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Also in the 2013 LPFM window, the FCC dismissed the application of Ministerios del Instituto Biblico Elohim in Cypress, Texas.  In this case, an investigation started by REC Networks unearthed a prior enforcement action against one of the parties to the application from pirate radio activity that took place in 2006.  The FCC granted REC's ''Informal Objection'' and the application was dismissed.

This rule was first enacted in the original 2000 ''LPFM Report and Order'' and stated that the rule would apply only if the pirate operation ceased prior to February 26, 1999 or within 24 hours of FCC notification.  The rule would be amended in the 2000 ''Order on Reconsideration'' to clarify that the "within 24 hours of notification" exception only applied for operations prior to February 26, 1999.  In the early 2001 ''Second Report and Order'', the language was changed in order to comply with the Radio Broadcast Preservation Act of 2001.  The rule would be amended again in the 2020 ''LPFM/NCE Administrative Order'' to prohibit the reinstatement of applications ''nunc pro tunc'' when they were dismissed due to a party to the application having a pirate past.