Sec. 0.453  Public reference rooms.

    The Commission maintains the following public reference rooms at its 
offices in Washington, DC and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. With the 
exception of the Private Radio Bureau Reference Room, which is located 
in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, all reference rooms are located in 
Washington, DC:
    (a) The FCC Reference Center. The following documents, files and 
records are available for inspection at this location.
    (1) Files containing the record of all docketed cases. A file is 
maintained for each docketed hearing case and for each docketed rule 
making proceeding. Cards summarizing the history of such cases are 
available for inspection.
    (2) Broadcast applications and related files.
    (3) Files containing petitions for rule making and related papers.
    (b)  [Reserved]
    (c) The Library. Various legal and technical publications, and 
legislative history compilations, related to communications are 
available for inspection in the Library.
    (d) The Mass Media Bureau, Auxiliary Services Reference Room. The 
following documents, files and records are available for inspection at 
this location.
    (1) FM Translator applications and related files.
    (2) FM Booster station applications and related files.
    (e) The Mass Media Bureau, Enforcement Division Reference Room. The 
following documents, files and records are available for inspection at 
this location.
    (1) Station files containing Notice of Apparent Liability and 
Memorandum of Opinion and Order and related files.
    (2) Congressional correspondence files and related materials.
    (3) Network correspondence files and related materials.
    (f) The Common Carrier Bureau, Accounting and Audits Reference Room. 
The following documents, files and records are available for inspection 
at this location.
    (1) Files containing contracts between carriers and affiliates, 
accounts and subaccounts, pension filings, property records, disposition 
units, and depreciation rate filings.
    (2) Computer II files and related materials.
    (3) Official correspondence files which include waiver requests and 
interpretations and related files.
    (4) Docket 86-111 Implementation filings containing Cost Allocation 
Manuals and related materials.
    (g) The Common Carrier Bureau, Domestic Facilities Reference Room. 
The following documents, files and records are

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available for inspection at this location.
    (1) Microwave Point-to-Point and Digital Electronic Message Service 
(DEMS) application files and related materials.
    (2) Section 214 applications and related files, to the extent that 
they concern domestic communications facilities and services.
    (h) The Common Carrier Bureau, Mobile Services Reference Room. The 
following documents, files and records are available for inspection at 
two different locations. The Legal Branch is the responsible custodian 
for both locations.
    (1) Station files containing a complete history of data submitted by 
the applicant that has been approved by the Commission which includes 
maps, diagrams, petitions, co-channel searches, and other background 
material.
    (2) Pending files containing applications for additional facilities 
or modifications of existing facilities.
    (3) Cellular Granted Station files and related materials.
    (4) Pending cellular applications and related files.
    (5) Petitions and related materials.
    (i) The Common Carrier Bureau, Industry Analysis Reference Room. The 
following documents, files and records are available for inspection at 
this location.
    (1) Files containing reports required by FCC Rules and Regulations, 
annual reports to stockholders, administrative reports, monthly bypass 
reports and related materials.
    (2) Files containing reference material from major telephone 
companies.
    (3) Files containing Local Exchange Rates and related files.
    (j) The Common Carrier Bureau Reference Room, Tariff Review 
Reference Room. Contains currently effective tariffs filed by 
Communications Common Carriers pursuant to various FCC Rules and 
Regulations. Also available for review and copying are recent revisions 
to tariff filings and the Public Reference Room Log which is prepared 
daily and lists the tariff filings received the previous day.
    (k) The Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC Laboratory 
Reference Room. The following documents, files and records are available 
for inspection at this location. Files containing approved applications 
for Equipment Authorization (Type accepted, type approved, certified and 
notified) and related materials are available for review. These files 
are available in the Commission's Laboratory in Columbia, Maryland.
    (l) The Private Radio Bureau Reference Room. Commercial radio 
operator application files and all authorizations in the Private Radio 
Services and files relating thereto, which includes Land Mobile, 
Microwave, Aviation Ground and Marine Coast applications. All of these 
materials are available in the Commission's offices in Gettysburg, 
Pennsylvania. See Sec. 0.457(f)(3). This reference room also contains 
station files containing applications and related materials for Remote 
Pickup, Aural STL/ICR, TV Auxiliary, and Low Power Auxiliary Stations in 
the Mass Media services. This reference room also contains station files 
containing applications and related materials for the Point-to-Point 
Microwave (including the Local Television Transmission Service) and 
Digital Electronic Message (DEMS) services in the Common Carrier 
services. Cards summarizing the historical record of applications and 
dispositions of the Broadcast Auxiliary service through May 1982 are 
available for inspection as well.
    (m) The International Bureau Reference Room. Except to the extent 
they are excluded from routine public inspection under another section 
of this chapter, the following documents, files, and records are 
available for inspection at this location:
    (1) Satellite and earth station applications files and related 
materials under parts 25 and 100 of this chapter;
    (2) Section 214 applications and related files under part 63 of this 
chapter, to the extent that they concern international communications 
facilities and services;
    (3) International Fixed Public Radio applications and related files 
under part 23 of this chapter;
    (4) Files relating to submarine cable landing licenses and 
applications for such licenses since June 30, 1934, except for maps 
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submarine cables, which are withheld from inspection under section 4(j) 
of the Communications Act (see Sec. 0.457(c)(1)(i));
    (5) Files relating to international settlements under part 64 of 
this chapter;
    (6) Documents relating to INTELSAT or INMARSAT;
    (7) International broadcast applications, applications for 
permission to deliver programming to foreign stations, and related files 
under part 73 of this chapter; and
    (8) International settlement agreements and contracts and 
international cable agreements.
    (n) The Cable Services Bureau Reference Center. The following 
documents, files and records are available for inspection at this 
location.
    (1) All complaints regarding cable programming rates, all documents 
filed in connection therewith, and all communications related thereto, 
unless the cable operator has submitted a request pursuant to Sec. 0.459 
that such information not be made routinely available for public 
inspection.
    (2) All cable operator requests for approval of existing or 
increased cable television rates for basic service and associated 
equipment over which the Commission has assumed jurisdiction, all 
documents filed in connection therewith, and all communications related 
thereto, unless the cable operator has submitted a request pursuant to 
Sec. 0.459 that such information not be made routinely available for 
public inspection.
    (3) Special relief petitions and files pertaining to cable 
television operations.
    (4) Cable television system reports filed by operators pursuant to 
Sec. 76.403 of this chapter.
[ 32 FR 10573 , July 19, 1967, as amended at  36 FR 15121 , Aug. 13, 1971; 
 46 FR 27655 , May 21, 1981;  50 FR 40014 , Oct. 1, 1985;  52 FR 38764 , Oct. 
19, 1987;  58 FR 19772 , Apr. 16, 1993;  59 FR 32132 , June 22, 1994;  59 FR 38374 , July 28, 1994;  60 FR 5325 , Jan. 27, 1995;  60 FR 35507 , July 10, 
1995]