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(ii) The reduced rated load for the
specific job.
(g) Static drop tests. The applicants
must/would:
(i) Conduct static drop tests of each
personnel cage that comply with the
definition of ‘‘static drop test’’ specified
by section 3 (‘‘Definitions’’) and the
static drop-test procedures provided in
section 13 (‘‘Inspections and Tests’’) of
American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) standard A10.22–1990 (R1998)
(‘‘American National Standard for RopeGuided and Nonguided Worker’s
Hoists—Safety Requirements’’);
(ii) Perform the initial static drop test
at 125 percent of the maximum rated
load of the personnel cage, and
subsequent drop tests at no less than
100 percent of its maximum rated load;
and
(iii) Use a personnel cage for raising
or lowering employees only when no
damage occurred to the components of
the cage as a result of the static drop
tests.
11. Safety Clamps
(a) Fit to the guide ropes. The
applicants must/would:
(i) Fit appropriately designed and
constructed safety clamps to the guide
ropes; and
(ii) Ensure that the safety clamps do
not damage the guide ropes when in
use.
(b) Attach to the personnel cage. The
applicants must/would attach safety
clamps to each personnel cage for
gripping the guide ropes.
(c) Operation. The applicants must/
would ensure that the safety clamps
attached to the personnel cage:
(i) Operate on the ‘‘broken rope
principle’’ defined in section 3
(‘‘Definitions’’) of ANSI standard
A10.22–1990 (R1998);
(ii) Be capable of stopping and
holding a personnel cage that is carrying
100 percent of its maximum rated load
and traveling at its maximum allowable
speed if the hoist rope breaks at the
footblock; and
(iii) Use a pre-determined and pre-set
clamping force (i.e., the ‘‘spring
compression force’’) for each hoist
system.
(d) Maintenance. The applicants
must/would keep the safety-clamp
assemblies clean and functional at all
times.
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12. Overhead Protection
(a) The applicants must/would install
a canopy or shield over the top of the
personnel cage that is made of steel
plate at least three-sixteenth (3⁄16) of an
inch (4.763 mm) thick, or material of
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resistance, to protect employees (i.e.,
both inside and outside the chimney)
from material and debris that may fall
from above.
(b) The applicants must/would ensure
that the canopy or shield slopes to the
outside of the personnel cage.8
to a weight at the bottom of the
chimney, and that the employees’
lanyards are attached to the lifeline
during the entire period of vertical
transit.
13. Emergency-Escape Device
(a) Location. The applicants must/
would provide an emergency-escape
device in at least one of the following
locations:
(i) In the personnel cage, provided
that the device is long enough to reach
the bottom landing from the highest
possible escape point; or
(ii) At the bottom landing, provided
that a means is available in the
personnel cage for the occupants to raise
the device to the highest possible escape
point.
(b) Operating instructions. The
applicants must/would ensure that
written instructions for operating the
emergency-escape device are attached to
the device.
(c) Training. The applicants must/
would instruct each employee who uses
a personnel cage for transportation on
how to operate the emergency-escape
device:
(i) Before the employee uses a
personnel cage for transportation; and
(ii) Periodically, and as necessary,
thereafter.
(a) The applicants must/would:
(i) Conduct inspections of the hoist
system as required by 29 CFR
1926.20(b)(2);
(ii) Ensure that a competent person
conducts daily visual inspections of the
hoist system; and
(iii) Inspect and test the hoist system
as specified by 29 CFR 1926.552(c)(15).
(b) The applicants must/would
comply with the accident-prevention
requirements of 29 CFR 1926.20(b)(3).
14. Personnel Platforms and FallProtection Equipment
(a) Personnel platforms. When the
applicants elect to replace the personnel
cage with a personnel platform in
accordance with Condition 2(a) above,
they must/would:
(i) Ensure that an enclosure surrounds
the platform, and that this enclosure is
at least 42 inches (106.7 cm) above the
platform’s floor;
(ii) Provide overhead protection when
an overhead hazard is, or could be,
present; and
(iii) Comply with the applicable
scaffolding strength requirements
specified by 29 CFR 1926.451(a)(1).
