Sec. 5. Making Federal spectrum available for unlicensed operation
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Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary, in conjunction with the Commission and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the steps necessary to designate additional radio frequency bands used by Federal entities for unlicensed operations in a manner that does not cause harmful interference to Federal Government operations. The report required under subsection
(a)shall consider— recommendations on how to reform the Spectrum Relocation Fund to address costs incurred by Federal entities related to sharing radio frequency bands with radio technologies conducting unlicensed operations; recommendations for ensuring the solvency of the Spectrum Relocation Fund if the Spectrum Relocation Fund is used to cover the costs described in paragraph (1); whether it may be possible for unlicensed operations to be permitted on an underlay basis in spectrum bands used by Federal entities without causing harmful interference to Federal Government operations, including impacting homeland security or national security communications needs; and whether other spectrum sharing techniques may be used to facilitate access by radio technologies conducting unlicensed operations to Federal spectrum, such as with the access system used by the Commission for the spectrum between 3550 and 3650 megahertz.