The Homeland Security and Justice departments said they don’t object to...
The Homeland Security and Justice departments said they don’t object to the FCC’s tack in an order the commission shared with those agencies Feb. 26 on foreign ownership of common carrier and aeronautical radio licenses under Section 310(b) of the…
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Telecom Act. That second report and order “represents an effort to reach a reasonable compromise based on positions raised by many parties during this proceeding” in docket 11-133, “including those filed by DOJ and DHS,” the two agencies said in a letter posted Thursday in that docket. “Commission staff will continue to coordinate all relevant petitions for declaratory ruling and license applications with the relevant Executive Branch agencies,” the letter said (http://bit.ly/YIBQss). “Such agencies will retain the opportunity to petition the Commission to defer action on, and condition, limit or deny the grant of, petitions for declaratory rulings and applications with foreign ownership, including applications for initial licenses, assignments and transfers of control under Section 310, as well as other sections of the Act as appropriate.” The national-security agencies “will retain the opportunity to request from petitioners, and to evaluate prior to Commission action, additional information relevant to any possible national security and law enforcement concerns,” it continued. The FCC issued a first report and order in the summer (http://bit.ly/13LzXAj). A second report and order circulated Feb. 28, the agency’s list of items on circulation said. It said it was from the International Bureau, the bureau that had its chief, Mindel De La Torre, listed as the recipient of DHS and Justice’s Thursday letter.