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

In the Matter of                     )
                                     )
Implementation of Section 309(j) of the          )          MM Docket No. 97-234
Communications Act -- Competitive Bidding        )
for Commercial Broadcast and Instructional        )
Television Fixed Service Licenses      )
                                     )
                                     )
                                     

                       MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER


   Adopted:  February 28, 2000          Released:  March 1, 2000  

By the Chief, Mass Media Bureau:

     1.  The Commission, by the Chief, Mass Media Bureau, acting pursuant to delegated authority,
has before it a "Petition for Reconsideration" filed June 2, 1999, by Booth, Freret, Imlay and Tepper, P.C.
(BFIT) and a "Request for Clarification and/or Reconsideration" filed May 19, 1999, by Snyder Hill
Broadcasting, Inc. (Snyder Hill) seeking further reconsideration of the Commission's Memorandum
Opinion and Order, FCC 99-74, in MM Docket No. 97-234, released April 20, 1999, concerning its
broadcast competitive bidding rules adopted in its First Report and Order, 13 FCC Rcd 15920 (1998). 
For the reasons set forth below, we deny the Petition and Request.

     2.  In its Petition, BFIT asks that the Commission reconsider its prior reconsideration
decision to prohibit engineering amendments to be filed after the submission of short forms (FCC
Form 175) by applicants for new AM station facilities.  In its Request, Snyder Hill also asks that the
Commission reconsider its prior reconsideration decision to forego making a pre-auction
determination as to the legal and technical qualifications of bidders in broadcast auctions.  Both of
these issues were fully considered and resolved by the Commission in the Memorandum Opinion
and Order at  14-18 (pre-auction determination) and  57-67 (post-Form 175 engineering
amendments).  Petitioners proffer no new facts or arguments warranting reconsideration of the
Commission's prior decision.  As a result, both petitions for reconsideration are repetitious.  See 47
C.F.R.  1.106(k)(3).
     3.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, That the Petition for Reconsideration filed by Booth,
Freret, Imlay and Tepper, P.C. and the Request for Clarification and Reconsideration filed by Snyder
Hill Broadcasting, Inc., ARE DISMISSED.

                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
               


                              Roy J. Stewart
                              Chief, Mass Media Bureau