82 FR 20478 - Procedures for Submitting Financial Information Required for the Disbursement of Incentive Payments and Reimbursement Payments After the Incentive Auction Closes
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 83 (May 2, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 83 (Tuesday, May 2, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 20478-20480] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-08816] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION [GN Docket No. 12-268; AU Docket No. 14-252; MB Docket No. 16-306; DA 17-282] Procedures for Submitting Financial Information Required for the Disbursement of Incentive Payments and Reimbursement Payments After the Incentive Auction Closes AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In this document, the Incentive Auction Task Force, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, and Media Bureau announce instructions to full power and Class A broadcasters and multichannel video programming distributors who anticipate receiving incentive and/or reimbursement payment(s) following the incentive auction. Specifically, the instructions describe the essential steps that must be taken before receiving incentive payments based on winning reverse auction bids or payments from the Television Broadcaster Relocation Fund for expenses eligible for reimbursement. DATES: Reverse auction winning bidders must submit an FCC Form 1875 for each station with a winning bid within 20 business days after the release of the Auction 1000 Closing and Channel Reassignment Public Notice. ADDRESSES: Full power and Class A broadcasters and multichannel video programming distributors who anticipate receiving incentive and/or reimbursement payment(s) must mail the original hard-copy of their completed, signed, and notarized FCC Form 1875 or 1876, as applicable, to: Federal Communications Commission, Travel & Operations Group, Attn: Chief of TOG, 9300 East Hampton Drive, Capitol Heights, MD 20743. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general auction questions, contact Linda Sanderson, Linda.Sanderson@fcc.gov, (717) 338-2868. For reverse auction incentive payment questions, contact Erik Salovaara, Erik.Salovaara@fcc.gov, (202) 418-0660, or Kathryn Hinton, Kathryn.Hinton@fcc.gov, (202) 418-0660. For reimbursement questions, contact Pam Gallant, Pamela.Gallant@fcc.gov, (202) 418-0614. Press contact: Charles Meisch, Charles.Meisch@fcc.gov, (202) 418-2943. For FCC User Registration-related questions, contact the FCC User Registration System and CORES Help Desk, CORESHelpDesk@fcc.gov, (202) 418-4120. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Auction 1000 Financial Procedures Public Notice, GN Docket No. 12-268, AU Docket No. 14-252, MB Docket No. 16-306; DA 17-282, released on March 29, 2017. The complete text of the Auction 1000 Financial Procedures Public Notice is available for public inspection and copying from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET Monday through Thursday or from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET on Fridays in the FCC Reference Information Center, 445 12th Street SW., Room CY-A257, Washington, DC 20554. The complete text is also available on the Commission's Web site at http://www.fcc.gov/media, the Auction 1000 Web site at http://www.fcc.gov/auctions/1000, or by using the search function on the ECFS Web page at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/. Alternative formats are available to persons with disabilities by sending an email to FCC504@fcc.gov or by calling the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432 (TTY). 1. The Auction 1000 Financial Procedures Public Notice provides instructions describing the essential steps that full power and Class A broadcasters and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) who anticipate receiving incentive and/or reimbursement payment(s) following the incentive auction (collectively, Payment Applicants) must take before receiving payments. Specifically, the Auction 1000 Financial Procedures Public Notice describes and explains FCC Forms 1875 and 1876, the forms that Payment Applicants must use to provide the Commission with directions for making payments. These forms enable Payment Applicants to certify their agreement with and [[Page 20479]] acknowledgement of required payment terms, to identify the individual(s) authorized to give the Commission instructions regarding payments, and to identify the financial institution and account into which payments should be made. The Auction 1000 Financial Procedures Public Notice also describes the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module, the web-based software that enables Payment Applicants to enter bank account information electronically and view payment information. I. Procedures for Providing Payment Applicant's Payment Instructions to the Commission 2. A Payment Applicant must submit payment instructions for each station (Facility ID) or MVPD (File Number) for which it anticipates receiving a payment in connection with the incentive auction through a two-step process to reduce the risk of error or fraud. First, a Payment Applicant must submit a signed and notarized FCC Form 1875 (for reverse auction winning bidders) or FCC Form 1876 (for reassigned stations and MVPDs), along with a bank account verification letter or redacted bank statement that confirms ownership of the bank account, for each Facility ID/File Number receiving an incentive payment or reimbursement payment. After determining that all of the required information has been provided in the FCC Form 1875/1876, as applicable, FCC staff will grant the Payment Applicant access to the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module. Next, the Payment Applicant must enter bank account information for the payment recipient in the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module. FCC staff will review the information submitted electronically in the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module to confirm that it matches the bank account information submitted in the signed and notarized FCC Form 1875/1876, as applicable. FCC staff will contact the Payment Applicant to resolve any discrepancies between information received in the FCC Form 1875/1876, as applicable, and in the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module and will instruct the Payment Applicant how to submit updated payment instructions. No incentive payment or reimbursement payment will be made if the bank account information in the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module does not match the bank account information in the FCC Form 1875/1876, as applicable. 