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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 73 

[MB Docket No. 21–152; RM–11899; DA 21– 

701; FR ID 34382] 

Television Broadcasting Services 

Freeport, Illinois 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: On April 14, 2021, the Media 

Bureau, Video Division (Bureau) issued 

a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

(NPRM) in response to a petition for 

rulemaking filed by Gray Television 

Licensee, LLC (Petitioner), requesting 

the allotment of channel 9 to Freeport, 

Illinois in the DTV Table of Allotments 

as the community’s first local service. 

For the reasons set forth in the Report 

and Order referenced below, the Bureau 

amends FCC regulations to allot channel 

9 at Freeport. The newly allotted 

channel will be authorized pursuant to 

the Commission’s competitive bidding 

rules. 

DATES: Effective June 25, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joyce Bernstein, Media Bureau, at (202) 

418–1647 or Joyce.Bernstein@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

proposed rule was published at 86 FR 

21258 on April 23, 2021. The Petitioner 

filed comments in support of the 

petition, as required by the 

Commission’s rules, reaffirming its 

commitment to apply for channel 9 and 

if authorized, to build a station 

promptly. No other comments were 

filed. We believe the public interest 

would be served by allotting channel 9 

at Freeport, Illinois. Freeport (pop. 

25,638) is the county seat and largest 

city in Stephenson County, and clearly 

qualifies for community of license status 

for allotment purposes. In addition, the 

proposal would result in a first local 

service to Freeport; channel 41 at 

Freeport will be deleted since 

WIFR(TV), which previously occupied 

the channel, submitted a winning bid to 

go off the air in the broadcast television 

incentive auction and subsequently 

suspended operations. Moreover, the 

allotment is consistent with the 

minimum geographic spacing 

requirements for new DTV allotments in 

the Commission’s rules, and the 

allotment point complies with the rules 

as the entire community of Freeport is 

encompassed by the 43 dBm contour. 

This is a synopsis of the 

Commission’s Report and Order, MB 

Docket No. 21–152; RM–11899; DA 21– 

701, 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 for 

people with disabilities (braille, large 

print, electronic files, audio format), 

send an email to fcc504@fcc.gov or call 

the Consumer & Governmental 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. 

The Commission will send a copy of 

this Report and Order in a report to be 

sent to Congress and the Government 

Accountability Office pursuant to the 

Congressional Review Act, see 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A). 

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73 

Television. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Thomas Horan, 

Chief of Staff, Media Bureau. 

Final Rule 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Federal Communications 

Commission amends 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 Illinois, by revising 

the entry for ‘‘Freeport’’ to read as 

follows: 

§ 73.622 Digital television table of 

allotments. 

* * * * * 

(i) * * * 

Community Channel No. 

* * * * * 

ILLINOIS 

Community Channel No. 

* * * * * 

Freeport ................................ 9, 41 

* * * * * 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 73 

[MB Docket No. 21–71; RM–11887; DA 21– 

601; FR ID 33925] 

Television Broadcasting Services; 

Hannibal, Missouri; Correction 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission published a document in 

the Federal Register of June 16, 2021, 

concerning a petition for rulemaking 

filed by KHQA Licensee, LLC, licensee 

of KHQA–TV, channel 7, Hannibal, 

Missouri, requesting the substitution of 

UHF channel 22 for VHF channel 7 in 

the DTV Table of Allotments. The 

document contained the incorrect call 

sign of the licensee. The document also 

contained an incomplete email address 

of the contact person. 

DATES: June 25, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joyce Bernstein, Media Bureau, at (202) 

418–1647 or Joyce.Bernstein@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Corrections 

In FR Doc. 2021–12049, published in 

the Federal Register of June 16, 2021, 

appearing on page 31954, the following 

corrections are made: 

1. On page 31954, in the third 

column, correct the SUMMARY caption to 

read: 

SUMMARY: On March 7, 2021, the Media 

Bureau, Video Division (Bureau) issued 

a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in 

response to a petition for rulemaking 

filed by KHQA Licensee, LLC 

(Licensee), the licensee of KHQA–TV, 

channel 7 (CBS), Hannibal, Missouri, 

requesting the substitution of channel 

22 for channel 7 at Hannibal in the DTV 

Table of Allotments. For the reasons set 

forth in the Report and Order referenced 

below, the Bureau amends FCC 

regulations to substitute channel 22 for 

channel 7 at Hannibal. 

2. On page 31955, in the first column, 

correct the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT caption to read: 


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joyce Bernstein, Media Bureau, at (202) 

418–1647 or Joyce.Bernstein@fcc.gov. 

Dated: June 17, 2021. 

Thomas Horan, 

Chief of Staff, Media Bureau. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 648 

[Docket No. 201214–0337] 

RIN 0648–BJ98 

Fisheries of the Northeastern United 

States; Golden Tilefish Fishery; 

Extension of Emergency Action 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; emergency 

action extension. 

SUMMARY: This temporary rule extends 

emergency measures that allow a 

limited one-time carryover of up to 5 

percent of unharvested fishing quota 

from the 2020 fishing year into the 2021 

fishing year. This action is necessary to 

allow the golden tilefish individual 

fishing quota shareholders that were 

eligible for carryover under the 

emergency measures, but have not yet 

fully harvested that carryover, an 

opportunity to use it. This action is 

intended to provide additional time for 

quota shareholders to fully harvest their 

allocations. 

