Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 1997

Résumé

On June 26, 1997, the Commission released a Report and Order that revised its Schedule of Regulatory Fees in order to recover the amount of regulatory fees that Congress, pursuant to Section 9(a) of the Communications Act, as amended, has required it to collect for Fiscal Year (FY) 1997. See 47 U.S.C. 159 (a). The intended effect of this action is to seek further comments concerning our proposals to require Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS) licensees to maintain and make available to the Commission within 30 days, upon request by the Managing Director, pursuant to delegated authority, documentation concerning the basis for their fee payment; require that non-profit entities exempt from the regulatory fee requirement because of possessing either non-profit status under Sec. 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 501, or certification as a non-profit corporation or other non-profit entity by state or other governmental authority submit documentation of their non-profit status; and publish annually in the Federal Register lists of those commercial communications firms and businesses who have paid a regulatory fee for the preceding fiscal year (except licensees for vanity cal