Tribal Mobility Fund Phase I Auction; Updated List of Eligible Areas for Auction 902, 8713-8714 [2014-03208]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 30 / Thursday, February 13, 2014 / Notices Auction System will assign a random number to each bid upon submission. The tied bid with the highest random number wins the tiebreaker, and becomes the provisionally winning bid. Bidders, regardless of whether they hold a provisionally winning bid, can submit higher bids in subsequent rounds. However, if the auction were to end with no other bids being placed, the winning bidder would be the one that placed the provisionally winning bid. v. Bidding 83. An applicant is not obligated to bid on all permits for which it is eligible. An Auction 84 applicant also must have sufficient bidding eligibility to place a bid on that particular construction permit. 84. All bidding will take place remotely either through the FCC Auction System or by telephonic bidding. There will be no on-site bidding during Auction 84. Telephonic bid assistants are required to use a script when entering bids placed by telephone. The length of a call to place a telephonic bid may vary. Telephonic bidders were reminded to allow sufficient time to bid by placing their calls well in advance of the close of a round. emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with NOTICES vi. Bid Removal and Bid Withdrawal 85. Each bidder will have the option of removing any bids placed in a round provided that such bids are removed before the close of that bidding round. By using the ‘‘remove bids’’ function in the FCC Auction System, a bidder may effectively ‘‘unsubmit’’ any bid placed within that round. A bidder removing a bid placed in the same round is not subject to withdrawal payments. Removing a bid will affect a bidder’s activity because a removed bid no longer counts toward bidding activity for the round. Once a round closes, a bidder may no longer remove a bid. 86. The Bureaus decided to prohibit Auction 84 bidders from withdrawing any bids after the round in which the bids were placed has closed. Bidders are cautioned to select bid amounts carefully because no bid withdrawals will be allowed in Auction 84, even if a bid was mistakenly or erroneously made. vii. Auction Announcements and Round Results 87. The Commission will use auction announcements to report necessary information such as schedule changes. 88. Bids placed during a round will not be made public until the conclusion of that round. After a round closes, the Bureaus will compile reports of all bids placed, current provisionally winning VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:44 Feb 12, 2014 Jkt 232001 bids, new minimum acceptable bid amounts for the following round, whether the construction permit is FCCheld, and bidder eligibility status (bidding eligibility and activity rule waivers), and post the reports for public access. V. Post-Auction Procedures 89. Shortly after bidding has ended, the Commission will issue a public notice declaring the auction closed, identifying the winning bidders, and establishing the deadlines for submitting down payments, final payments, and long-form applications. A. Down Payments 90. Within ten business days after release of the auction closing public notice, each winning bidder must submit sufficient funds (in addition to its upfront payment) to bring its total amount of money on deposit with the Commission for Auction 84 to twenty percent of the net amount of its winning bids (gross bids less any applicable new entrant bidding credits). 91. The Bureaus declined one comments request to waive, modify, or refrain from implementing the down payment and final payment procedures of 47 CFR 1.2107(b) and 1.2109(a) for the reasons described in the Auction 84 Procedures Public Notice. B. Final Payments 92. Each winning bidder will be required to submit the balance of the net amount of its winning bids within ten business days after the applicable deadline for submitting down payments. C. Long-Form Application 93. The Commission’s rules currently provide that within thirty days following the close of bidding and notification to the winning bidders, unless a longer period is specified by public notice, winning bidders must electronically submit a properly completed long-form application (FCC Form 301, Application for Construction Permit for Commercial Broadcast Station) and required exhibits for each construction permit won through Auction 84. Winning bidders claiming new entrant status must include an exhibit demonstrating their eligibility for the bidding credit. The Commission’s rules also provide that a winning bidder in a commercial broadcast spectrum auction is required to submit an application filing fee with its post-auction long-form application. D. Default and Disqualification 94. Any winning bidder that defaults or is disqualified after the close of the PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 8713 auction (i.e., fails to remit the required down payment within the prescribed period of time, fails to submit a timely long-form application, fails to make full payment, or is otherwise disqualified) will be subject to the payments described in 47 CFR 1.2104(g)(2). This payment consists of a deficiency payment, equal to the difference between the amount of the Auction 84 bidder’s winning bid and the