[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 138 (Tuesday, July 19, 2011)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 42573-42574]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-17103]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 73

[FCC 11-73; MM Docket No. 00-148; RM-9939, RM-10198]


Radio Broadcasting Services; Oklahoma and Texas

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; application for review.

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SUMMARY: This document denies the Application for Review filed by 
Rawhide Radio, LLC, Capstar TX Limited Partnership, Clear Channel 
Broadcasting Licenses, Inc., and CCB Texas Licenses, L.P. (``Joint 
Petitioners'') of the dismissal of a second alternative proposal to 
their Counterproposal in this proceeding because it was technically 
defective.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter H. Doyle, Chief, Audio Division, 
Media Bureau, (202) 418-2700, or Andrew J. Rhodes, Audio Division, 
Media Bureau, (202) 418-2180.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a synopsis of the Commission's 
Memorandum Opinion and Order, MM Docket No. 00-148, adopted May 5, 
2011, and released May 6, 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, 445 12th 
Street, SW., Room CY-A257, Washington, DC 20554. The document may also 
be purchased from the Commission's duplicating contractor, 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.
    A Notice of Proposed Rule Making (``NPRM'') in this proceeding 
proposed the allotment of a new FM channel at Quanah, Texas. See 65 FR 
53689 (September 5, 2000). In response to the NPRM, the Joint 
Petitioners filed a mutually exclusive Counterproposal involving 22 
communities in Texas and Oklahoma, as well as two alternative 
proposals. The staff dismissed the original Counterproposal and the 
first alternative proposal for technical defects, and these actions are 
not contested by the Joint Petitioners. See 68 FR 26557 (May 16, 2003). 
The Joint Petitioners seek review of the dismissal of the second 
alternative proposal in the Memorandum Opinion and Order in this 
proceeding on the grounds that it was a technically acceptable proposal 
and that the staff should have made it the subject of a separate Notice 
of Proposed Rule Making. See 69 FR 29242 (May 21, 2004).
    The document reasons that, contrary to the Joint Petitioners' 
contention, the second alternative proposal had two fatal defects that 
prevented its consideration as either a rule making petition or a 
counterproposal. Specifically, one of the proposed allotments 
conflicted with a previously filed, cut-off allotment proposal in 
another proceeding and was impermissibly contingent upon the staff's 
approval of a request to withdraw that proposal. Another proposed 
reallotment had an unsuitable transmitter site located in or near the 
Colorado River. Because counterproposals must be technically correct 
and substantially complete when filed, the second alternative proposal 
was properly dismissed. To the extent that curative amendments have 
been allowed in some cases, the document finds that this practice has 
been inconsistently applied and the public interest is better served by 
no longer entertaining curative amendments for counterproposals or FM 
allotment rule making proposals.
    The Commission will not send a copy of this Memorandum Opinion and 
Order to Congress and the Government Accountability Office pursuant to 
the Congressional Review Act, see 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A), because the 
Application for Review was denied.
    Provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 do not apply 
to this proceeding. See 46 FR 11549 (February 9, 1981).

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-17103 Filed 7-18-11; 8:45 am]
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