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 Federal  Communications  Commission  FCC  00-  375 
 Before  the 
 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 
 Washington,  D.  C.  20554 


 In  re  Applications  of  ) 
 ) 
 OLE  BROOK  BROADCASTING,  INC.  )  File  No.  BPH-  950511MI 
 )  Facility  ID  No.  76262 
 and  ) 
 ) 
 LEOLA  D.  DICKEY  )  File  No.  BPH-  950503MC 
 )  Facility  ID  No.  76204 
 For  Construction  Permit  for  a  New  FM  ) 
 Station,  Channel  282C3  ) 
 Bude,  Mississippi  ) 


 MEMORANDUM  OPINION  AND  ORDER 
 Adopted:  October  17,  2000  Released:  October  20,  2000 
 By  the  Commission: 
 1.  The  Commission  has  before  it  a  Petition  for  Reconsideration  filed  March  30,  2000  by  Evan 
 Doss,  Jr.  (“  Doss”),  in  which  Doss  requests  that  we  reconsider  our  ruling  in  Ole  Brook  Broadcasting,  Inc., 
 15  FCC  Rcd  4758  (released  February  23,  2000)  (“  Ole  Brook”).  In  Ole  Brook,  we  denied  Doss’s 
 Application  for  Review  of  the  Mass  Media  Bureau’s  action  granting  the  Joint  Request  of  Ole  Brook 
 Broadcasting,  Inc.  (“  Ole  Brook”)  and  Leola  D.  Dickey  (“  Dickey”)  for  Approval  of  Settlement 
 Agreement,  dismissing  Dickey’s  application  for  a  construction  permit  for  a  new  FM  station  in  Bude, 
 Mississippi,  1  granting  Ole  Brook’s  application  for  a  construction  permit  in  Bude,  2  and  denying  Doss’s 
 informal  objections  to  those  actions. 


 2.  Our  Memorandum  Opinion  and  Order  in  Ole  Brook  was  released  February  23,  2000.  Doss 
 had  30  days  from  the  release  date,  or  until  March  24,  2000,  in  which  to  file  a  petition  for  reconsideration. 
 47  U.  S.  C.  §405(  a);  47  C.  F.  R.  §§  1.4(  b)(  2),  1.106(  f).  Doss’s  Petition  for  Reconsideration,  although  dated 
 March  10,  2000,  was  not  stamped  as  received  by  the  Office  of  the  Secretary  until  March  30,  2000.  For 
 purposes  of  computing  time,  the  Secretary’s  date  stamp  is  authoritative  and  conclusive.  Richardson 
 Independent  School  District,  5  FCC  Rcd  3135,  3136  (1990).  We  have  held  consistently  that  we  are 
 without  authority  to  waive  or  extend,  even  by  as  little  as  one  day,  the  statutory  30-  day  filing  period  for 
 petitions  for  reconsideration,  absent  extraordinary  circumstances  which  are  not  present  here.  Richardson 
 Independent  School  District,  supra;  Metromedia,  Inc.,  56  FCC  2d  909,  909-  10  (1975);  see  also  Gardner 
 v.  F.  C.  C.,  530  F.  2d  1086,  1091-  92  (D.  C.  Cir.  1976). 


 1  File  No.  BPH-  950503MC. 
 2  File  No.  BPH-  950511MI. 
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 3.  The  30-  day  period  in  which  Doss  was  to  have  filed  his  Petition  for  Reconsideration  expired  on 
 March  24,  2000,  six  days  before  it  was  filed  with  the  Secretary.  Doss’s  Petition  for  Reconsideration  must 
 therefore  be  dismissed  as  untimely. 


 4.  Accordingly,  IT  IS  ORDERED  that  the  Petition  for  Reconsideration  filed  March  30,  2000  by 
 Evan  Doss,  Jr.,  IS  DISMISSED. 


 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


 Magalie  Román  Salas 
 Secretary 
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