amount of the winning bid the next time a construction permit covering the same spectrum is won in an auction, plus an additional payment equal to a percentage of the defaulter’s bid or of the subsequent winning bid, whichever is less. The Bureaus set the percentage of the applicable bid to be assessed as an additional default payment for this auction at twenty percent of the applicable bid. 95. If a default or disqualification involves gross misconduct, misrepresentation, or bad faith by an applicant, the Commission may declare the applicant and its principals ineligible to bid in future auctions, and may take any other action that it deems necessary, including institution of proceedings to revoke any existing authorizations held by the applicant. Federal Communications Commission. Gary D. Michaels, Deputy Chief, Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, WTB. [FR Doc. 2014–03203 Filed 2–12–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712–01–P FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION [AU Docket No. 13–53; DA 14–109] Tribal Mobility Fund Phase I Auction; Updated List of Eligible Areas for Auction 902 Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: In this document, the Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications and Wireline Competition Bureaus provide an updated list of eligible areas for Auction 902, as well as other updated information consistent with the revised list. DATES: Auction 902 is scheduled to commence on February 25, 2014. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, Patricia Robbins (attorney) at (202) 418– 0660. To request materials in accessible formats (Braille, large print, electronic SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\13FEN1.SGM 13FEN1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with NOTICES 8714 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 30 / Thursday, February 13, 2014 / Notices files, or audio format) for people with disabilities, send an email to fcc504@ fcc.gov or call the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418–0530 or (202) 418–0432 (TTY). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public Notice released on February 3, 2014. The complete text of the Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public Notice, including attachments and related Commission documents, is available for public inspection and copying from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) Monday through Thursday or from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET on Fridays in the FCC Reference Information Center, 445 12th Street SW., Room CY–A257, Washington, DC 20554. The Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public Notice, including attachments and related Commission documents, also may be purchased from the Commission’s duplicating contractor, Best Copy and Printing, Inc. (BCPI), 445 12th Street SW., Room CY–B402, Washington, DC 20554, telephone 202– 488–5300, fax 202–488–5563, or you may contact BCPI at its Web site: https://www.BCPIWEB.com. When ordering documents from BCPI, please provide the appropriate FCC document number, for example, DA 14–109 for the Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public Notice. The Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public Notice, including attachments and related documents is available on the Internet at the Commission’s Web site: https:// wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/902/, or by using the search function for AU Docket No. 13–53 on the Commission’s Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) Web page at https://www.fcc.gov/ cgb/ecfs/. 1. The Wireless Telecommunications and Wireline Competition Bureaus (the Bureaus) release an updated list of eligible areas for the reverse auction that will award up to $50 million in onetime Tribal Mobility Fund Phase I support, Auction 902. The updated list reflects changes to the eligible areas for Auction 902 based on authorizations of support and default determinations from the initial auction of Mobility Fund Phase I support, Auction 901. Bidding in Auction 902 is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, February 25, 2014. 2. In the Auction 902 Procedures Public Notice, 78 FR 56875, September 16, 2013, the Bureaus identified areas eligible for the Tribal Mobility Fund Phase I support to be offered in Auction 902. At that time, the Bureaus released a file with information about the bidding areas for Auction 902 and a file containing detailed information about VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:44 Feb 12, 2014 Jkt 232001 the census blocks of those bidding areas. In the list of bidding areas, the Bureaus identified with an asterisk the items with one or more census blocks that were the subject of a winning bid in Auction 901 for which the relevant long-form application remained pending. The Bureaus explained that if they determined prior to Auction 902 that any winning bids from Auction 901 covering blocks that would otherwise be eligible for Auction 902 could not be authorized, then such eligible blocks would be made available in the auction. Similarly, the Bureaus explained that they would exclude from Auction 902 any of the identified blocks for which they authorized Auction 901 support prior to the auction. The Bureaus subsequently released a public notice, 78 FR 61350, October 3, 2013, updating the list of eligible areas for Auction 902 to reflect Auction 901 authorizations of support and default determinations as of September 27, 2013. 