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hold a PLMR license, and that any revised rules in this context could therefore potentially impact small
entities covering a great variety of industries.
37. Rural Radiotelephone Service. The Commission has not adopted a size standard for
small businesses specific to the Rural Radiotelephone Service.139 A significant subset of the Rural
Radiotelephone Service is the Basic Exchange Telephone Radio System ("BETRS").'"4 In the present
context, we will use the SBA's small business size standard applicable to Wireless Telecommunications
Carriers (except Satellite), i.e., an entity employing no more than 1,500 persons."' There are
approximately 1,000 licensees in the Rural Radiotelephone Service, and the Commission estimates that
there are 1,000 or fewer small entity licensees in the Rural Radiotelephone Service that may be affected
by the rules and policies proposed herein.
38. Air-Ground Radiotelephone Service. The Commission has not adopted a small
business size standard specific to the Air-Ground Radiotelephone Service.'42 We will use SBA's small
business size standard applicable to Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite), i.e., an
entity employing no more than 1,500 persons.' 4 There are approximately 100 licensees in the Air-
Ground Radiotelephone Service, and we estimate that almost all of them qualify as small under the SBA
small business size standard and may be affected by rules adopted pursuant to the Order.
39. Aviation and Marine Radio Services. Small businesses in the aviation and marine
radio services use a very high frequency (VHF) marine or aircraft radio and, as appropriate, an emergency
position-indicating radio beacon (and/or radar) or an emergency locator transmitter. The Commission has
not developed a small business size standard specifically applicable to these small businesses. For
purposes of this analysis, the Commission uses the SBA small business size standard for the category
Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite), which is 1,500 or fewer employees.'" Census
data for 2007, which supersede data contained in the 2002 Census, show that there were 1,383 firms that
operated that year."45 Of those 1,383, 1,368 had fewer than 100 employees, and 15 firms had more than
100 employees. Most applicants for recreational licenses are individuals. Approximately 581,000 ship
station licensees and 131,000 aircraft station licensees operate domestically and are not subject to the
radio carriage requirements of any statute or treaty. For purposes of our evaluations in this analysis, we
estimate that there are up to approximately 712,000 licensees that are small businesses (or individuals)
under the SBA standard. In addition, between December 3, 1998 and December 14, 1998, the
Commission held an auction of 42 VHF Public Coast licenses in the 157.1875-157.4500 MHz (ship
transmit) and 161.775-162.0125 MHz (coast transmit) bands. For purposes of the auction, the
Commission defined a "small" business as an entity that, together with controlling interests and affiliates,
has average gross revenues for the preceding three years not to exceed $15 million dollars.'" In addition,
a "very small" business is one that, together with controlling interests and affiliates, has average gross
'39The service is defined in 47 C.F.R. 22.99.
140 BETRS is defined in 47 C.F.R. 22.757 and 22.759.
14' 13 C.F.R. 121.201, NAICS code 517210.
14"~ See 47 C.F.R. 22.99.
"143 See 13 C.F.R. 121.201, NAICS code 517210.
144 See 13 C.F.R. 121.201, NAICS code 517210.
4s U.S. Census Bureau, 2007 Economic Census, Sector 51, 2007 NAICS code 517210 (rel. Oct. 20, 2009),
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IBQTable?_bm=y&-geoid=&-fdsname=ECO700A1 &-_skip=700&-
ds_name=EC075 I SSSZ5&-_lang-en.
'" See generally Amendment of the Commission s Rules Concerning Maritime Communications, PR Docket No. 92-
257, Third Report and Order and Memorandum Opinion and Order, 13 FCC Red 19853, 19884-88 paras. 64-73
(1998).4687
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