CONCURRING STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL J. COPPS
Re:  In the Matter of Iglesia Pentecostal Cristo Missionera for Application for a New 
Low Power FM Broadcast Station in Lorain, Ohio, File No. BNPL-20010118ABD
The Commission has dismissed hundreds of LPFM applications because they did 
not meet the third-adjacent channel spacing requirements mandated by Congress. This 
may be the last such application still on file. While the Order reaches a defensible legal 
conclusion, it is not good news for localism, competition and diversity that this is the 
outcome.
The Commission three years ago recommended to Congress that, based on the 
independent Mitre study, the third-adjacency restrictions should be eliminated. The 
Commission unanimously reiterated that recommendation in its recent LPFM Order.
Hopefully Congress will act soon to amend the statute. Such action will not come 
in time for Iglesia Pentecostal Cristo Missionera and the other dismissed applicants. So I 
would hope that, at the appropriate time, the Commission can find a way to take proper 
account of the fact that Iglesia and others filed in the previous LPFM window but were 
dismissed based on third-adjacency concerns.