[SCCC] Fwd: Radio World: FCC Names First Enforcement Bureau Field Director

[Dennis Vernacchia]

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Date: Nov 16, 2015 3:20 PM
Subject: Radio World: FCC Names First Enforcement Bureau Field Director

http://www.radioworld.com/article/fcc-names-first-enforcement-bureau-field-director/277526

FCC Names First Enforcement Bureau Field Director

FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc announced Friday in an internal
email to staff that he plans to appoint the FCC’s first ever Enforcement
Bureau field director, Charles Cooper. Cooper comes from engineering
consulting firm du Treil, Lundin & Rackley, where he was a partner and
senior engineer.
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>> LeBlanc has left no doubt his bureau is out to protect the commission's
view of the public interest, and will have even more chance to flex
Enforcement bureau muscle if the FCC’s new net neutrality rules, which call
for a case by case/complaint process for a host of potential issues,
survive a court challenge.
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>> But the bureau will need to do more with less, at least fewer field
offices. The FCC is closing 11 of 24 field offices.
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>> Cooper will be based in Los Angeles and oversee all field operations,
including representing those operations in interagency meetings and
implementing the FCC’s July 16 Field Modernization Order, which included
closing the offices and relocating others (
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-plan-modernize-field-operations-0).
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>> Broadcasters and some on Capitol Hill had complained about the number of
planned field office closures, particularly given the post-incentive
auction TV station repack and potential interference issues. But those
closures wound up being scaled back from two-thirds to fewer than half.
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>> Until the bureau sets up the new regional management team in L.A., Jim
Lyon, district director for the San Diego office, which is closing, will
oversee the L.A. office.
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>> — Broadcasting & Cable