FCC Form 2100, Schedule 340 – Noncommercial Educational Station for Reserved Channel Construction Permit Application

The Commission is requesting an extension of this information collection in order to receive approval/clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for three years. FCC Form 2100, Schedule 340, Noncommercial Educational Station for Reserved Channel Construction Permit Application (Schedule 340), is used to apply for authority to construct a new full-service noncommercial educational (NCE ) FM or DTV broadcast station (including a DTS facility ), to make changes in an authorized NCE broadcast station, or to amend a pending Schedule 340 application. Schedule 340 is used only if the station will operate on a channel that is reserved exclusively for NCE use, or in the situation where applications for NCE stations on non-reserved channels are mutually exclusive only with one another. Also, Schedule 340 is used by Native American Tribes and Alaska Native Villages (Tribes), Tribal consortia, or entities owned or controlled by Tribes when qualifying for the “Tribal Priority” under 47 CFR §§ 73.7000, 73.7002. Schedule 340’s Online Notice (third party disclosure) Requirement: 47 CFR Section 73.3580, as amended in the Commission’s 2020 Public Notice Second Report and Order, discussed below, requires local public notice of the filing of all applications to construct a new full-service NCE FM or DTV broadcast station. Notice is given by an applicant posting notice of the application filing on its station website, its licensee website, its parent entity website, or on a publicly accessible, locally targeted website, for 30 consecutive days beginning within five business days of acceptance of the application for filing. The online notice must link to a copy of the application as filed, either in the station’s Online Public Inspection File or in another Commission database. Please see the non-substantive change request justification for the reason behind this submission to the Office of Management and Budget.

The latest form for FCC Form 2100, Schedule 340 – Noncommercial Educational Station for Reserved Channel Construction Permit Application expires 2026-09-30 and can be found here.

Noncommercial Educational Station for Reserved Channel Construction Permit Application

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