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                                   Released:   July 16, 1998
  




         EX PARTE PRESENTATION IN MM DOCKET NO.  96-16



By letter dated June 15, 1998, the National Council of Women's Organizations, noting the
Commission's action to seek further review of the recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision in
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod v. FCC, 141 F. 3d 344 (D.C. Cir. 1998,  pet. for reh. filed May
29, 1998), and observing that the court's decision declined to address "gender classification,"
recommended that the Commission review and redevelop its Equal Employment Opportunity
Rules.  The letter briefly mentioned the Lutheran Church proceeding, a matter that is restricted
under the Commission's ex parte rules.  Because this letter more directly relates to the merits or
outcome of the Commission's pending rulemaking proceeding in MM Docket No. 96-16
(Streamlining Broadcast EEO Rule and Policies), we have determined that the public interest
would best be served by treating this as directed to that rulemaking proceeding and not the
Lutheran Church proceeding.  Accordingly, since the rulemaking proceeding is a permit-but-
disclose proceeding under the ex parte rules, the letter will be included in the record of MM
Docket No. 96-16.  Any other similar ex parte presentations will be treated in the same manner.

Action by Assistant General Counsel, Administrative Law Division


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