FM Broadcasting Services; St. Maries, Moscow, Post Falls, and Troy, Idaho

In MM Docket No. 96-249, the Chief, Allocations Branch, granted the petition for rulemaking filed by Pentacle Investments, Inc. (RM-8926), set forth in Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 61 FR 66,249, published December 17, 1996, to allot Channel 221A at St. Maries, Idaho. In MM Docket No. 96-259, the Chief denied the petition for rulemaking filed by Darin L. Siebert (RM-8970), set forth in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 62 FR 372, published January 3, 1997, to allot Channel 277A at Moscow, Idaho. However, the Chief granted two counterproposals filed in response to this Notice: by Rook Broadcasting, Inc. (RM-9069), licensee of Station KCDA(FM), Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to upgrade its station by substituting Channel 276C1 for Channel 276C2 and to change that station's community of license by modifying it for operation at Post Falls, Idaho, and by Radio Palouse, Inc. (RM-9070) to allot Channel 262A at Troy, Idaho. With this action, the proceeding is terminated.