3. When filling out an FCC Form 1875/1876, as applicable, and entering bank account information electronically in the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module, a Payment Applicant should follow the instructions in the Auction 1000 Financial Procedures Public Notice, the forthcoming CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module User Manual, and any related Commission releases. A Payment Applicant should be fully familiar with other public notices and/or decisions that have been issued in this proceeding, any future public notices and/or decisions that may be issued in this proceeding, and any other relevant public notices and/or decisions the Commission issued in other proceedings that may relate to the incentive auction. Additional guidance, data, and information related to the post-auction transition will be available at www.fcc.gov/incentiveauctions. Additionally, copies of these and other relevant documents are available at the FCC's headquarters located at 445 12th Street SW., Washington, DC 20554 during normal business hours. On March 13, 2017, the Incentive Auction Task Force, in conjunction with the Media Bureau, hosted a public workshop to review procedures related to the post-auction broadcast transition. A recording of the workshop is accessible from www.fcc.gov/incentiveauctions and can also be accessed directly at www.fcc.gov/news-events/events/2017/03/post-incentive-auction-transition-workshop. II. Processing Reverse Auction Incentive Payments A. Complete Payments 4. Consistent with making only a single incentive payment to a single payee and into a single account for each station with a winning bid, each incentive payment disbursed by the U.S. Treasury will be for the station's total incentive payment. The amount received in the account designated by the Payment Applicant may reflect offsets and withholding. In such circumstances, the amount received may be less than the amount of the winning bid. B. Sequencing, if Necessary 5. It may be possible to disburse funds to cover the full amount of incentive payments for all stations with winning bids at one time. In the event, however, that this is not possible, incentive payments for stations with winning bids will be disbursed after sufficient funds become available to cover those payments. To allow stations with winning bids to vacate their spectrum in a manner that will maintain the transition schedule for stations remaining on the air, the order in which stations with winning bids will receive incentive payments will be determined by the post-auction transition schedule. C. Public Notice of Ready to Pay 6. When the Commission is ready to direct the U.S. Treasury to make incentive payments, a public notice will specify each station with a winning bid, along with its respective winning bidder as identified in the Auction 1000 Closing and Channel Reassignment Public Notice (Closing and Reassignment Public Notice), for which a payment is ready to be disbursed (Ready to Pay Public Notice). The precise timing of any such public notice cannot be known with certainty in advance. A single public notice may cover all incentive payments for all winning bidders or multiple public notices may be needed should incentive payments need to be disbursed at more than one time for any reason. In addition, notwithstanding the availability of sufficient funds to make all incentive payments, technical issues or factors relating to a particular payee may require additional time to resolve. In that case, the Commission will issue a Ready to Pay Public Notice covering other stations' incentive payments and subsequently issue another Ready to Pay Public Notice as soon as the particular issues relating to the delayed payment are resolved. 7. The release of a Ready to Pay Public Notice for specified stations with winning bids will indicate that Commission staff has directed the U.S. Treasury to make the related incentive payments. However, the Commission does not control the precise date on which the U.S. Treasury makes each incentive payment or when each incentive payment is received in the account identified by the winning bidder or becomes available to the account holder. For purposes of implementing Commission rules and procedures that establish deadlines based on when a winning bidder receives its incentive payment, a station with a winning bid will be considered to have received its incentive payment five (5) business days after the date of the Ready to Pay Public Notice stating that the incentive payment for the particular station with a winning bid is ready to be disbursed. 8. The Auction Payments component of the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module separately will report the U.S. Treasury scheduled disbursement date. That date is provided for purposes of tracking payments. The scheduled disbursement date reported in the Auction Payments component of the CORES Incentive [[Page 20480]] Auction Financial Module, however, will not be considered the date of receipt by the winning bidder for purposes of implementing the Commission's rules. Instead, the winning bidder will be considered to have received its payment five (5) business days after the date of the Ready to Pay Public Notice stating that the incentive payment for a particular station with a winning bid is ready to be disbursed. 