Sec. 73.3516  Specification of facilities.

    (a) An application for facilities in the AM, FM, or TV broadcast 
services or low power TV service shall be limited to one frequency, or 
channel, and no application will be accepted for filing if it requests 
an alternate frequency or channel. Applications specifying split 
frequency AM operations using one frequency during daytime hours 
complemented by a different frequency during nighttime hours will not be 
accepted for filing.

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    (b) An application for facilities in the experimental and auxiliary 
broadcast services may request the assignment of more than one frequency 
if consistent with applicable rules in Part 74. Such applications must 
specify the frequency or frequencies requested and may not request 
alternate frequencies.
    (c) An application for a construction permit for a new broadcast 
station, the facilities for which are specified in an outstanding 
construction permit or license, will not be accepted for filing.
    (d) An application for facilities in the International broadcast 
service may be filed without a request for specific frequency, as the 
FCC will assign frequencies from time to time in accordance with 
Secs. 73.702 and 73.711.
    (e) An application for construction permit for a new broadcast 
station or for modification of construction permit or license of a 
previously authorized broadcast station will not be accepted for filing 
if it is mutually exclusive with an application for renewal of license 
of an existing broadcast station unless the application for renewal of 
license is filed on or before May 1, 1995 and unless the mutually 
exclusive construction permit application is tendered for filing by the 
end of the first day of the last full calendar month of the expiring 
license term. A petition to deny an application for renewal of license 
of an existing broadcast station will be considered as timely filed if 
it is tendered for filing by the end of the first day of the last full 
calendar month of the expiring license term.
    (1) If the license renewal application is not timely filed as 
prescribed in Sec. 73.3539, the deadline for filing petitions to deny 
thereto is the 90th day after the FCC gives public notice that it has 
accepted the late-filed renewal application for filing. In the case of a 
renewal application filed on or before May 1, 1995, if the license 
renewal application is not timely filed as prescribed in Sec. 73.3539, 
the deadline for filing applications mutually exclusive therewith is the 
90th day after the FCC gives public notice that it has accepted the 
late-filed renewal application for filing.
    (2) If any deadline falls on a nonbusiness day, the cutoff shall be 
the close of business of the first full business day thereafter.
    (3) The dates when the licenses of all broadcast and broadcast 
auxiliary services regularly expire are listed in Secs. 73.733, 73.1020 
and 74.15.

[44 1997 FR 38487 , July 2, 1979, as amended at  47 FR 21494 , May 18, 1982;  49 FR 47843 , Dec. 7, 1984;  51 FR 44071 , Dec. 8, 1986;  56 FR 64873 , Dec. 12, 
1991;  61 FR 18291 , Apr. 25, 1996]