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     Before the
     Federal Communications Commission
     Washington, D.C.  20554

In the Matter of                   )
                                   )
FORD COMMUNICATIONS                )
                                   )
Petition for Partial Reconsideration Filed by          )
Industrial Telecommunications Association, Inc.        )
of Grant of Authorization for Station WPMT971,    )
Edison Township, NJ                     )

                    ORDER ON RECONSIDERATION
                                
   Adopted:  January 3, 2000            Released:  January 10, 2000 

By the Chief, Public Safety and Private Wireless Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau:

1.  On January 11, 1999, the Industrial Telecommunications Association, Inc. (ITA), requested
partial reconsideration of the December 23, 1998, action by the Public Safety and Private Wireless
Division, Licensing and Technical Analysis Branch (Branch) granting the application of Ford
Communications (Ford) to operate Station WPMT971.  For the reasons set forth below, ITA's request is
granted, and the license for Station WPMT971 will be modified to delete frequencies 477/480.050 MHz
and 477/480.075 MHz.

2.  On June 18, 1998, the County of Morris, New Jersey (Morris), a Public Safety Pool eligible,
applied for a number of 470-512 MHz band General Access Pool frequencies, including frequencies
477/480.050 MHz and 477/480.075 MHz.  On August 26, 1998, Ford, an Industrial/Business Pool
eligible, applied for a number of 470-512 MHz band General Access Pool frequencies, including the same
two channels.  On October 28, 1998, the Branch granted the Morris application for Station WPMP739.
On December 23, 1998, the Branch granted the Ford application for Station WPMT971.  On January 11,
1999, ITA, a frequency coordinator for the Industrial/Business Pool, requested that the Branch review its
grant of an authorization to Ford to use frequencies 477/480.050 MHz and 477/480.075 MHz.  

3.  ITA argues that granting those frequencies to Ford after they had been granted to Morris
violated the Commission's Rules.  We agree.  In this regard, we note that Ford's base station is in Edison
Township, New Jersey, while Morris is authorized to use frequency 477/480.050 MHz at Long Hill, New
Jersey (which is 20.432 kilometers from Edison Township) and to use frequency 477/480.075 MHz at
Randolph, New Jersey (which is 37.184 kilometers from Edison Township).  The mileage separation for
these frequencies between co-channel licensees in different service categories is 64 kilometers.  Thus, once
the frequencies were licensed to Morris, they were not available to Ford at the requested locations in the
absence of a waiver.

     4.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to the authority of Sections 4(i), 303(r), and
332(a)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  154(i), 303(r), 332(a)(2), and
Section 1.106 of the Commission's Rules, 47 C.F.R.  1.106, the petition for reconsideration filed by the
Industrial Telecommunications Association, Inc. on January 11, 1999, IS GRANTED, and the license for
Station WPMT971 WILL BE MODIFIED to delete frequencies 477/480.050 MHz and 477/480.075 MHz. 

     5.  This action is taken under delegated authority pursuant to Sections 0.131 and 0.331 of the
Commission's Rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.131, 0.331.

                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



                              D'wana R. Terry 
                              Chief, Public Safety and Private Wireless Division
                              Wireless Telecommunications Bureau