[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 30 (Thursday, February 13, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8713-8714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-03208]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[AU Docket No. 13-53; DA 14-109]


Tribal Mobility Fund Phase I Auction; Updated List of Eligible 
Areas for Auction 902

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission's Wireless Telecommunications 
and Wireline Competition Bureaus provide an updated list of eligible 
areas for Auction 902, as well as other updated information consistent 
with the revised list.

DATES: Auction 902 is scheduled to commence on February 25, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, 
Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, Patricia Robbins (attorney) at 
(202) 418-0660. To request materials in accessible formats (Braille, 
large print, electronic

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files, or audio format) for people with disabilities, send an email to 
[email protected] or call the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at 
(202) 418-0530 or (202) 418-0432 (TTY).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Auction 902 Updated 
Eligible Areas Public Notice released on February 3, 2014. The complete 
text of the Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public Notice, including 
attachments and related Commission documents, is available for public 
inspection and copying from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) 
Monday through Thursday or from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET on Fridays 
in the FCC Reference Information Center, 445 12th Street SW., Room CY-
A257, Washington, DC 20554. The Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas 
Public Notice, including attachments and related Commission documents, 
also may be purchased from the Commission's duplicating contractor, 
Best Copy and Printing, Inc. (BCPI), 445 12th Street SW., Room CY-B402, 
Washington, DC 20554, telephone 202-488-5300, fax 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 FCC document 
number, for example, DA 14-109 for the Auction 902 Updated Eligible 
Areas Public Notice. The Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public 
Notice, including attachments and related documents is available on the 
Internet at the Commission's Web site: http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/902/, or by using the search function for AU Docket No. 13-53 
on the Commission's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) Web page at 
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/.
    1. The Wireless Telecommunications and Wireline Competition Bureaus 
(the Bureaus) release an updated list of eligible areas for the reverse 
auction that will award up to $50 million in one-time Tribal Mobility 
Fund Phase I support, Auction 902. The updated list reflects changes to 
the eligible areas for Auction 902 based on authorizations of support 
and default determinations from the initial auction of Mobility Fund 
Phase I support, Auction 901. Bidding in Auction 902 is scheduled to be 
held on Tuesday, February 25, 2014.
    2. In the Auction 902 Procedures Public Notice, 78 FR 56875, 
September 16, 2013, the Bureaus identified areas eligible for the 
Tribal Mobility Fund Phase I support to be offered in Auction 902. At 
that time, the Bureaus released a file with information about the 
bidding areas for Auction 902 and a file containing detailed 
information about the census blocks of those bidding areas. In the list 
of bidding areas, the Bureaus identified with an asterisk the items 
with one or more census blocks that were the subject of a winning bid 
in Auction 901 for which the relevant long-form application remained 
pending. The Bureaus explained that if they determined prior to Auction 
902 that any winning bids from Auction 901 covering blocks that would 
otherwise be eligible for Auction 902 could not be authorized, then 
such eligible blocks would be made available in the auction. Similarly, 
the Bureaus explained that they would exclude from Auction 902 any of 
the identified blocks for which they authorized Auction 901 support 
prior to the auction. The Bureaus subsequently released a public 
notice, 78 FR 61350, October 3, 2013, updating the list of eligible 
areas for Auction 902 to reflect Auction 901 authorizations of support 
and default determinations as of September 27, 2013.
    3. The Bureaus announce the removal of certain census blocks for 
which support has been authorized for Auction 901 winning bids, as 
these blocks will not be available for support in Auction 902. The 
Bureaus note that in some cases, all of the census blocks for a 
particular bidding area have been removed, and thus that bidding area 
is no longer available in Auction 902. In other cases, only some of the 
census blocks for a particular bidding area have been removed, and thus 
that bidding area is still available in Auction 902 but includes fewer 
eligible populated census blocks.
    4. Also, for those blocks on which Auction 901 winning bidders have 
defaulted, the Bureaus remove the asterisks in the list that previously 
identified the relevant census blocks as having received winning bids 
in Auction 901, and these areas will be eligible for bidding in Auction 
902. There are no longer any asterisks in the list of eligible areas 
for Auction 902 because after these updates, the list is no longer 
subject to any pending Auction 901 long-form applications.
    5. The updated list of bidding areas is released as Attachment A to 
the Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public Notice. An updated 
version of the file containing detailed information about the census 
blocks of all of the bidding areas is available on the Auction 902 Web 
site at http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/902/. The interactive map of 
eligible areas has been updated to reflect these changes to the 
eligible areas for Auction 902. The link to the interactive map is 
available on the Auction 902 Web site at http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/902/, and the map itself is at http://www.fcc.gov/maps/tribal-mobility-fund-phase-1-eligible-areas. Geographic information system 
(GIS) data for the eligible areas is available as a downloadable 
shapefile on the Auction 902 Web site at http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/902/. The updated the census blocks file, the interactive map, 
and the GIS data include a notation indicating when they were updated.
    6. Attachment B of the Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public 
Notice lists the bidding areas that have been removed or modified since 
the prior list was released on September 27, 2013. These changes have 
been incorporated into each of the Auction 902 short-form applications 
(FCC Form 180), where applicable.

Federal Communications Commission.
Gary D. Michaels,
Deputy Chief, Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, WTB.
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