Sec. 21.932  Forfeiture of incumbent MDS station licenses.

    (a) If the license for a incumbent MDS station is forfeited, absent 
the filing and grant of a petition for reinstatement pursuant to 
Sec. 21.44(b), the 56.33 km (35 mile) protected service area of the 
incumbent station shall dissolve and the protected service area shall 
become part of the BTA or PSA surrounding it.
    (b) If upon forfeiture the protected service area of a forfeited 
license extends across the boundaries of more than one BTA or PSA, the 
portions of the protected service area of the incumbent station shall 
merge with the overlapping BTAs or PSAs.
    (c) The holder of the authorization for the BTA or PSA with which 
the service area of the forfeited incumbent station has merged has the 
exclusive right to file a long-form application to operate a station 
within the merged area and may modify the locations of its stations to 
serve the forfeited area.
[ 60 FR 36556 , July 17, 1995]