FCC Denies Locality Bid to Extend Monday Wireless, Wireline Infrastructure Reply Date
FCC staff kept a Monday reply comment deadline for wireless and wireline infrastructure rulemakings. A Wireless and Wireline bureau order in Friday's Daily Digest denied the request of the National League of Cities and other local groups for a one-month…
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reply extension in dockets 17-84 and 17-79 (see 1707070047). The groups cited the volume and complexity of initial comments and other reasons (see 1706160015 and 1706160041). Noting many commission rulemaking notices "raise complex issues involving a broad array of rules and attract large number of initial comments," the bureaus said to grant an extension on those grounds, absent other significant factors, would thwart the agency objective of conducting orderly proceedings and promptly resolving disputes.