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     Before the
     Federal Communications Commission
     Washington, D.C. 20554

In the Matter of                     )
                                     )
Amendment of Section 73.202(b),     )        MM Docket No. 99-44
Table of Allotments,                 )       RM-9469
FM Broadcast Stations.               )
(Stanfield, Oregon)                 )

                  MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
                     (Proceeding Terminated)

   Adopted:  January 12, 2000           Released:  February 1, 2000

By the Chief, Allocations Branch:

     1.  The Commission has before it the Petition for Reconsideration filed by Luella Hoskins
("petitioner"), of the Report and Order, 14 FCC Rcd 11791 (1999), which dismissed her petition for
rule making to allot Channel 241C3 to Stanfield, Oregon, because of a lack of interest in filing an
application for the proposed allotment.  

     2.  In her petition for reconsideration, petitioner states that she was never served with a copy
of the Notice of Proposed Rule Making and thus had no knowledge that comments were due. 
However, she states that she intends to apply for the channel, if allotted.

     3.  We believe the public interest would be served by allotting Channel 241C3 to Stanfield,
Oregon, since it could provide the community with its first local aural service.  Inasmuch as the
channel would have been allotted in the Report and Order had it not been for the lack of an expression
of interest, we believe that revising the earlier decision is warranted.  Since this proceeding is
uncontested, we believe that expending the Commission's administrative resources to issue a new
Notice of Proposed Rule Making would delay service to Stanfield and not serve the public interest. 
Channel 241C3 can be allotted to Stanfield in compliance with the Commission's minimum distance
separation requirements with a site restriction of 17.3 kilometers (10.7 miles) southwest to avoid a
short-spacing to Station KNLT, Channel 239C, Walla Walla, Washington, and to Station KRCW,
Channel 242C2, Royal City, Washington.

     4.  Accordingly, pursuant to the authority contained in Sections 4(i), 5(c)(1), 303(g) and (r)
and 307(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and Sections 0.61, 0.204(b) and 0.283
of the Commission's Rules, IT IS ORDERED, That effective March 17, 2000, the FM Table of
Allotments, Section 73.202(b) of the Commission's Rules, IS AMENDED, with respect to the
community listed below, to read as follows:

                    City                Channel No.
               
                    Stanfield, Oregon        241C3

     5.  A filing window for Channel 241C3 at Stanfield, Oregon, will not be opened at this time. 
Instead, the issue of opening a filing window for this channel will be addressed by the Commission in
a subsequent order.  

     6.  IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That this proceeding IS TERMINATED.

     7.  For further information concerning this proceeding, contact Leslie K. Shapiro, Mass Media
Bureau, (202) 418-2180.

                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION




                              John A. Karousos 
                              Chief, Allocations Branch
                              Policy and Rules Division
                              Mass Media Bureau