$100 25 5 30 10 10 5 50 Common carrier services Applications for initial construction permit (no additional fee will be charged for application for license to cover. An application for authority to change location of a fixed station will be treated as an application for initial construction permit): Domestic Public Land Mobile Radio Service: Base station (includes associated mobile stations). Individual user mobile station___. Point-to-Point Microwave Radio Service____. Rural Radio Service: Central office station, interoffice station, or rural subscriber station_ Rural subscriber station at temporary-fixed locations___. Individual subscriber station____ Local Television Transmission Service___. International Fixed Public Radiocommunication Services: International fixed public station: New station___. Additional transmitter____ Replacement of transmitter_. International control station: New station__. Additional transmitter__ Replacement of transmitter.. Other common-carrier services_____ Applications to make modifications or to supplement facilities at existing sites in the Point-to-Point Microwave Radio Service___. Applications for license for operation of a station at temporary-fixed locations in the Point-to-Point Microwave Radio Service--- Applications for modification of construction permit at an existing station Applications for license for operation of an STL station at temporary-fixed Application for renewal of license: Domestic Public Land Mobile Radio Service: Base station (includes associated mobile stations) -- Point-to-Point Microwave Radio Service__ Local Television Transmission Service_-_. Rural Radio Service, all stations.. International Fixed Public Radiocommunication Services: International fixed public station__. Other common-carrier services____ All other common-carrier radio applications__ Applications by communications common carriers for authorization to own Section 214 applications by telephone companies_ Section 221 applications- Interlocking directorate applications__ All other common-carrier nonradio applications_. Safety and special radio services Applications in the Amateur Radio Service: For class A station authorization__. For all other classes of stations in the Citizens Radio Service____. Applications for radio station authorizations for operational fixed microwave radio stations (no fee required for application for license to cover construction permit) - Applications for renewal only for which FCC Form 405A is prescribed__ Fees are not required in the following instances: (1) Applications filed in the Police, Fire, Forestry-Conservation, Highway Maintenance, Local Government, and State Guard Radio Services. (2) Applications filed by governmental entities in any of the safety and special radios services. (3) Applications filed by the following in the Special Emergency Radio Service: Hospitals, disaster relief organizations, beach patrols, and schoolbuses, and nonprofit ambulance operators and rescue organizations. (4) Applications filed in the Disaster Communications Service. (5) Applications for ship inspections pursuant to the Great Lakes Agreement, the Safety of Life at Sea Convention, and parts II and III, title III, of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. (6) Applications for novice class license in the Amateur Radio Service, applications for amateur stations under military auspices, and applications filed in the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES). (7) Operational fixed microwave applications filed for closed circuit educational television service. (8) Application for Civil Air Patrol stations, aeronautical radio-navigation stations, and for aeronautical search and rescue stations. Commercial radio operators Applications for commercial operator examinations: 1st class__. 2d class. 3d class Applications for commercial operator licenses (includes renewals, endorsements, duplicates, etc.) ‒‒‒‒ Applications for restricted radiotelephone permits--- 1843 22 Fees are not required for applications in the experimental radio services (other than broadcast). STATUS OF FEE SUIT IN CHICAGO Senator ALLOTT. While we are on that, what is the status of the suit that was brought against you in Chicago on the pilots' license fees? Mr. HENRY. Well, the whole fee schedule has been called into question as well as our authority or jurisdiction to enact it, and that is being argued in the seventh circuit in Chicago Monday. ADDITIONAL SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO APPLICATIONS ON COMPUTER Senator MAGNUSON. Now, with the computer, you are going to use it for the marine service. Mr. HENRY. Yes. Senator MAGNUSON. What do you plan to do there? Mr. HENRY. Well, the same thing, process applications. Senator MAGNUSON. Process applications for the marine service. Mr. HENRY. For transmitters in the marine service. In other words, ships' radios. The same with aviation. The same with public safety and industrial services later in fiscal 1965. Senator MAGNUSON. And what would be the purpose of-you say: Our programs for performing engineering computations for AM, FM, and TV, such as radiation