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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 through23 (2020) (3.7 GHz Band Report and 

Order). As a reminder, the Commission decided in 

the 3.7 GHz Band Report and Order that it will no 

longer accept applications for registration and 

licenses for FSS operations in the 3.7–4.0 GHz band 

in the contiguous United States and that it will not 

accept applications for new earth stations in the 

4.0–4.2 GHz band in the contiguous United States 

for the time being, during the C-band transition. 3.7 

GHz Band Report and Order, 35 FCC Rcd at 2407, 

paragraphs. 149 through151. 

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, para. 313. 

4According to RSM, in these cases an 

authorization holder has included in IBFS, in one 

or more callsigns, more C-band receive antennas at 

a site than exist at that site—e.g., 10 antennas 

registered when there are only six antennas at the 

site. 

5For instance, RSM has represented that certain 

antennas on the Incumbent List do not receive in 

the 3.7 GHz band, but are instead antennas 

operating on Ku band or Ka band frequencies. 

6See May 6 RSM filing. The May 6 RSM filing, 

with its attachment, can be found in ECFS. See also 

May 14, 2022, Incumbent Earth Station List, as 

corrected, April 4, 2022, DA 22–266. 

7The May 6 RSM filing also included two 

registrations where RSM represents that the same 

antenna is registered by different entities. As we 

cannot presume which of the two registrations 

available to demonstrate the impacts 

from these tools and resources? 

V. Disclaimer and Important Note 

This RFI is issued solely for 

information, research and planning 

purposes and does not constitute a 

Request for Proposals (RFP) or a Request 

for Applications (RFA). Any 

information obtained as a result of this 

RFI is intended to be used by EPA on 

a non-attribution basis to support EPA’s 

efforts to develop best practices for the 

collection of batteries to be recycled, 

voluntary labeling guidelines for 

batteries, and communication materials 

for battery producers and consumers 

about the reuse and recycling of critical 

materials from batteries. This RFI does 

not constitute a formal solicitation for 

proposals or abstracts. Your response to 

this notice will be treated as information 

only. EPA will review and consider all 

responses in its development of battery 

collection best practices and creation of 

voluntary battery labeling guidelines 

that are the subject of this request. This 

RFI does not represent any award 

commitment on the part of EPA, nor 

does it obligate EPA to pay for costs 

incurred in the preparation and 

submission of any responses. 

Dated: June 3, 2022. 

Carolyn Hoskinson, 

Director, Office of Resource Conservation and 

Recovery. 

[FR Doc. 2022–12459 Filed 6–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[IB Docket No. 20–205; DA 22–518; FR ID 

90583] 

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 

the following notice to operators of 

certain incumbent FSS C-band earth 

station antennas recently reported to the 

Bureau by RSM US LLP (RSM), the Cband Relocation Coordinator, on behalf 

of incumbent C-band 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 

August 10, 2022) 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 Cband 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 August 10, 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 22–518, released May 12, 

2022. 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 IB 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 the relevant 

satellite operators’ transition plans to 

the Commission, and will be 

transitioned to the upper 200 megahertz 

of the band.2 RSM, as the C-band 

Relocation Coordinator, and the satellite 

operators have conducted outreach and 

research to determine whether 

incumbent earth station antennas are 

still operational in the 3.7 GHz band 

and, if so, from which satellite(s) the 

earth station receives its service.3 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. 

In the course of their outreach, the 

satellite operators and RSM have 

identified certain entries on the 

incumbent list that they report include 

antennas that are not active C-band 

antennas in the 3.7 GHz band. 

According to RSM, these entries 

include: (1) C-band antennas that are 

inactive or non-operational, (2) 

authorizations that list more C-band 

antennas than are currently operational 

at a site,4 and (3) operational antennas 

that do not receive in the 3.7 GHz band.5

RSM represents that these earth station 

operators have failed to make filings in 

the FCC’s IBFS to reflect the correct 

status of those antennas. 

On May 6, 2022, RSM submitted a 

letter identifying these individual earth 

station antennas that fall into one of the 

three categories listed above, which are 

included on the latest incumbent earth 

station list and continue to be listed in 

IBFS.6 RSM explains that it compiled 

this group of antennas—which were not 

included in the January 19 PN, July 23 

PN, or September 27 PN—from 

representations made to RSM by the 

satellite operators. We have attached to 

this PN an Appendix listing the 

antennas submitted by RSM that fall 

into the three categories.7


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should be terminated (assuming that the 

registrations are in fact duplicative), we do not 

include those registrations in the attachment to this 

Public Notice and they are not subject to the 90-day 

deadline for response. Following its normal 

processes, the Bureau will, however, follow up with 

the two registrants to determine whether the 

registrations are duplicative and, if so, which 

should be removed from the Incumbent List and 

from IBFS. 

8 47 CFR 25.138(c)(1). See note 4 supra. As noted 

above, note 2 supra, the earth station antennas 

listed in the Appendix hereto do not include those 

that are subject to lump sum elections. Those 

elections may include C-band antennas whose 

operators have decided to discontinue all use of the 

C-band by the end of the C-band transition. 

9 47 CFR 25.161(c). The Bureau has delegated 

authority to enforce the Part 25 rules. 47 CFR 

0.261(a)(15). 

10For the latter two groups of antennas, we note 

that the following rules would apply: (1) section 

25.162(c) and (e) of the Commission’s rules provide 

that the interference protection of a receiving earth 

station is automatically terminated in certain 

circumstances, including when a station has been 

used less than 50% of the time during any 12- 

month period or when actual use of the facility is 

inconsistent with what is in a registrant’s 

application, 47 CFR 25.162(c) & (e), and (2) section 

25.115(b)(8) of the Commission’s rules require earth 

station operators to take the steps necessary to 

remove non-operational antennas from the active 

records in the IBFS, 47 CFR 25.115(b)(8). 

