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States by supplying information that 

competitors could use to compete with 

companies in the United States. 

Lloyd Ellis, 

Program Specialist, Office of the General 

Counsel. 

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Media Bureau Designates May 29, 2015 

as Pre-Auction Licensing Deadline; 

May 29, 2015 Deadline Also Applicable 

to Class A Television Stations 

Converting to Digital 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This document announces 

that May 29, 2015 has been established 

as the Pre-Auction Licensing Deadline. 

This is the date by which full power and 

Class A facilities must be licensed or 

have on file with the Commission a 

license to cover application in order to 

be protected in the repacking process or 

be eligible for voluntary relinquishment 

of spectrum usage rights as part of the 

television incentive auction. 

DATES: The Pre-Auction Licensing 

Deadline for all full power and Class A 

television facilities is May 29, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kevin Harding or Evan Morris, Video 

Division, Media Bureau, Federal 

Communications Commission, (202) 

418–1600. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Media 

Bureau has designated May 29, 2015, as 

the Pre-Auction Licensing Deadline by 

which full power and Class A facilities 

must be licensed in order to be eligible 

for protection in the repacking process 

that will be part of the television 

incentive auction. The Pre-Auction 

Licensing Deadline will also determine 

which facilities are eligible for 

voluntary relinquishment of spectrum 

usage rights in the incentive auction. 

The term ‘‘licensed’’ encompasses both 

licensed facilities and those subject to a 

pending license to cover application 

(i.e., FCC Form 302–DTV or 302–CA). 

In the Incentive Auction R&O, the 

Commission concluded that all full 

power and Class A facilities that were 

licensed as of February 22, 2012, are 

entitled to mandatory protection. The 

Commission also concluded that the 

public interest would be served by 

extending discretionary protection to 

certain categories of facilities that were 

not licensed as of February 22, 2012; 

however, with limited exception, it 

required that these facilities be licensed 

by the Pre-Auction Licensing Deadline. 

See Expanding the Economic and 

Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum 

Through Incentive Auctions, GN Docket 

No. 12–268, Report and Order, 29 FCC 

Rcd 6567 (2014) (Incentive Auction 

R&O). Although some of the facilities 

that are subject to discretionary 

protection have already been licensed, 

there are still authorized facilities in the 

following categories that remain 

unlicensed at this time including: (1) 

Full power facilities authorized in 

outstanding construction permits issued 

to effectuate a channel substitution for 

a licensed station. This includes 

construction permits for stations seeking 

to relocate from channel 51 pursuant to 

voluntary relocation agreements with 

Lower 700 MHz A Block licensees; (2) 

Modified facilities of full power and 

Class A stations that were authorized by 

construction permits granted on or 

before April 5, 2013, the date of the 

Media Bureau’s Freeze PN, Media 

Bureau Announces Limitations on the 

Filing and Processing of Full Power and 

Class A Television Station Modification 

Applications, Effective Immediately, 

and Reminds Stations of Spectrum Act 

Preservation Mandate, Public Notice, 28 

FCC Rcd 4364 (2013)(Freeze PN), or that 

have been authorized by construction 

permits that were granted after April 5, 

2013 and are in compliance with the 

Freeze PN; and (3) Class A stations’ 

initial digital facilities that were not 

initially licensed until after February 22, 

2012, including those that were not 

authorized until after the Freeze PN. See 

Incentive Auction R&O, 29 FCC Rcd at 

6657–65, paras 198–218. 

Accordingly, all facilities in these 

discretionary protection categories, with 

limited exception for stations affected 

by the destruction of the World Trade 

Center, must be licensed or have an 

application for a license to cover the 

construction permit on file by May 29, 

2015, in order for these facilities to be 

protected in the repacking process. 