9. The U.S. Treasury has authority to offset federal payments, including incentive payments, based on information not available to the Commission. Consequently, the Auction Payments component of the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module cannot report information regarding any such offsets. A winning bidder needing information regarding any discrepancy between the amount of its winning bid and the incentive payment received that is not accounted for by offsets or withholdings identified by the Commission must seek the information directly from the U.S. Treasury by calling 1-800-304-3107. Hearing impaired callers may use the Federal Relay Service by dialing 1-800-877-8339 to reach a communications assistant who will dial the toll free number. III. Processing Reimbursement Payments A. Tracking Reimbursement Payments 10. The Commission does not control the precise date on which the U.S. Treasury makes each reimbursement payment or when each reimbursement payment is received in the account identified by the Eligible Entity or becomes available to the account holder. After a payment is in fact made, the Auction Payments component of the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module separately will report the U.S. Treasury scheduled disbursement date for the payment being made. That date is provided for purposes of tracking payments. The Auction Payments component of the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module will also show the 399 file number, reference code, and the amount that the FCC requested be disbursed with respect to the Facility ID/File Number. 11. The U.S. Treasury has authority to offset federal payments, including reimbursement payments, based on information not available to the Commission. Consequently, the Auction Payments component of the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module cannot report information regarding any such offsets. An Eligible Entity needing information regarding any discrepancy between its approved reimbursement payment and the amount it actually received must seek the information directly from the U.S. Treasury by calling 1-800-304-3107. Hearing impaired callers may use the Federal Relay Service by dialing 1-800-877-8339 to reach a communications assistant who will dial the toll free number. B. Effects of Ownership Changes 12. Given that the Commission will be processing reimbursement payments for several years after the release of the Closing and Reassignment Public Notice, a licensee may assign or transfer a reassigned station before it has received all of its reimbursement allotment. If any reassigned station is the subject of a transaction (i.e., assignment or transfer of control) that is consummated after the release of the Closing and Reassignment Public Notice and results in a new FRN for that station (i.e., results in a new FRN-Facility ID relationship), FCC staff will deactivate the bank account information associated with the station's pre-consummation FRN, and will hold the station's in-process reimbursement payment(s), if any, upon acceptance of the consummation. Once a reimbursement payment has been processed (i.e., submitted to the U.S. Treasury for disbursement) a freeze will not preclude transmittal of the processed payment. To facilitate future reimbursement payments, the assignee must file a new reimbursement request and timely submit a new FCC Form 1876, along with a bank account verification letter or redacted bank statement that confirms ownership of the bank account. Any delay in submission of a new FCC Form 1876 may cause a delay in the disbursement of a reimbursement payment as directed by the assignee. 13. The assignee also must submit bank account information in the Auction Bank Accounts component of the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module even if the bank account information has not changed as a result of the ownership change. None of the station's payment information associated with the pre-consummation FRN will transfer over to the station's post-consummation FRN in the Auction Payments component of the CORES Incentive Auction Financial Module. Any pre- consummation payment information will, however, remain available to any authorized users via the pre-consummation FRN account. Therefore, the assignor and assignee should address in any transaction agreement the responsibilities and expectations of each party with respect to reimbursement payments, use of the FRN accounts related to the transferred or assigned station(s), and any related matters. 14. Reimbursement payments will be disbursed only to an Eligible Entity--reimbursement payments will not be disbursed to third parties. As a result, once the assignment or transfer of a reassigned station has been consummated, reimbursement payments will only be disbursed to the assignee or transferee. Because an assignment or transfer of control application could be granted and the parties could consummate the transaction while a reimbursement request is pending, we strongly encourage licensees of reassigned stations to account for this possibility in their transaction agreements and to consider the status of pending reimbursement requests when deciding to consummate a transaction. Failure to do so may result in a delay in grant of the assignment or transfer of control application and/or delay the Commission's reimbursement process. 15. Prior to granting and/or accepting consummation of a post- auction transaction involving one or more reassigned stations, the Media Bureau will provide additional procedural guidance to the parties involved in the transaction. Federal Communications Commission. Gary D. Michaels, Deputy Chief, Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, WTB. [FR Doc. 2017-08816 Filed 5-1-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712-01-P
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Dated: April 25, 2017. The filings in the above proceeding Form 1875 or 1876, as applicable, to:
Kimberly D. Bose, are accessible in the Commission’s Federal Communications Commission,
Secretary. eLibrary system by clicking on the Travel & Operations Group, Attn: Chief
[FR Doc. 2017–08795 Filed 5–1–17; 8:45 am] appropriate link in the above list. They of TOG, 9300 East Hampton Drive,
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are also available for review in the Capitol Heights, MD 20743.
