Sec. 5. Reports on 3 gigahertz bands
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Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and in consultation with the Commission and the head of each affected Federal agency (or a designee thereof), the Secretary shall submit to the President and the appropriate committees of Congress a report evaluating the feasibility of allowing commercial wireless services, licensed or unlicensed, to share use of the frequencies between 3100 megahertz and 3550 megahertz. Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and in consultation with the Secretary and the head of each affected Federal agency (or a designee thereof), the Commission shall submit to the President and the appropriate committees of Congress a report evaluating the feasibility of allowing commercial wireless services, licensed or unlicensed, to share use of the frequencies between 3700 megahertz and 4200 megahertz.
A report under subsection
(a)or subsection
(b)shall include the following: An assessment of the operations of Federal entities that operate Federal Government stations authorized to use the frequencies described in that subsection. An assessment of the possible impacts of such sharing on Federal and non-Federal users already operating on the frequencies described in that subsection. The criteria that may be necessary to ensure shared licensed or unlicensed services would not cause harmful interference to Federal or non-Federal users already operating in the frequencies described in that subsection. If such sharing is feasible, an identification of which of the frequencies described in that subsection are most suitable for sharing with commercial wireless services. The Commission shall include any spectrum identified under subsection (c)(4) for assignment of new licenses for non-Federal use in a report under section 1006 of the Spectrum Pipeline Act of 2015 ( Public Law 114–74 ; 129 Stat. 621) if— that spectrum is suitable for allocation by competitive bidding of new licenses for non-Federal licensed use; that spectrum otherwise meets the requirements of the proposed plan for the assignment of new licenses for non-Federal use of certain spectrum under section 1006 of the Spectrum Pipeline Act of 2015 ( Public Law 114–74 ; 129 Stat. 621); and the identification of that spectrum under subsection (c)(4) occurs after the requirements under section 3 have been met.
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