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implications under Executive Order 

13132. This proposed AD would not 

have a substantial direct effect on the 

States, on the relationship between the 

national Government and the States, or 

on the distribution of power and 

responsibilities among the various 

levels of government. 

For the reasons discussed above, I 

certify that the proposed regulation: 

(1) Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory 

action’’ under Executive Order 12866, 

(2) Would not affect intrastate 

aviation in Alaska, and 

(3) Would not have a significant 

economic impact, positive or negative, 

on a substantial number of small entities 

under the criteria of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act. 

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 39 

Air transportation, Aircraft, Aviation 

safety, Incorporation by reference, 

Safety. 

The Proposed Amendment 

Accordingly, under the authority 

delegated to me by the Administrator, 

the FAA proposes to amend 14 CFR part 

39 as follows: 

PART 39—AIRWORTHINESS 

DIRECTIVES 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 39 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701. 

§ 39.13 [Amended] 

■ 2. The FAA amends § 39.13 by: 

■ a. Removing Airworthiness Directive 

2021–25–03, Amendment 39–21846 (86 

FR 71135, December 15, 2021); and 

■ b. Adding the following new 

airworthiness directive: 

Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG: 

Docket No. FAA–2023–1878; Project 

Identifier MCAI–2022–01582–E. 

(a) Comments Due Date 

The FAA must receive comments on this 

airworthiness directive (AD) by November 2, 

2023. 

(b) Affected ADs 

This AD replaces AD 2021–25–03, 

Amendment 39–21846 (86 FR 71135, 

December 15, 2021). 

(c) Applicability 

This AD applies to Rolls-Royce 

Deutschland Ltd & Co KG Model Trent 7000– 

72 and Trent 7000–72C engines. 

(d) Subject 

Joint Aircraft System Component (JASC) 

Code 7200, Engine (Turbine/Turboprop). 

(e) Unsafe Condition 

This AD was prompted by the 

manufacturer revising the engine time limits 

manual (TLM) life limits of certain critical 

rotating parts and updating certain 

maintenance tasks. The FAA is issuing this 

AD to prevent the failure of critical rotating 

parts. The unsafe condition, if not addressed, 

could result in failure of one or more engines, 

loss of thrust control, and loss of the 

airplane. 

(f) Compliance 

Comply with this AD within the 

compliance times specified, unless already 

done. 

(g) Required Actions 

Except as specified in paragraph (h) of this 

AD: Perform all required actions within the 

compliance times specified in, and in 

accordance with, European Union Aviation 

Safety Agency (EASA) AD 2022–0248, dated 

December 14, 2022 (EASA AD 2022–0248). 

(h) Exceptions to EASA AD 2022–0248 

(1) Where EASA AD 2022–0248 defines the 

AMP as the approved Aircraft Maintenance 

Programme containing the tasks on the basis 

of which the scheduled maintenance is 

conducted to ensure the continuing 

airworthiness of each operated engine, this 

AD defines the AMP as the aircraft 

maintenance program containing the tasks on 

the basis of which the scheduled 

maintenance is conducted to ensure the 

continuing airworthiness of each operated 

airplane. 

(2) Where EASA AD 2022–0248 refers to its 

effective date, this AD requires using the 

effective date of this AD. 

(3) This AD does not require compliance 

with paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5) of EASA 

AD 2022–0248. 

(4) Where paragraph (3) of EASA AD 2022– 

0248 specifies revising the approved AMP 

within 12 months after the effective date of 

EASA AD 2022–0248, this AD requires 

revising the airworthiness limitations section 

of the existing approved engine maintenance 

or inspection program, as applicable, within 

90 days after the effective date of this AD. 

(5) This AD does not adopt the Remarks 

paragraph of EASA AD 2022–0248. 

(i) Provisions for Alternative Actions and 

Intervals 

After performing the actions required by 

paragraph (g) of this AD, no alternative 

actions and associated thresholds and 

intervals, including life limits, are allowed 

unless they are approved as specified in the 

provisions of the ‘‘Ref. Publications’’ section 

of EASA AD 2022–0248. 

(j) Alternative Methods of Compliance 

(AMOCs) 

(1) The Manager, AIR–520, Continued 

Operational Safety Branch, FAA, has the 

authority to approve AMOCs for this AD, if 

requested using the procedures found in 14 

CFR 39.19. In accordance with 14 CFR 39.19, 

send your request to your principal inspector 

or local Flight Standards District Office, as 

appropriate. If sending information directly 

to the manager of the branch, send it to the 

attention of the person identified in 

paragraph (k) of this AD and email to: ANEAD-AMOC@faa.gov. 

(2) Before using any approved AMOC, 

notify your appropriate principal inspector, 

or lacking a principal inspector, the manager 

of the local flight standards district office/ 

certificate holding district office. 

