**UNITED STATES OF AMERICA**

**DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE**

**NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS**

**AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION**

**Presidential )**

**Spectrum Policy ) Docket 040127027-4027-01**

**Initiative )**

**MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME**

**BY THE AMHERST ALLIANCE, KZQX-LP, KPIB-LP,**

**WILW RADIO, TUNE TRACKER SYSTEMS, DIYMEDIA,**

**JAMRAG MAGAZINE, MICHIGAN MUSIC IS WORLD CLASS! CAMPAIGN, GREEN PARTY
OF MICHIGAN, WSJL-AM,**

**PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY RADIO, CITIZENS MEDIA CORP, COMMONWEALTH
BROADBAND COLLABORATIVE,**

**WILLIAM DOERNER, PAUL B. WALKER, JR., LEE McVEY, P.E. W6EM,**

**RICK CALLEBS, REVEREND ROBERT P. CHRYSAFIS KC8GPD,**

**WILLIAM TINSLEY III, TRACEY DEVLIN KC2DNI AND JEFFREY GILL**

In his Written Comments of February 5, 2004, Nickolaus E. Leggett N3NL
of Reston, Virginia requested an extension of the Written Comments
deadline in this Docket by 2 months: that is, from March 18, 2004 to May
17, 2004.

The 21 undersigned parties \-- led by THE AMHERST ALLIANCE, a national
citizens' advocacy group for media reform \-- second Mr. Leggett's
request. We now place the same request before the NATIONAL
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND

INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION (NTIA) as a Motion For Extension Of Time.

This Docket attempts to implement the Presidential Spectrum Policy
Initiative (PSPI) that arose from a Presidential Memorandum. In turn,
the Memorandum, as released on June 5, 2003, raises profound new issues
for commenting parties to consider.

21 Parties Led By THE AMHERST ALLIANCE

February 16, 2004

Page 2

Among other contemplated changes of a *qualitatively* new nature, the
Presidential Memorandum appears to direct NTIA, and other Executive
Branch decision-making bodies, to consider:

1.  Shifting some, most or all of the responsibility for radio
    regulation

> from the Federal Communications Commission, an independent
>
> agency managed by representatives of both major political parties,
>
> to Executive Branch agencies that are controlled directly by the
>
> single political party which occupies the White House

*And*

2.  The establishment of new "spectrum user fees" which would apply

> to *non-commercial* users of the airwaves

Also, the Presidential Memorandum envisions policies which are
*quantitatively* new, in the sense that they would expand recent policy
trends to an entirely new scale:

3.  Additional, and presumably more systematic, displacements of radio

> uses of the spectrum by wireless uses of the spectrum
>
> *And*

4.  Additional, and presumably more systematic, displacements of

> non-commercial uses of the spectrum by commercial uses of the
>
> spectrum

21 Parties Led By THE AMHERST ALLIANCE

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We recognize that the June 5, 2003 Presidential Memorandum \-- which
NTIA is attempting to implement through a Notice Of Inquiry in this
Docket, as issued on January 29, 2004 \-- directs Executive Branch
agencies to submit their PSPI recommendations to the White House on or
before June 1, 2004.

Nevertheless, not even a Presidential Memorandum can override statutory
and Constitutional requirements for "due process of law" in regulatory
decision-making.

In this case, the contemplated policy changes are so new \-- and so
*radical* \-- that it

is plainly unreasonable to expect commenting parties to address them
effectively within

a time frame of only 6 weeks. To meet the minimum requirements for "due
process"

in regulatory decision-making, as set forth in both the Administrative
Procedure Act and

the United States Constitution, NTIA is obligated to provide a lengthier
comment period.

Therefore, the undersigned parties urge NTIA to grant this Motion to
extend the

comments deadline from March 18, 2004 to May 17, 2004.

