[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 19, 2006)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 20059-20060]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-5579]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 73

[DA 06-727; MB Docket No. 06-65, RM-11320]


Radio Broadcasting Services; Ashland, KS

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: This document requests comments on a petition filed by OKAN 
Community Radio proposing a first local service at Ashland, Kansas. To 
avoid a conflict with a mutually exclusive proposal, we propose 
alternate Channel 288C3 at Ashland, consistent with the minimum 
distance separation requirements of the Commission's rules, at the 
center of the city reference coordinates at 37-11-12 North Latitude and 
99-46-12 West Longitude.

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before May 22, 2006, and reply 
comments on or before June 6, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications Commission, 445 Twelfth Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20554. In addition to filing comments with the FCC, 
interested parties should serve the Petitioner's counsel, as follows: 
OKAN Community Radio, c/o Lee W. Shubert, Esq., Katten Muchin Rosenman 
LLP, 1025 Thomas Jefferson St., NW., East Lobby, Suite 700, Washington, 
DC 20007-5201.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen McLean, Media Bureau, (202) 418-
2738.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's Notice 
of Proposed Rule Making, MB Docket No. 06-65, adopted March 29, 2006, 
and released March 31, 2006. The full text of this Commission decision 
is available for inspection and copying during normal business hours in 
the Commission's Reference Center 445 Twelfth Street, SW., Washington, 
DC 20554. This document may also be purchased from the Commission's 
duplicating contractors, Best Copy and Printing, Inc., 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).
    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.

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See 47 CFR 1.1204(b) for rules governing permissible ex parte contact.
    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:

PART 73--RADIO BROADCAST SERVICES

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

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


Sec.  73.202  [Amended]

    2. Section 73.202(b), the Table of FM Allotments under Kansas, is 
amended by adding Ashland, Channel 288C3.

Federal Communications Commission.
John A. Karousos,
Assistant Chief, Audio Division, Media Bureau.
 [FR Doc. E6-5579 Filed 4-18-06; 8:45 am]
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