47 U.S.C. § 343 — Conditions on commercial terrestrial operations
submitted 92 years ago by Pub. L. 114-328 to r/title-47-TELECOMMUNICATIONS · 198 words · no verdicts yet
The FCC can't allow commercial ground-based ("terrestrial") wireless use of the 1525–1559 MHz or 1626.5–1660.5 MHz bands until 90 days after it resolves concerns about harmful interference to Defense Department GPS devices. Once the FCC decides, it must send Congress the final decision documents. If it decides to allow the operations, it must explain how the interference concerns were resolved.
(a) In general. The FCC may not let commercial terrestrial (ground-based) operations use the 1525–1559 megahertz band or the 1626.5–1660.5 megahertz band. This ban lasts until 90 days after the FCC resolves concerns that such operations would cause widespread harmful interference to covered GPS devices.
(b) Notice to Congress. (1) When the FCC finishes deciding whether to allow such operations in that band, it must send official copies of the final decision documents to the congressional committees named below. If the FCC decides to allow the operations, those documents must contain, or come with, an explanation of how the interference concerns from subsection (a) were resolved. (2) The congressional committees that must get this notice are: (A) the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Armed Services; and (B) the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Senate Committee on Armed Services.
(c) Covered GPS device defined. In this section, "covered GPS device" means a Global Positioning System device belonging to the Department of Defense.
The Commission shall not permit commercial terrestrial operations in the 1525–1559 megahertz band or the 1626.5–1660.5 megahertz band until the date that is 90 days after the Commission resolves concerns of widespread harmful interference by such operations in such band to covered GPS devices.
At the conclusion of the decision regarding whether to permit such operations in such band, the Commission shall submit to the congressional committees described in paragraph (2) official copies of the documents containing the final decision of the Commission. If the decision is to permit such operations in such band, such documents shall contain or be accompanied by an explanation of how the concerns described in subsection (a) have been resolved.
The congressional committees described in this paragraph are the following:
The Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
The Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.
In this section, the term “covered GPS device” means a Global Positioning System device of the Department of Defense.
Source credit: (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 343, as added Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XVI, § 1698(a), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2641.)
- 1934Enacted · Pub. L. 114-328 · 130 Stat. 2641
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