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1See Expanding Flexible Use of the 3.7 to 4.2 

GHz Band, Report and Order and Order of Proposed 

Modification, 35 FCC Rcd 2343, 2391, paragraphs 

116 through 123 (2020) (3.7 GHz Band Report and 

Order). 

2 47 CFR 27.1412(d) (transition plan 

requirements). The satellite operators also file 

quarterly status reports in GN Docket No. 20–173. 

47 CFR 27.1412(f). 

3 3.7 GHz Band Report and Order, 35 FCC Rcd 

2343, 2460, paragraph 313. 

4See International Bureau Identifies Inactive CBand Incumbent Earth Station Antennas and 

Unresponsive C-Band Incumbent Earth Station 

Operators, Public Notice, DA 21–81 (rel. Jan. 19, 

2021). 

5See International Bureau Releases Updated List 

of Incumbent Earth Stations in the 3.7–4.2 GHz 

Band in the Contiguous United States, Public 

Notice, DA 21–731, IB Docket No. 20–205 (rel. June 

22, 2021) (June 22, 2021, Incumbent Earth Station 

List) for the current incumbent earth station list and 

an explanation of the criteria applied to be included 

on the list. 

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accompanied, the canceled products. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. 

Dated: August 20, 2021. 

Catherine Aubee, 

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of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18490 Filed 8–26–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[IB Docket No. 20–205; DA 21–893; FR ID 

43422] 

Notice of 90-Day Period To Submit 

Affirmation of Operational Status of 

Identified Earth Station Antennas To 

Avoid Losing Incumbent Status or File 

To Remove Identified Antennas From 

IBFS if No Longer Operational 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

International Bureau (Bureau) provides 

notice to certain incumbent earth station 

operators in the 3700–4200 MHz 

frequency band of 90-day period to 

submit affirmation of operational status 

of identified earth station antennas to 

avoid losing incumbent status or file to 

remove identified antennas from IBFS if 

no longer operational. Specifically, IB 

provides the following notice to 

operators of certain incumbent FSS Cband earth station antennas recently 

reported to the Bureau by RSM US LLP 

(RSM), the C-band Relocation 

Coordinator, on behalf of incumbent Cband satellite operators: Failure to 

submit a filing to the Bureau by no later 

than 90 days after the release of the 

Bureau’s Public Notice (i.e., by October 

21, 2021) affirming the continued 

operation of the earth station antennas 

reported to the Bureau as inactive and 

the intent to participate in the C-band 

transition will result in a Bureau 

announcement that those authorizations 

identified as inactive in the Appendix 

attached to the Bureau’s Public Notice 

have automatically terminated by 

operation of rule, and that those 

authorizations will be terminated in 

IBFS and removed from the incumbent 

earth station list. According to RSM, 

each antenna included in the Appendix 

to the Bureau’s Public Notice was 

reported by their earth station operator 

to RSM or a satellite operator as no 

longer receiving service from a C-band 

satellite even though the FCC’s 

International Bureau Filing System 

(IBFS) continues to include the antenna 

as active. 

DATES: Identified earth station operators 

must provide notice of operational 

status by October 21, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kerry Murray, International Bureau, 

Satellite Division, at (202) 418–0734, 

Kerry.Murray@fcc.gov or IBFSINFO@

fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s 

document, DA 21–893, released July 23, 

2021. The full text of this document, 

along with the Appendix identifying the 

specific earth station antennas subject to 

automatic termination, is available for 

public inspection and can be 

downloaded at https://www.fcc.gov/ 

document/ib-identifies-inactive-c-bandincumbent-earth-station-antennas or by 

using the search function for Docket No. 

20–205 on the Commission’s ECFS page 

at www.fcc.gov/ecfs. 

Background. Under the Commission’s 

3.7 GHz Band Report and Order, RSM 

is responsible for coordinating with the 

five incumbent C-band satellite 

operators—Eutelsat, Intelsat, SES, 

StarOne, and Telesat—to ensure that all 

incumbent earth stations are accounted 

for in the transition.1 The overwhelming 

majority of incumbent earth stations 

have been claimed by the satellite 

operator(s) from which they receive 

service, included in their transition 

plans to the Commission, and will be 

transitioned to the upper 200 megahertz 

of the band.2 In other cases, RSM, as the 

C-band Relocation Coordinator, has 

conducted outreach and research to 

determine whether the earth station is 

still active and, if so, from which 

satellite(s) the earth station receives its 

service.3 In the course of their outreach, 

the satellite operators and RSM have 

identified certain antennas as inactive. 

