[Federal Register: November 17, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 221)]
[Notices]
[Page 64898-64899]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[DA 03-3310]
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Confirms Certain 220 MHz Phase
I Licenses Cancelled as a Result of Spectrum Audit
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: As a result of certain licensees' failure to respond to the
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) audit inquiries, the Bureau
announces that certain licenses have been presumed non-operational for
one year or more and therefore have cancelled automatically. Action has
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been taken in the Universal Licensing System to terminate the licenses
that are set forth in Attachment A of the Public Notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Denise D. Walter, Commercial Wireless
Division, at 202-418-0620.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's Public
Notice, DA 03-3310, released on October 22, 2003. The full text of the
Public Notice is available for inspection and copying during normal
business hours in the Federal Communications Commission Reference
Center, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554. The complete text
may be purchased from the Federal Communications Commission's copy
contractor, Qualex International, 445 12th Street, SW., Room CY-B402,
Washington, DC 20554. The full text may also be downloaded at http://wireless.fcc.gov.
Alternative formats are available to persons with
disabilities by contacting Brian Millin at (202) 418-7426 or TTY (202) 418-7365 or at bmillin@fcc.gov.
1. On May 14, 2003, 452 letters were mailed to all licensees
operating in the QT, QD, and QO radio services inquiring into the
operational status of each license held. Each licensee was required to
respond and certify, by June 13, 2003, that its authorized station(s)
had not permanently discontinued service (i.e., discontinued operations
for one year or more). The audit letter, mailed to each licensee at its
address of record, included the call signs of the licensee's
authorizations involved in this audit. In addition, the Bureau released
an initial Public Notice, 68 FR 19822, April 22, 2003 announcing the
audit, as well as several follow-up Public Notices, 68 FR 31704, May
28, 2003 and 68 FR 41133, July 10, 2003 explaining that the audit was
underway and setting forth the audit process.
2. In the audit letters that were mailed to the individual
licensees, as well as in the Bureau's Public Notices, the Bureau
expressly indicated that a response to the audit letter was mandatory.
The Bureau also indicated that failure to provide a timely response
might result in the Commission's presumption that station at issue was
non-operational for one year or more and therefore automatically
cancelled. The Bureau's second audit letter explicitly stated that
failure to timely respond to the audit letter would result in the loss
of the licensee's authority to operate on the station(s) at issue in
the audit letter. The Bureau has received no response to either of the
audit letters for the station licenses that are set forth in Attachment
A of the Public Notice. The Bureau therefore presumes that the stations
identified in Attachment A have been non-operational for a period of
one year or more, and confirms that these station licenses have
cancelled automatically pursuant to 47 CFR 90.157 of the Commission's
rules. Action has been taken in the Universal Licensing System to
terminate these licenses.
Federal Communications Commission.
Roger Noel,
Deputy Division Chief.
[FR Doc. 03-28582 Filed 11-14-03; 8:45 am]
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