Federal Communications Commission FCC 09-21
STATEMENT OF 
ACTING CHAIRMAN MICHAEL J. COPPS
Re:  Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2008, MD Docket No. 08-65
I am pleased that the Commission is finally taking action to adopt a new methodology for 
assessing regulatory fees applicable to submarine cable systems, one that better reflects today’s 
marketplace.  Such a revision is well past due.  I have long emphasized the importance and 
desirability of bringing our regulatory fee systems into the modern era.  
Great thanks are owed to the many affected stakeholders who joined together, and 
worked assiduously, to develop an equitable consensus proposal that has assisted the Commission 
in its work.