[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 33 (Friday, February 18, 2005)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 8332-8333]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3214]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 73

[DA 05-289; MB Docket No. 05-35; RM-11134]


Radio Broadcasting Services; Charlotte and Jackson, MI

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: This document requests comments on a petition for rule making 
filed by Rubber City Radio Group (``Petitioner''), licensee of Station 
WJXQ(FM), Channel 291B, Jackson, Michigan. Petitioner requests that the 
Commission reallot Channel 291B from Jackson to Charlotte, Michigan. 
This request is filed to maintain a first local service at Charlotte, 
Michigan. If this petition is granted it will eliminate a potential 
conflict between two licensees in another rulemaking proceeding (MB 
Docket No. 03-222) who propose to move from Charlotte to two other 
cities in Michigan. The two proposals in that proceeding are not in 
technical conflict, but would conflict with the Commission's policy of 
maintaining local service in a community that might otherwise lose 
local transmission service. Petitioner will retain the same transmitter 
site when its station is reallotted to Charlotte. The coordinates for 
Channel 291B at Charlotte, Michigan are 42-23-28 NL and 84-37-22 WL, 
with a site restriction of 30 kilometers (16.1 miles) southeast of 
Charlotte.

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before March 28, 2005, and reply 
comments on or before April 12, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th 
Street, SW., Room TW-A325, Washington, DC 20554. In addition to filing 
comments with the FCC, interested parties should serve Petitioner's 
counsel, as follows: Mark N. Lipp, Esq. and Scott Woodworth, Esq., 
Vinson & Elkins LLP; 1455 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Suite 600; 
Washington, DC 20004-1008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: R. Barthen Gorman, Media Bureau, (202) 
418-2180.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a synopsis of the Commission's 
Notice of Proposed Rule Making, MB Docket No. 05-35, adopted February 
2, 2005, and released February 4, 2005. The full text of this 
Commission decision is available for inspection and copying during 
regular business hours in the FCC's Reference Information Center at 
Portals II, 445 12th Street, SW., CY-A257, Washington, DC 20554. This 
document may also be purchased from the Commission's duplicating 
contractors, Best Copy and Printing, Inc., Portals II, 445 12th Street, 
SW., Room CY-B402, Washington, DC 20554, telephone 1-800-378-3160 or 
http://www.BCPIWEB.com. This document does not contain proposed 
information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. In addition, therefore, it does not 
contain any proposed information collection burden ``for small business 
concerns with fewer than 25 employees,'' pursuant to the Small Business 
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C. 
3506(c)(4).
    The provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 do not 
apply to this proceeding.
    Members of the public should note that from the time a Notice of 
Proposed Rule Making is issued until the matter is no longer subject to 
Commission consideration or court review, all ex parte contacts are 
prohibited in Commission proceedings, such as this one, which involve 
channel allotments. See 47 CFR 1.1204(b) for rules governing 
permissible ex parte contacts.
    For information regarding proper filing procedures for comments, 
See 47 CFR 1.415 and 1.420.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73

    Radio, Radio broadcasting.

    For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Federal 
Communications Commission proposes to amend 47 CFR part 73 as follows:

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PART 73--RADIO BROADCAST SERVICES

    1. The authority citation for part 73 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 334, and 336.


Sec.  73.202  [Amended]

    2. Section 73.202(b), the Table of FM Allotments under Michigan, is 
amended by removing Channel 291B from Jackson and adding Channel 291B 
to Charlotte.

Federal Communications Commission.
John A. Karousos,
Assistant Chief, Audio Division, Media Bureau.
[FR Doc. 05-3214 Filed 2-17-05; 8:45 am]
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