Sec. 21.925  Applications for BTA authorizations and MDS station 
          licenses.

    (a)(1) An applicant must file a short-form application and, when 
necessary, the short-form application supplement, identifying each BTA 
service authorization sought.
    (2) For purposes of conducting competitive bidding procedures, 
short-form applications are considered to be mutually exclusive with 
each other if they were filed for, and specified, the same BTA service 
area.
    (b) Separate long-form applications must be filed for each 
individual MDS station license sought within its the protected service 
area of a BTA or PSA, including:
    (1) An application for each E-channel group, F-channel group, and 
single H, 1, and 2A channel station license sought;

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    (2) An application for authority to operate at an MDS station in the 
area vacated by an MDS station incumbent that has forfeited its station 
license; and
    (3) An application for each ITFS-channel group station license 
sought in accordance with Secs. 74.990 and 74.991.
    (c) The Commission shall grant BTA authorizations to auction winners 
as set forth in Sec. 21.958.
    (d) No long-form application filed by the BTA authorization holder 
will be accepted prior to completion of the competitive bidding process 
and no long-form application will be granted until expiration of the 30-
day petition to deny period following the public notice listing of the 
application as being accepted for filing
    (e) Applicants may use the electronic filing procedures to file both 
the Multipoint Distribution Service short-form and long-form 
applications with the Commission.
[ 60 FR 36555 , July 17, 1995, as amended at  60 FR 57367 , Nov. 15, 1995]