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Number of Respondents: 10.

Estimated Time Per Response: 3.5

hours (These hours include the

contracting hour costs to the

respondents and the respondents hour

burden).

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Total Annual Burden: 15 hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $4,000.

Needs and Uses: Section 74.992

requires that requests by ITFS entities

for access to wireless cable facilities

licensed on ITFS frequencies be made

by filing FCC Form 330 (OMB Control

No. 3060–0062), Section I (Identity of

Applicant, Requested Facilities),

Section II (Legal Qualifications of

Applicant), Section III (Financial

Qualifications of Applicant) and Section

IV (ITFS Service Proposal). The

application must include a cover letter

clearly indicating that the application is

for ITFS access to a wireless cable

entity’s facilities on ITFS channels.

Section 74.992(d) requires an ITFS user

to provide a wireless cable licensee with

its planned schedule of use four months

in advance of accessing the channels.

This notice is completed before the

filing of the application and the burden

is included with the application. The

data is used by FCC staff to determine

eligibility of an educational institution

or entity demanding access for ITFS use

on a wireless cable facility. The four

month advance notice is used by the

wireless cable licensee to allow it to

move programming to other channels.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–28362 Filed 10–24–97; 8:45 am]

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Notice of Public Information

Collection(s) Submitted to OMB for

Review and Approval

October 21, 1997.

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications

Commission, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork burden

invites the general public and other

Federal agencies to take this

opportunity to comment on the

following information collection(s), as

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13. An

agency may not conduct or sponsor a

collection of information unless it

displays a currently valid control

number. No person shall be subject to

any penalty for failing to comply with

a collection of information subject to the

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that

does not display a valid control number.

Comments are requested concerning: (a)

Whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper

performance of the functions of the

Commission, including whether the

information shall have practical utility;

(b) the accuracy of the Commission’s

burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

information collected; and (d) ways to

minimize the burden of the collection of

information on the respondents,

including the use of automated

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology.

DATES: Written comments should be

submitted on or before November 26,

1997. If you anticipate that you will be

submitting comments, but find it

difficult to do so within the period of

time allowed by this notice, you should

advise the contact listed below as soon

as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to Judy

Boley, Federal Communications

Commission, Room 234, 1919 M St.,

NW., Washington, DC 20554 or via

internet to jboley@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

additional information or copies of the

information collection(s) contact Judy

Boley at 202–418–0214 or via internet at

jboley@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Control Number: 3060–0029.

Title: Application for TV Broadcast

Station License.

Form Number: FCC Form 302–TV.

Type of Review: Revision of a

currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit; not-for-profit institutions.

Number of Respondents: 83.

Estimated Time Per Response: 18—25

hours (avg.).

Cost to Respondents: $207,309.

Total Annual Burden: 210 hours.

Needs and Uses: FCC Form 302–TV is

used by licensees and permittees of TV

broadcast stations to obtain a new or

modified station license, and/or to

notify the Commission of certain

changes in the licensed facilities. The

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) approved a Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking (NPRM) which proposed to

eliminate the present requirement for a

construction permit (FCC Forms 301/

340) for a broadcast station in certain

instances where the changed facilities

would not have an adverse impact on

other broadcast facilities or on the

public. In these instances, the

Commission would permit the broadcast

licensee or permittee to make changes

without prior authority from the

Commission and file a license

application (FCC Forms 302–AM/302–

FM/302–TV) with specified exhibits to

reflect the change afterwards.

On 8/14/97, the Commission adopted

a Report and Order in MM Docket 96–

58 which adopted these changes.

Additionally, the Commission adopted

revisions to the FCC Forms 302–FM and

302–TV. Until such times as the forms

are revised to incorporate this

information, applicants using the onestep licensing process must file this

supplement with the FCC Form 302-TV.

The data is used by FCC staff to

confirm that the station has been built

to terms specified in the outstanding

construction permit and to ensure that

any changes made to the station will not

have any impact on other stations and

the public. Data is extracted from FCC

Form 302–TV for inclusion in the

license to operate the station.

OMB Control Number: 3060–0506.

Title: Application for FM Broadcast

Station License.

Form Number: FCC Form 302–FM.

Type of Review: Revision of a

currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit; not-for-profit institutions.

Number of Respondents: 757.

Estimated Time Per Response: 3–25

hours (avg.).

Cost to Respondents: $597,600.

Total Annual Burden: 2,082 hours.

Needs and Uses: FCC Form 302–FM

is used by licensees and permittees of

FM broadcast stations to obtain a new

or modified station license, and/or to

notify the Commission of certain

changes in the licensed facilities. The

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) approved a Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking (NPRM) which proposed to

eliminate the present requirement for a

construction permit (FCC Forms 301/

340) for a broadcast station in certain

instances where the changed facilities

would not have an adverse impact on

other broadcast facilities or on the

public. In these instances, the

Commission would permit the broadcast

licensee or permittee to make changes

without prior authority from the

Commission and file a license

application (FCC Forms 302–AM/302–

FM/302–TV) with specified exhibits to

reflect the change afterwards.

