Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 14 / Friday, January 22, 2010 / Proposed Rules 3695 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 73 

[DA 10–57; MB Docket No. 10–21; RM– 

11590] 

Television Broadcasting Services; 

Birmingham, AL 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Commission has before it 

a petition for rulemaking filed by 

Alabama Educational Television 

Commission (‘‘AETC’’), the licensee of 

noncommercial educational station 

WBIQ (TV), channel *10, Birmingham, 

Alabama. AETC requests the 

substitution of channel *39 for channel 

*10 at Birmingham. 

DATES: Comments must be filed on or 

before February 8, 2010, and reply 

comments on or before February 16, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20554. In addition to filing comments 

with the FCC, interested parties should 

serve counsel for petitioner as follows: 

Barry S. Persh, Esq., Dow Lohnes PLLC, 

1200 New Hampshire Avenue, NW., 

Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Adrienne Y. Denysyk, 

adrienne.denysyk@fcc.gov, Media 

Bureau, (202) 418–1600. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

synopsis of the Commission’s Notice of 

Proposed Rule Making, MB Docket No. 

10–21, adopted January 5, 2010, and 

released January 12, 2010. The full text 

of this document is available for public 

inspection and copying during normal 

business hours in the FCC’s Reference 

Information Center at Portals II, CY– 

A257, 445 12th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20554. This document 

will also be available via ECFS (http:// 

fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/). This document 

may be purchased from the 

Commission’s duplicating contractor, 

Best Copy and Printing, Inc., 445 12th 

Street, SW., Room CY–B402, 

Washington, DC 20554, telephone 1– 

800–478–3160 or via the company’s 

Web site at http://www.BCPIWEB.com. 

To request materials in accessible 

formats for people with disabilities 

(Braille, large print, electronic files, 

audio format), send an e-mail 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 

proposed 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 do not apply to 

this proceeding. Members of the public 

should note that from the time a Notice 

of Proposed Rule Making is issued until 

the matter is no longer subject to 

Commission consideration or court 

review, all ex parte contacts (other than 

ex parte presentations exempt under 47 

CFR 1.1204(a)) are prohibited in 

Commission proceedings, such as this 

one, which involve channel allotments. 

See 47 CFR 1.1208 for rules governing 

restricted proceedings. 

For information regarding proper 

filing procedures for comments, see 47 

CFR 1.415 and 1.420. 

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73 

Television, Television broadcasting. 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Federal Communications 

Commission proposes to amend 47 CFR 

Part 73 as follows: 

PART 73—RADIO BROADCAST 

SERVICES 

1. The authority citation for part 73 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 334, 336. 

§ 73.622 [Amended] 

2. Section 73.622(i), the PostTransition Table of DTV Allotments 

under Alabama, is amended by adding 

channel *39 and removing channel *10 

at Birmingham. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Clay C. Pendarvis, 

Associate Chief, Video Division, Media 

Bureau. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1251 Filed 1–21–10; 8:45 am] 

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