[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] FW: ARLB021 FCC Application Fees Unlikely to Go into Effect Until 2022

[Don (KI4D)]

-----Original Message-----
From: ARRL Web site <memberlist at www.arrl.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 12:08 PM
To: don.ki4d at gmail.com
Subject: ARLB021 FCC Application Fees Unlikely to Go into Effect Until 2022

SB QST @ ARL $ARLB021
ARLB021 FCC Application Fees Unlikely to Go into Effect Until 2022

ZCZC AG21
QST de W1AW
ARRL Bulletin 21  ARLB021
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT  August 17, 2021
To all radio amateurs 

SB QST ARL ARLB021
ARLB021 FCC Application Fees Unlikely to Go into Effect Until 2022

The schedule of FCC amateur radio application fees likely will not go into
effect before 2022. FCC staff confirmed during a recent virtual meeting with
Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (VECs) that the agency is still working on
the necessary changes to the Universal Licensing System (ULS) software and
other processes and procedures that must be in place before it starts
collecting fees from amateur applicants. Earlier this year, the FCC said it
would not start collecting fees from amateur applicants before this Summer.
The new estimate is that the fees won't go into effect until early next
year.

Once it's effective, the $35 application fee will apply to new, modification
(upgrade and sequential call sign change), renewal, and vanity call sign
applications. All fees will be per application.
Administrative update applications, such as those to change a licensee's
name, mailing, or email address, will be exempt from fees. ARRL VEC manager
Maria Somma, AB1FM, said Volunteer Examiner
(VE) teams will not face the burden of collecting the $35 fee.

"Once the FCC application fee takes effect, new and upgrade applicants will
pay the exam session fee to the VE team as usual, but they'll pay the $35
application fee directly to the FCC using the FCC Pay Fees system," she
explained. When the FCC receives the examination information from the VEC,
it will email a link with payment instructions to each successful candidate
who then will have
10 days from the date of the email to pay.

The FCC Pay Fees system can be accessed at,
https://apps2.fcc.gov/Batch_Filer/login.cfm .

After the fee is paid and the FCC has processed an application, examinees
will receive a second email from the FCC with a link to their official
license. The link will be good for 30 days. Licensees also will be able to
view, download, and print official license copies by logging into their FCC
ULS account. The FCC no longer provides printed licenses.

Licensees can log into the ULS with their 10-digit FRN (FCC Registration
Number) and password at any time to view and manage their license and
application, print their license, and update anything in their FCC license
record, including adding an email address.

FEE SCHEDULE:

INDIVIDUALS -

$35 FEE: New, modification (upgrade and sequential call sign change),
renewal, and vanity call sign applications. All fees will be per
application.

NO FEE: Administrative updates, such as a change of name, mailing or email
address, or license cancellation.

AMATEUR RADIO CLUBS -

$35 FEE: New, renewal, trustee change, and vanity call sign applications.
All fees will be per application.

NO FEE: Administrative updates, such as a change of name, mailing or email
address, or license cancellation.
NNNN
/EX