**DA 06-2041**

**Released: October 18 , 2006**

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**MEDIA BUREAU IMPLEMENTS**

**MANDATORY ELECTRONIC FILING OF FCC FORM 317**

By this Public Notice, the Media Bureau announces the mandatory
electronic filing of FCC Form 317, "Annual DTV Ancillary/Supplementary
Services Report for Digital Television Stations." Each commercial and
noncommercial educational digital television broadcast station
*licensee* is required to annually report whether or not its station
provided ancillary or supplementary services at any time during the
twelve-month period ending on the preceding September 30^th^. FCC Form
317 (November 2003 Edition ) is to be filed by December 1^st^ of each
year.

Pursuant to the 1998 *Biennial Regulatory Review- Steamlining of Mass
Media Application Rules and Processes,* 13 FCC Rcd 23056 (1998)
mandatory electronic filing of Commission forms was to commence six
months after a given form was made available for electronic use. By
Public Notice, DA 03-3646, released November 17, 2003, FCC Form 317 was
made available for electronic use.

Mandatory electronic filing of FCC Form 317 will commence *November 1,
2006*. Paper versions of FCC Form 317 will not be accepted for filing
after October 31, 2006, unless accompanied by an appropriate request for
waiver of the electronic filing requirement. Such waivers, however, will
not be routinely granted and the applicant must plead with particularity
the facts and circumstances warranting relief.

Form 317 is available for electronic filing by using the Media Bureau's
Consolidated Database System (CDBS). This system provides the public
with the ability to fill out FCC Form 317 on-line via the Internet from
the Media Bureau's Web Site, <http://www.fcc.gov/mb>, and to file it
electronically with the Commission. Internet access to the CDBS requires
a user to have, at a minimum, a browser such as Netscape version 3.04 or
Internet Explorer version 3.51.

For further information, please contact James Brown at (202) 418-1600.

**FCC NOTICE REQUIRED BY THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT**

We have estimated that each response to this collection of information
will take 2 to 4 hours. Our estimate includes the time to read the
instructions, look through existing records, gather and maintain the
required data, and actually complete and review the form or response. If
you have any comments on this estimate, or on how we can improve the
collection and reduce the burden it causes you, please write the Federal
Communications Commission, AMD-PERM, Paperwork Reduction Project
(3060-0906), Washington, DC 20554. We will also accept your comments via
the Internet if you send them to <pra@fcc.gov>. Please DO NOT SEND
COMPLETED APPLICATIONS TO THIS ADDRESS. Remember - you are not required
to respond to a collection of information sponsored by the Federal
government, and the government may not conduct or sponsor this
collection, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number of
if we fail to provide you with this notice. This collection has been
assigned an OMB control number of 3060-0906.

**THE FOREGOING NOTICE IS REQUIRED BY THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF
1995, P.L. 104-13, OCTOBER 1,1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507.**

By Chief, Media Bureau