(k) Additional Information 

For more information about this AD, 

contact Sungmo Cho, Aviation Safety 

Engineer, FAA, 2200 South 216th Street, Des 

Moines, WA 98198; phone: (781) 238–7241; 

email: sungmo.d.cho@faa.gov. 

(l) Material Incorporated by Reference 

(1) The Director of the Federal Register 

approved the incorporation by reference 

(IBR) of the service information listed in this 

paragraph under 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR 

part 51. 

(2) You must use this service information 

as applicable to do the actions required by 

this AD, unless the AD specifies otherwise. 

(i) European Union Aviation Safety Agency 

(EASA) AD 2022–0248, dated December 14, 

2022. 

(ii) [Reserved] 

(3) For EASA AD 2022–0248, contact 

EASA, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 3, 50668 

Cologne, Germany; phone: +49 221 8999 000; 

email: ADs@easa.europa.eu; website: 

easa.europa.eu. You may find this EASA AD 

on the EASA website at ad.easa.europa.eu. 

(4) You may view this service information 

at the FAA, Airworthiness Products Section, 

Operational Safety Branch, 1200 District 

Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803. For 

information on the availability of this 

material at the FAA, call (817) 222–5110. 

(5) You may view this service information 

that is incorporated by reference at the 

National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA). For information on 

the availability of this material at NARA, 

email: fr.inspection@nara.gov, or go to: 

www.archives.gov/federal-register/cfr/ibrlocations.html. 

Issued on September 7, 2023. 

Ross Landes, 

Deputy Director for Regulatory Operations, 

Compliance & Airworthiness Division, 

Aircraft Certification Service. 

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47 CFR Parts 1, 2, 15, 25, 27, 74, 78, 

and 101 

[WT Docket No. 20–443; GN Docket No. 22– 

352; DA 23–802; FR ID 171502] 

Expanding Flexible Use of the 12.2– 

12.7 GHz Band; Expanding Use of the 

12.7–13.25 GHz Band for Mobile 

Broadband or Other Expanded Use 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; denial of 

extension of reply comment deadline. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Wireless Telecommunications Bureau 


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1See Expanding Flexible Use of the 12.2–12.7 

GHz Band; Expanding Use of the 12.7–13.25 GHz 

Band for Mobile Broadband or Other Expanded 

Use, WT Docket No. 20–443, GN Docket No. 22– 

352, FCC 23–36, Report and Order and Further 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking and Order, 2023 WL 3686032 

(2023 12 GHz Item). The FNPRM and the NPRM 

were subsequently published separately in the 

Federal Register. See Expanding Flexible Use of the 

12.2–12.7 GHz Band, 88 FR 43502 (July 10, 2023) 

(FNPRM); Expanding Use of the 12.7–13.25 GHz 

Band for Mobile Broadband or Other Expanded 

Use, 88 FR 43938 (July 10, 2023) (NPRM). 

2 Joint Request for Extension of Comment 

Deadline of the Satellite Industry Association (SIA), 

together with Eutelsat S.A., Hispasat, S.A, Intelsat 

License LLC, Ovzon LLC, SES Americom, Inc., 

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and 

WorldVu Satellites Limited, WT Docket No. 20– 

443, GN Docket No. 22–352 (filed Aug. 4, 2023) 

(First Joint Request). 

3Expanding Flexible Use of the 12.2–12.7 GHz 

Band; Expanding Use of the 12.7–13.25 GHz Band 

for Mobile Broadband or Other Expanded Use, WT 

Docket No. 20–443, GN Docket No. 22–352, Order, 

DA 23–671, 2023 WL 5125009 (Aug. 8, 2023) 

(Denial of the First Joint Request). 

4 Joint Request for Extension of Reply Comment 

Deadline of Intelsat License LLC, SES Americom, 

Inc., Hispasat, S.A., Eutelsat S.A., and Ovzon LLC 

(collectively, the ‘‘Satellite Operators’’), WT Docket 

No. 20–443, GN Docket No. 22–352 (filed Aug. 23, 

2023) (Second Joint Request). 

5 Id. at 1 & n.2 (citing comments attaching 

technical analyses filed by NTIA, Nokia, DIRECTV, 

LLC, WorldVu Satellites Limited, and DISH 

Network Corp.). 

6 Id. at 2. 

7 Id at 2–3. 

8 47 CFR 1.46(a). 

9See 2023 12 GHz Item at *1. As noted in the 

Bureau’s Denial of the First Joint Request, 

commenters had access to the underlying 

rulemaking document for almost three months prior 

to the initial comment deadline. See Denial of the 

First Joint Request at *2, para. 3. 

10 2023 12 GHz Item at *54, para. 148. 

