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(1) expand educational broadband 

benefits to more students, schools, and 

families; (2) foster broadband 

deployment in rural areas, including on 

tribal lands, many of which have 

limited or no service today; and (3) 

accelerate the deployment of 5G 

wireless networks to more Americans. 

They argue that the ‘‘issues raised by the 

NPRM are as complex as they are 

important’’ and that ‘‘complex 

geospatial analysis is required . . .’’ In 

addition, they allege that this 

proceeding is not routine, and that the 

current timing falls during the summer 

which is particularly difficult for 

schools and educators. 

5. As set forth in section 1.46 of the 

Commission’s rules, the Commission’s 

policy is that extensions of time for 

filing comments in rulemaking 

proceedings shall not be routinely 

granted. In this case, however, the 

Commission finds that the number, 

scope, and importance of the questions 

asked in the 2.5 GHz NPRM warrant a 

partial extension of the comment and 

reply comment deadlines. While 

NEBSA and CTN seek an extension of 

45 days, and the Joint Stakeholders seek 

an extension of 60 days, the 

Commission believes that an extension 

of 30 days will adequately serve the 

public interest by providing interested 

parties additional time to develop more 

full and complete responses to the 2.5 

GHz NPRM and promote a more 

comprehensive record, without 

resulting in undue delay. Thus, 

comments are now due August 8, 2018 

and reply comments due by September 

7, 2018. 

6. 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 Section 

1.46 of the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 

1.46, the motions for extension of time 

filed NEBSA/CTN and the Joint 

Stakeholders are granted in part, and 

otherwise denied. The deadline for 

filing comments in this proceeding is 

extended to August 8, 2018, and the 

deadline for filing reply comments is 

extended to September 7, 2018. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

John Schauble, 

Deputy Chief, Broadband Division, Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 54 

[WC Docket No. 10–90; Report No. 3095] 

Petitions for Reconsideration of Action 

in Rulemaking Proceeding 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Petitions for Reconsideration. 

SUMMARY: Petitions for Reconsideration 

(Petitions) have been filed in the 

Commission’s Rulemaking proceeding 

by Patrick R. Halley, on behalf of 

Mescalero Apache Telecom, Inc. and 

Martin L. Stern, on behalf of Sacred 

Wind Communications, Inc. 

DATES: Oppositions to the Petition must 

be filed on or before July 23, 2018. 

Replies to an opposition must be filed 

on or before August 2, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, 445 12th Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Suzanne Yelen, Wireline Competition 

Bureau, at: (202) 418–7400; email: 

Suzanne.Yelen@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s 

document, Report No. 3095, released 

June 25, 2018. The full text of the 

Petitions is available for viewing and 

copying at the FCC Reference 

Information Center, 445 12th Street SW, 

Room CY–A257, Washington, DC 20554. 

It also may be accessed online via the 

Commission’s Electronic Comment 

Filing System at: http://apps.fcc.gov/ 

ecfs/. The Commission will not send a 

Congressional Review Act (CRA) 

submission to Congress or the 

Government Accountability Office 

pursuant to the CRA, 5.U.S.C. because 

no rules are being adopted by the 

Commission. 

Subject: Connect America Fund, 

Report and Order, FCC 18–37, 

published at 83 FR 18948, May 1, 2018, 

in WC Docket No. 10–90. This 

document is being published pursuant 

to 47 CFR 1.429(e). See also 47 CFR 

1.4(b)(1) and 1.429(f), (g). 

Number of Petitions Filed: 2. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Katura Jackson, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the 

Secretary. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 73 

[MB Docket No. 18–126, RM–11800; DA 18– 

418] 

Television Broadcasting Services; 

Bridgeport and Stamford, Connecticut 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Commission has before it 

a petition for rulemaking filed by 

Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc. 

(Petitioner or CPBI)), licensee of 

television station WEDW, channel *49, 

Bridgeport, Connecticut (WEDW). 

WEDW operates on a shared basis with 

commercial television station WZME, 

Bridgeport, Connecticut (WZME), 

licensed to NRJ TV NY License Co. 

(NRJ). Prior to channel sharing, WZME 

was licensed on channel 42 at 

Bridgeport; NRJ has relinquished its 

channel 42 spectrum pursuant to a 

successful license relinquishment bid in 

the broadcast incentive auction and the 

spectrum is now being licensed to new 

600 MHz Band flexible use licensees. 

CPBI requests an amendment of the 

DTV Table of Allotments to change 

WEDW’s community of license from 

Bridgeport to Stamford, Connecticut. 

