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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. 99-187
Table of Allotments,                 )  RM-9590
FM Broadcast Stations.               )
(Summit City, California)            )

                        REPORT AND ORDER
                          (Proceeding Terminated)                              

   Adopted:  February 23, 2000          Released:  March 3, 2000

 By the Chief, Allocations Branch:
 
     1.  Before the Commission for consideration is the Notice of Proposed Rule Making ("Notice"),
 14 FCC Rcd 8225 (1999), issued in response to a petition for rule making filed by Mountain West
 Broadcasting ("petitioner"), proposing the allotment of Channel 221A to Summit City, California, as
 that locality's first local aural transmission service.  Petitioner filed supporting comments in response to
 the Notice.  No other comments were received.

     2.  As Summit City is not incorporated or listed in the U.S. Census, the Notice requested the
petitioner to provide specific information such as any political, social, economic, commercial, cultural, or
religious organizations and services that may be present in Summit City to qualify it as a community for
allotment purposes.  In response, petitioner states that Summit City has a population of 1,136 persons
according to the 1999 Rand McNally road map.  Further, petitioner reports that Summit City has several
retail businesses including two convenience  stores, as well as its own post office (zip code 96089), a
school and several churches.  

     3.  Based upon the information submitted by the petitioner as well as our independent research,
we believe that Summit City does not qualify as a community for allotment purposes.  Petitioner has
provided no official documentation to verify the estimated population it attributes to Summit City.  Nor
did the petitioner identify the several retail businesses it attributes to Summit City or provide street
addresses to demonstrate their presence at that locality.   Additionally, we have no evidence to establish
that Summit City contains any political, social, economic, commercial, cultural or religious organizations
and services that identify themselves with that locality, nor any testimony of local residents attesting to
Summit City's community status.  Therefore, we find that it would not serve the public interest to allot
a channel to Summit City.  

     4.  In view of the above, IT IS ORDERED, That the petition of Mountain West Broadcasting
proposing the allotment of Channel 221A to Summit City, California (RM-9590), IS DENIED.

     5.  IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That this proceeding IS TERMINATED.
  
     6.  For further information concerning the above, contact Nancy Joyner, Mass Media
  Bureau, (202) 418-2180.  
               
                    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
  
  
  
                         
                    John A. Karousos
                    Chief, Allocations Branch
                    Policy and Rules Division
                    Mass Media Bureau