11See 47 CFR 1.200 et seq. 

(WTB) of the Federal Communications 

Commission denies the request of 

Eutelsat S.A., Hispasat, S.A, Intelsat 

License LLC, Ovzon LLC, and SES 

Americom, Inc. (collectively, the 

‘‘Satellite Operators’’) for an extension 

of the reply comment deadline for the 

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

(FNPRM) and Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (NRPM) that were 

published as proposed rules in the 

Federal Register. 

DATES: A request for extension of the 

FNPRM and NPRM comment and reply 

comment deadlines, filed on August 23, 

2023, was denied on August 31, 2023. 

The deadline for filing reply comments 

(in response to the FNPRM and NPRM) 

was September 8, 2023 as published at 

88 FR 43502 (July 10, 2023) and 88 FR 

43938 (July 10, 2023). 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, 45 L Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Simon Banyai of the Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau, at 

simon.banyai@fcc.gov or (202) 418– 

1443. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau’s Order, 

WT Docket No. 20–443; GN Docket No. 

22–352; DA 23–802, adopted and 

released on August 31, 2023. The full 

text of this document is available at 

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/ 

attachments/DA-23-802A1.pdf. Text 

and Microsoft Word formats are also 

available (replace ‘‘.pdf’’ in the link 

with ‘‘.txt’’ or ‘‘.docx’’, respectively). 

Alternative formats are available for 

people with disabilities (braille, large 

print, electronic files, audio format), by 

sending an email to fcc504@fcc.gov or 

call the Commission’s Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 

418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432 

(TTY). 

Synopsis 

1. On May 19, 2023, the Commission 

released a Report and Order and Further 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (in WT 

Docket No. 20–443) and Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking and Order (in GN 

Docket No. 22–352).1 In the Further 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

(FNPRM), the Commission investigates 

the potential to expand terrestrial fixed 

use or to permit unlicensed use in the 

500 megahertz of mid-band spectrum at 

12.2–12.7 GHz (12.2 GHz band). In the 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), 

the Commission proposes to repurpose 

some or all of the 12.7–13.25 GHz (12.7 

GHz band) for mobile broadband or 

other expanded use. Comments in 

response to the FNPRM and the NPRM 

were due on August 9, 2023, while reply 

comments were due on September 8, 

2023. On August 8, the Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) 

denied a prior joint request 2 to extend 

by 45 days the comment and reply in 

this proceeding.3

2. On August 23, 2023, the Satellite 

Operators filed a joint request to extend 

the reply comment deadline by 30- 

days—from September 8, 2023, to 

October 10, 2023.4 The Satellite 

Operators argue additional time would 

benefit all parties by enabling closer 

review of several technical studies and 

analyses filed with the comments in the 

proceeding.5 They assert they plan to 

use the extension to prepare and submit 

a technical study that responds to the 

various technical arguments raised by 

commenters.6 They argue the 

Commission has previously found 

extensions to be justified when 

technically complex issues were raised 

in a proceeding like this one.7

3. The Wireless Telecommunications 

Bureau denies the Satellite Operators’ 

joint request for extension of the reply 

comment deadline in this proceeding. 

As set forth in section 1.46 of the 

Commission’s rules, it is the 

Commission’s policy that extensions of 

time shall not be routinely granted.8 In 

this proceeding, the deadline for 

comments was set for 30 days after 

publication of a summary of the item in 

the Federal Register, with reply 

comments due 30 days after the 

comment date.9 These are not unusual 

timeframes for comment and reply 

cycles in a Commission rulemaking 

proceeding. Moreover, the issues 

present in Commission rulemakings are 

often technically complex in nature; the 

presence of complex technical issues 

alone does not provide justification for 

an extension. Furthermore, the Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau finds that 

the Satellite Operators have neither 

identified specific technical issues that 

require additional time for analysis nor 

explained with particularity why such 

analysis cannot be completed by the 

current reply comment deadline. In 

addition, the Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau notes that 

this proceeding has been designated 

permit-but-disclose,10 and parties may 

subsequently submit additional analyses 

in accordance with the Commission’s ex 

parte rules.11 For these reasons, the 

Wireless Telecommunications Bureau 

denies this Second Joint Request. Reply 

comments in the proceeding were due 

September 8, 2023. 

Ordering Clause 

4. Accordingly, it is ordered that, 

pursuant to section 4(i) of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i), and sections 

0.131, 0.331, and 1.46 of the 

Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 0.131, 

0.331, and 1.46, the Joint Request for 

Extension of Reply Comment Deadline 

filed by Intelsat License LLC, SES 

Americom, Inc., Hispasat, S.A., Eutelsat 

S.A., and Ovzon LLC is denied. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Blaise Scinto, 

Chief, Broadband Division, Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau. 

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