00-30232. Competitive Bidding Procedures; Correction

AGENCY:

Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION:

Correcting amendments.

SUMMARY:

This document contains corrections to the final regulations which were published in the Federal Register of Tuesday, August 29, 2000, (65 FR 52323). The regulations related to the competitive bidding rules for all auctionable services in § 1.2110 of the Commission's rules.

DATES:

Effective November 28, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Leora Hochstein, Auctions and Industry Analysis Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, at [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

In the Federal Register of August 29, 2000 (65 FR 52323), the Commission published a summary of its Order on Reconsideration of the Third Report and Order, Fifth Report and Order (Order on Reconsideration, Fifth Report and Order) in WT Docket No. 97-82. That document clarified and amended the Commission's competitive bidding rules in an ongoing effort to establish a uniform and streamlined set of general competitive bidding rules for all auctionable services and to reduce the burden on both the Commission and the public of conducting service-specific auction rule makings.

Need for Correction

As published, the final regulations contain errors which may prove to be misleading and need to be clarified.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 1

• Communications common carriers
• Reporting and recordkeeping requirements

Correction to CFR

Accordingly, 47 CFR part 1 is corrected by making the following correcting amendments:

PART 1—PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

1. The authority citation for part 1 continues to read as follows:

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 154(j), 155, 225, 303(r), 309 and 325(e).

2. Section 1.2112 is amended by revising paragraph (a)(6) to read as follows:

§ 1.2112

Ownership disclosure requirements for short- and long-form applications.

(a) * * *

(6) Any FCC-regulated entity or applicant for an FCC license, in which the applicant or any of the parties identified in paragraphs (a)(1) through (5) of this section, owns 10 percent or more of stock, whether voting or nonvoting, common or preferred. This list must include a description of each such entity's principal business and a description of each such entity's relationship to the applicant (e.g., Company A owns 10 percent of Company B (the applicant) and 10 percent of Company C, then Companies A and C must be listed on Company B's application, where C is an FCC licensee and/or license applicant);

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Correction to Preamble

In the preamble to the same rule [FR Doc. 00-21982 published on August 29, 2000 (65 FR 52323)] make the following correction:

On page 52334, column 2, and starting on line 51 correct the last sentence in paragraph 66 to read as follows:

Non-licensees, however, are precluded from being assignees or transferees within the first five years of license grant unless they qualify as entrepreneurs based on the attribution rules in effect at the time of filing an application for assignment or transfer.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.