 
Director at (202) 418-0445, or Roland Helvajian, Office of Managing 
Director at (202) 418-0444.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Communications Act of 1934 (``Act''), as 
amended, provides for the annual assessment and collection of 
regulatory fees. For Fiscal Year 2000, changes to the Schedule of 
Regulatory Fees will be made per section 9(b)(2) of the Act. These 
revisions will further the National Performance Review goals of 
reinventing Government by requiring beneficiaries of Commission 
services to pay for such services.
    As mandated by Congress, the FY 2000 Regulatory Fees increased by 
$13,231,000, or approximately 7.67 percent, over the amount Congress 
required the Commission to collect in FY 1999. We are, therefore, 
revising the Schedule of Regulatory Fees to reflect this additional 
amount that was mandated by Congress. For FY 2000, as in FY 1999, the 
revenue requirements for each category were adjusted on a proportional 
basis, consistent with Section 9(b)(2) of the Act, to obtain a sum 
total of the amount Congress required the Commission to collect. As in 
FY 1999, none of the fee increases in FY 2000 exceed 25 percent. In 
brief, the adopted FY 2000 Regulatory Fee schedule will assess a fee on 
Comsat's INTELSAT facilities; incorporate the use of a new form which 
would change the basis for computing the fee for Interstate Telephone 
Service Providers; and continue to assess a CMRS messaging fee for SMR 
systems with less than 10 MHz bandwidth.

Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-17501 Filed 7-10-00; 8:45 am]
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