Commission’s Public Reference Room in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
Washington, DC. There is an general auction questions, contact Linda
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY eSubscription link on the Web site that Sanderson, Linda.Sanderson@fcc.gov,
enables subscribers to receive email (717) 338–2868. For reverse auction
Federal Energy Regulatory notification when a document is added incentive payment questions, contact
Commission to a subscribed docket(s). For assistance Erik Salovaara, Erik.Salovaara@fcc.gov,
with any FERC Online service, please (202) 418–0660, or Kathryn Hinton,
[Docket No. EL17–30–000] email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov.or Kathryn.Hinton@fcc.gov, (202) 418–
call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, 0660. For reimbursement questions,
Notice of Supplement To Petition for
call (202) 502–8659. contact Pam Gallant, Pamela.Gallant@
Declaratory Order: Nogales Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time
Transmission, L.L.C.; Nogales Frontier fcc.gov, (202) 418–0614. Press contact:
on May 25, 2017. Charles Meisch, Charles.Meisch@
Operations, L.L.C.
Dated: April 26, 2017. fcc.gov, (202) 418–2943. For FCC User
Take notice that on April 25, 2017, Kimberly D. Bose, Registration-related questions, contact
pursuant to Rule 207(a)(2) of the Federal Secretary. the FCC User Registration System and
Energy Regulatory Commission’s [FR Doc. 2017–08807 Filed 5–1–17; 8:45 am] CORES Help Desk, CORESHelpDesk@
(Commission) Rules of Practice and BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
fcc.gov, (202) 418–4120.
Procedure,1 Nogales Transmission, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a
L.L.C. and Nogales Frontier Operations, summary of the Auction 1000 Financial
L.L.C. filed a supplement to its petition Procedures Public Notice, GN Docket
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for declaratory order filed on December No. 12–268, AU Docket No. 14–252, MB
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21, 2016, as more fully explained in its Docket No. 16–306; DA 17–282, released
supplemented petition. [GN Docket No. 12–268; AU Docket No. 14– on March 29, 2017. The complete text
Any person desiring to intervene or to 252; MB Docket No. 16–306; DA 17–282] of the Auction 1000 Financial
protest in this proceeding must file in Procedures Public Notice is available for
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of Procedures for Submitting Financial
Information Required for the public inspection and copying from 8:00
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET Monday through
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and Disbursement of Incentive Payments
and Reimbursement Payments After Thursday or from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern ET on Fridays in the FCC Reference
time on the specified comment date. the Incentive Auction Closes
Information Center, 445 12th Street SW.,
Protests will be considered by the AGENCY: Federal Communications Room CY–A257, Washington, DC 20554.
