Equal Employment Opportunity Records
Rule Section 73.3526(e)(7), 73.3527(e)(6)
Retention Until final action taken on the station's next license renewal application
What's in here? The Commission requires stations employing five or more full-time employees to file the following forms and reports on their EEO activities and put them in their public file: (1) FCC Form 396 EEO program report that is filed with the license renewal application, Form 397 EEO mid-term report filed at the mid-point of a license term, and for buyers of a station or new licensees - a Form 396-A Model EEO Program Report; (2) The EEO public file annual report; and (3) Copies of all correspondence pertaining to an FCC investigation such as a random EEO audit (including entire audit responses with all attachments), and (4) all other material that the Commission or any of its components may require a station to keep in its public file. The Form 396, 396-A, and 397 folder is pre-populated through CDBS. All other folders are uploaded by the station individually.