Sec. 0.401  Location of Commission offices.

    The Commission maintains several offices and receipt locations. 
Applications and other filings not submitted in accordance with the 
addresses or locations set forth below will be returned to the applicant 
without processing. When an application or other filing does not involve 
the payment of a fee, the appropriate filing address or location is 
established elsewhere in the rules for the various types of submissions 
made to the Commission. The public should identify the correct filing 
location by reference to these rules. Applications or submissions 
requiring fees must be submitted in accordance with Sec. 0.401(b) of the 
rules irrespective of the addresses that may be set out elsewhere in the 
rules for other submissions.
    (a) General correspondence, as well as applications and filings not 
requiring the fees set forth at part 1, subpart G of the rules (or not 
claiming an exemption, waiver or deferral from the fee requirement), 
should be delivered to one of the following locations.
    (1) The main office of the Commission is located at 1919 M Street, 
NW., Washington, DC.
    (i) Documents submitted by mail to this office should be addressed 
to: Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC 20554.
    (ii) Hand-carried documents should be delivered to the Secretary's 
Office, 1919 M Street, NW., Room 222, Washington, DC.
    (2) The Commission's laboratory is located near Columbia, Maryland. 
The mailing address is: Authorizations and Evaluation Division, Federal 
Communications Commission Laboratory, 7435 Oakland Mills Road, Columbia, 
MD 21045.
    (3) The Commission also maintains offices at Gettysburg, PA.
    (i) The address of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's 
licensing facilities are:
    (A) Federal Communications Commission, 1270 Fairfield Road, 
Gettysburg, PA 17325-7245; and
    (B) Federal Communications Commission, Wireless Telecommunications 
Bureau, Washington, DC 20554.
    (ii) The mailing address of the International Telecommunications 
Section of the Finance Branch is: Federal Communications Commission, 
P.O. Box IT-70, Gettysburg, PA 17326.
    (4) The locations of the field offices of the Compliance and 
Information Bureau are listed in Sec. 0.121.
    (5) The location of the Office of General Counsel is Room 614, 1919 
M Street NW., Washington, DC 20554.
    (b) Applications or filings requiring the fees set forth at part 1, 
subpart G of the rules must be delivered to the Commission's lockbox 
bank in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with the correct fee and completed Fee 
Form attached to the application or filing, unless otherwise directed by 
the Commission. In the case of any conflict between this rule subpart 
and other rules establishing filing locations for submissions subject to 
a fee, this subpart shall govern.

    Note: Applicants seeking a waiver or deferral of fees must submit 
their application or filing in accordance with the addresses set forth 
below. Applicants claiming a statutory exemption from the fees should 
file their applications in accordance with paragraph (a) of this 
section.


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    (1) Applications and filings submitted by mail shall be addressed to 
the Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The bank maintains separate 
post office boxes for the receipt of different types of applications. It 
will also establish special post office boxes to receive responses to 
special filings such as applications filed in response to ``filing 
windows'' established by the Commission. The address for the submission 
of filings will be established in the Public Notice announcing the 
filing dates. In all other cases, applications and filings submitted by 
mail should be sent to the addresses listed in the appropriate fee 
rules.

    Note: Wireless Telecommunications Bureau applications that require 
frequency coordination by certified coordinators must be submitted to 
the appropriate certified frequency coordinator before filing with the 
Commission. After coordination, the applications are filed with the 
Commission as set forth herein. (See Secs. 90.127 and 90.175 of this 
chapter.)

    (2) Applications and other filings may also be hand carried, in 
person or by courier, to the Mellon Bank, Three Mellon Bank Center, 525 
William Penn Way, 27th Floor, room 153-2713, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
All applications and filings delivered in this manner must be in an 
envelope clearly marked for the ``Federal Communications Commission,'' 
addressed to the attention of ``Wholesale Lockbox Shift Supervisor,'' 
and identified with the appropriate Post Office Box address as set out 
in the fee schedule (Secs. 1.1102-1.1107). Applications should be 
enclosed in a separate envelope for each Post Office Box. Hand-carried 
or couriered applications and filings may be delivered at any time on 
any day. Applications or filings received by the bank before midnight on 
any Commission business day will be treated as having been filed on that 
day. Materials received by the bank after midnight, Monday through 
Friday, or on weekends or holidays, will be treated as having been filed 
on the next Commission business day.
[ 52 FR 10227 , Mar 31, 1987, as amended at  53 FR 18564 , May 24, 1988;  53 FR 40886 , Oct. 19, 1988;  54 FR 12453 , Mar. 27, 1989;  55 FR 19154 , May 8, 
1990;  56 FR 64714 , Dec. 12, 1991;  58 FR 13020 , Mar. 9, 1993;  60 FR 5325 , 
Jan. 27, 1995;  60 FR 35507 , July 10, 1995;  61 FR 8477 , Mar. 5, 1996]