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 PUBLIC  NOTICE  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  St.,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  News  Media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  TTY:  1-  888-  835-  5322 
 Released:  September  17,  2003 
 FY  2003  ASSESSMENT  AND  COLLECTION  OF  REGULATORY  FEES 
 ADDITIONAL  GUIDANCE  AND  CLARIFICATION 


 In  an  effort  to  streamline  the  collection  of  regulatory  fees,  the  FCC  did  not  mail  public  notices  this  year  to  thousands  of  regulatees.  As  in  previous  years,  all  information  regarding  payment  of  FY 
 2003  regulatory  fees  will  be  available  on  the  FCC  website:  www.  fcc.  gov/  fees/  regfees. 
 As  a  pilot  project  to  simplify  the  notification  process,  the  FCC  sent  postcards  to  all  licensees  and  permittees  of  media  services  (excluding  broadcast  auxiliaries)  to  inform  them  that  FY  2003 
 regulatory  fees  were  due  no  later  than  September  24,  2003.  These  postcards  were  not  intended  to  replace  any  of  the  Commission’s  existing  procedures  for  paying  regulatory  fees,  including  the 
 requirement  to  submit  Form  159.  Therefore,  it  is  important  to  note  that  you  should  submit  Form  159  when  making  your  regulatory  fee  payment. 


 The  Commission  mailed  postcards  that  included  fee  amounts  and  fee  codes  for  most  media  services,  but  not  for  broadcast  auxiliary  licenses.  If  you  have  a  broadcast  auxiliary  license,  regulatory  fee 
 payments  are  due  for  these  licenses  even  though  postcards  were  not  mailed  reflecting  this  media  service.  The  fee  amount  for  a  broadcast  auxiliary  is  $10  per  license  with  a  fee  code  of  0369. 


 Finally,  the  Commission  has  identified  more  than  140  call  signs  for  AM  and  FM  radio  stations  that  were  miscoded  on  the  postcards  that  were  mailed.  The  Commission’s  regulatory  fees  website  that 
 listed  the  radio  station  call  signs  was  corrected  on  the  morning  of  August  25,  2003.  The  AM/  FM  Radio  Station  Search  engine  was  corrected  by  the  afternoon  of  August  25,  2003.  The  Commission 
 will  identify  these  140  or  more  call  signs  on  its  regulatory  fees  website.  If  you  have  not  already  submitted  your  payment,  please  review  the  listing  of  these  call  signs  to  determine  if  your  call  sign  is 
 among  them.  If  you  have  already  submitted  your  payment,  there  will  be  an  opportunity  to  send  in  the  additional  payment,  or  request  a  refund  for  the  difference. 


 For  more  information  about  this  proceeding,  please  call  Roland  Helvajian  at  (202)  418-  0444.  We  apologize  for  this  inconvenience. 


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