As the FCC explained in its NPRM, Congress, through the Ray Baum's Act, is compelling regulatory agencies such as the FCC to recover from applicants the costs involved in filing and handling applications. The proposal affects all FCC services and does not single out amateur radio.
The 2018 statute excludes the Amateur Service from annual regulatory fees, but not from application fees. The FCC NPRM proposes application fees for a broad range of services that use the FCC's Universal Licensing System (ULS), including the Amateur Radio Service. The FCC proposal is contained in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ( NPRM) in MD Docket 20-270, which was adopted to implement portions of the "Repack Airwaves Yielding Better Access for Users of Modern Services Act" of 2018 - the so-called " Ray Baum's Act." The Act requires that the FCC switch from a congressionally-mandated fee structure to a cost-based system of assessment. Amateur Service licensees have been exempt from application fees for several years. Excluded are applications for administrative updates, such as changes of address, and annual regulatory fees. The FCC has also proposed a $50 fee to obtain a printed copy of a license.
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Under the proposal, amateur radio licensees would pay a $50 fee for each amateur radio application for new licenses, license renewals, upgrades to existing licenses, and vanity call sign requests. " I appreciate ARRL notifying members of the proposal and especially the guidance on submitting a comment. Please accept my thanks for the October 27, 2020, special edition of The ARRL Letter, " ARRL Urges Members to Join in Strongly Opposing FCC's Application Fees Proposal. "Let's highlight amateur radio's long history of public service."
"We encourage all members to use the ARRL Guide to file comments opposing the imposition of the proposed $50 application fee," ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, said. File comments on MD Docket 20-270 using the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System ( ECFS). ARRL has prepared a Guide to Filing Comments with the FCC which includes tips for preparing comments and step-by-step filing instructions. The FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ( NPRM) MD Docket 20-270 appeared in the October 15 edition of The Federal Register and sets deadlines of November 16 to comment and November 30 to post reply comments, which are comments on comments already filed. With the November 16 comment deadline fast approaching, ARRL urges members to add their voices to ARRL's by filing opposition comments of their own. ARRL Urges Members to Join in Strongly Opposing FCC's Application Fees ProposalĪRRL will file comments in firm opposition to an FCC proposal to impose a $50 fee on amateur radio license and application fees.
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