[Federal Register: December 22, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 245)]
[Proposed Rules]               
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 73

[MM Docket No. 99-292; FCC 99-389]

 
Establishment of a Class A Television Service; Comments Suspended

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Proposed rule; comment date suspension.

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SUMMARY: This document announces that the Commission, on its own 
motion, has suspended the filing of comments that were due December 21, 
1999, in its rulemaking proceeding in MM Docket No. 99-292 concerning 
the Establishment of a Class A Television Service.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 14, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Brown, Video Services Division, 
Mass Media Bureau at (202) 418-1600.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 29, 1999, the Commission issued 
a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, FCC 99-257, setting forth for public 
comment a wide-range of issues and concerns dealing with the 
establishment of a form of primary status for qualifying low power 
television stations and on the appropriate regulatory framework for a 
Class A television service. On November 29, 1999, however, the 
Community Broadcasters Protection Act of 1999 (CBPA) was signed into 
law. Among other things, the legislation directed that, within 120 days 
after enactment of the CBPA, the Commission shall, by rulemaking, set 
forth regulations establishing a Class A television service for 
licensees of low power television that satisfy certain statutorily-
prescribed criteria. The Commission is currently assessing the impact 
of the CBPA,

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whose provisions are more narrowly focused than the matters in the 
instant rulemaking, and believes that suspension of the scheduled 
filing of comments would be more conducive to orderly rulemaking in the 
abbreviated proceeding mandated by the CBPA. The comment filing date IS 
SUSPENDED until further notice from the Commission.

Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-33102 Filed 12-21-99; 8:45 am]
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