The inactive status of some of these 

antennas has been confirmed when the 

relevant earth station operators filed 

with the Bureau to close out those 

antennas in IBFS. For the rest of these 

inactive antennas, their earth station 

operators reported to the satellite 

operators (according to RSM) that these 

antennas were no longer being used 

(even though in these cases their earth 

station operators failed to make the 

requisite discontinuance filings with the 

FCC in order to close out those antennas 

in IBFS). RSM has advised the 

Commission that it and the incumbent 

satellite operators regularly share the 

results of their respective outreach 

efforts to better coordinate the transition 

of incumbent earth stations. 

On January 19, 2021, the Bureau 

released a Public Notice that provided 

notice to those incumbent earth station 

operators that RSM reported in a 

January 14, 2021 filing as inactive, that 

such earth station operators had 90 

days, until April 19, 2021, to respond in 

the Electronic Comment Filing System 

(ECFS) or their registrations would be 

automatically terminated and they 

would be removed from the incumbent 

earth station list.4 The Public Notice 

released on January 19, 2021 also 

provided such 90-day notice to a small 

group of ‘‘unresponsive’’ (or, in terms 

used in the January 14 RSM filing from 

which these operators were drawn, 

‘‘unable to reach’’) incumbent earth 

station operators about their antennas. 

Such ‘‘unresponsive’’ stations were all 

incumbent earth stations that (a) had not 

been claimed by any of the five 

incumbent C-band satellite operators 

and, therefore, were not included in any 

of the satellite operator Transition 

Plans, and (b) had failed to respond to 

any outreach efforts from the very 

beginning of those efforts. The 

registrations of earth stations that failed 

to respond have been terminated in 

IBFS and those registrations have been 

removed from the incumbent earth 

station list.5

On July 14, 2021, RSM submitted a 

letter identifying an additional group of 

individual earth station antennas as no 

longer operational at the location 

provided in the latest incumbent earth 

station list, even though these antennas 

continue to be listed in IBFS. The July 

14 RSM filing, with its attachment, can 

be found in ECFS. RSM explains that it 

compiled this group of antennas— 

which were not included in the Public 

Notice released on January 19, 2021— 

from affirmative representations made 

to RSM or the satellite operators by the 


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6 47 CFR 25.161(c). The Bureau has delegated 

authority to enforce the Part 25 rules. 47 CFR 

0.261(a)(15). 

7 47 CFR 25.115(b)(8). 

8 47 CFR 25.138(c)(1). 

antennas’ earth station operators. We 

have attached to DA 21–893 an 

Appendix listing this group of antennas. 

We hereby presume, on a rebuttable 

basis, that earth station antennas 

included in the Appendix attached to 

DA 21–893 are no longer operational. 

Section 25.161(c) of the Commission’s 

rules provides that an earth station 

authorization is automatically 

terminated if the station is not 

operational for more than 90 days.6 We 

also note that the Commission’s rules 

require earth station operators to take 

the steps necessary to remove nonoperational antennas from the active 

records in the IBFS.7 Moreover, under 

the Commission’s rules, antennas must 

continue to be operational to qualify for 

incumbent status.8

Incumbent earth station operators 

who need to affirm the continued 

operation of the identified earth station 

antennas. We direct earth station 

operators with incumbent earth station 

antennas that appear on the inactive list 

appended to DA 21–893 to make either 

of two filings no later than 90 days after 

release of this Notice (i.e., by October 

21, 2021): (1) File to remove those 

antennas from IBFS as no longer 

operational as required by Commission 

rule and optionally make a filing in 

ECFS IB Docket No. 20–205 confirming 

the extent to which they are 

surrendering or removing antennas in 

IBFS, or (2) file in ECFS IB Docket No. 

20–205 affirming that those antennas are 

still operational. An earth station 

operator may contact Bureau staff at 

IBFSINFO@fcc.gov if it has questions 

about the above or if it needs 

instructions on how to surrender entire 

Callsigns in IBFS or how to remove an 

inactive earth station antenna from a 

Callsign that includes other operational 

earth station antennas. 

