[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 8415]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-3971]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[DA 04-289]


Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Announces Final Phase of the 
Private Land Mobile Radio Station Construction and Operational Status 
Audit

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This document announces the final phase of the Private Land 
Mobile Radio (PLMR) Spectrum Audit. At the end of this phase, call 
signs for which licensees have failed to respond to the audit will be 
deemed to have cancelled automatically.

DATES: Response due on or before March 31, 2004.

ADDRESSES: All responses should be mailed to FCC, PLMR Spectrum Audit 
Responses, 1270 Fairfield Road, Gettysburg, PA 17325, or faxed to (717) 
338-2696.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kelly Lawver, Public Safety & Critical 
Infrastructure Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, (717) 338-
2605.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of a Public Notice 
released on February 9, 2004.
    1. The Bureau has been conducting an audit of the construction and 
operational status of certain Private Land Mobile Radio (PLMR) 
stations. The audit includes most PLMR Stations (radio services IG, YG, 
PW, YW) licensed on frequencies below 512 MHz that are subject to 
frequency coordination and rule-based construction and operational 
requirements. The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) part 90 
rules for the PLMR facilities require construction within a specified 
time and require that stations remain operational in order for the FCC 
license to remain valid. Specifically, when a license fails to 
construct its authorized PLMR facilities within the requisite 
construction period or discontinues operation for a period of one year, 
the license cancels automatically and the licensee is required to 
notify the FCC.
    2. The Bureau initially sent audit letters to licensees over a six 
month period from August 2001, to January 2002. More than 267,000 
letters involving approximately 420,000 call signs were sent. The 
initial mailing generated a 73 percent response rate. In order to 
generate a higher response rate, a second audit mailing took place in 
April and May of 2002. As a result of this mailing, the response rate 
increased to 88 percent. To date, there are approximately 14,000 call 
signs for which the FCC has not received a response. Because of the 
number of call signs in this category, we are not listing them in an 
attachment to this Public Notice. The call signs, however, are listed 
on the FCC's audit web page.
    3. To assist licensees and industry in determining which call signs 
have outstanding audit responses, there are several tools available on 
the FCC's audit web page at http://wireless.fcc.gov/licensing/audits/plmrs/index.html. Information regarding particular call signs may be 
obtained by querying the audit database under ``Audit Search''. 
Listings of call signs for which the FCC has no record of a response 
are available under ``Database Downloads''. These files are separated 
by radio service and state/territory. In addition, if a licensee 
determines that it needs to respond to the audit, a response form may 
be downloaded from this page. The completed form should be faxed to: 
(717) 338-2696 or mailed to: FCC, PLMR Spectrum Audit Responses, 1270 
Fairfield Road, Gettysburg, PA 17325.
    4. On February 27, 2004, the WTB will begin sending out a third and 
final letter to those licensees who have not responded to the audit. 
Licensees will be given until March 31, 2004, to provide a response. 
The FCC will presume from a failure to respond to this inquiry and 
previous inquiries that the licensee has either failed to construct its 
stations within the requisite time period or has discontinued operation 
of its station for a period of one year. Consequently, if a licensee 
does not provide a response by March 31, 2004, the stations will be 
deemed to have cancelled automatically. The FCC's licensing database 
will be updated to reflect that the licenses are no longer valid and 
the frequencies will be made available for relicensing.
    5. For additional information about PLMR Spectrum audit, please 
call 1-888-225-5322 and select option 2 or visit the WTB Web site at 
http://wireless.fcc.gov/licensing/audits/plmrs/index.html.

Federal Communications Commission.
D'wana R. Terry,
Chief, Public Safety and Critical Infrastructure Division, WTB.
[FR Doc. 04-3971 Filed 2-23-04; 8:45 am]
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