Licensees affected by the destruction of 

the World Trade Center may elect to 

protect either their licensed Empire 

State Building facility or a proposed 

new facility at One World Trade Center 

so long as that new facility has been 

applied for and authorized in a 

construction permit granted by the PreAuction Licensing Deadline. See 

Incentive Auction R&O, 29 FCC Rcd at 

6665–66, paras 219–220. Licensees must 

file a letter with the Commission 

making their election no later than May 

29, 2015. A copy of the letter should 

also be emailed to Kevin Harding, 

Associate Division Chief, Video 

Division, Media Bureau at 

kevin.harding@fcc.gov. 

Furthermore, this constitutes notice of 

the last opportunity before the PreAuction Licensing Deadline for all full 

power and Class A licensees to modify 

their licenses to fix errors they have 

made in providing us their operating 

parameters and to have those 

modifications protected in the repacking 

process. Such modifications will be 

protected so long as a modification 

application that complies with the 

Freeze PN is filed and granted, and a 

license to cover application is filed, by 

May 29, 2015. The Media Bureau will 

release a subsequent Public Notice 

listing the facilities licensed by the PreAuction Deadline, as reflected in the 

Commission’s records, and thereby 

eligible for protection in repacking or 

relinquishment in the incentive auction. 

Licensees will be required to certify in 

a Pre-Auction Technical Certification 

Form (FCC Form 2100, Schedule 381) 

that they have reviewed their 

authorization and underlying database 

technical information for their eligible 

facility, and to confirm that all 

information is correct with respect to 

actual operations or identify any 

discrepancies. See 79 FR 72000 (Dec. 4, 

2014). 

We also emphasize that, in order for 

a Class A digital facility to be afforded 

protection in the repacking process, it 

must be licensed by the Pre-Auction 

Licensing Deadline. While Class A 

licensees may wait until the September 

1, 2015, digital transition deadline to 

complete construction and license their 

digital facilities, Amendment of Parts 73 

and 74 of the Commission’s Rules to 

Establish Rules for Digital Low Power 

Television, Television Translator, and 

Television Booster Stations and to 

Amend Rules for Digital Class A 

Television Stations, MB Docket No. 03– 

185, Second Report and Order, 26 FCC 

Rcd 10732, 10753–54, para. 45 

(2011)(LPTV DTV Second R&O), those 

that do not have their digital facilities 

licensed by May 29, 2015, will be 

afforded protection based only on the 

coverage area and population served by 

their analog facilities. The Commission 

also clarified that it was not modifying 

the Class A digital transition deadline. 

See Incentive Auction R&O, 29 FCC Rcd 

at 6664–65, para. 218 and n. 688. Class 

A licensees may still seek a one 

extension of time to complete their 

digital transition facilities by submitting 

an application for extension of 

construction permit by May 1, 2015. See 

LPTV DTV Second R&O, 26 FCC Rcd at 


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10740, para. 15; see also 47 CFR 

74.788(c). Nonetheless, the filing or 

grant of an extension application does 

not relieve Class A stations of the 

requirement that they license their 

digital facilities by the Pre-Auction 

Licensing Deadline in order for those 

facilities to be eligible for protection. 

This action is taken by the Media 

Bureau pursuant to authority delegated 

by 47 CFR 0.283 of the Commission’s 

rules. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Kevin Harding, 

Associate Chief, Video Division, Media 

Bureau. 

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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

Pursuant to the provisions of the 

‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5 

U.S.C. 552b), notice is hereby given that 

at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 12, 

2015, the Board of Directors of the 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

met in closed session to consider 

matters related to the Corporation’s 

supervision, corporate, and resolution 

activities. 

In calling the meeting, the Board 

determined, on motion of Vice 

Chairman Thomas M. Hoenig, seconded 

by Director Jeremiah O. Norton 

(Appointive), concurred in by Director 

Thomas J. Curry (Comptroller of the 

Currency), Director Richard Cordray 

(Director, Consumer Financial 

Protection Bureau), and Chairman 

Martin J. Gruenberg, that Corporation 

business required its consideration of 

the matters which were to be the subject 

of this meeting on less than seven days’ 

notice to the public; that no earlier 

notice of the meeting was practicable; 

that the public interest did not require 

consideration of the matters in a 

meeting open to public observation; and 

that the matters could be considered in 

a closed meeting by authority of 

subsections (c)(4), (c)(6), (c)(8), 

(c)(9)(A)(ii), (c)(9)(B), and (c)(10) of the 

‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), (c)(6), (c)(8), 

(c)(9)(A)(ii), (c)(9)(B), and (c)(10). 

