Before the

Federal Communications Commission

Washington, D.C. 20554

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In the Matter of )

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Biennial Regulatory Review \-- )

Amendment of Parts 0, 1, 13, 22, 24, 26) WT Docket No. 98-20

27, 80, 87, 90, 95, 97, and 101 of the)

Commission\'s Rules to Facilitate the Development)

and Use of the Universal Licensing System)

in the Wireless Telecommunications Services)

ORDER

Adopted: May 4, 1998 Released: May 4, 1998

By the Chief, Commercial Wireless Division:

1\. In this Order, we grant the Federal Communications Bar
Association\'s (\"FCBA\") Motion

for an Extension of Time and on our own motion waive the Commission
requirement for all pleadings

in this docket to be filed on paper.

2\. Extension of Time to File Rulemaking Comments. By this order, we
extend the

filing deadlines for comments concerning the ULS NPRM to May 22, 1998
and reply comments to June

8, 1998.

3\. The FCBA requests a 15-day extension of the May 7, 1998, deadline in
order to allow

interested parties to gather and present complete and full information.
We do not routinely grant

extensions of time. We find in this case, however, that the public
interest would be served by allowing

the FCBA and other interested parties additional time to comment on the
issues raised in the above-

captioned matter. Granting this extension request is reasonable because
the Commission\'s ULS NPRM

is a large and complex document which, as the FCBA notes, does \"include
the consolidation of forty-one

existing application forms into five new electronic forms, and the
associated proposal to make substantial

streamlining revisions to thirteen rule parts. . . .\" We note and
appreciate the FCBA\'s formation of a task

force to consider and comment upon this ULS NPRM. Given the number and
intricacy of the issues posed

in this ULS NPRM, we find the FCBA\'s request for an extension of time
to be reasonable and extend the

filing dates for comments and reply comments. We will grant the FCBA\'s
request.

4\. Electronic Filing for ULS NPRM comments and replies. On April 2,
1998, the

Commission adopted the Electronic Filing Report and Order amending its
rules to allow electronic filing

of comments in all Commission rulemaking proceedings. These rules will
become effective 60 days after

Federal Register publication of the Electronic Filing Report and Order.
Because this effective date will

not occur until shortly after the comment and reply deadlines in the ULS
proceeding, the current rules

requiring formal comments to be filed on paper remains in effect.
Nonetheless, we believe it is in the

public interest to waive such rules as they apply to the ULS proceeding,
and to encourage parties in the

proceeding to file comments electronically. The Electronic Comment
Filing System (ECFS) is already

fully operational and prepared to receive electronic comments. We also
note that the Commission recently

allowed electronic filing by waiver in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
adopted in the section 255

proceeding.

5\. Therefore, we hereby waive sections 1.49(a), 1.415, and 1.419 of our
rules and will allow

comments and reply comments in this proceeding to be filed
electronically, provided they conform to the

filing procedures established in the Electronic Filing Report and Order.
Such comments will be

considered part of the record in this proceeding and accorded the same
treatment as comments filed on

paper pursuant to our rules. To file electronic comments in this
proceeding, commenters may use the

electronic filing interface on the Commission\'s World Wide Web site at

\<http://dettifoss.fcc.gov:8080/cgi-bin/ws.exe/beta/ecfs/upload.hts\>.
Further information on the process of

submitting comments electronically is available at that location and at
\<http://www.fcc.gov/e-file/\>.

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6\. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, that pursuant to sections 4(i), and 5 of
the

Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 154(i); 155,
authority delegated by section 0.331

of the Commission\'s rules, 47 C.F.R. § 0.331, and section 1.46 of the
Commission\'s rules, 47 C.F.R. §

1.46, the Motion For An Extension Of Time, filed by the Federal
Communications Bar Association on

April 29, 1998, IS GRANTED. Comments are due on or before May 22, 1998.
Reply comments are due

on or before June 8, 1998.

7\. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to section 4(i) and 5 of the
Communications Act

of 1934, as amended, 47 C.F.R. §§ 154(i); 155, authority delegated by
section 0.331 of the Commission\'s

rules, 47 C.F.R. § 0.331, and section 1.3 of the Commission\'s rules, 47
C.F.R. § 1.3, that sections

1.49(a), 1.415, and 1.419 of the Commission\'s rules, 47 C.F.R. §§
1.49(a); 1.415; 1.419, ARE hereby

WAIVED to the extent described herein.

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Steven E. Weingarten

Chief, Commercial Wireless Division