[Federal Register: August 1, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 147)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 41939-41940]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Parts 22 and 27
[ET Docket No. 00-258; WT Docket No. 02-353; DA 07-1120]
Service Rules for Advanced Wireless Services in the 1.7 GHz and
2.1 GHz Bands
ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date and public
information collections approval.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approval on June 25, 2007, pursuant to the
Paperwork Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13, for the following information
collections contained in 47 CFR 27.1166(a), (b) and (e); 27.1170;
27.1182(a), (b); and 27.1186, that were published at 71 FR 29818,
29836-40 (May 24, 2006). An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a
person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless
it displays a currently valid control number.
DATES: On June 25, 2007, OMB approved the information collections for
47 CFR 27.1166(a), (b) and (e); 27.1170; 27.1182(a), (b); and 27.1186,
that were published at 71 FR 29818, 29836-40 (May 24, 2006).
Accordingly, the effective date for the information collections
contained in these rules is June 25, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Mock, Broadband Division,
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau at (202) 418-2483 or via the
Internet at Jennifer.Mock@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No.: 3060-1030.
OMB Approval Date: 6/25/2007.
OMB Expiration Date: 6/31/2010.
Title: Service Rules for Advanced Wireless Services in the 1.7 GHz
and 2.1 GHz Bands.
Form No.: N/A.
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,716 respondents; 29,147 annual burden
hours; 2 hours per respondent; and $2,271,200 annual costs.
Needs and Uses: The Ninth Report and Order (Ninth R&O) adopted
relocation procedures to govern the relocation of: (1) Broadband Radio
Service (BRS) licensees in the 2150-2160/62 MHz band; and (2) Fixed
Microwave Service (FS) licensees in the 2110-2150 MHz and 2160-2180 MHz
bands. The Ninth R&O also adopted cost sharing rules that identify the
reimbursement obligations for Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) and
Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) entrants benefiting from the relocation
of FS operations in the 2110-2150 MHz band 2160-2200 MHz band and AWS
entrants benefiting from the relocation of BRS operations in the 2150-
2160/62 MHz band. The adopted relocation and cost sharing procedures
generally follow the Commission's relocation and cost sharing policies
delineated in the Emerging Technologies proceeding, and as modified by
subsequent decisions. These relocation policies are designed to allow
early entry for new technology providers by allowing providers of new
services to negotiate financial arrangements for reaccommodation of
incumbent licensees, and have been tailored to set forth specific
relocation schemes appropriate for a variety of different new entrants,
including AWS, MSS, Personal Communications Service (PCS) licensees, 18
GHz Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) licensees, and Sprint Nextel. While
these new entrants occupy different frequency bands, each entrant has
had to relocate incumbent operations. The relocation and cost sharing
procedures adopted in the Ninth R&O are designed to ensure an orderly
and expeditious transition of, with minimal disruption to, incumbent
BRS operations from the 2150-2160/62 MHz band and FS operations from
the 2110-2150 MHz and 2160-2180 MHz bands, in order to allow early
entry for new AWS licensees into these bands. In the Ninth R&O the FCC
adopted disclosures related to negotiation and relocation of incumbent
FS radio links and incumbent BRS systems, and for the registration of
these relocation expenses with a clearinghouse, including documentation
of reimbursable costs for FS and BRS relocations, documentation when a
new AWS and MSS Ancillary Terrestrial Components (MSS/ATC) operators
trigger a cost-sharing obligation, prior coordination notices to
identify when a specific site will trigger a cost-sharing obligation,
and retention of records by the clearinghouses. (Privately administered
clearinghouses, selected by the FCC, will keep track of and administer
the cost sharing obligations over the next 10-15 years as AWS and MSS-
ATC operators build new stations that require them to
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relocate incumbents.) In the Clearinghouse Order, ET Docket No. 00-258
and WT Docket No. 02-353, DA 07-1120, the FCC's Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) requires the AWS clearinghouses to
file reports with the FCC and to make disclosures between the
clearinghouses. Separately, in a Public Notice issued jointly with the
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), 71
FR 28696 (May 17, 2006), 21 FCC Rcd 4730 (2006), the FCC set forth
procedures for AWS licensees to coordinate with Federal Government
operators in the 1.7 GHz band, and AWS licenses are granted with a
special condition that requires coordination with Federal operators.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-14803 Filed 7-31-07; 8:45 am]
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