§ 25.151 Public notice. ( a ) At regular intervals, the Commission will issue public notices listing: ( 1 ) The receipt of applications for new station authorizations, except applications for space station licenses filed pursuant to § 25.110(b)(3)(i) or (ii) of this part;
( 2 ) The receipt of applications for license or registration of receive-only earth stations;
( 3 ) The receipt of applications for major modifications to station authorizations;
( 4 ) The receipt of major amendments to pending applications;
( 5 ) The receipt of applications to assign or transfer control of space station facilities, transmitting earth station facilities, or international receive-only earth station facilities;
( 6 ) Significant Commission actions regarding applications;
( 7 ) Information that the Commission in its discretion believes to be of public significance;
( 8 ) Special environmental considerations as required by part 1 of this chapter;
( 9 ) Submission of Coordination Requests and Appendix 30B filings to the ITU in response to requests filed pursuant to § 25.110(b)(3)(i) and (b)(3)(ii);
( 10 ) The receipt of space station application information filed pursuant to § 25.110(b)(3)(iii);
( 11 ) The receipt of notifications of non-routine transmission filed pursuant to § 25.140(d);
( 12 ) The receipt of EPFD input data files from an NGSO FSS licensee or market access recipient, submitted pursuant to § 25.111(b) or § 25.146(c)(2); and
( 13 ) The receipt of NGSO FSS compatibility showings filed pursuant to § 25.261(d).
( b ) Special public notices may also be issued at other times under special circumstances involving non-routine matters where speed is of the essence and efficiency of Commission process will be served thereby.
( c ) A public notice will not normally be issued for receipt of any of the following applications: ( 1 ) For authorization of a minor technical change in the facilities of an authorized station;
( 2 ) For temporary authorization pursuant to § 25.120.
( 3 ) For an authorization under any of the proviso clauses of section 308(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended [47 U.S.C. 308(a)];
( 4 ) For consent to an involuntary assignment or transfer of control of a transmitting earth station authorization; or
( 5 ) For consent to an assignment or transfer of control of a space station authorization or a transmitting earth station authorization, where the assignment or transfer does not involve a substantial change in ownership or control; or
( 6 ) For change in location of an earth station operating in the 4/6 GHz and 10.95-11.7 GHz bands by no more than 1′′ in latitude and/or longitude and for change in location of an earth station operating in the 12/14 GHz bands by no more than 10′′ in latitude and/or longitude.
( d ) Except as specified in paragraph (e) of this section, no application that has appeared on public notice will be granted until the expiration of a period of thirty days following the issuance of the public notice listing the application, or any major amendment thereto. Any comments or petitions must be delivered to the Commission by that date in accordance with § 25.154.
( e ) ( 1 ) Applicants seeking authority to operate a temporary fixed earth station pursuant to § 25.277 may consider their applications “provisionally granted,” and may initiate operations upon the placement of the complete FCC Form 312 application on public notice, provided that ( i ) The temporary fixed earth station will operate only in the conventional Ku-band (14.0-14.5 GHz and 11.7-12.2 GHz bands);
( ii ) The temporary fixed earth station's operations will be consistent with all routine-licensing requirements for the conventional Ku-band; and
( iii ) The temporary fixed earth station's operations will be limited to satellites on the Permitted Space Station List.
( 2 ) Applications for authority granted pursuant to paragraph (e)(1) of this section shall be placed on public notice pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of this section. If no comments or petitions are filed within 30 days of the public notice date, the authority granted will be considered a regular temporary fixed earth station authorization as of 30 days after the public notice date. If a comment or petition is filed within 30 days of the public notice date, the applicant must suspend operations immediately pending resolution of the issues raised in that comment or petition.
[56 FR 24016, May 28, 1991, as amended at 58 FR 68061, Dec. 23, 1993; 70 FR 32254, June 2, 2005; 81 FR 55333, Aug. 18, 2016; 82 FR 59985, Dec. 18, 2017; 88 FR 39792, June 20, 2023] Editorial Note
Editorial Note: At 82 FR 59985, Dec. 18, 2017, § 25.151 was amended by removing “and” from the end of paragraph (b)(10) and by removing the period at the end of paragraph (b)(11) and adding “; and” in its place; however, these amendments could not be incorporated because paragraphs (b)(10) and (b)(11) did not exist.