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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 35 / Wednesday, February 24, 2021 / Rules and Regulations List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 1
Administrative practice and procedure.
Marlene Dortch, Secretary.
Editorial note: This document was received for publication by the Office of the Federal Register on January 4, 2021.

Final Rules For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Federal Communications Commission amends 47 CFR part 1 as follows:
PART 1PRACTICE AND
PROCEDURE
1. The authority citation for part 1
continues to read as follows:

Authority: 47 U.S.C. chs. 2, 5, 9, 13; 28
U.S.C. 2461, unless otherwise noted.

2. Amend 1.1104 by revising the introductory text to read as follows:

1.1104 Schedule of charges for applications and other filings for media services.

Synopsis
Remit payment for these services electronically using the Commissions electronic payment system in accordance with the procedures set forth on the Commissions website, www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees.
The asterisk indicates that multiple stations and multiple fee submissions are acceptable within the same payment.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
47 CFR Parts 1 and 54
GN Docket No. 2032; DA 201361; FRS
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Office of Economics and Analytics and Wireline Competition Bureau Adopt Adjustment Factor Values for the 5G
Fund Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final action.
AGENCY:

In this document, the Office of Economics and Analytics Office and the Wireline Competition Bureau Bureau adopt adjustment factor values for an adjustment factor that will be used in bidding in the 5G Fund auctions and applied to the methodology for disaggregating legacy high-cost support.
DATES: Effective February 24, 2021.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate Matraves, Office of Economics and Analytics, Economic Analysis Division, 202 3916272 or Catherine.Matraves@
fcc.gov, or Nicholas Copeland, Office of Economics and Analytics, Economic Analysis Division, 202 4181025 or Nicholas.Copeland@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commissions 5G Fund Adjustment Values Public Notice in GN
Docket No. 2032, DA 201361, released on November 16, 2020. The full text of this document is available on the Commissions website at https
www.fcc.gov/document/oea-and-wcbadopt-adjustment-factor-values-5g-fund.
To request materials in accessible formats for people with disabilities, send an email to FCC504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at 2024180530 voice, 202
4180432 TTY.
ADDRESSES:

1. The Office of Economics and Analytics Office and the Wireline Competition Bureau Bureau adopt 5G
Fund adjustment factor values to help direct more 5G Fund support to harder to serve areas. Specifically, the values we adopt will increase support levels for bids to serve areas where the terrain elevation variation raises the expected costs of deploying 5G networks, and/or where the business case for 5G
otherwise is likely to be weaker, relative to the support for bids for easier to serve areas. Likewise, the adjustment factor values will also be used in the process of disaggregating legacy high-cost support to account for differences between recipients subsidized service areas. These adjustment factor values will help ensure that additional 5G
Fund support goes to the areas that need it the most.
2. In the 5G Fund NPRM and Order, 85 FR 31636, May 26, 2020, 85 FR
34525, Jun. 5, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission Commission proposed to distribute up to $9 billion in two phases using multiround, descending clock auctions to assign support for the deployment of 5G
service in rural areas. To account for differences in the cost of providing service and business case considerations across eligible areas, the Commission proposed incorporating an adjustment factor into the 5G Fund auctions that would assign a weight to each geographic area, which would be applied to bidding for support amounts to make the areas most difficult to serve
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more attractive to bidders and increase the support to such areas. In addition to incorporating an adjustment factor into the 5G Fund auctions, the Commission proposed to apply this adjustment factor to the methodology for disaggregating legacy high-cost support in the transition to 5G Fund support.
3. Legacy high-cost support is currently provided to a competitive eligible telecommunications carriers entire study area, with no attribution to particular sub-areas within that study area. To illustrate the role of the adjustment factor in the disaggregation of legacy support, consider a hypothetical carrier serving one mountainous census tract and one flat census tract of equal size in its subsidized service area. Such a carrier might require 75% of its support to serve the mountainous tract and 25% to serve the flat tract. Were an unsubsidized carrier to enter the flat tract, which may be more likely given the relatively lower costs in the flat tract, if we did not apply the adjustment factor in calculating disaggregated support, the carrier would lose 50% of its funding and would be unable to continue serving the mountainous tract.
However, applying an adjustment factor of three to the mountainous area would result in the carrier retaining 75% of its original support amount and allow it to continue serving the mountainous tract.
4. On June 5, 2020, the Office and Bureau released the Adjustment Factor Public Notice, 85 FR 36522, Jun. 17, 2020, which sought comment on the proposed adjustment factor values, the three analyses that inform the values, and the application of the adjustment factor to the disaggregation of legacy support.
5. In the 5G Fund Report and Order, 85 FR 75770, Nov. 25, 2020, the Commission adopted its proposal to incorporate an adjustment factor into the 5G Fund auctions that will assign a weight to each geographic area and apply that adjustment factor to bidding for support amounts; this adjustment factor also will be applied to the methodology for disaggregating legacy high-cost support. For a 5G Fund auction, the Commission deferred the final determination of the precise manner in which the adjustment factor will be incorporated into the auction mechanism to the pre-auction process.
We provide herein the adjustment factor values, and we discuss the studies underlying our decision to adopt these values for use in a 5G Fund auction and in the methodology for the disaggregation of legacy high-cost support.

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