The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau solicited comments on a recommendation by the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) and the National Regional Planning Council (NRPC) on a set of six channels the agency should make available for 700 megahertz deployable trunked systems. Comments are due April 2 and replies April 17 in PS docket 13-87 and WT docket 02-378. The recommendation follows up on a 700 MHz band narrowband order released last October. Separately today, the bureau’s Policy and Licensing Division provided clarification at the request of the NRPC that new 700 MHz band air-to-ground channels are not subject to the trunking channel requirement that six or more channels must be used.