[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 147 (Wednesday, August 1, 2007)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 41939-41940]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-14803]


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47 CFR Parts 22 and 27

[ET Docket No. 00-258; WT Docket No. 02-353; DA 07-1120]


Service Rules for Advanced Wireless Services in the 1.7 GHz and 
2.1 GHz Bands

ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date and public 
information collections approval.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval on June 25, 2007, pursuant to the 
Paperwork Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13, for the following information 
collections contained in 47 CFR 27.1166(a), (b) and (e); 27.1170; 
27.1182(a), (b); and 27.1186, that were published at 71 FR 29818, 
29836-40 (May 24, 2006). An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a 
person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless 
it displays a currently valid control number.

DATES: On June 25, 2007, OMB approved the information collections for 
47 CFR 27.1166(a), (b) and (e); 27.1170; 27.1182(a), (b); and 27.1186, 
that were published at 71 FR 29818, 29836-40 (May 24, 2006). 
Accordingly, the effective date for the information collections 
contained in these rules is June 25, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Mock, Broadband Division, 
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau at (202) 418-2483 or via the 
Internet at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1030.
    OMB Approval Date: 6/25/2007.
    OMB Expiration Date: 6/31/2010.
    Title: Service Rules for Advanced Wireless Services in the 1.7 GHz 
and 2.1 GHz Bands.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 1,716 respondents; 29,147 annual burden 
hours; 2 hours per respondent; and $2,271,200 annual costs.
    Needs and Uses: The Ninth Report and Order (Ninth R&O) adopted 
relocation procedures to govern the relocation of: (1) Broadband Radio 
Service (BRS) licensees in the 2150-2160/62 MHz band; and (2) Fixed 
Microwave Service (FS) licensees in the 2110-2150 MHz and 2160-2180 MHz 
bands. The Ninth R&O also adopted cost sharing rules that identify the 
reimbursement obligations for Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) and 
Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) entrants benefiting from the relocation 
of FS operations in the 2110-2150 MHz band 2160-2200 MHz band and AWS 
entrants benefiting from the relocation of BRS operations in the 2150-
2160/62 MHz band. The adopted relocation and cost sharing procedures 
generally follow the Commission's relocation and cost sharing policies 
delineated in the Emerging Technologies proceeding, and as modified by 
subsequent decisions. These relocation policies are designed to allow 
early entry for new technology providers by allowing providers of new 
services to negotiate financial arrangements for reaccommodation of 
incumbent licensees, and have been tailored to set forth specific 
relocation schemes appropriate for a variety of different new entrants, 
including AWS, MSS, Personal Communications Service (PCS) licensees, 18 
GHz Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) licensees, and Sprint Nextel. While 
these new entrants occupy different frequency bands, each entrant has 
had to relocate incumbent operations. The relocation and cost sharing 
procedures adopted in the Ninth R&O are designed to ensure an orderly 
and expeditious transition of, with minimal disruption to, incumbent 
BRS operations from the 2150-2160/62 MHz band and FS operations from 
the 2110-2150 MHz and 2160-2180 MHz bands, in order to allow early 
entry for new AWS licensees into these bands. In the Ninth R&O the FCC 
adopted disclosures related to negotiation and relocation of incumbent 
FS radio links and incumbent BRS systems, and for the registration of 
these relocation expenses with a clearinghouse, including documentation 
of reimbursable costs for FS and BRS relocations, documentation when a 
new AWS and MSS Ancillary Terrestrial Components (MSS/ATC) operators 
trigger a cost-sharing obligation, prior coordination notices to 
identify when a specific site will trigger a cost-sharing obligation, 
and retention of records by the clearinghouses. (Privately administered 
clearinghouses, selected by the FCC, will keep track of and administer 
the cost sharing obligations over the next 10-15 years as AWS and MSS-
ATC operators build new stations that require them to

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relocate incumbents.) In the Clearinghouse Order, ET Docket No. 00-258 
and WT Docket No. 02-353, DA 07-1120, the FCC's Wireless 
Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) requires the AWS clearinghouses to 
file reports with the FCC and to make disclosures between the 
clearinghouses. Separately, in a Public Notice issued jointly with the 
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), 71 
FR 28696 (May 17, 2006), 21 FCC Rcd 4730 (2006), the FCC set forth 
procedures for AWS licensees to coordinate with Federal Government 
operators in the 1.7 GHz band, and AWS licenses are granted with a 
special condition that requires coordination with Federal operators.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Deputy Secretary.
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