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 PUBLIC  NOTICE  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12th  St.,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  News  Media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  Fax-  On-  Demand  202  /  418-  2830  TTY  202  /  418-  2555  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  ftp.  fcc.  gov 
 DA  01-  262 
 Released  February  1,  2001 


 POLICY  PROVIDING  ONE  EXTRA  BUSINESS  DAY  IN  WHICH  TO  FILE  CERTAIN  WIRELESS 
 TELECOMMUNICATIONS  APPLICATIONS  IS  NO  LONGER  IN  EFFECT 


 We  hereby  clarify  that  the  Commission’s  former  policy  of  permitting  applicants  one  extra  business  day  in 
 which  to  file  applications  is  no  longer  in  effect  for  wireless  telecommunications  applications.  By  way  of 
 background,  prior  to  1990,  feeable  common  carrier  applications  were  filed  in  Washington,  D.  C.  In  1990, 
 however,  the  filing  location  of  such  applications  was  changed  from  Washington,  D.  C.  to  a  lock-  box  bank  in 
 Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania.  See  In  the  Matter  of  Establishment  of  a  Fee  Collection  Program  to  Implement  the 
 Provisions  of  the  Omnibus  Reconciliation  Act  of  1989,  Gen.  Docket  86-  285,  Memorandum  Opinion  and  Order, 
 5  FCC  Rcd  3558  (1990).  At  that  time,  the  Commission  addressed  concerns  that  application  submissions  to  the 
 new  Pittsburgh  location  could  result  in  transportation  delays  causing  untimely  filings.  The  Commission,  in  a 
 public  notice,  responded  to  this  concern  by  allowing  time  critical  (i.  e.,  applications  subject  to  a  cut-  off  date  or 
 filing  window),  feeable  broadcast  and  common  carrier  applications  to  be  deemed  timely  filed  if  submitted  to  the 
 new  filing  location  on  the  next  business  day  after  the  filing  deadline  date.  1  See  Public  Notice  No.  3095,  Filing  of 
 Time  Critical,  Feeable  Applications,  67  Rad.  Reg.  2d  (P&  F)  1127  (1990). 


 On  October  21,  1998,  the  Commission  amended  its  Rules  to  define  the  “receipt  date”  of  wireless 
 telecommunications  applications  as  “[  t]  he  date  an  electronic  or  paper  application  is  received  at  the  appropriate 
 location  at  the  Commission  or  Mellon  Bank.”  See  Biennial  Regulatory  Review  —  Amendment  of  Parts  0,  1,  13, 
 22,  24,  26,  27,  80,  87,  90,  95,  97,  and  101  of  the  Commission's  Rules  to  Facilitate  the  Development  and  Use  of 
 the  Universal  Licensing  System  in  the  Wireless  Telecommunications  Services,  WT  Docket  No.  98-  20,  Report 
 and  Order,  13  FCC  Rcd  21027  (1998)  (codified  at  47  C.  F.  R.  §  1.907).  The  effective  date  of  this  amendment 
 was  February  12,  1999.  As  a  result,  the  filing  date  for  applications  for  wireless  telecommunications  services  is 
 governed  by  Section  1.907  of  the  Commission’s  Rules.  Thus,  all  wireless  telecommunications  applications 
 submitted  on  or  after  February  12,  1999,  will  be  deemed  filed  on  the  date  received  by  the  Commission,  and  time 
 critical  applications  received  at  Mellon  Bank  after  the  filing  deadline  date  will  be  deemed  untimely. 


 By  the  Division  Chief,  Public  Safety  and  Private  Wireless  Division,  Wireless  Telecommunications  Bureau. 
 -  FCC  - 


 1  The  policy  applied  to  time  critical,  feeable  broadcast  and  common  carrier  applications  (which  include  Broadcast  Auxiliary, 
 Common  Carrier  Digital  Electronic  Messaging  Service,  Common  Carrier  Fixed  Point-  to-  Point  Microwave  Service  and  Local 
 Television  Transmission  Service  applications  formerly  filed  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  and  subsequently  filed  at  the  Mellon  Bank  in 
 Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania).  Notably,  this  policy  never  applied  to  competitive  bidding  applications  or  to  long-  form  applications  for 
 auctionable  services. 
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