FCC Commissioners Push Back at Commerce's Orbital Debris Suggestions
Commissioners Mike O'Rielly, Jessica Rosenworcel and Geoffrey Starks all pushed back against Commerce Department suggestions regarding the orbital debris proceeding (see 1904080033). After Friday's agency meeting, O'Rielly said he was "troubled" by the Commerce notion the FCC should pause its…
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proceeding given that Commerce hasn't made any proposal to move forward on its own. Rosenworcel said she was concerned about the idea that the FCC, with authority over commercial spectrum and commercial actors, cede that authority to Commerce, which oversees federal actors. "The space age is big enough to accommodate both" and the FCC "should be sitting in the front" instead of "letting others take the lead," she said. Echoed Starks, "We have a congressional and statutory mandate to be in this lane" and the agency needs to address the issues in the fashion Congress tasked it with doing. Commissioner Brendan Carr said he hadn't read the Commerce filing. Chairman Ajit Pai's office didn't comment.