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##### DA 01-1446

**June 18, 2001**

### Supplement to the Guidelines for Completion of FCC Form 175 and Exhibits for Auction No. 82

**Report No. AUC-01-82-A (Auction No. 82)**

By this Public Notice, the Mass Media Bureau and the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau supplement the *Auction No. 82 Filing Window
Public Notice*,[^1] released May 25, 2001, announcing an auction filing
window for certain new analog television stations.[^2] This supplement
informs applicants that additional information and certifications must
be submitted with the short form application (FCC Form 175) that must be
filed by 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time, June 29, 2001. The following
instructions for filing the FCC Form 175 supplement those contained in
the *Auction No. 82 Filing Window Public Notice*.[^3]

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## Provisions Regarding Defaulters and Former Defaulters (Form 175 Exhibit F)

Each applicant must certify on its FCC Form 175 application that neither
it nor its controlling interest holders or affiliates is in default on
any Commission licenses and that they are not delinquent on any non-tax
debt owed to any Federal agency.[^4] In addition, each applicant must
attach to its FCC Form 175 application a statement made under penalty of
perjury indicating whether or not the applicant, or any of the
applicant's controlling interests or their affiliates, as defined by
Section 1.2110 of the Commission's rules (as recently amended in the
*Part 1 Fifth Report and Order*[^5]) have ever been in default on any
Commission licenses or have ever been delinquent on any non-tax debt
owed to any federal agency.[^6] **Applicants must include this statement
as Exhibit F of the FCC Form 175.** If any of an applicant's controlling
interest holders or affiliates, as defined by Section 1.2110 of the
Commission's rules, have ever been in default on any Commission license
or have ever been delinquent on any non-tax debt owed to any Federal
agency, the applicant must include such information as part of the same
attached statement.[^7] Prospective bidders are reminded that the
statement must be made under penalty of perjury and, further, submission
of a false certification to the Commission is a serious matter that may
result in severe penalties, including monetary forfeitures, license
revocations, exclusion from participation in future auctions, and/or
criminal prosecution.

"Former defaulters" --- *i.e.*, applicants, including their attributable
interest holders, that in the past have defaulted on any Commission
licenses or been delinquent on any non-tax debt owed to any Federal
agency, but that have since remedied all such defaults and cured all of
their outstanding non-tax delinquencies --- will be eligible to bid in
Auction No. 82, provided that they are otherwise qualified. However,
former defaulters are required to pay upfront payments that are fifty
percent more than the normal upfront payment amounts.[^8]

For additional information, contact Shaun Maher at the Video Services
Division, Mass Media Bureau at (202) 418-1600.

[^1]: \"Auction Filing Window for New Analog Television Stations;
    Auction No. 82,\" *Public Notice*, DA 01-1300 (rel. May 25, 2001)
    ("*Auction No. 82 Filing Window Public Notice*").

[^2]: The *Auction No. 82 Filing Window Public Notice* announced an
    auction filing window for new analog television stations for Channel
    47 in Columbia, South Carolina; Channel 51 in Pittsfield,
    Massachusetts; Channel 34 in Magee, Mississippi; and Channel 16 in
    Scottsbluff, Nebraska.

[^3]: *See Auction No. 82 Filing Window Public Notice*, Attachment B.

[^4]: 47 C.F.R. § 1.2105(a)(2)(x).

[^5]: *See* Amendment of Part 1 of the Commission's Rules ---
    Competitive Bidding Procedures, WT Docket No. 97-82, *Order on
    Reconsideration of the Third Report and Order, Fifth Report and
    Order, and Fourth Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making*, 15 FCC
    Rcd 15293 (2000) ("*Part 1 Fifth Report and Order*").

[^6]: 47 C.F.R. § 1.2105(a)(2)(xi).

[^7]: *Part 1 Fifth Report and Order*, 15 FCC Rcd at 15317, ¶ 42.

[^8]: 47 C.F.R. § 1.2106(a).