(b) Fall-protection equipment. Before
employees use work platforms or
boatswains’ chairs, the applicants must/
would:
(i) Equip the employees with, and
ensure that they use, full-body
harnesses, lanyards, and lifelines as
specified by 29 CFR 1926.104 and the
applicable requirements of 29 CFR
1926.502(d); and
(ii) Ensure that employees secure the
lifelines to the top of the chimney and
8 Paragraphs (a) and (b) were adapted from
OSHA’s Underground Construction Standard (29
CFR 1926.800(t)(4)(iv)).
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15. Inspections, Tests, and Accident
Prevention
16. Welding
(a) The applicants must/would ensure
that only qualified welders weld
components of the hoisting system.
(b) The applicants must/would ensure
that the qualified welders:
(i) Are familiar with the weld grades,
types, and materials specified in the
design of the system; and
(ii) Perform the welding tasks in
accordance with 29 CFR part 1926,
subpart J (‘‘Welding and Cutting’’).
VII. Authority and Signature
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health, U.S. Department of
Labor, 200 Constitution Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC directed the
preparation of this notice. This notice is
issued under the authority specified by
Section 6(d) of the Occupational Safety
and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 655),
Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 5–2002
(67 FR 65008), and 29 CFR part 1905.
Signed at Washington, DC, on February 2,
2007.
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Office
[Docket No. 2007–1]
Cable Compulsory License: Specialty
Station List
Copyright Office, Library of
Congress.
ACTION: Request for information.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Copyright Office is
compiling a new specialty station list to
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identify commercial television
broadcast stations which, according to
their owners, qualify as specialty
stations for purposes of the former
distant signal carriage rules of the
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC). The list has been periodically
updated to reflect an accurate listing of
specialty stations. To that end, the
Copyright Office is again requesting all
interested owners of television
broadcast stations that qualify as
specialty stations, including those that
previously filed affidavits, to submit
sworn affidavits to the Copyright Office
stating that the programming of their
stations meets the requirements
specified under the FCC regulations in
effect on June 24, 1981.
DATES: Affidavits should be received on
or before April 9, 2007.
ADDRESSES: If hand delivered by a
private party, the sworn affidavit should
be brought to Library of Congress, U.S.
Copyright Office, 2221 S. Clark Street,
11th Floor, Arlington, VA 22202,
between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. The
material should be addressed as follows:
Office of the General Counsel, U.S.
Copyright Office.
If delivered by a commercial courier,
the sworn affidavit must be delivered to
the Congressional Courier Acceptance
Site (‘‘CCAS’’) located at 2nd and D
Streets, NE, Washington, DC between
8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. The material
should be addressed as follows: Office
of the General Counsel, U.S. Copyright
Office, LM–401, James Madison
Building, 101 Independence Avenue,
SE, Washington, DC. Please note that
CCAS will not accept delivery by means
of overnight delivery services such as
Federal Express, United Parcel Service
or DHL.
If sent by mail (including overnight
delivery using U.S. Postal Service
Express Mail), the sworn affidavit
should be addressed to U.S. Copyright
Office, Copyright I&R/GC, P.O. Box
70400, Southwest Station, Washington,
DC 20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tanya M. Sandros, Acting General
Counsel, P.O. Box 70977, Southwest
Station, Washington, DC 20024–0977.
Telephone: (202) 707–8380. Telefax:
(202) 252–3423.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
What is a Specialty Station?
The FCC regulations in effect on June
24, 1981, defined a specialty station as
‘‘a commercial television broadcast
station that generally carries foreign–
language, religious, and/or automated
programming in one–third of the hours
of an average broadcast week and one–
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third of the weekly prime–time hours.’’
