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Title 47 — Telecommunications

Chapter 8 — National Telecommunications and Information Administration

§ 927. Existing allocation and transfer authority retained

Statutory text

(a)

Additional reallocation

Nothing in this subchapter prevents or limits additional reallocation of spectrum from the Federal Government to other users.

(b)

Implementation of new technologies and services

Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter—

(1)

the Secretary may, consistent with section 903(e) of this title, at any time allow frequencies allocated on a primary basis for Federal Government use to be used by non-Federal licensees on a mixed-use basis for the purpose of facilitating the prompt implementation of new technologies or services and for other purposes; and

(2)

the Commission shall make any allocation and licensing decisions with respect to such frequencies in a timely manner and in no event later than the date required by section 157 of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Telecommunications Authorization Act of 1992

    Pub. L. 102–538 title I § 117 · 106 Stat. 3533

    Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 927

    (Pub. L. 102–538, title I, § 117, as added Pub. L. 103–66, title VI, § 6001(a)(3), Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 386.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 102–538, title I, § 117, as added Pub. L. 103–66, title VI, § 6001(a)(3), Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 386.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 102–538, title I, § 117, as added Pub. L. 103–66, title VI, § 6001(a)(3), , 107 Stat. 386.)

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