Attachment Request to Accept

This document pretains to SES-RWL-INTR2019-01351 for Renewal on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESRWLINTR201901351_1675847

Request to Accept Application This Request to Accept Application is filed with the license renewal application for receive-only earth station E040259 (the “Station”). The license for the Station expires June 3, 2019. Pursuant to 47 CFR Section 25.121(e), a license renewal application must be filed no later than 30 days prior to the expiration date. Because the 30th day prior to the expiration of the Station’s license occurred on Saturday, May 4 (a weekend), the filing deadline was the next business day, or Monday, May 6. 47 CFR Section 1.4(j). On Monday, May 6, undersigned counsel attempted for many hours without success to access the Commission’s MyIBFS system to submit the renewal application. The application was drafted previously, but information regarding the licensee’s certifying officer was required to be modified prior to submission. Counsel contacted the Commission’s Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau in the afternoon on May 6, and after waiting on hold for a while the representative I talked with advised me that I had to contact directly the International Bureau to address problems with MyIBFS. He also provided me the telephone number to do so (202- 418-2222). The representative also mentioned that I was not the only person who had experienced problems accessing MyIBFS that day. I then called the contact number for the Bureau, receiving a voice mail message that no one was available. I left a voice mail message explaining my problem and providing my contact information. I also sent an email message to ibfsinfo@fcc.gov providing information about my inability to access MyIBFS, as instructed in the voice mail message from the Bureau. I continued to try to access MyIBFS throughout the evening without success, until approximately 10 p.m. This morning I was able to access MyIBFS to complete the renewal application filing. I prepared this Request to Accept Application to accompany the application, to seek leave to file the application one day late because of the inaccessibility of MyIBFS as described above. The inability to access MyIBFS yesterday precluded the filing of the application and was beyond the applicant’s control. Acceptance of the application the next day will not cause any harm and is not inconsistent with the purposes of the rules. To the extent necessary, a waiver of 47 CFR Section 25.121(e) is requested for the Bureau to accept and process this application. Mark Van Bergh, Esquire 1625 S. Nelson St. Arlington, VA 22204 703-298-4870 Counsel to the University of Kansas May 7, 2019


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