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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  06-  2535 
 Before  the  Federal  Communications  Commission 
 Washington,  D.  C.  20554 
 In  the  Matter  of 
 Amendment  of  the  Commission’s  Rules  Regarding  Maritime  Automatic  Identification 
 Systems 
 Petition  for  Rulemaking  Filed  by  National  Telecommunications  and  Information 
 Administration 
 Emergency  Petition  for  Declaratory  Ruling  Filed  by  Maritel 


 Amendment  of  the  Commission’s  Rules  Concerning  Maritime  Communications 


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 WT  Docket  No.  04-  344 
 RM-  10821 


 PR  Docket  No.  92-  257 
 ORDER 
 Adopted:  December  15,  2006  Released:  December  18,  2006 
 By  the  Acting  Chief,  Wireless  Telecommunications  Bureau: 
 1.  In  this  Order,  we  grant  a  request  to  withdraw  a  Petition  for  Reconsideration  of  the  Commission’s  Report  and  Order  and  Further  Notice  of  Proposed  Rule  Making  and  Fourth  Memorandum 
 Opinion  and  Order  in  the  above-  captioned  proceeding  1  filed  by  MariTEL,  Inc.  (MariTEL).  2  On  November  13,  2006,  MariTEL  requested  that  the  Commission  reconsider  or  clarify  three  issues.  3  On 
 December  14,  2006,  MariTEL  requested  that  its  petition  for  reconsideration  in  this  matter  be  withdrawn.  4 
 2.  Accordingly,  pursuant  to  Section  0.331  of  the  Commission’s  Rules,  47  C.  F.  R.  §  0.331,  IT  IS  ORDERED  that  the  request  to  withdraw  the  Petition  for  Reconsideration  filed  by  MariTEL,  Inc.  in  WT 


 1  Amendment  of  the  Commission’s  Rules  Regarding  Maritime  Automatic  Identification  Systems,  Report  and  Order 
 and  Further  Notice  of  Proposed  Rule  Making  and  Fourth  Memorandum  Opinion  and  Order,  WT  Docket  No.  04-  344,  21  FCC  Rcd  8892  (2006). 


 2  MariTEL,  Inc.  Petition  for  Reconsideration  or  Clarification,  filed  Nov.  13,  2006. 
 3  Id.  at  3  (“  MariTEL  believes,  particularly  in  light  of  recent  events,  that  the  Order  must  be  reconsidered  or  clarified 
 for  three  reasons.  First,  the  Order  fails  to  establish  meaningful  interference  obligations,  which  obligations  the  Coast  Guard  is  not  attempting  to  impose  on  MariTEL  on  its  own.  Second,  the  Order  recognizes  that  no  case  currently 


 exists  for  allocating  channel  87B  for  AIS  in  the  inland  VPCs,  but  nonetheless  reallocates  the  inland  portion  of  MariTEL’s  maritime  VPCs  for  AIS.  Third,  the  Order  permits  site-  based  incumbent  licensees  to  continue  operating 
 on  channel  87B  on  a  primary  basis  until  the  expiration  of  their  licenses,  but  denies  the  same  right  to  MariTEL.”).  4 
 Letter  from  Russell  H.  Fox,  Counsel  for  MariTEL,  Inc.,  to  Marlene  H.  Dortch,  Secretary,  FCC,  filed  Dec.  14,  2006. 
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 Docket  No.  04-  344  and  PR  Docket  No.  92-  257  IS  GRANTED  and  the  Petition  for  Reconsideration  IS  DISMISSED. 
 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


 Catherine  W.  Seidel  Acting  Chief 
 Wireless  Telecommunications  Bureau 
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