§ 0.453   Public reference rooms.

   The Commission maintains the FCC Reference Information Center as its public
   reference room at its offices in Washington, DC. Much of the information
   available from the public reference room may also be retrieved from the
   Commission's main Web site at http://www.fcc.gov and its electronic reading
   room at http://www.fcc.gov/foia/e-room.html:

   (a) The Reference Information Center. Maintains files containing the record
   of all docketed cases, petitions for rule making and related papers. A file
   is maintained for each docketed hearing case and for each docketed rule
   making proceeding. Cards summarizing the history of such cases for the years
   before  1984 are available for inspection. Information summarizing the
   history of such cases for the years from 1984 through present is available
   online on the Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS).

   (b) Broadcast Services. The following files and documents are available,
   including:

   (1) Applications for radio and television broadcast station construction
   permits, licenses, modifications of facilities, license renewal, assignments
   and transfer of control, including any Commission correspondence or rulings
   pertaining to those applications;

   (2) Petitions to deny, informal objections, and complaints directed against
   the stations and/or station applications;

   (3)  Ownership reports filed by licensees pursuant to § 73.3615 of this
   chapter;

   (4) Television network application contracts, radio and television time
   brokerage  agreements,  and other documents required to be filed under
   § 73.3613 of this chapter;

   (5) Children's television programming reports filed by commercial television
   licensees pursuant to § 73.3526 of this chapter;

   (6) Annual DTV ancillary/supplementary services reports filed by commercial
   and non-commercial educational digital television licensees pursuant to
   § 73.624 of this chapter;

   (7)  Station  requests  for  declaratory  rulings,  special  temporary
   authorizations, and other waivers;

   (8) Annual employment reports filed by licensees and permittees of broadcast
   stations pursuant to § 73.3612 of this chapter; and.

   (9) Responses from licensees to random audits of their Equal Employment
   Opportunity programs conducted pursuant to § 73.2080 of this chapter.

   (c) Common Carrier Services, including:

   (1) Annual reports filed by carriers under § 43.21 of this chapter;

   (2) Reports of proposed changes in depreciation rates filed by carriers
   under § 43.43 of this chapter;

   (3) Rate-of-return reports filed by price-cap and rate-of-return incumbent
   local exchange carriers under § 65.600 of this chapter;

   (4) All applications for common carrier authorizations acted upon by the
   Enforcement Bureau, and related files;

   (5) All formal and informal carrier-to-carrier complaints against common
   carriers filed under § 1.711 through § 1.735 of this chapter, all documents
   filed in connection therewith, and all communications related thereto;

   (6)  Annual  employment  reports  filed by common carrier licensees or
   permittees pursuant to § 1.815 of this chapter;

   (7) Enforcement proceedings and public inquiries and related materials;

   (8) Cost Allocation Manuals and related materials;

   (9) Currently effective tariffs filed by Communications Common Carriers
   pursuant to various FCC Rules and Regulations; and

   (10) Recent revisions to tariff filings and the Reference Information Center
   Log, which is prepared daily and lists the tariff filings received the
   previous day.

   (d) Wireless Telecommunications Services and Auction related data including:

   (1) Pending files containing applications for additional facilities or
   modifications of existing facilities;

   (2) Cellular and Paging Granted Station files and related materials;

   (3) Pending cellular and paging applications and related files;

   (4) Electronically stored application and licensing data for commercial
   radio operators and for all authorizations in the Wireless Radio services
   are  available  for  public  inspection via the Commission's Web site,
   http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls. Wireless Radio services include Commercial and
   Private  Mobile  Radio,  Common  Carrier and Private Operational Field
   point-to-point Microwave, Local Television Transmission Service (LTTS),
   Digital Electronic Message Service (DEMS), Aviation Ground and Marine Coast
   applications; and

   (5) Petitions and related materials.

   (e)  International  Services as follows, except to the extent they are
   excluded  from routine public inspection under another section of this
   chapter:

   (1) Satellite and earth station applications files and related materials
   under part 25 of this chapter;

   (2)  Section  214 applications and related files under part 63 of this
   chapter,  to the extent that they concern international communications
   facilities and services;

   (3) International Fixed Public Radio applications and related files under
   part 23 of this chapter;

   (4) Files relating to submarine cable landing licenses and applications for
   such  licenses  since June 30, 1934, except for maps showing the exact
   location of submarine cables, which are withheld from inspection under sec.
   4(j) of the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. 154(j) (see § 0.457(c)(1)(i));

   (5) International broadcast applications, applications for permission to
   deliver programming to foreign stations, and related files under part 73 of
   this chapter; and

   (6) Contracts and other arrangements filed under § 43.51 of this chapter,
   except for those that are filed with a request for confidential treatment
   (see  § 0.459)  or  are deemed confidential pursuant to sec. 412 of the
   Communications Act (see also § 0.457(c)(3)).

   (f) Cable and other Multichannel Video Program Distribution Services. The
   following files and records are available, including:

   (1) Complaints regarding multichannel video programming, all documents filed
   in connection therewith, and all communications related thereto, unless the
   cable  operator  has  submitted a request pursuant to § 0.459 that such
   information not be made routinely available for public inspection;

   (2)  Special relief petitions and files pertaining to cable television
   operations;

   (3)  Special  relief  petitions and files pertaining to DBS television
   operations;

   (4)  Petitions  and  related  documents  concerning the enforcement of
   regulations governing the installation of over-the-air reception devices
   (OTARD) pursuant to § 1.4000 of this chapter;

   (5) Filings by cable television operators, including Cable Signal Leakage
   Reports (Form 320 and § 76.1804 of this chapter), Cable System Registration
   Statements  (§ 76.1801  of this chapter), Cable System Operator Changes
   (§ 76.1610 of this chapter), Cable Aeronautical Frequency Notifications
   (§ 76.1804 of this chapter), Cable Annual Report (Form 325 and § 76.403 of
   this  chapter),  and filings related to CARS licenses (Part 78 of this
   chapter).

   Note   to   paragraph   (f)(5):   This   data  also  is  available  at
   http://www.fcc.gov/coals.  Electronic  submissions  for  cable filings
   (excluding  CARS)  are mandatory. Original forms are not available for
   information filed electronically, but the Reference Information Center or
   the Commission's Copy Contractor may assist in producing paper copies of
   information found in the COALS database;

   (6)  Annual employment reports filed by multichannel video programming
   distributors pursuant to § 76.1802 of this chapter; and

   (7) Responses from multichannel video programming distributors to random
   audits of their Equal Employment Opportunity programs conducted pursuant to
   § 76.77 of this chapter.

   [ 74 FR 14078 , Mar. 30, 2009, as amended at  76 FR 24389 , May 2, 2011]

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