[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 20, 1999)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 3048]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-1156]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 90

[WT Docket No. 96-86, FCC 98-191]


The Development of Technical and Spectrum Requirements for 
Meeting Federal, State and Local Public Safety Agency Communication 
Requirements Through the Year 2010, Establishment of Rules and 
Requirements for Priority Access Service

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date.

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SUMMARY: This document announces the effective date of rules amended by 
the Commission in order to implement the development of technical and 
spectrum requirements for meeting federal, state and local public 
safety agency communication requirements through the year 2010, shall 
become effective January 20, 1999. These sections, which contained new 
information collection requirements, were published in the Federal 
Register on November 2, 1998. This is to let the public know the 
effective date of the rules that contain new information collection 
requirements.

EFFECTIVE DATE: The amendments to 47 CFR Part 90, 47 CFR Secs. 90.523, 
90.527, 90.545, and 90.551 published at 63 FR 58645 (November 2, 1998) 
are effective January 20, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter Daronco, Attorney-Advisor, 
Policy and Rules Branch, Public Safety and Private Wireless Division, 
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, (202) 418-0680.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Congressional mandates in the Balanced 
Budget Act of 1997, Public Law 105-33, Sec. 3004, 111 Stat. 251 (1997), 
codified at 47 U.S.C. 337(a)(1), that the Commission establish the 
terms and conditions that will govern use of 24 megahertz of spectrum 
recently reallocated from broadcast to public safety services. On 
August 6, 1998, the Commission adopted a First Report and Order 
(``Order'') (FCC 98-191) establishing a band plan and adopting service 
rules necessary to commence the process of assignment of licenses for 
public safety stations to operate in the newly allocated spectrum at 
746-776 megahertz and 794-806 megahertz, a summary of which was 
published in the Federal Register. See 63 FR 58645, November 2, 1998. 
We stated that the ``Part 90 of the Commission's Rules, 47 CFR Part 90, 
is amended effective January 4, 1999, except Secs. 90.523, 90.527, 
90.545, and 90.551 which contains information collections that are not 
effective until approved by the Office of Management and Budget.'' We 
also stated that the Commission ``will publish a document in the 
Federal Register announcing the effective date for those sections.'' 
This statement requires further action by the Commission to establish 
the effective date, notwithstanding the preceding statement in the 
summary that the rule change would become effective upon OMB approval. 
In order to resolve this matter in a manner that most appropriately 
provides interested parties with proper notice, the rule changes 
adopted in the Order shall become effective January 20, 1999. The 
information collection were approved by OMB on December 23, 1998. See 
OMB No. 3060-0805 and 3060-0221.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 90

    Communications equipment, Radio, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements.

Federal Communications Commission.
Magalie Roman Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-1156 Filed 1-19-99; 8:45 am]
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