§  73.871   Amendment of LPFM broadcast station applications.

   (a) New and major change applications may be amended without limitation
   during the pertinent filing window.

   (b) Amendments that would improve the comparative position of new and
   major change applications will not be accepted after the close of the
   pertinent filing window.

   (c) Only minor amendments to new and major change applications will be
   accepted after the close of the pertinent filing window. Subject to the
   provisions of this section, such amendments may be filed as a matter of
   right by the date specified in the FCC's Public Notice announcing the
   acceptance of such applications. For the purposes of this section,
   minor amendments are limited to:

   (1) Filings subject to paragraph (c)(5) of this section, site
   relocations of 5.6 kilometers or less for LPFM stations;

   (2) Filings subject to paragraph (c)(5), site relocations of 5.6
   kilometers or less for LP100 stations;

   (3) Changes in ownership where the original party or parties to an
   application retain more than a 50 percent ownership interest in the
   application as originally filed;

   (4) Universal voluntary time-sharing agreements to apportion vacant
   time among the licensees;

   (5) Other changes in general and/or legal information;

   (6) Filings proposing transmitter site relocation to a common location
   submitted by applications that are parties to a voluntary time-sharing
   agreement with regard to their stations pursuant to §  73.872 (c) and
   (e); and

   (7) Filings proposing transmitter site relocation to a common location
   or a location very close to another station operating on a
   third-adjacent channel in order to remediate interference to the other
   station.

   (d) Unauthorized or untimely amendments are subject to return by the
   FCC's staff without consideration.

   [ 66 FR 23863 , May 10, 2001, as amended at  70 FR 39186 , July 7, 2005;  73 FR 3217 , Jan. 17, 2008;  78 FR 2108 , Jan. 9, 2013]

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