Respectfully submitted,

Melissa Lear

Special Assistant to the President

For THE AMHERST ALLIANCE

9 Nolan Road

South Glens Falls, New York 12803

<webweaver@mail15.com>

URL: [www.amherstalliance.org](http://www.amherstalliance.org/)

21 Parties Led By THE AMHERST ALLIANCE

February 16, 2004

Page 4

Chuck Conrad KD5T2T

General Manager

For KZQX-LP

P.O. Box 1008

Kilgore, Texas 75663

<ChuxGarage@aol.com>

URL: [www.kzqx.com](http://www.kzqx.com/)

Nancy Doerner

General Manager

KPIB-LP

3803 Walden Road

Corpus Christi, Texas 78418

<wdoerner@interconnect.net>

William C. Walker

General Manager

For WILW RADIO

702 Warren Avenue

WaKeeney, Kansas 67672

<wilw@wilw.com>

URL: [www.wilw.com](http://www.wilw.com/)

Dane Scott Udenberg

President

For TUNE TRACKER SYSTEMS

Oconto, Wisconsin 54153

<dsuden@netnet.net>

URL: [www.tunetrackersystems.com](http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/)

21 Parties Led By THE AMHERST ALLIANCE

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John Anderson

Editor & Publisher

For DIYMEDIA

2434 Sommers Avenue

#4

Madison, Wisconsin 53704

<phlegm@diymedia.net>

URL: [www.diymedia.net](http://www.diymedia.net/)

Susan Ness

Publisher

For JAMRAG MAGAZINE

P.O. Box 7006

Ferndale, Michigan 48220

<jamrag@glis.net>

URL: [www.jamrag.com](http://www.jamrag.com/)

Tom Ness

President

MICHIGAN MUSIC IS WORLD CLASS! CAMPAIGN

P.O. Box 7006

Ferndale, Michigan 48220

<jamrag@glis.net>

Marc Reichardt

Party Chair

For GREEN PARTY OF MICHIGAN

548 South Main Street

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

<chair@migreens.org>

URL: [www.migreens.org](http://www.migreens.org/)

21 Parties Led By THE AMHERST ALLIANCE

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Bill Blew

General Manager

For WSJL-AM

132 Woodland Avenue

Villas, New Jersey 08251

URL: [www.wsjl.com](http://www.wsjl.com/)

Wesle AnneMarie Dymoke

Chairperson, Board of Directors

For PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY RADIO

P.O. Box 2346

East Side Post Office

Providence, Rhode Island 02906

<procomrad@as220.org>

Steven Provizer

Executive Director, CITIZENS MEDIA CORP

and Representative, COMMONWEALTH BROADBAND COLLABORATIVE

For CITIZENS MEDIA CORP and COMMONWEALTH BROADBAND

COLLABORATIVE

23 Winslow Road

Brookline, Massachusetts 02446

<improviz@rcn.com>

URL: [www.cbcmedia.net](http://www.cbcmedia.net/)

William Doerner

3803 Waldron Road

Corpus Christi, Texas 78418

<wdoerner@interconnect.net>

361/939-9792

21 Parties Led By THE AMHERST ALLIANCE

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Paul B. Walker, Jr.

1820 West Marks Road

Marks, Mississippi 38646

<RadioColchester@aol.com>

Lee McVey, P.E. W6EM

1301 86^th^ Court N.W.

Bradenton, Florida 34209-9309

<lee.mcvey@prodigy.net>

Rick Callebs

P.O. Box 110

Wellston, Ohio 45692

<callebs@earthlink.net>

William W. Tinsley III

1356 Sunset Ridge

Watertown, New York 13601

Tracey Devlin KC2DNI

352 West 12^th^ Street

Apartment 5C

New York, New York 10014-1714

Reverend Robert P. Chrysafis KC8GPD

P.O. Box 628

Glen Gardner, New Jersey 08826

908/537-2094

21 Parties Led By THE AMHERST ALLIANCE

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Jeffrey Gill

154 Great Road

#C

Shirley, Massachusetts 01464-2812

Dated: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

February 16, 2004