[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 27, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45023-45024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20656]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[DA 17-911]


Opening of Second Filing Window for Eligible Full Power and Class 
A Television Stations

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This document announces that the second filing window for 
eligible full power and Class A television stations to file 
applications for alternate channels or expanded facilities will be open 
from October 3, 2017 through November 2, 2017.

DATES: September 27, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joyce Bernstein, 
[email protected], or Kevin Harding, [email protected], Video 
Division, Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Auction 1000, which was conducted pursuant 
to Title VI of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 
2012, was completed on April 13, 2017, and the Commission initiated a 
transition period during which broadcast television stations that 
received new channel assignments in the April 13, 2017 Closing and 
Channel Reassignment Public Notice will be reauthorized and relicensed. 
The deadline for applications for construction permits consistent with 
the requirements of that Public Notice were due July 12, 2017. The 
first priority filing window, which limited eligibility to a discrete 
number of stations, closed on September 15, 2017.
    The second filing window opens on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 and 
closes at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Thursday, November 2, 2017, and any 
broadcast television station that received a new channel reassignment 
in the incentive auction repacking process may file during the second 
window. Eligible stations may file applications for expanded facilities 
that qualify as a minor change under the Commission's rules, or for 
alternate channels which will be treated as major change applications 
under the

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Commission's rules. Applicants must protect the construction permit 
facilities of stations assigned to new channels, whether those 
stations' applications have been granted or remain pending, the 
facilities specified in applications that were filed before the April 
2013 freeze on applications proposing to extend a station's contour, 
and the facilities proposed in the first priority filing window, 
whether those station's applications have been granted or remain 
pending. Applications filed by Class A stations must also demonstrate 
that the proposal would not cause interference to a low power 
television or translator facility previously authorized or proposed. A 
station that files an application that is incomplete or defective will 
be afforded an opportunity to submit an amendment to correct any 
defects, and failure to correct will result in dismissal of the 
application.
    Applications filed during the second filing window will be treated 
as filed on the last day of the window for purposes of determining 
mutual exclusivity. Stations with mutually exclusive applications will 
be notified and given a 90-day period to resolve their mutual 
exclusivity by proposing a technical solution or settlement in an 
amendment to their pending applications.

Federal Communications Commission.
Thomas Horan,
Chief of Staff, Media Bureau.
[FR Doc. 2017-20656 Filed 9-26-17; 8:45 am]
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