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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 19 / Monday, February 1, 2021 / Proposed Rules 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 COVID19.
See FCC Announces Closure of FCC
Headquarters Open Window and Change in Hand-Delivery Policy, Public Notice, DA 20304 March 19, 2020.
https www.fcc.gov/document/fcccloses-headquarters-open-window-andchanges-hand-delivery-policy.
Persons with Disabilities. To request 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 & Governmental Affairs Bureau at 2024180530 voice or 202
4180432 TTY.
Ex Parte Presentations The Commission will treat this proceeding as a permit-but-disclose proceeding in accordance with the Commissions ex parte rules. Persons making ex parte presentations must file a copy of any written presentation or a memorandum summarizing any oral presentation within two business days after the presentation unless a different deadline applicable to the Sunshine period applies. Persons making oral ex parte presentations are reminded that memoranda summarizing the presentation must 1 list all persons attending or otherwise participating in the meeting at which the ex parte presentation was made, and 2
summarize all data presented and arguments made during the presentation. If the presentation consisted in whole or in part of the presentation of data or arguments already reflected in the presenters written comments, memoranda or other filings in the proceeding, the presenter may provide citations to such data or arguments in his or her prior comments, memoranda, or other filings specifying the relevant page and/or paragraph numbers where such data or arguments can be found in lieu of summarizing them in the memorandum. Documents shown or given to Commission staff during ex parte meetings are deemed to be written ex parte presentations and must be filed consistent with rule 1.1206b. In proceedings governed by rule 1.49f or for which the Commission has made available a method of electronic filing, written ex parte presentations and memoranda summarizing oral ex parte presentations, and all attachments thereto, must be filed through the electronic comment filing system available for that proceeding, and must be filed in their native format e.g., .doc,
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.xml, .ppt, searchable .pdf. Participants in this proceeding should familiarize themselves with the Commissions ex parte rules.
Paperwork Reduction Act This document contains proposed new and modified information collection requirements. The Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, invites the general public and the Office of Management and Budget to comment on the information collection requirements contained in this document, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. In addition, pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, we specifically seek comment on how we might further reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis.
As required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 RFA 1 the Commission has prepared an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis IRFA
relating to this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
Synopsis In this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the Commission considers permitting use of the 17.317.7 GHz band by GSO space stations operating in the FSS, which would increase intensive and efficient use of the band and provide additional downlink capacity for high-throughput satellite communications.
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking In this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Notice, we propose to permit use of the 17.317.7 GHz band by geostationary satellite orbit GSO
space stations in the fixed-satellite service FSS in the space-to-Earth direction on a co-primary basis with incumbent services. We also propose to permit limited GSO FSS space-to-Earth use of the 17.717.8 GHz band on a nonprotected basis with respect to fixed service operations. Permitting use of the 17.317.8 GHz band to include FSS
downlinks would increase intensive and efficient use of the band and provide additional downlink capacity for highthroughput satellite communications.
With appropriate technical safeguards proposed herein, permitting the use of 1 See 5 U.S.C. 603. The RFA, see 5 U.S.C. 601
612, has been amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996
SBREFA, Public Law 104121, Title II, 110 Stat.
847 1996. The SBREFA was enacted as Title II of the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996 CWAAA.

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this band for GSO FSS downlink services would facilitate deployment of advanced satellite systems for the benefit of American consumers.
We propose to define an extended Kaband in our rules, i.e., the 17.318.3
GHz space-to-Earth, 18.819.4 GHz space-to-Earth, 19.619.7 GHz spaceto-Earth, 27.528.35 GHz Earth-tospace and 28.629.1 GHz Earth-tospace bands. We further propose to apply certain uplink power limits currently applicable to GSO FSS
transmissions in the conventional Kaband to GSO FSS uplink transmissions in the extended Ka-band. If adopted, these power limits will allow us to streamline licensing of FSS earth stations and will result in a closely harmonized regulatory framework for all similar FSS uplink transmissions in the conventional and extended Ka-bands.2
The proposals herein, if adopted with appropriate safeguards, would result in efficient and effective use of the spectrum, alleviate the growing need for additional Ka-band GSO FSS downlink spectrum to support communications to gateway earth stations, and further streamline the licensing process of certain satellite systems.3
Current Allocations and Use of the 17.317.8 GHz Band The Table of Frequency Allocations is comprised of the International Table and the United States Table of Frequency Allocations U.S. Table. In the International Table, the 17.317.7
GHz band is allocated, in the International Telecommunication Union ITU Region 2, to the FSS Earth-tospace and to the broadcasting-satellite service BSS on a co-primary basis, as well as to the radiolocation service on a secondary basis.4 In the U.S. Table, 2 The term Ka-band generally refers to the space-to-Earth downlink frequencies at 17.70
20.20 GHz and the corresponding Earth-to-space uplink frequencies at 27.5030.00 GHz. See Establishment of Policies and Service rules for the Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit, Fixed Satellite Service in the Ka-Band, IB Docket No. 0219, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 17 FCC Rcd 2807, n.1
2002. See also IEEE Standard 5212019 https
www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/
frequency-letter-bands.
3 By initiating this rulemaking proceeding, we also grant, to the extent discussed herein, the petition for rulemaking filed by SES Americom, Inc.
SES requesting that the Commission initiates a proceeding to authorize GSO FSS operations in the space-to-Earth direction using the 17.317.7 GHz frequencies. See Petition for Rulemaking of SES
Americom, Inc., RM11839, at 1 filed Mar. 5, 2019, https ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/
103051358025155/Petition%20for%20
Rulemaking%20for%2017%20GHz%20
FSS%20Mar%205%202019.pdf SES Petition.
4 Footnote 5.516 further limits use of the band by the FSS to feeder links for the BSS and in ITU
Region 2 to geostationary satellite orbit GSO

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