Commission in determining the Commission. The complete text is also available on
appropriate action to be taken, but will ACTION: Notice. the Commission’s Web site at http://
not serve to make protestants parties to www.fcc.gov/media, the Auction 1000
the proceeding. Any person wishing to SUMMARY: In this document, the Web site at http://www.fcc.gov/
become a party must file a notice of Incentive Auction Task Force, Wireless auctions/1000, or by using the search
intervention or motion to intervene, as Telecommunications Bureau, and Media function on the ECFS Web page at
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or Bureau announce instructions to full http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/.
protests must be filed on or before the power and Class A broadcasters and Alternative formats are available to
comment date. Anyone filing a motion multichannel video programming persons with disabilities by sending an
to intervene or protest must serve a copy distributors who anticipate receiving email to FCC504@fcc.gov or by calling
of that document on the Petitioner. incentive and/or reimbursement the Consumer & Governmental Affairs
The Commission encourages payment(s) following the incentive Bureau at (202) 418–0530 (voice), (202)
electronic submission of protests and auction. Specifically, the instructions 418–0432 (TTY).
interventions in lieu of paper, using the describe the essential steps that must be 1. The Auction 1000 Financial
FERC Online links at http:// taken before receiving incentive Procedures Public Notice provides
www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic payments based on winning reverse instructions describing the essential
service, persons with Internet access auction bids or payments from the steps that full power and Class A
who will eFile a document and/or be Television Broadcaster Relocation Fund broadcasters and multichannel video
listed as a contact for an intervenor for expenses eligible for reimbursement. programming distributors (MVPDs) who
must create and validate an DATES: Reverse auction winning bidders anticipate receiving incentive and/or
eRegistration account using the must submit an FCC Form 1875 for each reimbursement payment(s) following
eRegistration link. Select the eFiling station with a winning bid within 20 the incentive auction (collectively,
link to log on and submit the business days after the release of the Payment Applicants) must take before
intervention or protests. Auction 1000 Closing and Channel receiving payments. Specifically, the
Persons unable to file electronically Reassignment Public Notice. Auction 1000 Financial Procedures
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should submit an original and 5 copies ADDRESSES: Full power and Class A Public Notice describes and explains
of the intervention or protest to the broadcasters and multichannel video FCC Forms 1875 and 1876, the forms
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, programming distributors who that Payment Applicants must use to
888 First Street NE., Washington, DC anticipate receiving incentive and/or provide the Commission with directions
20426. reimbursement payment(s) must mail for making payments. These forms
the original hard-copy of their enable Payment Applicants to certify
1 18 CFR 385.207(a)(2) (2016). completed, signed, and notarized FCC their agreement with and
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Auction Financial Module, however, information regarding any discrepancy expectations of each party with respect
will not be considered the date of between its approved reimbursement to reimbursement payments, use of the
receipt by the winning bidder for payment and the amount it actually FRN accounts related to the transferred
purposes of implementing the received must seek the information or assigned station(s), and any related
Commission’s rules. Instead, the directly from the U.S. Treasury by matters.
winning bidder will be considered to calling 1–800–304–3107. Hearing 14. Reimbursement payments will be
have received its payment five (5) impaired callers may use the Federal disbursed only to an Eligible Entity—
business days after the date of the Ready Relay Service by dialing 1–800–877– reimbursement payments will not be
to Pay Public Notice stating that the 8339 to reach a communications disbursed to third parties. As a result,
incentive payment for a particular assistant who will dial the toll free once the assignment or transfer of a
station with a winning bid is ready to number. reassigned station has been
be disbursed. B. Effects of Ownership Changes consummated, reimbursement payments
9. The U.S. Treasury has authority to will only be disbursed to the assignee or
offset federal payments, including 12. Given that the Commission will be transferee. Because an assignment or
incentive payments, based on processing reimbursement payments for transfer of control application could be
information not available to the several years after the release of the granted and the parties could
Commission. Consequently, the Auction Closing and Reassignment Public consummate the transaction while a
Payments component of the CORES Notice, a licensee may assign or transfer reimbursement request is pending, we
Incentive Auction Financial Module a reassigned station before it has strongly encourage licensees of
cannot report information regarding any received all of its reimbursement reassigned stations to account for this
such offsets. A winning bidder needing allotment. If any reassigned station is possibility in their transaction
information regarding any discrepancy the subject of a transaction (i.e., agreements and to consider the status of
between the amount of its winning bid assignment or transfer of control) that is pending reimbursement requests when
and the incentive payment received that consummated after the release of the deciding to consummate a transaction.
