[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 84 (Wednesday, May 2, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 24307]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-8199]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[PS Docket No. 07-69; DA No. 07-1631]


City of Boston and Sprint Nextel Corporation

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This document commences a hearing before an administrative law 
judge to resolve specific, disputed 800 MHz rebanding issues between 
the City of Boston and Sprint Nextel Corporation. The hearing will be 
held at a time and place to be specified in a subsequent order.

DATES: Persons desiring to participate as parties in the hearing (other 
than the City of Boston and Sprint Nextel Corporation, who already are 
specified as a parties in the hearing) shall file a petition for leave 
to intervene not later than June 1, 2007.

ADDRESSES: Please file documents with the Office of the Secretary, 
Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20554. Each document that is filed in this proceeding must display on 
the front page the document number of this hearing, ``EB Docket No. 07-
13.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roberto Mussenden, Attorney-Advisor, 
Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, (202) 418-1428.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's Order 
to Show Cause, DA 07-1631, released on April 5, 2007. The full text of 
the Order to Show Cause is available for inspection and copying from 8 
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, or from 8 a.m. to 11:30 
a.m. on Friday, at the FCC Reference Information Center, Room CY-A257, 
445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554. The complete text may be 
purchased from the Commission's copy contractor, Best Copy and 
Printing, Inc. (BCPI), Portals II, 445 12th Street, S.W., Room CY-B402, 
Washington, DC 20554, telephone 202-488-5300, facsimile 202-488-5563, 
or you may contact BCPI at its Web site: http://www.BCPIWEB.com. When 
ordering documents from BCPI, please provide the appropriate document 
number, DA 07-1631. The Order to Show Cause also is available on the 
internet at the Commission's Web site through its Electronic Document 
Management System (EDOCS). The Commission's internet address for EDOCS 
is: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/SilverStream/Pages/edocs.html. Alternative formats are available to persons with 
disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic files, audio format). 
Send an e-mail to [email protected] or call the Consumer and Governmental 
Affairs Bureau at 202-418-0530 (voice) or 202-418-0432 (TTY).

Summary of the Hearing Designation Order

    In the Hearing Designation Order, the Federal Communications 
Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, pursuant to 
delegated authority under Sec.  90.677(d)(2) of the Commission's Rules, 
47 CFR 90.677(d)(2), commences a hearing proceeding before an 
administrative law judge to determine three issues: (a) To determine, 
in the matter of the Boston Police Department mediation, whether Sprint 
Nextel is obligated to pay the City of Boston for inventory-tracking 
and management software from MCM Technology, LLC, and, if so, the 
amount of such payment, (b) to determine, in the matter of the City of 
Boston mediation case, whether Sprint Nextel is obligated to pay the 
City of Boston for inventory-tracking and management software from MCM 
Technology, LLC, and, if so, the amount of such payment, and (c) to 
determine, in the matter of the City of Boston mediation, the 
appropriate contractual language to govern the change order process in 
the Frequency Reconfiguration Agreement entered into between the City 
of Boston and Sprint Nextel.
    The hearing will be held at a time and place to be specified in a 
subsequent order. Copies of the Hearing Designation Order are being 
sent via Certified Mail--Return Receipt Requested, to: The City of 
Boston, c/o Robert H. Schwaninger, Jr., Esq., Schwaninger and 
Associates, P.C., 1331 H Street, NW., Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005; 
and to Sprint Nextel, c/o Stacey Lantange, Esq., Drinker Biddle & 
Reath, LLP, 1500 K Street, NW., Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005-1209.

Federal Communications Commission.
David L. Furth,
Associate Bureau Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.
[FR Doc. E7-8199 Filed 5-1-07; 8:45 am]
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