Attachment Exhibit B - Item 8

This document pretains to SES-RWL-20100830-01139 for Renewal on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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Koch Pipeline Company LP FCC Form 312-R Exhibit B August 2010 Exhibit B Supplemental Response to Item 8 of FCC Form 312-R Koch Pipeline Company, L.P. (“Koch”) notes that when it filed its most recent modification application in 2001 for the present domestic fixed satellite authorization, Koch answered the felony conviction question, under the Basic Qualifications section of the Form 312 (Item 37 of the form), in the negative. Koch should have responded “yes” to that question, with the following explanation: Felony Plea of Koch Industries, Inc.: On September 19, 1980, Koch Industries, Inc. (“KII”), an entity that indirectly controls Koch Pipeline Company, L.P., was sentenced to a $50,000 fine by the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The sentence was the result of Koch Industries’ plea agreement resolving charges that it and other defendants had manipulated a lottery administered by the Federal Bureau of Land Management by submitting more applications for oil and gas leases than the rules permitted. Although the incident in question occurred 30 years ago, Koch Pipeline Company, L.P. is making this disclosure out of an abundance of caution. In 2005, as part of an Enforcement Bureau Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”), KII advised the Commission of the 1980 felony conviction, and explained that this conviction inadvertently was not disclosed in certain KII subsidiary FCC license application filings. As a result, in 2006, the Enforcement Bureau and KII resolved the investigation by entering into a Consent Decree. As part of that Consent Decree, the Commission agreed to terminate its NOI and not to pursue further enforcement action against KII and its subsidiary companies for violation of Section 1.17 of the rules, which requires truthful answers to the felony conviction question. (See Koch Industries, Inc., Order, File No. EB-05-IH-0717, rel. March 23, 2006 (Chief, Enforcement Bureau). DWT 15295994v1 0109113-000000


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