is not accounted for by offsets or Closing and Reassignment Public Notice Failure to do so may result in a delay
withholdings identified by the and results in a new FRN for that station in grant of the assignment or transfer of
Commission must seek the information (i.e., results in a new FRN-Facility ID control application and/or delay the
directly from the U.S. Treasury by relationship), FCC staff will deactivate Commission’s reimbursement process.
calling 1–800–304–3107. Hearing the bank account information associated 15. Prior to granting and/or accepting
impaired callers may use the Federal with the station’s pre-consummation consummation of a post-auction
Relay Service by dialing 1–800–877– FRN, and will hold the station’s in- transaction involving one or more
8339 to reach a communications process reimbursement payment(s), if reassigned stations, the Media Bureau
assistant who will dial the toll free any, upon acceptance of the will provide additional procedural
number. consummation. Once a reimbursement guidance to the parties involved in the
payment has been processed (i.e., transaction.
III. Processing Reimbursement submitted to the U.S. Treasury for
Payments disbursement) a freeze will not preclude Federal Communications Commission.
transmittal of the processed payment. Gary D. Michaels,
A. Tracking Reimbursement Payments
To facilitate future reimbursement Deputy Chief, Auctions and Spectrum Access
10. The Commission does not control payments, the assignee must file a new Division, WTB.
the precise date on which the U.S. reimbursement request and timely [FR Doc. 2017–08816 Filed 5–1–17; 8:45 am]
Treasury makes each reimbursement submit a new FCC Form 1876, along BILLING CODE 6712–01–P
payment or when each reimbursement with a bank account verification letter
payment is received in the account or redacted bank statement that
identified by the Eligible Entity or confirms ownership of the bank FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
becomes available to the account holder. account. Any delay in submission of a
After a payment is in fact made, the new FCC Form 1876 may cause a delay Sunshine Act Meeting
Auction Payments component of the in the disbursement of a reimbursement
CORES Incentive Auction Financial payment as directed by the assignee. AGENCY: Federal Election Commission.
Module separately will report the U.S. 13. The assignee also must submit DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Treasury scheduled disbursement date bank account information in the at 10:00 a.m. and its continuation at the
for the payment being made. That date Auction Bank Accounts component of conclusion of the open meeting on April
is provided for purposes of tracking the CORES Incentive Auction Financial 27, 2017.
payments. The Auction Payments Module even if the bank account PLACE: 999 E Street NW., Washington,
component of the CORES Incentive information has not changed as a result DC.
Auction Financial Module will also of the ownership change. None of the STATUS: This meeting was closed to the
show the 399 file number, reference station’s payment information public.
code, and the amount that the FCC associated with the pre-consummation
FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE OF PREVIOUS
requested be disbursed with respect to FRN will transfer over to the station’s
ANNOUNCEMENT: 82 FR 18644.
the Facility ID/File Number. post-consummation FRN in the Auction
11. The U.S. Treasury has authority to Payments component of the CORES CHANGE IN THE MEETING: The April 25th
offset federal payments, including Incentive Auction Financial Module. meeting was postponed to April 26th.
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reimbursement payments, based on Any pre-consummation payment THIS MEETING ALSO DISCUSSED:
information not available to the information will, however, remain Information the premature disclosure of
Commission. Consequently, the Auction available to any authorized users via the which would be likely to have a
Payments component of the CORES pre-consummation FRN account. considerable adverse effect on the
Incentive Auction Financial Module Therefore, the assignor and assignee implementation of a proposed
cannot report information regarding any should address in any transaction Commission action.
such offsets. An Eligible Entity needing agreement the responsibilities and * * * * *
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| Dates | Reverse auction winning bidders must submit an FCC Form 1875 for each station with a winning bid within 20 business days after the release of the Auction 1000 Closing and Channel Reassignment Public Notice. | |
| Contact | For general auction questions, contact Linda Sanderson, [email protected], (717) 338-2868. For reverse auction incentive payment questions, contact Erik Salovaara, [email protected], (202) 418-0660, or Kathryn Hinton, [email protected], (202) 418-0660. For reimbursement questions, contact Pam Gallant, [email protected], (202) 418-0614. Press contact: Charles Meisch, [email protected], (202) 418-2943. For FCC User Registration-related questions, contact the FCC User Registration System and CORES Help Desk, [email protected], (202) 418-4120. | |
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