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             CIVIL FINE OF $20,000 PROPOSED TO AM BROADCASTER IN
            CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA, FOR EXCEEDING POWER LIMITS.
                                       
                                        
  Quetzal Bilingual Communications, Inc., licensee of Radio Station
  KURS (AM), 1040 kHz, Chula Vista, Cal., has been issued a Notice of
  Apparent Liability to Monetary Forfeiture for $20,000 for repeated
  violations of the Commission's Rule relating to operating power
  limitations.  The Notice was issued by the FCC's San Diego Office
  under delegated authority.
  
  
  The Commission's San Diego Office and the Mass Media Bureau in
  Washington, D.C., received an anonymous complaint which alleged
  that the management of KURS had instructed station personnel to
  reduce their operating power at sunset, but to increase the power
  back to the daytime level after the local FCC office, in San Diego,
  had closed for the day.  An investigation, that included field
  intensity measurements on ten dates, was subsequently conducted by
  the San Diego Office.  It revealed that, during the nighttime on
  each of the ten dates, KURS was, in fact, operating at
  approximately their authorized daytime power level.  KURS is
  required to reduce their operating power at sunset to protect other
  co-channel stations at nighttime.
  
  
  For further information contact Public Affairs Specialist, June
  Butler at the FCC's San Diego Office at (619) 467-0549.