The FCC will no longer accept filings to its Consolidated Database System (CDBS) after 5pm Eastern on Wednesday, January 12.
Stating that the action is necessary due to pressing technical issues that prevent the effective use of CDBS going forward and is intended to facilitate the ongoing transition of all filings to the Licensing and Management System (LMS) database, anyone seeking to submit new filings using CDBS or amendments to existing applications that were previously filed using CDBS must follow new procedures.
While most CDBS filings have already been transferred to the new LMS system, all additional filings that sill went through the CDBS must now be submitted as a PDF by email along with proof of any necessary filing fees being paid. The types of applications that will require email submission until they are transferred to the LMS are:
- AM Application for Construction Permit for Commercial Broadcast Station on Form 3012
- AM Application for Construction Permit for Reserved Channel Noncommercial Educational Broadcast Station on Form 3403
- AM Applications for Broadcast Station License on Form 3024
- Special Temporary Authority (STA) Engineering Requests and Extension of Engineering STA Requests for all audio service stations
- Silent STA / Notification of Suspension/ Resumption of Operations / Extension of Silent STA Requests for all audio service stations
- Change in official mailing address
- AM Digital Notification on Form 335-AM
- All-Digital AM Notification on Form 335-AM
- FM Digital Notification on Form 335-FM
- Amendments to pending applications previously submitted in CDBS
- Pleadings (Petitions to Deny, Informal Objections, Oppositions, Replies, Supplements, Petitions for Reconsideration and Applications for Review) concerning applications submitted through CDBS or using the email procedures
The full notice with instructions and contacts for assistance can be read here.