Petitioner further requests modifications 

of WEDW’s license to specify Stamford 

as its community of license. CPBI 

asserts that the proposed reallotment 

will not deprive Bridgeport of its sole 

broadcast station as it will continue to 

be served by shared station WZME on 

channel 49 at Bridgeport. CPBI does not 

propose to change WEDW’s licensed 

facilities as part of its allotment request 

and its existing principal community 

contour will cover the entire community 

of Stamford from the station’s currentlylicensed transmission facilities. 

DATES: Comments must be filed on or 

before August 6, 2018, and reply 

comments on or before August 20, 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: 

Community Public Broadcasting, Inc. 

c/o Garvey Schubert Barer, Esq., and 

Steven C. Schaffer, Esq., 1000 Potomac 

Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 

20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Darren Fernandez, Darren.Fernandez@

fcc.gov, (202) 418–2769, Video Division, 

Media Bureau. 


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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

synopsis of the Commission’s Notice of 

Proposed Rule Making, MB Docket No. 

18–126, adopted April 25, 2018, and 

released April 26, 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 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, 309, 310, 

334, 336, and 339. 

§ 73.622 [Amended] 

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

under Connecticut is amended by 

adding the entry for Stamford to read as 

follows: 

§ 73.622 Digital television table of 

allotments. 

* * * * * 

(i) Post-Transition Table of DTV 

Allotments. 

* * * * * 

CONNECTICUT 

* * * * * 

Stamford ............................... * 49 

* * * * * 

* * * * * 

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BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 635 

[Docket No. 180117042–8548–01] 

RIN 0648–BH54 

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; 

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna and Northern 

Albacore Tuna Quotas 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; request for 

comments; notice of public hearing. 

SUMMARY: NMFS proposes to modify the 

baseline annual U.S. quota and 

subquotas for Atlantic bluefin tuna 

(BFT) and the baseline annual U.S. 

North Atlantic albacore (northern 

albacore or NALB) quota. The proposed 

action also would modify regulations to 

update regulatory language on school 

BFT to reflect current ICCAT 

requirements. Finally, NMFS also 

proposes to make a minor change to the 

Atlantic tunas size limit regulations to 

address retention, possession, and 

landing of bigeye and yellowfin tuna 

damaged by shark bites. This action is 

necessary to implement binding 

recommendations of the International 

Commission for the Conservation of 

Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), as required by 

the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act 

(ATCA), and to achieve domestic 

management objectives under the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(Magnuson-Stevens Act). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before August 6, 2018. 

NMFS will host an operator-assisted 

public hearing conference call and 

webinar on July 17, 2018, from 3 to 5 

p.m. EDT, providing an opportunity for 

individuals from all geographic areas to 

participate. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for further details. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on this document, identified by 

‘‘NOAA–NMFS–2018–0004,’’ by either 

of the following methods: 

• Electronic Submission: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to 

www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;

D=NOAA-NMFS-2018-0004, click the 

‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, complete the 

required fields, and enter or attach your 

comments. 

• Mail: Submit written comments to 

Sarah McLaughlin, Highly Migratory 

Species (HMS) Management Division, 

Office of Sustainable Fisheries (F/SF1), 

NMFS, 55 Great Republic Drive, 

Gloucester, MA 01930. 

• Instructions: Comments sent by any 

other method, to any other address or 

individual, or received after the end of 

the comment period, may not be 

considered. All comments received are 

a part of the public record and generally 

will be posted for public viewing on 

www.regulations.gov without change. 

All personal identifying information 

(e.g., name, address, etc.), confidential 

business information, or otherwise 

sensitive information submitted 

voluntarily by the sender will be 

publicly accessible. NMFS will accept 

anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/A’’ in 

the required fields if you wish to remain 

anonymous). 

The public hearing conference call 

information is phone number 1–800– 

593–7188; participant passcode 

6548000. Participants are strongly 

encouraged to log/dial in 15 minutes 

prior to the meeting. NMFS will show 

a brief presentation via webinar 

followed by public comment. To join 

the webinar, go to: https://

noaaevents2.webex.com/noaaevents2/ 

onstage/g.php?MTID=e051cd980

da5c8b77c9062c866bbb3c95; meeting 

number: 993 478 244; password: NOAA. 

Participants who have not used WebEx 

before will be prompted to download 

and run a plug-in program that will 

enable them to view the webinar. 


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