Sec. 25.151  Public notice period.

    (a) At regular intervals, the Commission will issue public notices 
listing:
    (1) The receipt of applications for new station authorizations;
    (2) The receipt of applications for license or registration of 
receive-only earth stations;
    (3) The receipt of applications for major modifications to station 
authorizations;
    (4) The receipt of major amendments to pending applications;
    (5) The receipt of applications to assign or transfer control of 
space station facilities, transmitting earth station facilities, or 
international receive-only earth station facilities;
    (6) Significant Commission actions regarding applications;

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    (7) Information which the Commission in its discretion believes to 
be of public significance; and
    (8) Special environmental considerations as required by part 1 of 
this chapter.
    (b) Special public notices may also be issued at other times under 
special circumstances involving non-routine matters where speed is of 
the essence and efficiency of Commission process will be served thereby.
    (c) A public notice will not normally be issued for receipt of any 
of the following applications:
    (1) For authorization of a minor technical change in the facilities 
of an authorized station;
    (2) For temporary authorization pursuant to Sec. 25.119;
    (3) For an authorization under any of the proviso clauses of section 
308(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended [47 U.S.C. 308(a)];
    (4) For consent to an involuntary assignment or transfer of control 
of a transmitting earth station authorization; or
    (5) For consent to an assignment or transfer of control of a space 
station authorization or a transmitting earth station authorization, 
where the assignment or transfer does not involve a substantial change 
in ownership or control; or
    (6) For change in location of an earth station operating in the 4/6 
GHz and 10.95-11.7 GHz bands by no more than 1' in latitude and/or 
longitude and for change in location of an earth station operating in 
the 12/14 GHz bands by no more than 10' in latitude and/or longitude.
    (d) No application that has appeared on public notice will be 
granted until the expiration of a period of thirty days following the 
issuance of the public notice listing the application, or any major 
amendment thereto. Any comments or petitions must be delivered to the 
Commission by that date in accordance with Sec. 25.154.
[56 1997 FR 24016 , May 28, 1991, as amended at  58 FR 68061 , Dec. 23, 1993]