Public Safety Bureau Grants 2, Denies 2 Petitions on Call Sign Licenses
The FCC Public Safety Bureau extended the construction period for four 700 MHz trunked public safety stations licensed by Westchester County, New York. It granted the county’s petition to extend the period through Nov. 20, 2023; two had previously ended…
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Nov. 20, 2018, and the others were to end July 29 this year. “The County is understandably reluctant to finalize the design of its combined 700/800 MHz system until it becomes clear whether and how the design would have to be crafted to account for the potential loss of the County’s T-Band channels,” the bureau said. Also Friday, the bureau granted Fairmont (North Carolina) Rural Fire Department’s petition to reinstate its license for WQJL499, which the department said it inadvertently let lapse. The bureau viewed the mistake as “a de minimus error.” In two separate orders related to call signs, the bureau denied reconsideration petitions by the Honolulu Police Department and Lawrence County, New York. Honolulu sought reversal of the FCC's placing its license for WRAH381 on termination-pending status due to the police department failing to meet construction and notification requirements. But the reconsideration petition “was untimely filed,” the bureau said. St. Lawrence County asked the bureau to reconsider terminating its license for WQZG446 due to similarly missed deadlines, and to extend its buildout deadline. The county seemed to ignore rather than accidentally miss the commission’s rule for time extensions, the bureau said.