and service contour patterns, and channel studies. COMPUTER TO PROCESS ENGINEERING DATA FOR AM AND TV APPLICATIONS Mr. HENRY. Yes. In other words, we are going to have the computer program so that when an application for a television station comes in, for example, or a new AM station, let us say, once we lift our freeze, the computer will actually draw the projected interference contours that pertain to that particular application. Senator MAGNUSON. A great deal of engineering data. Senator MAGNUSON. All right. Any further questions? INITIAL COST AND MAINTENANCE OF COMPUTER Senator MONRONEY. I think you said a million dollars roughly for the cost of the computer; is that correct? Mr. HENRY. Yes. Senator MONRONEY. And $330,000 a year for service? Senator MONRONEY. That is what I was wondering. EFFECT OF COMPUTER ON WORKLOAD AND BACKLOGS Mr. HENRY. The net result we think is that we are going to be able to handle the increasing workload quicker and more efficiently, and that within a reasonable time we will be able to reduce our backlogs to a workable amount and lower than they have been in past years. I might say that each year we have an increasing number of applications in all our services. We expect 700 broadcast applications in 1964, and we have a tremendous amount of applications in the safety and special field. For example, in Senator MONRONEY. Before you get into the special field, could I ask a question there. Senator MAGNUSON. Yes. INCREASE IN UHF APPLICATIONS Senator MONRONEY. Congress, as you know, has all-wave restrictions now on manufacture of TV sets. Has this increased the applications for your UHF installation stations? Mr. HENRY. Well, I think that, along with a number of efforts on the part of the Commission to foster the development of UHF, has caused an increase in the number of applications. We have approximately 100 UHF applications now on file which is almost the amountwhich almost equals the amount of presently authorized UHF stations. TIME REQUIRED TO PROCESS UHF APPLICATION Senator MONRONEY. When uncontested, how long does it take you to issue a license? Mr. HENRY. Well, it depends. It depends on the complexity of it and the engineering considerations as well as the fact that it is not contested. Mr. Sheridan, could you give us an answer to that? Mr. SHERIDAN. Are you referring to UHF applications? I would say 30 to 60 days. You see, we cannot act until it is on file for 30 days, and I would say 30 days more if there are no problems and it is not a contested application. Senator MONRONEY. Thank you very much. APPLICATION BACKLOGS Senator MAGNUSON. Would you also put in the record a résumé of the backlogs and what category and where they are piled up. Different categories. Is that in your statement? Mr. HENRY. I think that is generally in the estimates here. Senator MAGNUSON. Have somebody pull it out and put it in the record at that point where you mention backlogs. Mr. HENRY. Yes. (The information referred to follows:) APPLICATIONS PENDING AS of Mar. 31, 1964 APPLICATIONS PENDING AS of Mar. 31, 1964-Continued Satellite communications (applications to purchase stock). 65 150 Total------. 1, 831 REQUIREMENTS FOR UHF STATIONS Senator MAGNUSON. Any further questions on this part of the statement? Senator MONRONEY. Let me go back to this UHF. In these UHF, where they are not contested, you do draw certain requirements that the UHF station has to reach the borders of the community in which it is certificated to serve, is that correct? Mr. HENRY. Yes. Senator MONRONEY. Do you run into trouble, as I think you have in my home city, Oklahoma City, where cities are growing so large, taking in so much territory, that coverage of the actual city limits woud require a VHF channel and yet the 90 or 75 percent of the population could be reached by a lower powered UHF station? I wonder if this might be modified to allow them to be licensed without covering every single acre of a city that may encompass several hundred square miles? Mr. HENRY. I am not aware of that as a general problem. I imagine we might have some problems in the individual isolated cases. Of course, we treat those according to the circumstances in each case. We are always open to petition for waiver of our rules when it appears appropriate. Mr. SHERIDAN. Could I comment on that, Mr. Chairman? Senator, you have two conflicting considerations in the kind of a problem you raise because UHF is a new service in many communities, and if the Commission allows a station to go on the air that does notdoes not serve the entire area simply because the Commission wishes to help the service get started, many times this causes discontent on the part of the viewers who do not get a good signal from it, and they begin to believe that UHF is a poor service technically. So you see we have the desire to help UHF get started but at the same time not at the expense of having it labeled as an "inferior technical service." Mr. Cox. We want to license one that will have a reasonable chance of success because I think if we went through another round of UHF as we saw in 1955, 1956, it woud be very serious. |