Sec. 1.918  Amendment of applications.

    (a) Any amendment to an application shall be signed and submitted in 
the same manner and with the same number of copies as was the original 
application.
    (b) Any application may be amended as a matter of right prior to the 
grant of that application. However, an application which is 
substantially amended, as defined by Sec. 1.962(c), will be considered a 
newly filed application as of the date of the filing of the amendment.
    (c) An application to amend an application after it has been 
designated for hearing will be considered only upon written petition 
addressed to the hearing examiner and served upon the parties of record, 
and will be granted only for good cause shown. A petition which requests 
a substantial change or to change the applicant's position, or the 
issues, in a hearing, must be accompanied by a signed statement of a 
person with knowledge of the facts as to whether or not consideration 
has been promised to or received by the petitioner, directly or 
indirectly, in connection with the filing of such petition for 
amendment. If consideration has been promised, or received, the 
statement shall set forth in full detail all the relevant facts with 
sufficient itemization of the consideration to enable the examiner to 
determine to what extent, if any, that the consideration represents only 
the reasonable costs of prosecuting the petitioner's application.
    (d) A request to amend an application after it has been designated 
for random selection pursuant to Sec. 1.972 will be considered only upon 
written petition addressed to the Chief, Private Radio Bureau and will 
be granted only for good cause shown. A petition which requests a 
substantial change in the application or which affects the lottery 
probabilities of other applicants must be accompanied by a signed 
statement of a person with knowledge of the relevant facts and must 
specify with particularity why such change is necessary and whether or 
not consideration has been promised to or received by the petitioner, 
directly or indirectly, in connection with the filing of such petition 
for amendment. If consideration has been promised or received, the 
statement shall set forth all the relevant facts with sufficient detail 
to enable the Chief, Private Radio Bureau to determine whether and to 
what extent, if any, the consideration represents only the reasonable 
costs of prosecuting the petitioner's application.
    (e) The Commission (or the presiding officer, if the application has 
been designated for hearing) may, upon its own motion or upon motion of 
any party to a proceeding, order the applicant to amend the application 
so as to make the same more definite and certain, and may require an 
applicant to submit such documents and written statements of fact as in 
its judgment may be necessary.

(Sec. 308, 48 Stat. 1084, as amended; 47 U.S.C. )
[28 308 FR 12454 , Nov. 22, 1963, as amended at  37 FR 13984 , July 15, 1972; 
 48 FR 27201 , June 13, 1983;  49 FR 30944 , Aug. 2, 1984]

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