Federal Communications Commission DA 14-757
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Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matter of
City of Los Angeles Fire Department, California
Request for Waiver and Extension of Time
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WT Docket No. 02-55
ORDER
Adopted:  June 3, 2014                  Released: June 3, 2014
By the Deputy Chief, Policy and Licensing Division, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau:
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Under consideration is the May 28, 2014 Request for Waiver to Provide Additional Time for 
Completing Planning and Submitting a Cost Estimate to Sprint Nextel and the 800 MHz Transition 
Administrator (Request) filed by the City of Los Angeles Fire Department, California (LAFD).  LAFD
seeks an extension of time until June 30, 2014 to submit a cost estimate for reconfiguration of its 800 
MHz communications system.  For the reasons set out below, the Request is granted.
II. BACKGROUND
2. LAFD claims that this additional time is no more than is necessary to complete the cost 
estimate and therefore a grant of this waiver will serve the public interest.  LAFD states that it has “made 
significant progress in completing its planning.”
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LAFD represents that “[b]oth system and subscriber 
inventory have been completed, and [LAFD’s] vendor, Motorola, recently provided [LAFD] with a 
reconfiguration implementation proposal [RIPA].”
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  Additionally, LAFD states that it “has made 
significant progress in planning [LAFD’s] internal costs, based on Motorola’s work proposal.”
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However, LAFD requests additional time to finalize internal costs and to complete internal reviews and 
approvals. LAFD states that it “has been delayed in part due to the very large number of emergency 
response activities [LAFD] has been required to undertake, triggered by unusual draught [sic] and 
unseasonable heat.”
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III. DECISION
3. Section 1.46(a) of the Commission’s rules states that “[i]t is the policy of the Commission 
that extensions of time shall not be routinely granted.”
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  The Bureau has emphasized that the “import of 
                                                     
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Request at 1.
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Id. at 1-2.
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Id. at 2.
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47 C.F.R. § 1.46(a).
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that rule is especially relevant to 800 MHz rebanding where delay in rebanding by one licensee can cause 
a ‘domino effect’ delay in the rebanding efforts of other licensees that have met the Commission’s 800 
MHz band reconfiguration deadlines with a consequent delay of the overall program. We therefore afford 
a high degree of scrutiny to the reasons licensees advance for extensions of time.”
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4. We have applied the requisite high degree of scrutiny to LAFD’s Request and find that LAFD
has exercised diligence and credit LAFD’s representation that it has made significant progress in planning 
internal costs based on the Motorola RIPA.  We also credit LAFD’s statement that its internal reviews and 
approvals have been delayed in part due to the very large number of emergency response activities that 
LAFD has been required to undertake in response to unseasonable heat and drought.
IV. ORDERING CLAUSES
5. Accordingly IT IS ORDERED, that the Further Request for Extension of Time to Submit 
Cost Estimate for Frequency Reconfiguration, submitted May 28, 2014 by the City of Los Angeles Fire 
Department, California, IS GRANTED.
6. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that the City of Los Angeles Fire Department, California shall 
file a cost estimate with Sprint Corporation and the 800 MHz Transition Administrator on or before June
30, 2014.
7. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, if the City of Los Angeles Fire Department, California
fails to file a cost estimate with Sprint Corporation and the 800 MHz Transition Administrator by June 
30, 2014, it shall file a further request for extension of time within which to do so, in which the City of 
Los Angeles Fire Department, California, sets forth its efforts to comply with the instant Order, being 
specific as to dates and descriptions of those efforts.
8. This action is taken under delegated authority pursuant to Sections 0.191(a) and 0.392 of the 
Commission's Rules, 47 C.F.R. §§ 0.191(a), 0.392.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Michael J. Wilhelm
Deputy Chief, Policy and Licensing Division 
Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau 
                                                     
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Regents of the University of California, WT Docket No. 02-55, Order, 28 FCC Rcd 15920, 15921 (PSHSB 
2013).