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will not affect a substantial number of 

carriers, and so it does not anticipate 

that it will affect a substantial number 

of small entities. Therefore, the 

Commission certifies that this Notice 

will not have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities. See 5 U.S.C. 605(b). 

78. Comments. All comments to this 

Notice should be filed in WC Docket No. 

18–143, The Uniendo a Puerto Rico 

Fund and the Connect USVI Fund. 

IV. Ordering Clauses 

79. Accordingly, it is ordered, 

pursuant to the authority contained in 

sections 4(i), 214, 254, 303(r), and 403 

of the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 214, 254, 

303(r), and 403, and sections 1.1, 1.3, 

and 1.412 of the Commission’s rules, 47 

CFR 1.1, 1.3, and 1.412, Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking is adopted. The 

Notice is effective thirty (30) days after 

publication of the text or summary 

thereof in the Federal Register. 

80. It is further ordered that pursuant 

to applicable procedures set forth in 

sections 1.415 and 1.419 of the 

Commission’s Rules, 47 CFR 1.415, 

1.419, interested parties may file 

comments on the Notice on or before 

July 5, 2018, and reply comments on or 

before July 18, 2018. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 73 

[MB Docket No. 18–153, RM–11801; DA 18– 

496] 

Television Broadcasting Services; 

Block Island and Newport, Rhode 

Island 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Commission has before it 

a petition for rulemaking filed by Ocean 

State Television, LLC (Petitioner or 

OST), licensee of television station 

WPXQ–TV, channel 17, Block Island, 

Rhode Island (WPXQ). WPXQ operates 

on channel 17 on a shared basis with 

commercial television station WLWC, 

New Bedford, Massachusetts, also 

licensed to OST. OST requests an 

amendment of the DTV Table of 

Allotments to delete channel 17 at Block 

Island, Rhode Island, and substitute 

channel 17 at Newport, Rhode Island. 

Petitioner also requests modification of 

WPXQ’s license to specify Newport as 

its community of license pursuant to 

agency rules. The Petitioner asserts that 

substantial public interests weigh 

heavily in favor of reallocating WPXQ to 

Newport. Newport has a population of 

24,027 while Block Island’s population 

consists of approximately 1,000. 

Petitioner asserts that the proposed 

reallotment will cause no public harm 

because Block Island will not only 

continue to be served by five full-power 

commercial and one full-power noncommercial television stations, but will 

also continue to receive the exact same 

over-the-air service from Petitioner that 

they are receiving currently. The 

proposal would result in a preferential 

allotment by providing Newport with its 

first local full-power television services 

in satisfaction of the Commission’s 

second allotment priority, which is also 

consistent with Commission precedent 

and consistent with the public interest. 

DATES: Comments must be filed on or 

before July 13, 2018, and reply 

comments on or before July 30, 2018. 

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: 

Ocean State Television, LLC, c/o Cooley 

LLP, John R. Feore, Jr., Esq., Jason 

Rademacher, Esq., 1299 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 

20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Darren Fernandez, Darren.Fernandez@

fcc.gov, phone 202–418–2769, Video 

Division, Media Bureau. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

synopsis of the Commission’s Notice of 

Proposed Rule Making, MB Docket No. 

18–153, adopted May 14, 2018, and 

released May 15, 2018. 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.) To request this 

document in accessible formats 

(computer diskettes, large print, audio 

recording, and Braille), send 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). 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 (other than 

ex parte presentations exempt under 47 

CFR 1.1204(a)) are prohibited in 

Commission proceedings, such as this 

one, which involve channel allotments. 

See 47 CFR 1.1208 for rules governing 

restricted proceedings. 

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. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Barbara A. Kreisman, 

Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau. 

Proposed rules 

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, 

and 339. 

§ 73.622 [Amended] 

■ 2. Section 73.622(i), the PostTransition Table of DTV Allotments 

under Rhode Island is amended by 

adding channel 17 at Newport and 

removing channel 17 at Block Island. 

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