45374 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 151 / Tuesday, August 5, 2008 / Proposed Rules 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 73 

[DA 08–1633; MB Docket No 08–140; RM–

11470] 

Television Broadcasting Services; 

Williston, ND 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Commission requests 

comments on a channel substitution 

proposed by Prairie Public 

Broadcasting, Inc. (‘‘PPB’’), the licensee 

of noncommercial educational station 

KWSE–DT, DTV channel *51, Williston, 

North Dakota. PPB requests the 

substitution of DTV channel *11 for 

channel *51 at Williston. 

DATES: Comments must be filed on or 

before September 4, 2008, and reply 

comments on or before September 19, 

2008. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, Office of the Secretary 445 

12th Street, SW., TW–A325, 

Washington, DC 20554. In addition to 

filing comments with the FCC, 

interested parties should serve counsel 

for petitioner as follows: Margaret L. 

Miller, Esq., Dow Lohnes PLLC, 1200 

New Hampshire Avenue, NW., Suite 

800, Washington, DC 20036. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joyce L. Bernstein, 

joyce.bernstein@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. 

08–1633, adopted July 30, 2008, and 

released July 10, 2008. 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:// 

www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/). (Documents 

will be available electronically in ASCII, 

Word 97, and/or Adobe Acrobat.) 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 e-mail 

www.BCPIWEB.com. To request this 

document in accessible formats 

(computer diskettes, large print, audio 

recording, and Braille), send an e-mail 

to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the 

Commission’s Consumer and 

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 are 

prohibited in Commission proceedings, 

such as this one, which involve channel 

allotments. See 47 CFR 1.1204(b) for 

rules governing permissible ex parte 

contacts. 

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(i) [Amended] 

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

Allotments under North Dakota, is 

amended by adding channel *11 and 

removing channel *51 at Williston. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Clay C. Pendarvis 

Associate Chief, Video Division, Media 

Bureau. 

[FR Doc. E8–17915 Filed 8–4–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 73 

[DA 08–1601; MB Docket No. 08–125; RM–

11457] 

Television Broadcasting Services; 

Scranton, PA 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Commission requests 

comments on a channel substitution 

proposed by Local TV Pennsylvania 

License, LLC (‘‘Local TV’’), the licensee 

of WNEP–DT, DTV channel 49, 

Scranton, Pennsylvania. Local TV 

requests the substitution of DTV 

channel 50 for channel 49 at Scranton. 

DATES: Comments must be filed on or 

before September 4, 2008, and reply 

comments on or before September 19, 

2008. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

445 12th Street, SW., TW–A325, 

Washington, DC 20554. In addition to 

filing comments with the FCC, 

interested parties should serve counsel 

for petitioner as follows: Scott S. 

Patrick, Esq., Dow Lohnes PLLC, 1200 

New Hampshire Avenue, NW., Suite 

800, Washington, DC 20036–68012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Brown, david.brown@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. 

08–125, adopted July 7, 2008, and 

released July 8, 2008. 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:// 

www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/). (Documents 

will be available electronically in ASCII, 

Word 97, and/or Adobe Acrobat.) 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 e-mail 

www.BCPIWEB.com. To request this 

document in accessible formats 

(computer diskettes, large print, audio 

recording, and Braille), send an e-mail 

to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the 

Commission’s Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 

418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432 


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