Federal Communications Commission FCC 11-114
STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL J. COPPS
Re:  Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2011, Report and 
Order, MD Docket No. 11-76
I support today's order to collect the revenue target Congress has given us to fund the 
Commission's operations for Fiscal Year 2011. And I applaud the Chairman's commitment to 
initiate a long overdue comprehensive review of our regulatory fee program. Despite the 
requirement that our regulatory fee burdens reflect how much the Commission spends on each 
sector of the industry, we have stuck with the same, outdated structure for far too long, as I have 
pointed out many times. Clearly, the industry has changed substantially in the years since we last 
took a close look at the program. Equity and common sense require us to do this now, so I 
eagerly await the next step by the end of this calendar year.