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OGC-98-76 1 (1998-09-28)

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G   AO         United States
               General Accounting Office
               Washington, D.C. 20548

               Office of the General Counsel


               B-281022



               September 28, 1998

               The Honorable John McCain
               Chairman
               The Honorable Ernest F. Hollings
               Ranking Minority Member
               Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
               United States Senate

               The Honorable Thomas J. Bliley, Jr.
               Chairman
               The Honorable John D. Dingell
               Ranking Minority Member
               Committee on Commerce
               House of Representatives

               Subject: Federal Communications Commission: Implementation of Competitive
                         Bidding for Commercial Broadcast and Instructional Television Fixed
                         Service Licenses

                Pursuant to section 801(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on
                a major rule promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
                entitled Implementation of Competitive Bidding for Commercial Broadcast and
                Instructional Television Fixed Service Licenses (MM Docket No. 97-234, GC Docket
                No. 92-52, and GEN Docket No. 90-264; FCC 98-194). We received the rule on
                August 27, 1998. It was published in the Federal Register as a final rule on
                September 11, 1998. 63 Fed. Reg. 48615.

                The final rule adopts procedures for auctioning pending and future mutually
                exclusive applications for construction permits in the various commercial broadcast
                services and determines that competing Instructional Television Fixed Service
                applications are subject to auction. It also adopts procedures for resolving pending
                broadcast comparative renewal cases, in which the FCC is not authorized to use
                auctions. Finally, the rule adopts a tiered new entrant bidding credit for entities
                with controlling interests in either no, or less than four, other media entities.


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