Implementation of Further Streamlining Measures for Domestic Section 214 Authorizations

This document announces the effective date of the rules to govern and streamline review of applications for section 214 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the Act), to transfer control of domestic transmission lines. These rules add predictability, efficiency, and transparency to the Commission's domestic section 214 transfer of control review process and greatly improve the Commission's current domestic section 214 transfer of control procedures. The Report and Order in CC Docket No. 01-150 was published in the Federal Register on April 17, 2002 (67 FR 18827). Because the new procedures entail new information collection requirements, they could not become effective until the Commission received approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).