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If a party instead elects to prosecute only one application in an Appendix A market, then it need not make a showing that the application complies with the translator processing policies and LPFM anti-preclusion studies above, when the local cap compliance showings are submitted. (However, if a party prosecutes only one application and it proposes substantial overlap with an existing translator authorization held by that party, the Technical Need Rule and FCC Form 349 will require the party to show a technical need for the second translator when the Form 349 application is due in order to justify a grant of that application.) The FCC provided this flexibility so that the revised policy is not more restrictive than the original one-pe-rmarket cap for any translator applicant. | If a party instead elects to prosecute only one application in an Appendix A market, then it need not make a showing that the application complies with the translator processing policies and LPFM anti-preclusion studies above, when the local cap compliance showings are submitted. (However, if a party prosecutes only one application and it proposes substantial overlap with an existing translator authorization held by that party, the Technical Need Rule and FCC Form 349 will require the party to show a technical need for the second translator when the Form 349 application is due in order to justify a grant of that application.) The FCC provided this flexibility so that the revised policy is not more restrictive than the original one-pe-rmarket cap for any translator applicant. | ||
== Summary of policy changes == | |||
As the FCC indicated in the ''Fourth Report and Order'', the burden will be on each applicant to demonstrate compliance with the national and per-market application caps. Any party with | As the FCC indicated in the ''Fourth Report and Order'', the burden will be on each applicant to demonstrate compliance with the national and per-market application caps. Any party with | ||