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- Here is the complete text of H. R. 73:
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- 102d CONGRESS H. R. 73
- lst Session
- To amend the Federal Communications Act of 1934 to
- prevent the loss of existing spectrum to the Amateur Radio
- service.
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- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- January 3, 1991
- Mr Cooper introduced the following bill; which was
- referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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- A BILL
- To amend the Federal Communications Act of 1934 to
- prevent the loss of existing spectrum to the Amateur Radio
- service.
- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
- Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
- assembled,
- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
- This Act may be cited as the "Amateur Radio Spectrum
- Protection Act of 1991."
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- SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
- Congress finds that--
- (1) more than 490,502 radio amateurs in the United
- States are licensed by the Federal Communications Commission
- after a thorough examination in radio regulations and
- technical principles of radio communications, as required by
- international regulations;
- (2) by international treaty and Federal Communications
- Commission regulation, the amateur is authorized to operate
- stations in a radio service of intercommunications and
- technical investigations solely with a personal aim and
- without pecuniary interest;
- (3) among the basic purposes for the Amateur Radio
- service is to provide voluntary noncommercial radio service,
- particularly emergency communications;
- (4) emergency communication services by volunteer radio
- amateurs have consistently and reliably been provided
- before, during and after floods, tornadoes, forest fires,
- earthquakes, blizzards, train wrecks, chemical spills, and
- other disasters; and
- (5) the Federal Communications Commission has taken
- actions which resulted in the loss of over 100 MHz of
- spectrum to amateurs.
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- SEC.3. FEDERAL POLICY REGARDING REALLOCATION OF AMATEUR
- RADIO SPECTRUM.
- Section 303(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 is
- amended--
- (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection
- (c)(1); and
- (2) by adding at the end of such subsection (c)(1) the
- following new paragraph:
- "(2) The Federal Communications Commission shall not
- diminish existing allocations of spectrum to the Amateur
- Radio service after January 1, 1991. The Federal
- Communications Commission shall provide equivalent
- replacement spectrum to the Amateur Radio service for any
- frequency reallocation after January 1, 1991."
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