Attachment Cover Letter

This document pretains to SES-STA-20140213-00070 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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February 12, 2014 Paul Blais System Analysis Branch Satellite Division International Bureau Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street SW Washington, DC 20554 Re: Request for Renewal of Special Temporary Authority Dear Mr. Blais, Pursuant to Section 25.120(a) of the Rules and Regulations (“Regulations”) of the Federal Communications Commission (“Commission”), Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. (“Andarko”) seeks Commission consideration to renew a Special Temporary Authority (“STA”) file number SES-STA- 20140107-00008 to operate an earth station while permanent authority is under review. According to Section 25.120(b)(3) of the Regulations, the Commission may grant temporary authority for a period not to exceed 60 days, if the STA request has not been placed on public notice, and the applicant plans to file a request for regular authority for the service. In the instant case, the STA request has not been placed on public notice and Anadarko has filed an application for permanent authority1. Therefore, Anadarko respectfully requests an STA for a period not to exceed 60 days. Anadarko notes that the permanent application has been placed on public notice for over 30 days. According to Section 25.120 (b)(1) of the Regulations, "The Commission may grant a temporary authorization only upon a finding that there are extraordinary circumstances requiring temporary operations in the public interest and that delay in the institution of these temporary operations would seriously prejudice the public interest.” In the instant case, Anadarko plans to provide service to the Lucius Spar platform located in the KC875 block of the Gulf of Mexico. As such, it provides lifeline communications to the crew aboard the platform. The satellite link will be used extensively by crew members that depend on it for their voice and data needs. Therefore, it is in the public interest that communications to the platform continue uninterrupted. Anything potentially affecting the safety of platform personnel is in the public interest. Frequency coordination has been completed resulting in the conclusion that no harmful interference will be caused to fixed systems by the proposed satellite antenna. The antenna at issue is a Seatel 9797 which is in the FCC list of approved non-routine earth station antennas. The current application plans to use the Satmex 6 (247E) satellite. In order to ensure timely communications to crew member of the platform, the requested date for prior use is February 17 2014. In accordance to Section 25.120(a) of the Regulations, this STA is being filed at least 3 working days prior to the date of proposed operation. Because of the nature of operations in this platform, it is in the public interest that the proposed earth station be operational to accommodate the critical calls that are placed by platform personnel. In addition, should there be an emergency in this platform; this earth station would be used to place calls to communicate with the appropriate agencies. 1 See Application file number SES-LIC-20140107-00007


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