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The Federal Communications Commission has before it for comparative consideration mutually exclusive applications for new or modified noncommercial educational ("NCE") FM station construction permits. This Order discusses the results of proceedings in which the FCC has applied the NCE FM comparative standards to 59 groups of four or fewer mutually exclusive NCE applicants. The FCC resolves conflicts among mutually exclusive NCE applications by applying comparative procedures codified in Part 73, Subpart K, of the Commission's Rules (the "Rules"). By this Memorandum Opinion and Order, the FCC uses a point system to tentatively select applications for grant and initiates the period for filing petitions to deny against the applicants tentatively selected