**PUBLIC NOTICE**![](media/image1.png){width="0.6541666666666667in"
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**Federal Communications Commission**

**445 12th St., S.W.**

**Washington, D.C. 20554**

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# DA 08-2151

#  September 25, 2008

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### PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU ANNOUNCES

### REGION 54 (SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN) PUBLIC SAFETY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEES TO HOLD 700 MHZ REGIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY PLANNING AND 800 MHZ NPSPAC REGIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY PLANNING MEETINGS

**General Docket No. 89-363**

The Region 54 (Southern Lake Michigan)[^1] Public Safety Regional
Planning Committees will hold two consecutive planning meetings on
Wednesday, November 5, 2008. Beginning at 1:00 p.m., the 800 MHz NPSPAC
Public Safety Regional Planning Committee will convene at the Grundy
County Office of Emergency Management, 1320 Union Street, Morris,
Illinois.

The agenda for the 800 MHz meeting includes:

-   Discuss applications from County of Dekalb, and City of Rockford,
    Illinois

-   Old business

-   New business

Immediately following the 800 MHz Public Safety Regional Planning
Committee meeting, the 700 MHz Public Safety Regional Planning Committee
will convene at the same location.

The agenda for the 700 MHz meeting includes:

-   Discuss the updates to the Region 54 plan, pursuant to the Federal
    Communications

> Commission's (FCC) *Second Report and Order*[^2] decisions affecting
> the upper and lower
>
> 700 MHz bands.

-   Report status of the adjacent region review of the 700 MHz draft
    plan.

Both of the Region 54 Public Safety Regional Planning Committee meetings
are open to the public. It is essential that public safety agencies in
all areas of government, including state, municipality, county, and
Native American Tribal, and non-governmental organizations eligible
under Section 90.523 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R. § 90.523, be
represented in order to ensure that each agency's future spectrum needs
are considered in the allocation process. Administrators who are not
oriented in the communications field should delegate someone with this
knowledge to attend, participate, and represent their agency's needs.

All interested parties wishing to participate in planning for the use of
public safety spectrum in the 700 MHz and 800 MHz bands within Region 54
should plan to attend. For further information, please contact:

Chris Kindelspire, Secretary

Region 54 700 MHz Public Safety Regional Planning Committee

Grundy County ETSB (911)

111 East Illinois Avenue

Morris, Illinois 60450

\(815\) 405-0998

<ckspire@grundy911.org>

William Carter, Chairman

> Region 54 700 MHz Public Safety Regional Planning Committee
>
> 10928 South Lawndale
>
> Chicago, Illinois 60655
>
> \(312\) 497-6802\
> <carterb@apco911.org>
>
> Carl Guse, Chairman
>
> Region 54 800 MHz Public Safety Regional Planning Committee\
> Frequency Specialist, Wisconsin State Patrol\
> 4802 Sheboygan Avenue
>
> P.O. Box 7912\
> Madison, Wisconsin 53707-7912\
> (608) 266-2497\
> <carl.guse@dot.state.wi.us>

\- FCC -

[^1]: Region 54 (Southern Lake Michigan) 700 MHz RPC encompasses
    counties in three states bordering Lake Michigan: Winnebago,
    McHenry, Cook, Kane, Kendall, Grundy, Boone, Lake, DuPage, DeKalb,
    Will, and Kankakee Counties, Illinois; Lake, LaPorte, Jasper,
    Starke, St. Joseph, Porter, Newton, Pulaski, Marshall, and Elkart
    Counties, Indiana; and Kenosha, Milwaukee, Washington, Dodge,
    Walworth, Jefferson, Racine, Rock, Walworth, Washington, and
    Waukesha Counties, Wisconsin. The Region 54 (Southern Lake Michigan)
    800 MHz NPSPAC RPC includes all of the above counties, and the
    following Michigan counties: Kent, Van Buren, Kalamazoo, Barry,
    Muskegon, Allegan, Berrien, Cass, and St. Joseph.

[^2]: *See* Implementing a Nationwide, Broadband, Interoperable Public
    Safety Network in the 700 MHz Band; Development of Operational,
    Technical and Spectrum Requirements for Meeting Federal, State and
    Local Public Safety Communications Requirements Through the Year
    2010, PS Docket No. 06-229, WT Docket No. 96-86, *Second* *Report
    and Order*, 22 FCC Rcd 15289 (2007) (*Second* *Report and Order*).