47 CFR 76.5(kk) (1981).
How Often Has the Copyright Office
Published Specialty Station Lists?
How is a Station Deemed To Be a
Specialty Station?1
The Copyright Office compiled and
published its first specialty station list
in 1990, together with an announcement
of its intention to update the list
approximately every three years in order
to maintain as current a list as possible.
55 FR 40021 (October 1, 1990). Its
second list was published in 1995. 60
FR 34303 (June 30, 1995). Its third list
was published in 1998. 63 FR 67703
(December 8, 1998). With this notice,
the Copyright Office is initiating the
procedure for the compilation and
publication of the fourth specialty
station list.
Under a procedure adopted by the
Copyright Office in 1989, see 54 FR
38461 (September 18, 1989), an owner
or licensee of a broadcast station files a
sworn affidavit attesting that the
station’s programming comports with
the 1981 FCC definition, and hence,
qualifies as a specialty station. A list of
the stations filing affidavits is then
published in the Federal Register in
order to allow any interested party to
file an objection to an owner’s claim of
specialty station status for the listed
station. Once the period to file
objections closes, the Office publishes a
final list which includes references to
the specific objections filed against a
particular station owner’s claim. In
addition, affidavits that are submitted
after the close of the filing period are
accepted and kept on file at the
Copyright Office.
The staff of the Copyright Office,
however, does not verify the specialty
station status of any station listed in an
affidavit.
Why Would a Broadcast Station Seek
Specialty Station Status?
Specialty station status is significant
in the administration of the cable
compulsory license. 17 U.S.C. 111. The
licensing system indirectly allows a
cable operator to carry the signal of a
television station classified as a
specialty station at the base rate for
‘‘permitted’’’ signals. See 49 FR 14944
(April 16, 1984); 37 CFR 256.2(c).
How Does the Staff of the Copyright
Office Use the List?
Copyright Office licensing examiners
refer to the final annotated list in
examining a statement of account in the
case where a cable system operator
claims that a particular station is a
specialty station. If a cable system
operator claims specialty station status
for a station not on the final list, its
classification as a specialty station will
be questioned unless the examiner
determines that the owner of the station
has filed an affidavit since publication
of the list.
1Originally, the FCC identified whether a station
qualified as a specialty station, but after it deleted
its distant signal carriage rules, it discontinued this
practice. See Malrite T.V. of New York v. FCC, 652
F2d 1140 (2d Cir. 1981), cert. denied, 454 U.S. 1143
(1982).
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Does This Notice Require Action on the
Part of an Owner of a Television
Broadcast Station?
Yes, we are requesting that the owner,
or a valid agent of the owner, of any
eligible television broadcast station
submit an affidavit to the Copyright
Office stating that he or she believes that
the station qualifies as a specialty
station under 47 CFR 76.5(kk) (1981),
the FCC’s former rule defining
‘‘specialty station.’’ The affidavit must
be certified by the owner or an official
representing the owner.
Affidavits are due within 60 days of
the publication of this notice in the
Federal Register. There is no specific
format for the affidavit; however, the
affidavit must confirm that the station
owner believes that the station qualifies
as a specialty station under the 1981
FCC rule.
Notwithstanding the above, any
affidavit submitted to the Copyright
Office within the 45–day period prior to
publication of this notice need not be
resubmitted to the Office. Any affidavit
filed during this 45–day period shall be
considered timely filed for purposes of
this notice.
What Happens After the Affidavits Are
Filed With the Copyright Office?
Once the period for filing the
affidavits closes, the Office will compile
and publish in the Federal Register a
list of the stations identified in the
affidavits. At the same time, it will
solicit comment from any interested
party as to whether or not particular
stations on the list qualify as specialty
stations. Thereafter, a final list of the
specialty stations that includes
references to any objections filed to a
station’s claim will be published in the
Federal Register.
