[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 135 (Tuesday, July 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37910-37911]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-18451]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[DA 97-1425]


Petition for Permanent Waiver of the Mandatory Reassignment of 
453.025 MHz in the Southern California Metropolitan Area to the 
Emergency Medical Radio Service

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Public Safety and Private Wireless Division of the 
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau invited the public to comment on a 
Petition for Permanent Waiver filed by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and 
Health Plan to grandfather Kaiser's existing Special Emergency Radio 
Service wide-area, paging system that operates on 453.025 MHz in the 
Southern California metropolitan area. This action was taken to provide 
the public and those parties eligible in the Emergency Medical Radio 
Service with an opportunity to comment on Kaiser's waiver request. 
Release of the Public Notice will ensure that interested parties fully 
participate in the Commission decision on whether to grant Kaiser's 
waiver request.

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before August 8, 1997, and reply 
comments on or before August 25, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Freda Lippert Thyden, Public Safety 
and Private Wireless Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, 
(202) 418-0680.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Public Safety and 
Private Wireless Division's Public Notice, DA 97-1425, adopted July 8, 
1997, and released July 8, 1997. The full text of this Public Notice is 
available for inspection and copying during normal business hours in 
the Public Safety and Private Wireless Division, Wireless 
Telecommunications Bureau, 2025 M

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Street, NW., Washington DC. The complete text may be purchased from the 
Commission's copy contractor, International Transcription Service, 
Inc., 2100 M Street, Suite 140, Washington, DC 20037, telephone (202) 
857-3800. This will impose no paperwork burden on the public.

Summary of Order

    1. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan, Inc. (Kaiser), 
filed a Petition for Permanent Waiver asking the Commission to 
grandfather Kaiser's existing Special Emergency Radio Service (SERS) 
wide-area, paging system that operates on 453.025 MHz from eight 
stations in the Southern California metropolitan area.
    2. On January 14, 1993, the Commission established the Emergency 
Medical Radio Service (EMRS) as a new Public Safety Radio Service under 
Part 90 of the Commission's Rules, 47 CFR Part 90. See Report and 
Order, 8 FCC Rcd 1454 (1993). Of the frequencies reallocated for EMRS 
use, four were previously assigned for one-way paging operations by 
entities eligible in the SERS. The four frequencies reallocated are as 
follows: 453.025 MHz, 453.075 MHz, 453.125 MHz, 453.175 MHz.
    3. The Report and Order provided a waiver process for 
grandfathering existing one-way medical paging systems on the subject 
frequencies. Pursuant to this approach, if a licensee currently 
operating on a one-way paging channel demonstrates that there is 
adequate spectrum for EMRS transmissions in its area of operation, or 
that relocation of its medical paging system would not serve the public 
interest, or relocation would cause significant disruption of public 
safety communications, its system would be grandfathered by waiver. 
Otherwise, licensees operating on these 453 MHz frequencies are 
required to cease operations after January 14, 1998. In its Petition 
for Waiver, Kaiser seeks to demonstrate that it has met each of the 
three criterion justifying permanent waiver of the Commission's Rules.

Federal Communications Commission.
David E. Horowitz,
Chief, Public Safety and Private Wireless Division, Wireless 
Telecommunications Bureau.
[FR Doc. 97-18451 Filed 7-14-97; 8:45 am]
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