[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 122 (Friday, June 24, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 37049-37050]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-15897]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 73

[DA 11-867; MB Docket No. 11-87; RM-11628]


Radio Broadcasting Services; Bastrop, LA

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: This document requests comments on a petition for rulemaking 
filed by Kenneth W. Diebel, licensee of FM Station KGGM, Channel 228A, 
Delhi, Louisiana, proposing the substitution of FM Channel 228A for 
vacant FM Channel 230A at Bastrop, Louisiana. The proposed substitution 
of Channel 228A at Bastrop accommodates the hybrid application, which 
requests the substitution of Channel 230C3 for Channel 228A at Delphi, 
Louisiana. See File No. BNPH-20110214ADS. A staff engineering analysis 
indicates that Channel 228A can be allotted to Bastrop consistent with 
the minimum distance

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separation requirements of the Rules, with a site restriction 5.3 
kilometers (3.3 miles) northeast of the community. The reference 
coordinates are 32-48-20 NL and 91-52-05 WL. See Supplementary 
Information, supra.

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before July 5, 2011, and reply 
comments on or before July 20, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, 445 Twelfth 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554. In addition to filing comments with 
the FCC, interested parties should serve the petitioner as follows: 
Kenneth W. Diebel, 414 Ineichen Street, Rayville, Louisiana 71269.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah A. Dupont, Media Bureau, (202) 
418-7072.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a synopsis of the Commission's 
Notice of Proposed Rule Making, MB Docket No.11-87, adopted May 11, 
2011, and released May 13, 2011. The full text of this Commission 
decision is available for inspection and copying during normal business 
hours in the FCC's Reference Information Center at Portals II, CY-A257, 
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 via e-mail 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).
    Channel 230A is not listed in the FM Table of Allotments. We note 
that vacant Channel 230A at Bastrop was inadvertently removed from the 
FM Table of Allotments in MB Docket 05-210. See 71 FR 76208, published 
December 20, 2006. Channel 230A was originally added to the FM Table of 
Allotments in MM Docket No. 99-141. See 66 FR 18734, published April 
11, 2001. In this regard, Channel 230A is a vacant allotment due to the 
cancellation of the Station KTRY-FM license. See BLH-6141. The 
cancellation of the Station KTRY-FM license is under reconsideration.
    Provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of l980 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.

Federal Communications Commission.
Nazifa Sawez,
Assistant Chief, Audio Division, Media Bureau.

    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 and 339.


Sec.  73.202  [Amended]

    2. Section 73.202(b), the Table of FM Allotments under Louisiana, 
is amended by adding Bastrop, Channel 228A.

[FR Doc. 2011-15897 Filed 6-23-11; 8:45 am]
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