Application for Construction Permit for Commercial Broadcast Station, FCC Form 301; FCC Form 2100, Application for Media Bureau Audio and Video Service Authorization, Schedule A
ICR 201507-3060-014
OMB: 3060-0027
Federal Form Document
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Application for Construction
Permit for Commercial Broadcast Station, FCC Form 301; FCC Form
2100, Application for Media Bureau Audio and Video Service
Authorization, Schedule A
Pre-approval
contingent upon no substantive changes to this collection after
adoption of the final rule. Otherwise this collection should be
re-submitted to OMB for review.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
09/30/2018
36 Months From Approved
03/31/2018
7,361
0
7,211
18,022
0
17,372
69,634,713
0
68,901,963
On June 12, 2015, the Commission
released a First Order on Reconsideration and Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking, In the Matter of Expanding the Economic and Innovation
Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions, GN Docket No.
12-268 and MB Docket No. 15-137, FCC 15-67. This document contains
proposed rules for channel sharing by and between full power and
Class A television stations outside the context of the incentive
auction. The proposed rules would allow full power stations to
share a single channel with other full power or Class A stations.
Full power stations will use FCC Form 2100, Schedule A to apply for
a construction permit for the technical facilities it proposes to
share with another station. The application for a construction
permit to channel share must include a copy of the channel sharing
agreement ("CSA") between the stations Each CSA must include
provisions governing certain key aspects of the stations'
operations including: access to facilities; allocation of bandwidth
within the shared channel; operation maintenance, repair, and
modification of facilities; and termination or transfer/assignment
of rights to the shared license. We propose to treat applications
to channel share outside the auction context as minor change
applications – that is, they would not be subject to local public
notice requirements or a 30-day petition to deny filing window. The
Commission's proposed rules would also require stations
participating in CSAs to provide notice to MVPDs that: (1) no
longer will be required to carry the station because of the
relocation of the station; (2) currently carry and will continue to
be obligated to carry a station that will change channels; or (3)
will become obligated to carry the station due to a channel sharing
relocation. We propose that the notice contain the following
information: (1) date and time of any channel changes; (2) the
channel occupied by the station before and after implementation of
the CSA; (3) modification, if any, to antenna position, location,
or power levels; (4) stream identification information; and (5)
engineering staff contact information. We propose that stations be
able to elect whether to provide notice via a letter notification
or provide notice electronically, if pre-arranged with the relevant
MVPD. We also propose to require that sharee stations provide
notice at least 30 days prior to terminating operations on the
sharee's channel and that both sharer and sharee stations provide
notice at least 30 days prior to initiation of operations on the
sharer channel. Should the anticipated date to either cease
operations or commence channel sharing operations change, we
propose to require that the station(s) send a further notice to
affected MVPDs informing them of the new anticipated date(s). No
changes to FCC Form 2100, Schedule A are required for it to be used
to file applications for channel sharing outside the auction
context; this collection is being changed to reflect the proposed
use of the form for a new purpose – to propose channel sharing
outside the context of the incentive auction. This collection is
also being changed to reflect the burden associated with preparing
a CSA in connection with channel sharing as well as the burden
associated with providing the required notification to
MVPDs.
US Code:
47
USC 308 Name of Law: Communications Act of 1934, as amended
US Code: 47
USC 303 Name of Law: Communications Act of 1934, as amended
US Code: 47
USC 154(i) Name of Law: Communications Act of 1934, as
amended
If the proposed requirements in
FCC 15-67 are adopted in a final rulemaking by the Commission the
following program changes/increases will be added to the OMB
inventory: 50 to the number of respondents, 150 to the number of
responses, 650 to the annual burden hours and $732,750 to the
annual cost burden.
$5,911,702
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Kim Matthews 202
418-2130
No
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