Report No. MM 95-90          MASS MEDIA ACTION            September 5, 1995


         COMMISSION RECONSIDERS AM EXPANDED ALLOTMENT PLAN; PUBLIC
              NOTICE ANNOUNCING THE ALLOTMENT PLAN RESCINDED

     The Commission has granted, in part, several petitions for
reconsideration and review of the AM Expanded Band Allotment
Plan.  The Allotment Plan identified stations that were eligible
to apply for authorizations for specific expanded band frequency
allotments.

     Specifically, the Commission rescinded the Public Notice (DA
94-1154, released October 14, 1994) which announced the allotment
plan for the expanded AM band; and, denied Olmsted County
Company's application for review of a Mass Media Bureau decision
which found it ineligible to migrate to the AM expanded band. 
Olmsted is the licensee of KOLM(AM), Rochester, MN.

     On reconsideration, the petitioners advised the FCC that
errors existed in the FCC's AM engineering database which was
used to generate station interference improvement factors and the
resulting Allotment Plan.  The Commission also found that certain
database information upon which federal travellers information
stations were protected in generating the Allotment Plan was in
error.  The petitioners also raised questions concerning the
proper definition of the Canadian border and other aspects of the
processing procedures implemented by the Commission in generating
the Allotment Plan.  

     The Commission, upon review, verified that certain database
errors did exist.  Further, every correction to database
information has the potential to affect each of the improvement
factors and station allotments which were accorded the migrating
stations.  Therefore, the Commission rescinded the improvement
factor ranking of stations in addition to rescinding the
Allotment Plan.  In addition, the Commission reconsidered the
definition of the Canadian border used in the preparation of the
first allotment plan and found that, consistent with the
definition in the U.S.-Canada Working Agreement, the border is
defined by the land mass.


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     The Commition further identified and clarified the standards
used to implement the allotment plan.  In this regard, the
Commission said that interested parties will be given the 
opportunity to comment on these matters and once all comments
have been considered, it will take any further action deemed
appropriate based on the comments.  The Commission will then
execute the relevant computer programs and revised improvement
factors and a revised allotment plan will be issued.

     When the allotment plan becomes final, the Commission will
individually notify each licensee that was allotted a frequency
and call for construction permit applications to be filed by the
successful licensees.   The application procedures announced in
the rescinded Public Notice will then be followed.

     Action by the Commission September 1, 1995, by Memorandum
Opinion and Order (FCC 95-385).  Chairman Hundt, Commissioners
Quello, Ness, and Chong, with Commissioner Barrett concurring in
the result and issuing a separate statement.

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     News Media contact: Patricia A. Chew at (202) 418-0500.
     Mass Media Bureau contact: Jim Burtle at (202) 418-2670.