The FCC this week released a Public Notice (that we mentioned in our update on regulatory dates for May) announcing that, on May 17, many new applications and other filings will be migrating to the FCC’s newer LMS filing platform. These include many of the documents that had been until recently filed in the FCC’s old CDBS platform. These applications had, since CDBS was closed for new filings, been submitted through emails to the FCC (see our articles here and here).
Most notably, the new LMS filings will include requests for Special Temporary Authority – and future requests for extensions of STAs. The FCC notes that for STAs that had originally been filed in CDBS, rather than filing an extension request for such STAs, applicants should initially file for a new STA in LMS and indicate in an exhibit that the request is for an extension of an existing STA that was filed in CDBS (or by email in the interim processing period). The full list of applications that will, as of May 17, be filed in LMS is as follows:
- FM Engineering Special Temporary Authorizations (STAs)
- Request for Silent STA
- Extension of STA – Silent
- Extension of STA – Engineering
- Suspension of Operations Notification
- Resumption of Operations
- AM/FM Digital Notification
- Modulation Dependent Carrier Level (MDCL) Notification
- Change of Primary Station Notification
- Tolling Notification
- Reduced Power Notification
- Withdraw Pending Applications
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