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The action taken by the Commission will significantly reduce the amount of time that it takes to process earth station license applications, effectively improving speedofservice while minimizing the potential for unacceptable levels of interference to satellite network operations. By continuing to streamline earth station licensing, the Commission hopes to keep the regulatory process in step with the expanding satellite marketplace, where increasing competition and consumer demand necessitate &iL.s  that satellite operators provide service more quickly  X'5Body Text 3#XP\  P6QynXP# Automatic grant of routine satellite earth station applications proposing use of the Ku X'band (14.014.5 GHz / 11.712.2 GHz) and communicating with ALSAT satellites.  X4" 5Body Text 3"  X43Body Text 2#XP\  P6QynXP#The first change adopted is that the International Bureau will automatically grant routine satellite earth station applications proposing to use the Kuband fixedsatellite service frequencies (14.014.5 GHz / 11.712.2 GHz) to communicate with all satellites authorized to provide service to the United States (ALSAT). Such routine earth station applications will now be considered as granted 35 days from the date that the application appears on public  X- 4notice as accepted for filing, provided that no objections have been filed during the required 30day notice and comment period. Part 25 of the Commissions rules, Sections 25.132, 25.134, 25.211, and 25.212, specifically, contain technical requirements for fixed &iL0 ԩ &iL0 satellite earth stations. These rule sections relate to  X$4antenna performance standard compliance and power limitations. If the proposed satellite earth station meets these requirements, and is otherwise consistent with the Commissions legal requirements, the application is considered routine." The Bureau had already committed to processing routine Kuband application &iL1 s &iL1  within 75 days from the date thatu'0*((aa%e !XS3# '#2 # hV applications are filed at Mellon Bank. The action taken today will generally permit the  X4Commission to grant routine Kuband earth station applications within 55 days of their date of filing five days after the required 30day notice and comment period has run (with a 20day period for receipt and initial review of the applications). This represents a time savings of approximately three weeks over the current process. Moreover, further time savings can be realized if applications are filed electronically through the International Bureau Filing System (IBFS) database. Routine Kuband earth stations are a logical starting point in the initiative to streamline earth station licensing overall. Unlike other frequency bands, the Kuband is not shared with terrestrial services. Thus, frequency coordination with terrestrial services is not necessary. Because no interference concerns are present with respect to terrestrial services, routine Kuband applications are very rarely opposed. By granting these applications under a &iL4 n &iL4  automatic grant procedure, rather than within the current 75day processing time commitment, the U.S. satellite industry will be in a significantly better position to meet customer needs, deliver service to end users sooner, and remain competitive in the global marketplace. More than 80 percent of the approximately 650 Kuband earth station applications filed in calendar year 1998, including the large number of applications for networks of very small aperture terminals (VSATs), were routine applications. Approximately 35,000 customers are associated with these applications. If the automatic grant procedure had been in effect for the approximately 520 routine Kuband applications processed in 1998, service to tens of thousands of consumers would have been available approximately three weeks earlier. This is a significant increase in speedofservice to the consumer and the satellite industry. Applicants filing routine Kuband earth station applications should clearly indicate in the cover letter to their application that the proposed station is "routine." If the application is acceptable for filing, Division staff will place the application on public notice, indicating that it will automatically be granted 35 days later unless it is opposed or further Commission review finds that the application is not routine. If the cover letter to the application does not clearly indicate the application is routine, the application will not be eligible for automatic grant.  X'"C 3Body Text 2"5Body Text 3#XP\  P6QynXP# Reduction in the number of required emission designators identified in applications for  X'digital systems. "5Body Text 3"#XP\  P6QynXP# Earth station operators generally use their facilities to provide a wide range of services, including video, voice and data services. Each service uses different frequency bandwidth, modulation techniques, and power levels. Emission designators are a shorthand method used to define the frequency bandwidth and the modulation technique and type of service or combination of services (i.e. the radio frequency carrier class). The primary purpose of the"Q%0*&&aae#" Commissions earth station licensing procedure is both to prevent these emissions from interfering with other authorized services and to protect the emissions from harmful interference from other services. In this regard, information about the most potentially interfering emission and the most sensitive emission will ensure that the range of services being provided do not cause interference to other authorized services and they are protected against interference. At times, earth station applicants will provide emission designators for each individual r.f. carrier proposed rather than for each r.f. carrier class. It is not unusual in these cases for one application to contain, on average, 50 emission designators. It can take up to three hours to enter the information from these applications into the Bureaus database. In the 1998 calendar year, the Bureau received more than 150 applications of this type requiring a total of approximately 450 workhours devoted to entering emission designator information into the Bureaus database. We believe it to be unnecessary to continue providing all of this information. Consequently, we make the following change to the manner in which earth station applicants should respond to Schedule B, Section B7, of FCC form 312 (Particulars of Operation).  Xb4Rather than specifying emission designators for each individual r.f. carrier, we will require applicants to specify emission designators only for the narrowest bandwidth/lowest power  X44density emission and the widest bandwidth/highest power density emission for each class of r.f. carrier (e.g. 512KG7D ! 36M0G7D). The last three fields in the emission designator identify the class (e.g. ####G7D defines one class, ####F3F defines another). These emission designators will be the only ones entered into the Commissions licensing database and the only ones that will appear on public notices and licenses. For earth stations operating in multiple frequency bands, emission designators should be provided for each frequency band. This new practice will allow us to take significantly less time to enter earth station information into our database and consequently will reduce the amount of time required for processing. Further, it will eliminate, in large part, the need for earth station operators to file modification applications whenever they wish to add a new emission since earth station licensees will be authorized to operate within the bandwidth/power range established by the emission designators contained in the license. Applications that contain emission designators  X 4for individual carriers will not be considered for automatic grant or on a routine basis unless the applicant clearly identifies the most potentially interfering emission and the one most sensitive to interference for each r.f. carrier class as explained above.  X!' Future Earth Station Streamlining In the near future, the International Bureau will recommend to the Commission more comprehensive changes to the earth station licensing process in the form of a Notice of "U%0*&&aae#"ԌProposed Rulemaking. Among the changes being contemplated for inclusion in this Notice are the following: 1. Part 25 technical qualification rule changes to expand the scope of applications classified as routine,  reducing the number of applications requiring casebycase analysis; 2. Conditional grant upon filing of earth station applications for certain services; 3. "Post Card notification for renewing earth station licenses; 4. Mandatory electronic filing by a certain date; 5. Increasing the license term for earth stations; and 6. Type acceptance of satellite earth station equipment. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking would also seek other suggestions from industry to improve the earth station licensing process. Written suggestions may be sent, in the interim, to Ronald T. Repasi, Chief, Satellite Engineering Branch, 445 Twelfth St., S.W., Washington, D.C., 20554. uFCC