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[João Costa > CT1FBF]

FCC Closures- House Committee asks for documents

There are plans to close two-thirds of all FCC field offices, the ARRL
reports on the latest developments

The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce has given the Federal
Communications Commission a May 7 deadline to produce documents related to
FCC Enforcement Bureau proposals to close two-thirds of its field offices
and eliminate nearly one-half of its staff of field agents.
In an April 23 letter, Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) told FCC
Chairman Tom Wheeler that his panel wants the Commission to provide all
documents relating to the proposed closures.

“[Y]our proposal to shutter 16 of the Commission’s 24 field offices raises
significant challenges and concerns,� Upton said. “The Commission has
represented to Congress and the American people that it will ‘preserve the
integrity of public safety communications infrastructure by taking action
on 99 percent of complaints of interference to public safety communications
within 1 day,’ yet your proposal to reduce the geographic footprint of the
Commission appears to ignore the impact this might have on the Commission’s
public interest goal.� Upton said the Commission has offered little
information to support its proposals. “Indeed, our concerns have only been
heightened by the Commission’s failure to provide all the information
requested by the Committee,� he wrote.

The field office and personnel layoff proposals were outlined in a March 10
internal memorandum from Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc and FCC
Managing Director Jon Wilkins to EB field staff. The memo, obtained by ARRL
and others, cited the need to take “a fresh look� at the Bureau’s
20-year-old operating model in light of technology changes and tighter
budgets.

Read the full ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/house-committee-asks-fcc-for-documents-related-to-proposed-enforcement-bureau-closures
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