Earth station operators with earth 

station antenna(s) on the inactive list in 

the Appendix to DA 21–893 that do not 

respond by October 21, 2021, affirming 

the continued operation of the 

identified earth station antennas will be 

deemed to have had the authorizations 

for those antennas automatically 

terminated by rule. Those 

authorizations will be terminated in 

IBFS, i.e., the IBFS records for those 

antennas will be shown with a 

terminated status. Such terminated 

earth stations will also be removed from 

the incumbent earth station list and will 

not be entitled to protection from 

interference from the network 

deployments of new wireless licenses or 

be eligible for reimbursement of any 

transition costs, including the cost of 

any filters, that those earth stations may 

decide to incur. Of course, 

notwithstanding an affirmation of 

continued operation, the Bureau retains 

the authority to eliminate an earth 

station antenna’s incumbent status if the 

Bureau receives additional evidence 

that the antenna has failed to satisfy 

applicable requirements for maintaining 

operation. 

Incumbent earth station operators 

who need to provide additional 

information to avoid harmful 

interference. Apart from the foregoing 

group of earth station operators for 

which RSM received affirmative 

representations of nonoperational 

status, in the July 14 RSM filing, RSM 

separately reported that it had identified 

a limited number of incumbent earth 

station operators with which it has been 

able to establish contact but has not 

been able to get enough information 

from the earth station operator for it to 

be included in a satellite operator 

transition plan or for RSM to conclude 

that the earth station is in fact 

participating in the transition process. 

Further outreach by RSM with the earth 

station operator has not been successful. 

Such earth station operators that do 

not provide the necessary information to 

the Relocation Coordinator or satellite 

operators may not be successfully 

transitioned before terrestrial wireless 

licensees initiate service in the band 

and, as a result, such earth station 

operators may experience harmful 

interference at their facilities as 

terrestrial wireless licensees deploy 

their networks. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Troy Tanner, 

Deputy Chief, International Bureau. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18532 Filed 8–26–21; 8:45 am] 

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[FR ID 44726] 

Ending 9–1–1 Fee Diversion Now 

Strike Force; Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, the 

Federal Communications Commission 

(Commission) announces and provides a 

preliminary agenda for the third 

meeting of the ‘‘Ending 9–1–1 Fee 

Diversion Now Strike Force’’ (911 Strike 

Force). 

DATES: Friday, September 17, 2021, 

beginning at 10 a.m. EDT. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, 45 L Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

A. Evanoff, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), Federal Communications 

Commission, Public Safety and 

Homeland Security Bureau, (202) 418– 

0848; or Jill Coogan, Deputy Designated 

Federal Officer (DDFO), Federal 

Communications Commission, Public 

Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, 

(202) 418–1499; or email: 

911StrikeForce@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposed 

Agenda: The agenda for the September 

17, 2021 meeting will include 

presentations summarizing the 

recommendations and report of the 911 

Strike Force and its working groups, and 

voting by the 911 Strike Force on the 

recommendations and report. This 

agenda may be modified at the 

discretion of the 911 Strike Force Chair 

and the DFO. 

The September 17, 2021 meeting will 

be held in a wholly electronic format to 

accommodate continuing public health 

precautions related to the coronavirus 

(COVID–19) pandemic. The September 

17, 2021 meeting will be open to 

members of the general public via live 

broadcast over the internet from the FCC 

Live web page at http://www.fcc.gov/ 

live/. The public may also follow the 

meeting on Twitter@fcc or via the 

Commission’s Facebook page at 

www.facebook.com/fcc. Members of the 

public may submit any questions that 

arise during the meeting to 

livequestions@fcc.gov. 

Open captioning will be provided for 

the live stream. Other reasonable 

accommodations for people with 

disabilities are available upon request. 

To request an accommodation, or for 

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 and Governmental Affairs 

Bureau at (202) 418–0530 (voice), (202) 

418–0432 (TTY). Such requests should 

include a detailed description of the 

accommodation needed. In addition, 

please include a way for the 

Commission to contact the requester if 

more information is needed to fulfill the 

request. Please allow at least five days’ 

advance notice; last-minute requests 

will be accepted but may not be possible 

to accommodate. 


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