In addition, affidavits that, for good
cause shown, are submitted after the
close of the filing period will be
accepted and kept on file at the
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Copyright Office. Affidavits received in
this manner will be accepted with the
understanding that the owners of those
stations will resubmit affidavits when
the Office next formally updates the
specialty station list. An interested party
may file an objection to any late–filed
affidavit. Such objections shall be kept
on file in the Copyright Office together
with the corresponding affidavit.
February 2, 2007
Marybeth Peters,
Register of Copyrights.
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conditions in corporate credit unions,
and to allocate supervision and
examination resources.
Respondents: Corporate credit unions,
or ‘‘banker’s banks’’ for natural person
credit unions.
Estimated No. of Respondents/Record
keepers: 30.
Estimated Burden Hours per
Response: 2 hours.
Frequency of Response: Monthly.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 720 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: None.
By the National Credit Union
Administration Board on February 5, 2007.
Mary Rupp,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E7–2096 Filed 2–7–07; 8:45 am]
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ADMINISTRATION
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission to OMB for
Extension of a Currently Approved
Collection; Comment Request
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
National Credit Union
Administration (NCUA).
ACTION: Request for comment.
Final Regulatory Guide: Issuance,
Availability
The NCUA intends to submit
the following information collection to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance under
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
This information collection is published
to obtain comments from the public.
DATES: Comments will be accepted until
April 9, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are
invited to submit written comments to
the NCUA Clearance Officer listed
below:
Clearance Officer: Mr. Neil
McNamara, National Credit Union
Administration, 1775 Duke Street,
Alexandria, VA 22314–3428, Fax No.
703–837–2861, E-mail:
mcnamara@ncua.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or a
copy of the information collection
request, should be directed to Tracy
Sumpter at the National Credit Union
Administration, 1775 Duke Street,
Alexandria, VA 22314–3428, or at (703)
518–6444.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposal
for the following collection of
information:
Title: Corporate Credit Union Monthly
Call Report.
OMB Number: 3133–0067.
Form Number: NCUA 5310.
Type of Review: Recordkeeping,
reporting and monthly.
Description: NCUA utilizes the
information to monitor financial
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has issued a revision
to an existing guide in the agency’s
Regulatory Guide Series. This series has
been developed to describe and make
available to the public such information
as methods that are acceptable to the
NRC staff for implementing specific
parts of the NRC’s regulations,
techniques that the staff uses in
evaluating specific problems or
postulated accidents, and data that the
staff needs in its review of applications
for permits and licenses.
Like its predecessor, Revision 1 of
Regulatory Guide 1.196, ‘‘Control Room
Habitability at Light-Water Nuclear
Power Reactors,’’ provides guidance and
criteria that the staff of the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) considers
acceptable for implementing the
agency’s regulations in Appendix A,
‘‘General Design Criteria for Nuclear
Power Plants,’’ to Title 10, Part 50, of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR
part 50), ‘‘Domestic Licensing of
Production and Utilization Facilities,’’
as they relate to control room
habitability (CRH). Specifically, this
guide outlines a process that licensees
may apply to control rooms that are
modified, are newly designed, or must
have their conformance to the
regulations reconfirmed.
In Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 50,
General Design Criteria (GDC) 1, 3, 4, 5,
and 19 apply to CRH, as follows:
• GDC 1, ‘‘Quality Standards and
Records,’’ requires that structures,
systems, and components (SSCs)
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important to safety be designed,
fabricated, erected, and tested to quality
standards commensurate with the
importance of the safety functions
performed.
• GDC 3, ‘‘Fire Protection,’’ requires
that SSCs important to safety be
designed and located to minimize the
effects of fires and explosions.
• GDC 4, ‘‘Environmental and
Dynamic Effects Design Bases,’’ requires
SSCs important to safety to be designed
to accommodate the effects of, and to be
compatible with, the environmental
conditions associated with normal
operation, maintenance, testing, and
postulated accidents, including loss-ofcoolant accidents (LOCAs).
