[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 101 (Tuesday, May 26, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31499-31500]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-11193]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[AU Docket No. 19-244; DA 20-520; FRS 16785]


Updated Population Data for 95 License Areas for the Auction of 
Priority Access Licenses in the 3550-3650 MHz Band; Availability of 
File With Recalculated Bidding Units and Upfront Payment and Minimum 
Opening Bid Amounts for Auction 105

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice; updated data and payment amounts.

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SUMMARY: This document announces the availability of updated population 
data used for calculating bidding units, upfront payment amounts, and 
minimum opening bid amounts for the licenses to be offered in Auction 
105. This document also announces the availability of an updated file 
listing the population, bidding units, upfront payment amounts and 
minimum opening bids amounts for licenses to be offered in Auction 105.

DATES: Upfront payments for Auction 105 must be received by 6:00 p.m. 
ET on June 19, 2020. The mock auction is scheduled for July 20, 2020. 
Auction 105 is scheduled to begin on July 23, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Email [email protected] or contact 
the FCC Auctions Hotline at (717) 338-2868.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Auction 105 Updated 
Population Data Public Notice, AU Docket No. 19-244, DA 20-520, 
released on May 18, 2020. The complete text of the Auction 105 Updated 
Population Data Public Notice, and any related documents, is available 
for public inspection and copying from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET Monday 
through Thursday or from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET on Fridays in the 
FCC Reference Information Center, located in Room CY-A257 of the FCC 
Headquarters, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554, except when FCC 
Headquarters is otherwise closed to visitors. See, e.g., Public Notice, 
Restrictions on Visitors to FCC Facilities, March 12, 2020. The 
complete text and related documents are also available on the 
Commission's website at www.fcc.gov/auction/105 or by using the search 
function for AU Docket No. 19-244 on the Commission's ECFS web page at 
www.fcc.gov/ecfs. Alternative formats are available to persons with 
disabilities by sending an email to [email protected] or by calling

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the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), 
(202) 418-0432 (TTY).
    1. In the Auction 105 Procedures Public Notice, 85 FR 22622, April 
23, 2020, the Commission adopted a methodology for calculating bidding 
units and upfront payment and minimum opening bid amounts for the 
county-based licenses to be offered in Auction 105 that is based on 
population and bandwidth. An ``Attachment A'' file listing the bidding 
units, upfront payment amount, and minimum opening bid amount for each 
license was made available on the Auction 105 website at www.fcc.gov/auction/105 and labeled as ``Adopted (3/2/2020).'' The Wireless 
Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) and the Office of Economics and 
Analytics (OEA) now announce the availability of an updated version of 
this file.
    2. Consistent with the Commission's decision regarding county-based 
license areas in the 2018 3.5 GHz Order, 83 FR 63076, December 7, 2018, 
and with existing Commission policies and procedures used in prior 
auctions, the Bureau and OEA attributed the 2010 decennial census 
population figures to the county legal boundaries as of January 1, 
2017, and used the resulting population figures for calculating bidding 
units, upfront payment amounts, and minimum opening bid amounts for the 
licenses to be offered in Auction 105. The Bureau and OEA recently 
became aware of anomalies in those population figures for 95 of these 
license areas and have corrected the Attachment A file. Specifically, 
the population has been changed in the updated file for all 91 license 
areas in American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as for three 
areas in Alaska and one area in Virginia. In all but a few of those 
cases (where the change in population was relatively small), the 
bidding units, upfront payment amounts, and minimum opening bid amounts 
have changed accordingly. The revised numbers are higher for some areas 
and lower for others.
    3. The updated file is available on the Auction 105 website at 
www.fcc.gov/auction/105 at the ``Updated (May 18, 2020)'' link under 
the ``Attachment A Files'' heading. Corresponding updates will also be 
made to the FCC Form 175 including the bidding unit data provided for 
the license areas and in the upfront payment calculator. The updates to 
the FCC Form 175 will be made before the resubmission window opens. 
When making upfront payments applicants are reminded to check their 
calculations carefully, based on the updated figures, because there is 
no provision for increasing a bidder's eligibility after the upfront 
payment deadline.

Federal Communications Commission.
Gary Michaels,
Deputy Chief, Auctions Division, Office of Economics and Analytics.
[FR Doc. 2020-11193 Filed 5-22-20; 8:45 am]
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