I'm still in CA and am on a distant sideroad on the information
highway.

I find out that the Commission on Oct.10 released a Report & Order
that makes lots of changes to the amateur regs.

Of particular interest in section E on page 20, the FCC addresses
AMSAT's request for more latitude in filing pre-launch information by
reducing the old 17 month window to 3 months. A humorous error appears
in footnote 163 where they suggest all satellites are LEOs.

Of much more interest is the detailed wording on pages 37/38 where the
Commission in part 97.207 finally defines their view of debris,
mitigation plans, etc.

The documents can be found at

  http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-149A1.pdf

  http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-149A1.txt

  http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-149A1.doc

and I have attached the PDF version FYI

73, Tom