FCC contemplates postcard billing process
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/27/2003 3:23:00 AM
The Federal Communications Commission has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking on its 2003 regulatory fees.
One of the changes it is proposing is a postcard collection procedure for stations and others.
Instead of having to calculate fees from public notices, stations would effectively be billed by the FCC, receiving a postcard from the FCC with the station's call sign, address, ID number and the amount owed.
The station would then check for any mistakes and "remit with payment," as it were.
The commission will test the system with a control population of media users with an eye toward expanding it if the response is positive.
The FCC also wants to stop mailing those tens of thousands of public notices telling licensees when fees are due and how they should calculate them, instead wanting to scrap the mailing and post them on the commission Web site (http://www.fcc.gov/fees).
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