Dated: March 12, 2015. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Valerie J. Best, 

Assistant Executive Secretary. 

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[NOTICE 2015–04] 

Filing Dates for the Mississippi Special 

Elections in the 1st Congressional 

District 

AGENCY: Federal Election Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of filing dates for special 

elections. 

SUMMARY: Mississippi has scheduled a 

Special General Election on May 12, 

2015, to fill the U.S. House of 

Representatives seat held by the late 

Representative Alan Nunnelee. Under 

Mississippi law, a majority winner in a 

nonpartisan special election is declared 

elected. Should no candidate achieve a 

majority vote, a Special Runoff Election 

will be held on June 2, 2015, between 

the top two vote-getters. 

Committees participating in the 

Mississippi special elections are 

required to file pre-and post-election 

reports. Filing dates for these reports are 

affected by whether one or two elections 

are held. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Elizabeth S. Kurland, Information 

Division, 999 E Street NW., Washington, 

DC 20463; Telephone: (202) 694–1100; 

Toll Free (800) 424–9530. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Principal Campaign Committees 

All principal campaign committees of 

candidates who participate in the 

Mississippi Special General and Special 

Runoff Elections shall file a 12-day PreGeneral Report on April 30, 2015; a PreRunoff Report on May 21, 2015; and a 

30-day Post-Runoff Report on July 2, 

2015. 

If only one election is held, all 

principal campaign committees of 

candidates in the Special General 

Election shall file a 12-day Pre-General 

Report on April 30, 2015; and a PostGeneral Report on June 11, 2015. (See 

chart below for the closing date for each 

report). 

Unauthorized Committees (PACs and 

Party Committees) 

Political committees filing on a semiannual basis in 2015 are subject to 

special election reporting if they make 

previously undisclosed contributions or 

expenditures in connection with the 

Mississippi Special General or Special 

Runoff Elections by the close of books 

for the applicable report(s). (See charts 

below for the closing date for each 

report.) 

Committees filing monthly that make 

contributions or expenditures in 

connection with the Mississippi Special 

General or Special Runoff Elections will 

continue to file according to the 

monthly reporting schedule. 

Additional disclosure information in 

connection with the Mississippi Special 

Elections may be found on the FEC Web 

site at http://www.fec.gov/info/report_

dates.shtml. 

Disclosure of Lobbyist Bundling 

Activity 

Principal campaign committees, party 

committees and Leadership PACs that 

are otherwise required to file reports in 

connection with the special elections 

must simultaneously file FEC Form 3L 

if they receive two or more bundled 

contributions from lobbyists/registrants 

or lobbyist/registrant PACs that 

aggregate in excess of $17,600 during 

the special election reporting periods. 

(See charts below for closing date of 

each period.) 11 CFR 104.22(a)(5)(v), (b). 

CALENDAR OF REPORTING DATES FOR MISSISSIPPI SPECIAL ELECTIONS

Report Close of books 1

Reg./cert. & 

overnight 

mailing deadline 

Filing deadline 

If Only the Special General Is Held (05/12/15), Quarterly Filing Committees Involved Must File 

Pre-General ............................................................................................................... 04/22/15 04/27/15 04/30/15 

Post-General .............................................................................................................. 06/01/15 06/11/15 06/11/15 

July Quarterly ............................................................................................................. 06/30/15 07/15/15 07/15/15 

If Only the Special General Is Held (05/12/15), Semi-Annual Filing Committees Involved Must File 

Pre-General ............................................................................................................... 04/22/15 04/27/15 04/30/15 

Post-General .............................................................................................................. 06/01/15 06/11/15 06/11/15 


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