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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 41 / Thursday, March 4, 2021 / Proposed Rules Commercial deliveries other than U.S. Postal Service Express Mail and Priority Mail must be sent to 9050
Junction Dr., Annapolis Junction, MD
20701.
U.S. Postal Service first-class, Express, or Priority mail must be addressed to 45 L Street NE, Washington, DC 20554.
Until further notice, the Commission no longer accepts any hand or messenger delivered filings. This is a temporary measure taken to help protect the health and safety of individuals and to mitigate the transmission of COVID
19.
Email: OMB and MB also request that a copy of all comments and reply comments be submitted electronically to the following address: auction109@
fcc.gov.

and recordkeeping requirements and Volatile organic compounds.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: February 23, 2021.
John Blevins, Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.
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AU Docket No. 2139; DA 21131; FR ID
17492

Auction of AM and FM Broadcast Construction Permits Scheduled for July 27, 2021; Comment Sought on Competitive Bidding Procedures for Auction 109

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule; proposed auction procedures.
AGENCY:

The Office of Economics and Analytics OEA, in conjunction with the Media Bureau MB, announces an auction of certain AM and FM broadcast construction permits. This document seeks comment on minimum opening bid amounts and the procedures to be used in Auction 109.
DATES: Comments are due on or before March 15, 2021, and reply comments are due on or before March 22, 2021.
Bidding in this auction is scheduled to begin July 27, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file comments or reply comments in AU
Docket No. 2139. Comments may be filed using the Commissions Electronic Comment Filing System ECFS or by filing paper copies. All filings in response to the Auction 109 Comment Public Notice must refer to AU Docket No. 2139. The Commission strongly encourages interested parties to file comments electronically.
Electronic Filers: Comments may be filed electronically using the internet by accessing the ECFS at https
www.fcc.gov/ecfs/. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Paper Filers: Parties who choose to file by paper must file an original and one copy of each filing.
Filings in response to the Auction 109 Comment Public Notice can be sent by commercial courier or by the U.S.
Postal Service. All filings must be addressed to the Commissions Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Federal Communications Commission.

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Auction legal questions: Lynne Milne or Lyndsey Grunewald at 202418
0660.
General auction questions: Auctions Hotline at 7173382868.
AM/FM service questions: James Bradshaw or Lisa Scanlan or Tom Nessinger at 202 4182700.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Auction 109 Comment Public Notice, AU Docket No. 2139, DA 21131, released on February 8, 2021. The complete text of the Auction 109 Comment Public Notice, including its attachment, is available on the Commissions website at www.fcc.gov/
auction/109 or by using the search function for AU Docket No. 2139 on the Commissions ECFS web page at www.fcc.gov/ecfs. Alternative formats are available to persons with disabilities by sending an email to FCC504@fcc.gov or by calling the Consumer &
Governmental Affairs Bureau at 202
4180530 voice, 202 4180432
TTY.
I. Introduction 1. By the Auction 109 Comment Public Notice, the Commission announces an auction of four AM
construction permits and 136 FM
construction permits, with bidding to start on July 27, 2021, and seeks comment on the procedures to be used to conduct Auction 109, as well as upon minimum opening bids for the permits.
2. Auction 109 will offer all of the FM
radio permits that were previously included in the inventory for Auction 106, as well as six additional FM
permits. Auction 106 was postponed on March 25, 2020, with no appointed date for resumption, due to the Covid19
pandemic. That auction is now canceled; applications submitted by
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entities seeking to participate in Auction 106 have been dismissed. All applicants wishing to participate in Auction 109, regardless of whether they may have previously filed a short-form application FCC Form 175 for Auction 106, will be required to file a new shortform application to participate in Auction 109. A window for filing shortform applications to participate in Auction 109 will be announced in a subsequent public notice in this proceeding.
II. Construction Permits 3. Auction 109 will offer four AM
construction permits and 136 FM
construction permits. Attachment A to the Auction 109 Comment Public Notice lists each permit to be offered. Under the policies established in the Broadcast Competitive Bidding Order, 63 FR
48615, September 11, 1998, an applicant may apply for any AM construction permit or vacant FM allotment listed in Attachment A to the Auction 109
Comment Public Notice. If two or more short-form applications FCC Form 175
specify the same AM permit or FM
allotment, they will be considered mutually exclusive, mutual exclusivity exists for auction purposes, and the construction permit will be awarded by competitive bidding procedures. Once mutual exclusivity exists for auction purposes, even if only one applicant is qualified to bid for a particular construction permit in Auction 109, that applicant is required to submit a bid in order to obtain the construction permit.
4. AM Construction Permits. Auction 109 will offer four construction permits in the AM broadcast service.
Attachment A to the Auction 109
Comment Public Notice lists the community of license, channel, class, and coordinates for each AM permit being offered.
5. The construction permits to be auction are for four previously licensed AM stations, listed in Attachment A to the Auction 109 Comment Public Notice, the license renewals of which were dismissed with prejudice in a hearing before the Commissions Administrative Law Judge and the call signs deleted.
6. To facilitate the auction of the four AM permits, the four AM facilities will be treated as existing allotments, using the coordinates, AM station frequency and class, and community of license of the respective AM facility as listed in Attachment A to the Auction 109
Comment Public Notice. The Media Bureau has protected these four AM
stations by freezing the filing of any minor modification applications that would be mutually exclusive with the
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