3. The Bureaus announce the removal of certain census blocks for which support has been authorized for Auction 901 winning bids, as these blocks will not be available for support in Auction 902. The Bureaus note that in some cases, all of the census blocks for a particular bidding area have been removed, and thus that bidding area is no longer available in Auction 902. In other cases, only some of the census blocks for a particular bidding area have been removed, and thus that bidding area is still available in Auction 902 but includes fewer eligible populated census blocks. 4. Also, for those blocks on which Auction 901 winning bidders have defaulted, the Bureaus remove the asterisks in the list that previously identified the relevant census blocks as having received winning bids in Auction 901, and these areas will be eligible for bidding in Auction 902. There are no longer any asterisks in the list of eligible areas for Auction 902 because after these updates, the list is no longer subject to any pending Auction 901 long-form applications. 5. The updated list of bidding areas is released as Attachment A to the Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public Notice. An updated version of the file containing detailed information about the census blocks of all of the bidding areas is available on the Auction 902 Web site at https://wireless.fcc.gov/ auctions/902/. The interactive map of eligible areas has been updated to reflect these changes to the eligible areas for Auction 902. The link to the interactive map is available on the Auction 902 Web site at https://wireless.fcc.gov/ auctions/902/, and the map itself is at PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 https://www.fcc.gov/maps/tribalmobility-fund-phase-1-eligible-areas. Geographic information system (GIS) data for the eligible areas is available as a downloadable shapefile on the Auction 902 Web site at https:// wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/902/. The updated the census blocks file, the interactive map, and the GIS data include a notation indicating when they were updated. 6. Attachment B of the Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public Notice lists the bidding areas that have been removed or modified since the prior list was released on September 27, 2013. These changes have been incorporated into each of the Auction 902 short-form applications (FCC Form 180), where applicable. Federal Communications Commission. Gary D. Michaels, Deputy Chief, Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, WTB. 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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[AU Docket No. 13-53; DA 14-109]


Tribal Mobility Fund Phase I Auction; Updated List of Eligible 
Areas for Auction 902

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission's Wireless Telecommunications 
and Wireline Competition Bureaus provide an updated list of eligible 
areas for Auction 902, as well as other updated information consistent 
with the revised list.

DATES: Auction 902 is scheduled to commence on February 25, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, 
Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, Patricia Robbins (attorney) at 
(202) 418-0660. To request materials in accessible formats (Braille, 
large print, electronic

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files, or audio format) for people with disabilities, send an email to 
fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at 
(202) 418-0530 or (202) 418-0432 (TTY).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Auction 902 Updated 
Eligible Areas Public Notice released on February 3, 2014. The complete 
text of the Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public Notice, including 
attachments and related Commission documents, is available for public 
inspection and copying from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) 
Monday through Thursday or from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET on Fridays 
in the FCC Reference Information Center, 445 12th Street SW., Room CY-
A257, Washington, DC 20554. The Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas 
Public Notice, including attachments and related Commission documents, 
also may be purchased from the Commission's duplicating contractor, 
Best Copy and Printing, Inc. (BCPI), 445 12th Street SW., Room CY-B402, 
Washington, DC 20554, telephone 202-488-5300, fax 202-488-5563, or you 
may contact BCPI at its Web site: https://www.BCPIWEB.com. When ordering 
documents from BCPI, please provide the appropriate FCC document 
number, for example, DA 14-109 for the Auction 902 Updated Eligible 
Areas Public Notice. The Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public 
Notice, including attachments and related documents is available on the 
Internet at the Commission's Web site: https://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/902/, or by using the search function for AU Docket No. 13-53 
on the Commission's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) Web page at 
https://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/.
