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ARLB065 FCC plans to reorganize
 
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ARRL Bulletin 65  ARLB065
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT  August 3, 1994
To all radio amateurs 
 
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ARLB065 FCC plans to reorganize
 
The FCC has proposed to reorganize several of its bureaus and
offices.  A new Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is to have as a
co-deputy chief Ralph Haller, who currently is chief of the Private
Radio Bureau and is well known to amateurs.
 
Richard M. Smith, now head of the Field Operations Bureau,  is to be
chief of a new Office of Engineering and Technology.
 
Beverly Baker, who is now deputy chief of the Private Radio Bureau,
is to become chief of the Field Operations Bureau.
 
FCC Chairman Reed Hundt said, in announcing the proposed
reorganization, that wireless and international were the areas
calling for the ''biggest changes.''  He said that personal
communications systems and other emerging technologies made a
Wireless Bureau necessary.
 
Hundt said that an International Bureau ''will better meet the
challenges ahead as the FCC continues its role in international
telecommunications, working with the Department of State and
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in
the promotion of the Global Information Infrastructure.''
 
Scott Blake Harris is to be chief of the new International Bureau.
He currently is the chief of the Office of International
Communications.
 
The reorganization will become effective when formal Commission and
Congressional approval has been obtained, as well as approval of the
labor union representing FCC employees.
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