DATES: The expiration date of the 

emergency rule published December 21, 

2020 (85 FR 82944) is extended to 

November 1, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Supplemental 

Information Report prepared for the 

2021–2022 Golden Tilefish 

Specifications and emergency action are 

available from Dr. Christopher M. 

Moore, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council, 800 North 

State Street, Dover, Suite 201, DE 19901. 

These documents are also accessible via 

the internet at http://www.mafmc.org. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Douglas Potts, Fishery Policy Analyst, 

(978) 281–9341. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

At the request of the Mid-Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council, NMFS 

published a final rule on December 21, 

2020 (85 FR 82944) that implemented 

emergency action for the Tilefish 

Fishery Management Plan (FMP) to 

allow a one-time carryover of 

unharvested Individual Fishing Quota 

(IFQ) from fishing year 2020 to 2021, up 

to 5 percent of the original 2020 

allocation. A proposed rule for this 

action was published on November 13, 

2020 (85 FR 72616) with a comment 

period through November 30, 2020. No 

comments were received on the 

emergency action. 

The tilefish IFQ program does not 

normally allow any carryover of 

unharvested allocation from one fishing 

year into the next. Unforeseen changes 

in the market for seafood resulting from 

the COVID–19 pandemic, particularly 

the loss of restaurant sales due to local 

closure orders, substantially reduced 

demand for golden tilefish during the 

2020 fishing year. Because of this 

unprecedented impact on the fishery, 

we implemented this one-time carry 

over under our emergency rulemaking 

authority specified in section 305(c) of 

the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act. 

This action extends this emergency 

action past the current expiration date 

of June 19, 2021, until the start of the 

next golden tilefish fishing year on 

November 1, 2021. This will allow 

tilefish IFQ quota shareholders who 

have not yet had an opportunity to 

harvest the IFQ pounds they carried 

over additional time to take full 

advantage of this opportunity. 

Each IFQ quota shareholder was 

eligible to carry over 2020 golden 

tilefish quota pounds that were not 

harvested before the end of the 2020 

fishing year, up to a maximum amount 

of 5 percent of their initial 2020 quota 

pounds. Of the 10 entities that hold 

quota share in the golden tilefish IFQ 

program, 5 had unharvested quota 

pounds at the end of the 2020 fishing 

year and were able to carry over some 

of those quota pounds into the 2021 

fishing year. Some quota shareholders 

have already harvested their carryover 

while others have not yet taken full 

advantage of this opportunity. 

Extending this emergency action 

ensures that all those who received 

carryover are able to fully benefit from 

these measures. 

NMFS’s policy guidelines for the use 

of emergency rules (62 FR 44421; 

August 21, 1997) specify the following 

three criteria that define what an 

emergency situation is, and justification 

for final rulemaking: (1) The emergency 

results from recent, unforeseen events or 

recently discovered circumstances; (2) 

the emergency presents serious 

conservation or management problems 

in the fishery; and (3) the emergency 

can be addressed through emergency 

regulations for which the immediate 

benefits outweigh the value of advance 

notice, public comment, and 

deliberative consideration of the 

impacts on participants to the same 

extent as would be expected under the 

normal rulemaking process. NMFS’s 

policy guidelines further provide that 

emergency action is justified for certain 

situations where emergency action 

would prevent significant direct 

economic loss, or to preserve a 

significant economic opportunity that 

otherwise might be foregone. As noted 

in the December 21, 2020, final rule, 

NMFS has determined that allowing the 

carryover of unharvested tilefish IFQ 

quota pounds as described above meets 

the three criteria for emergency action. 

Section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens Act specifies that emergency 

regulations may only remain in effect 

for 180 days from the date of 

publication and may be extended for 

one additional period of not more than 

186 days. Extending this action until the 

start of the next fishing year on 

November 1, 2021, would only be 135 

days. 

Classification 

NMFS is issuing this temporary rule 

pursuant to section 305(c) of the 

Magnuson Stevens Act, which 

authorizes NMFS to implement 

regulations at the request of the Council 

to address an emergency in the fishery. 

The Acting Assistant Administrator 

Fisheries, NOAA has determined that 

this rule is consistent with the Tilefish 

FMP, other provisions of the MagnusonStevens Act, and other applicable law. 

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3), the 

Acting Assistant Administrator 

Fisheries, NOAA finds good cause to 

waive the 30-day delay in effectiveness 

for this rule. This rule extends some 

measures of the rule currently in place 

through the end of the current fishing 

year. The need for this extension was 

fully anticipated and announced to the 

public in the initial emergency rule 

which published on December 21, 2020. 

Accordingly, the entities affected by this 

rule and the public have no need to be 

made aware of or adjust to this rule by 

delaying its effectiveness for 30 days. 

The primary reason for delaying the 

effectiveness of Federal regulations is 

not present, and, therefore, such a delay 

would serve no public purpose. It 

would be contrary to the public interest 

if the emergency measures are allowed 

to expire on June 19, 2021, because 

tilefish IFQ quota shareholders could 

lose any remaining carryover granted by 


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