11 In addition to the required filings in IBFS, 

those earth station operators may also make a filing 

in ECFS IB Docket No. 20–205 confirming the 

extent to which they are surrendering callsigns, 

removing antennas, or modifying callsigns in IBFS. 

12Notwithstanding 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 or is 

otherwise ineligible to be considered an incumbent. 

We hereby presume as a factual 

matter, on a rebuttable basis, that earth 

station antennas included in the 

Appendix are not active antennas 

receiving in the 3.7 GHz band, or that 

the C-band earth station antennas 

associated with a given site, as reflected 

on the incumbent list, exceed the actual 

number of such antennas located at that 

site. Absent factual rebuttal from the 

earth station operator by August 10, 

2022, these antennas would not satisfy 

the Commission’s C-band transition 

rules that antennas must be operational 

C-band antennas entitled to interference 

protection in the 3.7 GHz band to 

qualify for incumbent status.8 For 

inactive earth stations, 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.9

Where a registration lists more antennas 

than have been observed to exist at a 

site, the apparently non-existent 

antennas will be deemed never to have 

existed and, accordingly, will fail to 

qualify for incumbent status under the 

C-band transition rules. Similarly, 

antennas that operate in other bands but 

do not receive in the 3.7 GHz band 

would not qualify for incumbent status 

under the C-band transition rules.10

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 appended 

list to make either of two filings no later 

than 90 days after release of this Notice 

(i.e., by August 10, 2022): (1) file to 

correct the IBFS filings for the affected 

antennas,11 or (2) file in ECFS IB Docket 

No. 20–205 affirming that those 

antennas are operational antennas 

receiving in the 3.7 GHz band. 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, how to remove an 

inactive earth station antenna from a 

Callsign that includes other operational 

earth station antennas, or how to modify 

its Callsign to accurately reflect the 

bands used by an antenna. 

Earth station operators with earth 

station antenna(s) on the attached list 

that do not respond by August 10, 2022, 

affirming operation of the identified 

earth station antennas in the 3.7 GHz 

band 12 will be deemed, based on the 

above presumptions, to have had either 

their authorizations to use the 3.7 GHz 

band for those antennas or their 

interference protection in the use of the 

3.7 GHz band automatically terminated 

by rule. In those cases, the Bureau also 

will, as needed, terminate in IBFS those 

portions of the authorizations relating to 

the 3.7 GHz band and/or make changes 

in IBFS necessary to accurately reflect 

actual use of and interference protection 

for the relevant facilities. In addition, 

the Bureau will correct the incumbent 

earth station list by removing 

terminated earth station antennas and 

amending the list to no longer include 

any antennas in the list that are not 

operational C-band antennas, including 

over-registered antennas or antennas 

receiving in bands other than the 3.7 

GHz band. Protection from interference 

from the network deployments of new 

wireless licenses and eligibility for 

reimbursement of any transition costs, 

including the cost of any filters, will be 

limited to those earth station antennas 

on the updated list. 

Incumbent earth station operators 

who need to provide additional 

information to avoid harmful 

interference. As a reminder, while not 

subject to 90-days’ notice, earth station 

operators that have not provided the 

necessary information to the Relocation 

Coordinator or satellite operators may 

not be successfully transitioned before 

terrestrial wireless licensees initiate 

service in the band. 

Unless those earth station operators 

provide the necessary information, they 

will risk losing their rights to receive 

relocation assistance prior to the 

initiation of service in the band by the 

incoming terrestrial wireless licensees, 

as well as any rights to operate in the 

lower C-band at their current locations 

free of harmful interference that may 

occur as these licensees deploy their 

networks. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Troy Tanner, 

Deputy Chief, International Bureau. 

[FR Doc. 2022–12390 Filed 6–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[IB Docket No. 16–185; DA 22–598; FRS 

90561] 

Informal Working Group-1, Informal 

Working Group-2, Informal Working 

Group-3, and Informal Working Group4 of the World Radiocommunication 

Conference Advisory Committee 

Schedule Their Meetings 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice advises interested 

persons that Informal Working Group 1 

(IWG–1), Informal Working Group 2 

(IWG–2,) Informal Working Group 3 

(IWG–3, and Informal Working Group 4 

(IWG–4) of the 2023 World 

Radiocommunication Conference 

Advisory Committee (WRC–23 Advisory 

Committee) have scheduled meetings as 

set forth below. The meetings are open 

to the public. 

DATES: IWG–1: Friday, June 17, 2022 

(10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT); IWG–2: 

Friday, June 17, 2022 (1:00 p.m.–3:00 

p.m. EDT); IWG–3: Tuesday, June 21, 

2022 (10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT); 

IWG–4: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 (1:00 

p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT); IWG–1: Tuesday, 

July 5, 2022 (10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. 

EDT); IWG–2: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 

(1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT); IWG–3: 

Thursday, July 14, 2022 (10:00 a.m.– 

12:00 p.m. EDT); IWG–4: Thursday, July 

14, 2022 (1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT); 

IWG–1: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 (10:00 

a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT); IWG–2: Tuesday, 

August 2, 2022 (1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. 

EDT); IWG–1: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 

(10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT); IWG–2: 

Tuesday, August 9, 2022 (1:00 p.m.– 

3:00 p.m. EDT); IWG–3: Thursday, 


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