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entity, which argue, respectively, that a single-round process would place less of a burden on Tribal
entities and would facilitate the process of gaining Tribal leadership approval, where required.246 As a
result, we will conduct Auction 902 using a single round of bidding.
2. Aggregation Method - Predefined Aggregation
148. The Commission determined that the census block should be the minimum geographic
building block for which support is provided, but left to the Bureaus the task of deciding how to facilitate
bidding on aggregations of eligible census blocks.247 The Commission recognized that some aggregation
of census blocks may be necessary because census blocks are numerous and can be quite small, but
encouraged the Bureaus to consider permitting bidding on individual census blocks in Alaska because
they are so much larger on average than census blocks elsewhere.248
149. Aggregation of census blocks by Tribal lands and census tracts. In the Auction 902
Comment Public Notice, the Bureaus proposed aggregating eligible census blocks by Tribal land, and
subdividing the aggregation by census tract where applicable. That is, for any Tribal land covering more
than one census tract, the eligible census blocks would be aggregated into one bidding area for each
tract.24 A bidder would bid on these bidding areas, not on individual census blocks. o The Bureaus
proposed that while census blocks in Alaska are larger than those in other parts of the country,
aggregations by Tribal land and census tract-due to many instances of census tracts in Alaska covering
multiple Tribal lands-would result in Alaska aggregations being closer in size to the aggregations in
other parts of the country. The Bureaus therefore sought comment on using the same aggregation process
in Alaska as elsewhere.25' The commenters generally support the Bureaus' proposal to aggregate census
blocks,252 with certain caveats for Alaska, as noted below.
150. In all eligible areas other than in Alaska, we adopt our original proposal to establish
bidding areas consisting of predefined aggregations of eligible census blocks. Under this approach,
eligible census blocks will be grouped by the Tribal land in which they are located, and bidders will be
able to bid for support for these bidding areas. Bidders will not bid on individual blocks, except for some
blocks in Alaska as described below. If a single Tribal land includes more than one census tract, then the
Tribal land will be subdivided by tract for bidding area purposes; there will be one bidding area for each
tract in the Tribal land. For each bidding area on which a bidder bids, the bidder will indicate a per-pop
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circumstances favoring a multiple-round auction were not significant enough to outweigh concerns about added
complexity).
246 Bad River Tribe Comments at 12; SIW Comments at 7.
247 USF/ICC Transformation Order, 26 FCC Red at 17787-88, para. 346; 47 C.F.R. 54.1002(a).
248 USF/ICC Transformation Order, 26 FCC Red at 17787-88, paras. 346-47.
249 Aggregating by Tribal lands may also create--for any census tract with more than one Tribal land-more than
one bidding area for the tract.
2 Auction 902 Comment Public Notice, 28 FCC Red at 2775, para. 31.
251 Id. at 2775, para. 34.
252 GRIC/GRTI Comments at 8-9 (supporting the Bureaus' proposal to aggregate census blocks by Tribal lands and
census tracts, and arguing that if aggregation of census blocks were to result in aggregated areas covering multiple
Tribal lands, Tribal bidders should retain the important benefits of the Tribal bidding credit and remaining eligible to
participate in Auction 902 with a pending ETC petition); RTG Comments at 3-4 (supporting the proposed
aggregation approach as "administratively efficient" and noting that it would facilitate the Tribal engagement
process); LLBO Comments at 6; see also Bad River Tribe Comments at 9 n.6.11671
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