The FCC Wireless Bureau will audit the operating status of certai...

licensing database” for: (1) Nonnationwide 5- channel trunked systems. (2) Nonnationwide data. (3) Nonnationwide “other.” The bureau said the audit excluded geographic area licenses granted in the 220 MHz auctions or 220 MHz licenses authorized for public safety, mutual aid or emergency medical services. Every covered licensee must certify its station hasn’t discontinued operations for one year or more. The bureau has conducted a similar audit of private land mobile radio station operators to identify licenses no longer in use. That effort involved Part 90 licensees with authorized facilities below 512 MHz and sought similar information on station operating status. The object of the efforts has been to update the FCC’s database of those licenses and return of spectrum in cases of cancellation or notification that the licenses no longer were needed. The bureau said that for the 220 MHz audit it would send letters to all licensees operating in those covered services the week of May 12, outlining information such as call signs. A licensee will receive only one audit letter for all of its covered authorizations if it has verified its address listing in the FCC’s Universal Licensing System by May 9. The bureau stressed that responding to the letters was mandatory, with an electronic submission required within 30 days of the audit letter. “Failure to provide a timely response may result in the Commission presuming that the station has been nonoperational for more than one year, and thus the license may be presumed to have automatically cancelled,” the bureau said. Failure to respond in time also could result in enforcement action, including fines, the bureau said.