On 8/14/97, the Commission adopted

a Report and Order in MM Docket 96–

58 which adopted these changes.

Additionally, the Commission adopted

revisions to the FCC Forms 302–FM and

302–TV. Until such times as the forms
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are revised to incorporate this

information, applicants using the onestep licensing process must file this

supplement with the FCC Form 302–

FM.

The data is used by FCC staff to

confirm that the station has been built

to terms specified in the outstanding

construction permit and to ensure that

any changes made to the station will not

have any impact on other stations and

the public. Data is extracted from FCC

Form 302–FM for inclusion in the

license to operate the station.

OMB Control Number: 3060–0171.

Title: Section 73.1125, Station main

studio location.

Form Number: N/A.

Type of Review: Revision of a

currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit.

Number of Respondents: 155.

Estimated Time Per Response: 0.5

hours (this hour is split between cost

and burden, 15 minutes burden for the

licensee and 30 minutes cost for a

communications attorney).

Cost to Respondents: $22,800.

Total Annual Burden: 108 hours.

Needs and Uses: Section 73.1125

requires licensees of AM, FM or TV

broadcasting stations to notify the FCC

when stations relocated their main

studios. This data is used by FCC staff

to assure that stations are located within

the principal community contours and

serves to notify FCC of changes in

mailing addresses. The data received as

justification for waiver of Section

73.1125 will enable the FCC staff to

determine whether the circumstances

are sufficient to warrant waiver of the

main studio rules.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–28360 Filed 10–24–97; 8:45 am]

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[CC Docket No. 92–297; DA 97–2224]

Comment Sought on Reserve Prices or

Minimum Opening Bids for LMDS

Auction: LMDS Auction Formula

Proposed [Report No. AUC–17–B

(Auction No. 17)]

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Public notice seeking comment.

SUMMARY: The Commission is proposing

a formula for calculating minimum

opening bids in the auction of licenses

for the Local Multipoint Distribution

Service, Auction No. 17, and invites

public comment on its proposal.

DATES: Comments are due November 5,

1997. Reply comments are due

November 10, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Brett Tarnutzer, Auctions and Industry

Analysis Division, Wireless

Telecommunications Bureau, at (202)

418–0660.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

public notice was released on October

17, 1997, and is available for inspection

and copying during normal business

hours in the FCC Reference Center

(Room 239), 1919 M Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C., and also may be

purchased from the Commission’s copy

contractor, International Transcription

Services, (202) 857–3800, Fax (202)

857–3805, 1231 20th Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20036.

Synopsis of the Public Notice

Background

1. When FCC licenses are subject to

auction (i.e., because they are mutually

exclusive) the recently enacted

Balanced Budget Act of 1997 calls upon

the Commission to prescribe methods

by which a reasonable reserve price will

be required or a minimum opening bid

established, unless the Commission

determines that a reserve price or

minimum bid is not in the public

interest. Section 3002(a), Balanced

Budget Act of 1997, Public Law 105–33,

111 Stat. 251 (1997); 47 U.S.C.

309(j)(4)(F). The Commission’s authority

to establish a reserve price or minimum

opening bid is set forth in 47 CFR

1.2104(c) and (d). Normally, a reserve

price is an absolute minimum price

below which an item will not be sold in

a given auction. Reserve prices can be

either published or unpublished. A

minimum opening bid, on the other

hand, is the minimum bid price set at

the beginning of the auction below

which no bids are accepted. In a

minimum opening bid scenario, the

auctioneer generally has the discretion

to lower it later in the auction.

2. The Wireless Telecommunications

Bureau recently announced the auction

of 986 licenses for the Local Multipoint

Distribution Service (‘‘LMDS’’), which is

to begin December 10, 1997. See Public

Notice, ‘‘Auction of Local Multipoint

Distribution Service: Auction Notice

and Filing Requirements for 986 Basic

Trading Area (‘‘BTA’’) Licenses in the

28 GHz and 31 GHz Bands, Scheduled

for December 10, 1997,’’ DA 97–2081

(62 FR 53629, October 15, 1997).

Discussion

3. The Commission believes a

minimum opening bid is more

appropriate for the LMDS auction than

a reserve price because firm reserve

prices would not give the Commission

flexibility to adjust to information

learned during the auction and react to

changing market conditions. Minimum

bids, on the other hand, can serve the

same revenue raising objective that

reserve prices would serve, and in

addition preserve for the Commission

freedom to reduce the selected levels as

the bidding unfolds. Further, a

minimum opening bid will help to

regulate the pace of the auction.

4. Specifically, the Commission

proposes the following formula for

calculating minimum opening bids in

Auction No. 17:

Population of license area A block min. opening bid (in dollars) B block min.

opening bid

Less than 100,000 ..................................................................................................... 0.75 x population .................................... 10% of A Block.

100,000–1,000,000 .................................................................................................... 1.50 x population .................................... 10% of A Block.

More than 1,000,000 ................................................................................................. 2.25 x population .................................... 10% of A Block.