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CFR Citation: 47 CFR Part 27

Docket ID: [WT Docket Nos. 03-66, 03-67, 02-68, 00-230, MM Docket No. 97-217, IB Docket No. 02-364, ET Docket No. 00-258; FCC 06-46]

NOTICE: RULES

ACTION: Frequency allocations and radio treaty matters:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Final rule, announcement of effective date.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Facilitating the Provision of Fixed and Mobile Broadband Access, Educational and Other Advanced Services in the 2150-2162 and 2500-2690 MHz Bands; Review of the Spectrum Sharing Plan Among Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit Mobile Satellite Service Systems in the 1.6/2.4 GHz Bands

DATES: The effective date for the rules and the information collection requirements contained in 47 CFR 27.1231(d), (f), and (g), and 47 CFR 27.1235 through 27.1239, published in the Federal Register on June 19, 2006, at 71 FR 35178, is October 31, 2006.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval on October 31, 2006, for the information collection requirements contained in the Third Memorandum Opinion and Order and Second Report and Order (FCC 0646), OMB Control Number 30601094, pursuant to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 10413. 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.

SUMMARY: Broadband access, educational and other advanced services in the 2150-2162 and 2500-2690, etc.,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

OMB Control No.: 30601094.

OMB Approval Date: 10/31/2006.

OMB Expiration Date: 10/31/2009.

Title: Licensing, Operation, and Transition of the 25002690 MHz Band.

Form No.: N/A.

Estimated Annual Burden: 2,500 respondents; 8,355 annual burden hours; 0.255 hours per respondent.

Needs and Uses: In the Commission's Third Memorandum Opinion and Order and Second Report and Order (FCC 0646), New Broadband Radio Service (BRS) and Educational Broadband Service (EBS) band plan transitions take place in Basic Trading Areas (BTAs), which will provide both incumbent licensees and potential new entrants in the 24952690 MHz band with greatly enhanced flexibility to encourage the efficient and effective use of spectrum domestically and
internationally and the growth and rapid development of innovative and efficient communications technologies and services. The information collection requirements are contained in the following rule sections: (1) The pretransition data request (47 CFR 27.1231(d)); (2) the transition notice (47 CFR 27.1231(e)); (3) the Initiation Plan (47 CFR 27.1231(f)); and (4) the posttransition notification (47 CFR 27.1235). The Pretransition data request will be collected by a thirdparty proponent (proponent) to assist in the transitioning the 25002690 MHz band. The proponent may use a variety of methods, including a computerized database. The proponent will send the transition notice to all BRS and EBS licensees in the BTA that the proponent is transitioning. The FCC will collect the Initiation Plan and the Post transition Notification from the proponent to enable the FCC to assess when transitions have begun and when they have ended. The FCC will use our electronic comment and filing system (ECFS) database to collect this information from the proponents.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E620677 Filed 12606; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Nancy Zaczek, Federal Communications Commission, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Broadband Division, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554, at (202) 4187590 or via the Internet at Nancy.Zaczek@fcc.gov.