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###### Federal Communications Commission

          - 47 CFR Part 73
          - [DA 09-1770; MB Docket No. 09-142; RM-11552]

# AGENCY:

Federal Communications Commission.

# ACTION:

Proposed rule.

# SUMMARY:

The Commission has before it a petition for rulemaking filed by WHDH-TV, the licensee of station WHDH-TV, DTV channel 7, Boston, Massachusetts. WHDH-TV requests the substitution of its pre-transition DTV channel 42 for its post-transition DTV channel 7 at Boston.

# DATES:

Comments must be filed on or before August 31, 2009, and reply comments on or before September 8, 2009.

# ADDRESSES:

Federal Communications Commission, Office of the Secretary, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554. In addition to filing comments with the FCC, interested parties should serve counsel for petitioner as follows: Charles R. Naftalin, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, 2099 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Suite 100, Washington, DC 20006.

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

                        Joyce L. Bernstein,                         *joyce.bernstein@fcc.gov,*                         Media Bureau, (202) 418-1600.                    

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

                    This is a synopsis of the Commission's Notice of Proposed Rule Making, MB Docket No. 09-142, adopted August 5, 2009, and released August 7, 2009. The full text of this document is available for public inspection and copying during normal business hours in the FCC's Reference Information Center at Portals II, CY-A257, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC, 20554. This document will also be available via ECFS (                    *http://www.fcc.gov/​cgb/​ecfs/​*). (Documents will be available electronically in ASCII, Word 97, and/or Adobe Acrobat.) This document may be purchased from the Commission's duplicating contractor, Best Copy and Printing, Inc., 445 12th Street, SW., Room CY-B402, Washington, DC 20554, telephone 1-800-478-3160 or via e-mail                     *http://www.BCPIWEB.com.*                     To request this document in accessible formats (computer diskettes, large print, audio recording, and braille), send an e-mail to                     *fcc504@fcc.gov*                     or call the Commission's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432 (TTY). This document does not contain proposed information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. In addition, therefore, it does not contain any proposed information collection burden “for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees,” pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 107-198,                     *see*44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(4).                

                    Provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 do not apply to this proceeding.  Members of the public should note that from the time a Notice of Proposed Rule Making is issued until the matter is no longer subject to Commission consideration or court review, all                     *ex parte*                     contacts are prohibited in Commission proceedings, such as this one, which involve channel allotments. See 47 CFR 1.1204(b) for                           ( print page 41107)                        rules governing permissible                     *ex parte*                     contacts.                

                    For information regarding proper filing procedures for comments,                     *see*47 CFR 1.415 and 1.420.                

# List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73

      - Television
      - Television broadcasting

For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Federal Communications Commission proposes to amend 47 CFR part 73 as follows:

# PART 73—RADIO BROADCAST SERVICES

1. The authority citation for part 73 continues to read as follows:

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 334, 336.

§ 73.622(i) 

2. Section 73.622(i), the Post-Transition Table of DTV Allotments under Massachusetts, is amended by adding DTV channel 42 and removing DTV channel 7 at Boston.

Clay C. Pendarvis,

Associate Chief, Video Division,  Media Bureau,  Federal Communications Commission.

[FR Doc. E9-19526 Filed 8-13-09; 8:45 am]

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