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FCC 0.453
Revised as of October 1, 2011
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2012
§ 0.453 Public reference rooms.
The Commission maintains the FCC Reference Information Center as its
public reference room at its offices in Washington, DC. Much of the
information available from the public reference room may also be
retrieved from the Commission's main Web site at http://www.fcc.gov and
its electronic reading room at http://www.fcc.gov/foia/e-room.html :
(a) The Reference Information Center . Maintains files containing the
record of all docketed cases, petitions for rule making and related
papers. A file is maintained for each docketed hearing case and for
each docketed rule making proceeding. Cards summarizing the history of
such cases for the years before 1984 are available for inspection.
Information summarizing the history of such cases for the years from
1984 through present is available online on the Electronic Comment
Filing System (ECFS).
(b) Broadcast Services . The following files and documents are
available, including:
(1) Applications for radio and television broadcast station
construction permits, licenses, modifications of facilities, license
renewal, assignments and transfer of control, including any Commission
correspondence or rulings pertaining to those applications;
(2) Petitions to deny, informal objections, and complaints directed
against the stations and/or station applications;
(3) Ownership reports filed by licensees pursuant to § 73.3615 of this
chapter;
(4) Television network application contracts, radio and television time
brokerage agreements, and other documents required to be filed under
§ 73.3613 of this chapter;
(5) Children's television programming reports filed by commercial
television licensees pursuant to § 73.3526 of this chapter;
(6) Annual DTV ancillary/supplementary services reports filed by
commercial and non-commercial educational digital television licensees
pursuant to § 73.624 of this chapter;
(7) Station requests for declaratory rulings, special temporary
authorizations, and other waivers;
(8) Annual employment reports filed by licensees and permittees of
broadcast stations pursuant to § 73.3612 of this chapter; and.
(9) Responses from licensees to random audits of their Equal Employment
Opportunity programs conducted pursuant to § 73.2080 of this chapter.
(c) Common Carrier Services , including:
(1) Annual reports filed by carriers under § 43.21 of this chapter;
(2) Reports of proposed changes in depreciation rates filed by carriers
under § 43.43 of this chapter;
(3) Rate-of-return reports filed by price-cap and rate-of-return
incumbent local exchange carriers under § 65.600 of this chapter;
(4) All applications for common carrier authorizations acted upon by
the Enforcement Bureau, and related files;
(5) All formal and informal carrier-to-carrier complaints against
common carriers filed under § 1.711 through § 1.735 of this chapter,
all documents filed in connection therewith, and all communications
related thereto;
(6) Annual employment reports filed by common carrier licensees or
permittees pursuant to § 1.815 of this chapter;
(7) Enforcement proceedings and public inquiries and related materials;
(8) Cost Allocation Manuals and related materials;
(9) Currently effective tariffs filed by Communications Common Carriers
pursuant to various FCC Rules and Regulations; and
(10) Recent revisions to tariff filings and the Reference Information
Center Log, which is prepared daily and lists the tariff filings
received the previous day.
(d) Wireless Telecommunications Services and Auction related data
including:
(1) Pending files containing applications for additional facilities or
modifications of existing facilities;
(2) Cellular and Paging Granted Station files and related materials;
(3) Pending cellular and paging applications and related files;
(4) Electronically stored application and licensing data for commercial
radio operators and for all authorizations in the Wireless Radio
services are available for public inspection via the Commission's Web
site, http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls . Wireless Radio services include
Commercial and Private Mobile Radio, Common Carrier and Private
Operational Field point-to-point Microwave, Local Television
Transmission Service (LTTS), Digital Electronic Message Service (DEMS),
Aviation Ground and Marine Coast applications; and
(5) Petitions and related materials.
(e) International Services as follows, except to the extent they are
excluded from routine public inspection under another section of this
chapter:
(1) Satellite and earth station applications files and related
materials under part 25 of this chapter;
(2) Section 214 applications and related files under part 63 of this
chapter, to the extent that they concern international communications
facilities and services;
(3) International Fixed Public Radio applications and related files
under part 23 of this chapter;
(4) Files relating to submarine cable landing licenses and applications
for such licenses since June 30, 1934, except for maps showing the
exact location of submarine cables, which are withheld from inspection
under sec. 4(j) of the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. 154(j) (see
§ 0.457(c)(1)(i));
(5) International broadcast applications, applications for permission
to deliver programming to foreign stations, and related files under
part 73 of this chapter; and
(6) Contracts and other arrangements filed under § 43.51 of this
chapter, except for those that are filed with a request for
confidential treatment (see § 0.459) or are deemed confidential
pursuant to sec. 412 of the Communications Act (see also
§ 0.457(c)(3)).
(f) Cable and other Multichannel Video Program Distribution Services .
The following files and records are available, including:
(1) Complaints regarding multichannel video programming, all documents
filed in connection therewith, and all communications related thereto,
unless the cable operator has submitted a request pursuant to § 0.459
that such information not be made routinely available for public
inspection;
(2) Special relief petitions and files pertaining to cable television
operations;
(3) Special relief petitions and files pertaining to DBS television
operations;
(4) Petitions and related documents concerning the enforcement of
regulations governing the installation of over-the-air reception
devices (OTARD) pursuant to § 1.4000 of this chapter;
(5) Filings by cable television operators, including Cable Signal
Leakage Reports (Form 320 and § 76.1804 of this chapter), Cable System
Registration Statements (§ 76.1801 of this chapter), Cable System
Operator Changes (§ 76.1610 of this chapter), Cable Aeronautical
Frequency Notifications (§ 76.1804 of this chapter), Cable Annual
Report (Form 325 and § 76.403 of this chapter), and filings related to
CARS licenses (Part 78 of this chapter).
Note to paragraph (f)(5): This data also is available at
http://www.fcc.gov/coals . Electronic submissions for cable filings
(excluding CARS) are mandatory. Original forms are not available for
information filed electronically, but the Reference Information Center
or the Commission's Copy Contractor may assist in producing paper
copies of information found in the COALS database;
(6) Annual employment reports filed by multichannel video programming
distributors pursuant to § 76.1802 of this chapter; and
(7) Responses from multichannel video programming distributors to
random audits of their Equal Employment Opportunity programs conducted
pursuant to § 76.77 of this chapter.
[ 74 FR 14078 , Mar. 30, 2009, as amended at 76 FR 24389 , May 2, 2011]
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