Federal Communications Commission DA 09-614
Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matter of Application of 
MORAN TOWING CORPORATION 
To Renew the License for Ship Station WCA5276
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FCC File No. 0003570444
ORDER ON RECONSIDERATION
Adopted:  March 17, 2009 Released:  March 18, 2009
By the Deputy Chief, Mobility Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau:
1. Introduction.  On October 30, 2008, Moran Towing Corporation (Moran) submitted a petition 
for reconsideration (Petition)1 of the dismissal of the above-captioned application to renew Moran’s ship 
station license for the vessel Cathleen E. Moran, Call Sign WCA5276.2 We dismiss the Petition for the 
reasons set forth below.
2. Background.  The license for Ship Station WCA5276 was granted on August 3, 1998, with an 
expiration date of September 30, 2008.  On September 5, 2008, Moran filed an application to renew the 
license via the Commission’s Universal Licensing System (ULS).  Because payment of the required fee 
was not received within ten days as required by the Commission’s Rules,3 the application was dismissed 
on September 24, 2008.4 The dismissal letter was sent to the address that Moran listed on the renewal 
application (New Canaan, Connecticut).  On October 1, 2008, the Commission’s lockbox agent received a 
check from Moran, showing a Florida address.  The check was deposited, as set forth in the 
Commission’s Rules.5 On October 30, 2008, Moran filed a petition for reconsideration, arguing that it 
should have been informed that there was a problem with the application, and that the check should not 
have been deposited after the application was dismissed.6
3. Discussion.  Section 405(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, as implemented 
by Section 1.106(f) of the Commission’s Rules, requires that a petition for reconsideration be filed within 
thirty days from the release date of the Commission’s action.7 Because the application was dismissed on 
September 24, 2008, the last day for filing a petition for reconsideration was October 24, 2008.
4. Moran’s Petition was filed on October 30, 2008.  Therefore, we find that the Petition was filed 
late.  The Commission has consistently held that it is without authority to extend or waive the statutory 
  
1 Letter from Greg Zeligman, Operations Manager, Moran Towing of Florida to FCC (Petition).
2 Pepperell Airport, Order, 19 FCC Rcd 9939 (WTB PSCID 2004) (Order).
3 See 47 C.F.R. § 1.1111(c) (“Manual payments must be received no later than ten (10) days after receipt of the 
application on ULS or the application will be dismissed.”).
4 See Dismissal Letter, Ref. No. 4784059 (Sept. 24, 2008).
5 See 47 C.F.R. § 1.1111(c) (“Payment received more than ten (10) days after electronic filing of an application on a 
Bureau/Office electronic filing system (e.g., ULS) will be forfeited.”).
6 See Petition at 1.
7 47 U.S.C. § 405(a); 47 C.F.R. § 1.106(f).
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thirty-day period for filing petitions for reconsideration specified in Section 405(a) of the Communications 
Act.8 The filing requirement of Section 405(a) of the Act applies even if the petition for reconsideration is 
filed only one day late.9 Consequently, we conclude that the Petition must be dismissed as untimely filed.10
5. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that pursuant to Sections 4(i) and 405 of the Communications 
Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 154(i), 405, and Section 1.106 of the Commission’s Rules, 47 
C.F.R. § 1.106, the petition for reconsideration filed by Moran Towing Corporation on October 30, 2008, 
IS DISMISSED.
6. This action is taken under delegated authority pursuant to Sections 0.131 and 0.331 of the 
Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. §§ 0.131, 0.331.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Scot Stone
Deputy Chief, Mobility Division
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau 
  
8 See Reuters Ltd. v. FCC, 781 F.2d 946, 951-52 (D.C. Cir. 1986).  See also Petition for Amendment of the 
Commission’s Rules to Establish First and Second Class Radiotelephone Operator Licenses, Order, 10 FCC Rcd 
3196, 3196 ¶ 2 (WTB 1995).  
9 See, e.g., Panola Broadcasting Co., Memorandum Opinion and Order, 68 FCC 2d 533 (1978); Metromedia, Inc., 
Memorandum Opinion and Order, 56 FCC 2d 909, 909-10 (1975).
10 Moreover, if we were to consider the merits of the Petition, we would deny the Petition.  The Commission’s Rules 
provide that manual payment of fees associated with an application filed via ULS must be received within ten days, 
or the application will be dismissed; and that any payment received thereafter will be forfeited.  Moreover, Moran 
was timely notified of the dismissal at the address it listed on the application.  That Moran’s operations manager in 
Florida did not learn of the dismissal until later is not attributable to any Commission error or omission.