• GDC 5, ‘‘Sharing of Structures,
Systems, and Components,’’ requires
that SSCs important to safety not be
shared among nuclear power units
unless it can be shown that such sharing
will not significantly impair their ability
to perform their safety functions,
including, in the event of an accident in
one unit, the orderly shutdown and
cooldown of the remaining units.
• GDC 19, ‘‘Control Room,’’ requires
that a control room be provided from
which actions can be taken to operate
the nuclear reactor safely under normal
conditions and to maintain the reactor
in a safe condition under accident
conditions, including a LOCA.
Adequate radiation protection is to be
provided to permit access and
occupancy of the control room under
accident conditions without personnel
receiving radiation exposures in excess
of specified values.
Since the NRC initially issued
Regulatory Guide 1.196 in May 2003,
the staff determined that the
information presented in Appendix B to
that guide did not accurately represent
a viable technical specification for CRH
at light-water nuclear power reactors. In
particular, it referred to failure of a
particular surveillance as a plant state,
rather than having the results of the
surveillance factor into the operability
determination. In addition, it did not
provide for a definite time to restore
functionality to the control room
envelope, whereas all improved
standard technical specifications (iSTS)
contain such provisions. Moreover,
Appendix B was included as a
‘‘strawman,’’ to be deleted when details
had been more carefully worked out
with industry participation, and those
technical specifications placed in the
iSTS with all other acceptable technical
specifications.
As of the publication date of this
Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.196,
no utility has been granted the technical
specification changes represented by
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Office
[Docket No. 2007-1]
Cable Compulsory License: Specialty Station List
AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: The Copyright Office is compiling a new specialty station list
to
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identify commercial television broadcast stations which, according to
their owners, qualify as specialty stations for purposes of the former
distant signal carriage rules of the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC). The list has been periodically updated to reflect an accurate
listing of specialty stations. To that end, the Copyright Office is
again requesting all interested owners of television broadcast stations
that qualify as specialty stations, including those that previously
filed affidavits, to submit sworn affidavits to the Copyright Office
stating that the programming of their stations meets the requirements
specified under the FCC regulations in effect on June 24, 1981.
DATES: Affidavits should be received on or before April 9, 2007.
ADDRESSES: If hand delivered by a private party, the sworn affidavit
should be brought to Library of Congress, U.S. Copyright Office, 2221
S. Clark Street, 11th Floor, Arlington, VA 22202, between 8:30 a.m. and
5 p.m. The material should be addressed as follows: Office of the
General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office.
If delivered by a commercial courier, the sworn affidavit must be
delivered to the Congressional Courier Acceptance Site (``CCAS'')
located at 2nd and D Streets, NE, Washington, DC between 8:30 a.m. and
4 p.m. The material should be addressed as follows: Office of the
General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office, LM-401, James Madison Building,
101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC. Please note that CCAS will
not accept delivery by means of overnight delivery services such as
Federal Express, United Parcel Service or DHL.
If sent by mail (including overnight delivery using U.S. Postal
Service Express Mail), the sworn affidavit should be addressed to U.S.
Copyright Office, Copyright I&R/GC, P.O. Box 70400, Southwest Station,
Washington, DC 20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tanya M. Sandros, Acting General
Counsel, P.O. Box 70977, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024-0977.
Telephone: (202) 707-8380. Telefax: (202) 252-3423.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
What is a Specialty Station?
The FCC regulations in effect on June 24, 1981, defined a specialty
station as ``a commercial television broadcast station that generally
carries foreign-language, religious, and/or automated programming in
one-third of the hours of an average broadcast week and one-third of
the weekly prime-time hours.'' 47 CFR 76.5(kk) (1981).
