The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) estimates it will collect $269 million in regulatory fees for FY 2003 from over 2,200 companies in 47 regulated categories — such as television, radio, cable, wireless telephone, interstate telephone, satellite, paging/messaging, and microwave. The fees are largely used to recover the regulatory costs associated with the Commission’s enforcement, policy and rulemaking, user information, and international activities. All regulatory fees are due by 24-September-2003.
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- In February 2003, the FCC submitted a budget request for $280,798,000 for fiscal year 2004, up 1% from 2003. The FCC said the budget provides for mandatory increases for salaries and benefits and other areas and inflationary increases for contract services. The budget level also includes funds for additional staff to provide engineering expertise to ensure effective management of the electromagnetic spectrum and encourage the provision of new technologies and services to the public, continue infrastructure improvement for the laboratory facility, and enhance the audit capabilities of the Office of Inspector General.