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decision until initiation of any judicial 

review or any action to collect the 

penalties and assessments. 

(d) The Attorney General has 

exclusive authority to compromise or 

settle the case while any judicial review 

or any action to recover penalties and 

assessments is pending. 

(e) The investigating official may 

recommend settlement terms to the 

reviewing official, the authority head, or 

the Attorney General, as appropriate. 

§ 1174.44 Limitations regarding criminal 

misconduct. 

(a) Any investigating official may: 

(1) Refer allegations of criminal 

misconduct or a violation of the False 

Claims Act directly to the Department of 

Justice for prosecution and/or civil 

action, as appropriate; 

(2) Defer or postpone a report or 

referral to the reviewing official to avoid 

interference with a criminal 

investigation or prosecution; or 

(3) Issue subpoenas under any other 

statutory authority. 

(b) Nothing in this part limits the 

requirement that the authority’s 

employees must report suspected 

violations of criminal law to the NEH 

Office of the Inspector General or to the 

Attorney General. 

Dated: June 16, 2021. 

Elizabeth Voyatzis, 

Deputy General Counsel, National 

Endowment for the Humanities. 

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47 CFR Part 73 

[MB Docket No. 21–254; RM–11911; DA 21– 

705; FR ID 34373] 

Television Broadcasting Services 

Fredericksburg, Texas 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Commission has before it 

a petition for rulemaking filed by 

Corridor Television, L.L.P. (Petitioner), 

the licensee of KCWX (MyNetwork), 

channel 5, Fredericksburg, Texas. The 

Petitioner requests the substitution of 

channel 8 for channel 5 at 

Fredericksburg in the DTV Table of 

Allotments. 

DATES: Comments must be filed on or 

before July 26, 2021 and reply 

comments on or before August 9, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 45 

L Street NE, Washington, DC 20554. In 

addition to filing comments with the 

FCC, interested parties should serve 

counsel for the Petitioner as follows: 

Jonathan Mark, Esq., Davis Wright 

Tremaine LLP, 1301 K Street NW, Suite 

500 East, Washington, DC 20005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joyce Bernstein, Media Bureau, at (202) 

418–1647 or at Joyce.Bernstein@fcc.gov 

. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In support 

of its channel substitution request, the 

Petitioner states that since it converted 

to digital channel 5 operations in 2009 

it has received numerous complaints 

from the public about poor reception. 

The Petitioner recounts the steps it has 

taken to improve reception on its lowVHF channel, but concludes that it has 

no option to resolve the Station’s 

reception problems other than to move 

from its low-VHF channel 5 to highVHF channel 8. In its Amended 

Engineering Statement, the Petitioner 

proposes to utilize a Distributed 

Transmission System (DTS) facility 

comprised of six single frequency 

network (SFN) nodes, and submitted 

documentation showing that the loss 

areas would continue to be well-served 

by at least five other television stations, 

except an area with only 14 people, a 

number the Commission considers de 

minimis. 

This is a synopsis of the 

Commission’s Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking, MB Docket No. 21–254; 

RM–11911; DA 21–705, adopted June 

16, 2021, and released June 16, 2021. 

The full text of this document is 

available for download at https:// 

www.fcc.gov/edocs. To request materials 

in accessible formats (braille, large 

print, computer diskettes, or audio 

recordings), please send an email to 

FCC504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer & 

Government Affairs Bureau at (202) 

418–0530 (VOICE), (202) 418–0432 

(TTY). 

This document does not contain 

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, 5 U.S.C. 601– 

612, do not apply to this proceeding. 

Members of the public should note 

that all ex parte contacts are prohibited 

from the time a Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking is issued to the time the 

matter is no longer subject to 

Commission consideration or court 

review, see 47 CFR 1.1208. There are, 

however, exceptions to this prohibition, 

which can be found in Section 1.1204(a) 

of the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 

1.1204(a). 

See Sections 1.415 and 1.420 of the 

Commission’s rules for information 

regarding the proper filing procedures 

for comments, 47 CFR 1.415 and 1.420. 

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73 

Television. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Thomas Horan, 

Chief of Staff, Media Bureau. 

Proposed Rule 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Federal Communications 

Commission proposes to amend 47 CFR 

part 73 as follows: 

PART 73 — Radio Broadcast Service 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 73 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 155, 301, 303, 

307, 309, 310, 334, 336, 339. 

■ 2. In § 73.622 in paragraph (i), amend 

the Post-Transition Table of DTV 

Allotments under Texas by revising the 

entry for Fredericksburg to read as 

follows: 

§ 73.622 Digital television table of 

allotments. 

* * * * * 

(i) * * * 

Community Channel No. 

*****

Texas 

*****

Fredericksburg ...................... 8 

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