Federal Communications Commission DA 13-1574 Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Amendment of Parts 0, 1, 2, and 15 of the Commission’s Rules regarding Authorization of Radiofrequency Equipment Amendment of Part 68 regarding Approval of Terminal Equipment by Telecommunications Certification Bodies ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ET Docket No. 13-44 RM-11652 ORDER Adopted: July 12, 2013 Released: July 15, 2013 By the Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology: 1. On February 12, 2013, the Commission adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice”) in the above captioned proceeding.1 Comments were due on June 17, 2013 and reply comments are due on July 17, 2013.2 2. On July 2, 2013, the American National Standards Institute Accredited Standards Committee C63 ("ASC C63") requested a two-week extension of the deadline for submitting reply comments. ASC C63 states that the requested extension is warranted to facilitate a more thorough consideration of the important technical and policy issues raised in the comments and will not cause undue delay of this proceeding. It believes that the current deadline may impact its ability to obtain and coordinate input from its members, and that added time will allow it to prepare reply comments that better reflect the views of its members. 3. The Commission does not routinely grant extensions of time in rulemaking proceedings. However, we believe that a short extension of the reply comment deadline will provide parties an opportunity to fully analyze and respond to the many comments filed on a variety of points in response to the Notice. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to the delegated authority contained in 47 C.F.R. §§ 0.31 and 0.241(a), that the time period for filing reply comments in the above captioned proceeding IS EXTENDED to July 31, 2013. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Julius P. Knapp Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology 1 See Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in ET Docket No. 13-44, 28 FCC Rcd 1606 (2013). 2 See 78 FR 25917 (May 3, 2013).