    1. The Wireless Telecommunications and Wireline Competition Bureaus 
(the Bureaus) release an updated list of eligible areas for the reverse 
auction that will award up to $50 million in one-time Tribal Mobility 
Fund Phase I support, Auction 902. The updated list reflects changes to 
the eligible areas for Auction 902 based on authorizations of support 
and default determinations from the initial auction of Mobility Fund 
Phase I support, Auction 901. Bidding in Auction 902 is scheduled to be 
held on Tuesday, February 25, 2014.
    2. In the Auction 902 Procedures Public Notice, 78 FR 56875, 
September 16, 2013, the Bureaus identified areas eligible for the 
Tribal Mobility Fund Phase I support to be offered in Auction 902. At 
that time, the Bureaus released a file with information about the 
bidding areas for Auction 902 and a file containing detailed 
information about the census blocks of those bidding areas. In the list 
of bidding areas, the Bureaus identified with an asterisk the items 
with one or more census blocks that were the subject of a winning bid 
in Auction 901 for which the relevant long-form application remained 
pending. The Bureaus explained that if they determined prior to Auction 
902 that any winning bids from Auction 901 covering blocks that would 
otherwise be eligible for Auction 902 could not be authorized, then 
such eligible blocks would be made available in the auction. Similarly, 
the Bureaus explained that they would exclude from Auction 902 any of 
the identified blocks for which they authorized Auction 901 support 
prior to the auction. The Bureaus subsequently released a public 
notice, 78 FR 61350, October 3, 2013, updating the list of eligible 
areas for Auction 902 to reflect Auction 901 authorizations of support 
and default determinations as of September 27, 2013.
    3. The Bureaus announce the removal of certain census blocks for 
which support has been authorized for Auction 901 winning bids, as 
these blocks will not be available for support in Auction 902. The 
Bureaus note that in some cases, all of the census blocks for a 
particular bidding area have been removed, and thus that bidding area 
is no longer available in Auction 902. In other cases, only some of the 
census blocks for a particular bidding area have been removed, and thus 
that bidding area is still available in Auction 902 but includes fewer 
eligible populated census blocks.
    4. Also, for those blocks on which Auction 901 winning bidders have 
defaulted, the Bureaus remove the asterisks in the list that previously 
identified the relevant census blocks as having received winning bids 
in Auction 901, and these areas will be eligible for bidding in Auction 
902. There are no longer any asterisks in the list of eligible areas 
for Auction 902 because after these updates, the list is no longer 
subject to any pending Auction 901 long-form applications.
    5. The updated list of bidding areas is released as Attachment A to 
the Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public Notice. An updated 
version of the file containing detailed information about the census 
blocks of all of the bidding areas is available on the Auction 902 Web 
site at https://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/902/. The interactive map of 
eligible areas has been updated to reflect these changes to the 
eligible areas for Auction 902. The link to the interactive map is 
available on the Auction 902 Web site at https://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/902/, and the map itself is at https://www.fcc.gov/maps/tribal-mobility-fund-phase-1-eligible-areas. Geographic information system 
(GIS) data for the eligible areas is available as a downloadable 
shapefile on the Auction 902 Web site at https://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/902/. The updated the census blocks file, the interactive map, 
and the GIS data include a notation indicating when they were updated.
    6. Attachment B of the Auction 902 Updated Eligible Areas Public 
Notice lists the bidding areas that have been removed or modified since 
the prior list was released on September 27, 2013. These changes have 
been incorporated into each of the Auction 902 short-form applications 
(FCC Form 180), where applicable.

Federal Communications Commission.
Gary D. Michaels,
Deputy Chief, Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, WTB.
[FR Doc. 2014-03208 Filed 2-12-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6712-01-P
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