How is a Station Deemed To Be a Specialty Station?\1\
Under a procedure adopted by the Copyright Office in 1989, see 54
FR 38461 (September 18, 1989), an owner or licensee of a broadcast
station files a sworn affidavit attesting that the station's
programming comports with the 1981 FCC definition, and hence, qualifies
as a specialty station. A list of the stations filing affidavits is
then published in the Federal Register in order to allow any interested
party to file an objection to an owner's claim of specialty station
status for the listed station. Once the period to file objections
closes, the Office publishes a final list which includes references to
the specific objections filed against a particular station owner's
claim. In addition, affidavits that are submitted after the close of
the filing period are accepted and kept on file at the Copyright
Office.
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\1\Originally, the FCC identified whether a station qualified as
a specialty station, but after it deleted its distant signal
carriage rules, it discontinued this practice. See Malrite T.V. of
New York v. FCC, 652 F2d 1140 (2d Cir. 1981), cert. denied, 454 U.S.
1143 (1982).
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The staff of the Copyright Office, however, does not verify the
specialty station status of any station listed in an affidavit.
Why Would a Broadcast Station Seek Specialty Station Status?
Specialty station status is significant in the administration of
the cable compulsory license. 17 U.S.C. 111. The licensing system
indirectly allows a cable operator to carry the signal of a television
station classified as a specialty station at the base rate for
``permitted''' signals. See 49 FR 14944 (April 16, 1984); 37 CFR
256.2(c).
How Does the Staff of the Copyright Office Use the List?
Copyright Office licensing examiners refer to the final annotated
list in examining a statement of account in the case where a cable
system operator claims that a particular station is a specialty
station. If a cable system operator claims specialty station status for
a station not on the final list, its classification as a specialty
station will be questioned unless the examiner determines that the
owner of the station has filed an affidavit since publication of the
list.
How Often Has the Copyright Office Published Specialty Station Lists?
The Copyright Office compiled and published its first specialty
station list in 1990, together with an announcement of its intention to
update the list approximately every three years in order to maintain as
current a list as possible. 55 FR 40021 (October 1, 1990). Its second
list was published in 1995. 60 FR 34303 (June 30, 1995). Its third list
was published in 1998. 63 FR 67703 (December 8, 1998). With this
notice, the Copyright Office is initiating the procedure for the
compilation and publication of the fourth specialty station list.
Does This Notice Require Action on the Part of an Owner of a Television
Broadcast Station?
Yes, we are requesting that the owner, or a valid agent of the
owner, of any eligible television broadcast station submit an affidavit
to the Copyright Office stating that he or she believes that the
station qualifies as a specialty station under 47 CFR 76.5(kk) (1981),
the FCC's former rule defining ``specialty station.'' The affidavit
must be certified by the owner or an official representing the owner.
Affidavits are due within 60 days of the publication of this notice
in the Federal Register. There is no specific format for the affidavit;
however, the affidavit must confirm that the station owner believes
that the station qualifies as a specialty station under the 1981 FCC
rule.
Notwithstanding the above, any affidavit submitted to the Copyright
Office within the 45-day period prior to publication of this notice
need not be resubmitted to the Office. Any affidavit filed during this
45-day period shall be considered timely filed for purposes of this
notice.
What Happens After the Affidavits Are Filed With the Copyright Office?
Once the period for filing the affidavits closes, the Office will
compile and publish in the Federal Register a list of the stations
identified in the affidavits. At the same time, it will solicit comment
from any interested party as to whether or not particular stations on
the list qualify as specialty stations. Thereafter, a final list of the
specialty stations that includes references to any objections filed to
a station's claim will be published in the Federal Register.
In addition, affidavits that, for good cause shown, are submitted
after the close of the filing period will be accepted and kept on file
at the
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Copyright Office. Affidavits received in this manner will be accepted
with the understanding that the owners of those stations will resubmit
affidavits when the Office next formally updates the specialty station
list. An interested party may file an objection to any late-filed
affidavit. Such objections shall be kept on file in the Copyright
Office together with the corresponding affidavit.
February 2, 2007
Marybeth Peters,
Register of Copyrights.
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