FCC Closes PO Box for Industry CALEA Petition Payments, Moves to Electronic Filing
The FCC is closing a post office box used to collect fees from industry petitioners seeking relief from Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act obligations if they're "not reasonably achievable." A Tuesday order "will reduce Commission expenditures and modernize our…
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procedures by amending Section 1.109" of its rules. "The only current use of Section 1.1109 and P.O. Box 979092 [in St. Louis] is to collect fees for [CALEA] Section 109(b) petitions. The FCC has not received a Section 109(b) petition since 2002," said the order by commissioners in docket 17-123. Based on U.S. Treasury guidance, the commission is migrating from using P.O. boxes to an all-electronic payment system for application and regulatory fees, said the order. Future payments for Section 109(b) petitions will be made under procedures set forth on a commission webpage, but for now, such payments will be made through the Fee Filer Online System, it said.