Sec. 5. Expanding access to commercial spectrum
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The Commission, in consultation with the NTIA, shall— not later than December 31, 2018, complete a system of competitive bidding to grant priority access licenses for the use of 70 megahertz of spectrum in the frequencies between 3550 megahertz and 3650 megahertz; not later than December 31, 2018, complete a system of competitive bidding for the use of spectrum in frequencies between— 24250 megahertz and 24450 megahertz; 24750 megahertz and 25250 megahertz; 27500 megahertz and 28350 megahertz, consistent with the spectrum sharing framework adopted for that frequency band as part of the Spectrum Frontiers proceeding; 37600 megahertz and 38600 megahertz; 38600 megahertz and 40000 megahertz; and 47200 megahertz and 48200 megahertz; and not later than December 31, 2020, complete a system of competitive bidding for the use of spectrum in frequencies between— 31800 megahertz and 33400 megahertz; 42000 megahertz and 42500 megahertz; and 50400 megahertz and 52600 megahertz.
Consistent with the Commission's rules governing the Citizens Broadband Radio Service and the Report and Order and Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the matter of Amendment of the Commission’s Rules with Regard to Commercial Operations in the 3550–3650 MHz Band, adopted by the Commission on April 17, 2015 (FCC 15–47)— 30 megahertz of spectrum in the frequencies between 3550 megahertz and 3650 megahertz shall be reserved for general authorized access use; and the frequencies between 3650 megahertz and 3700 megahertz shall be reserved for grandfathered wireless broadband licensees and general authorized access users.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the NTIA, in consultation with the Commission, shall identify any frequency between 7125 megahertz and 8400 megahertz with respect to which there is the potential for unlicensed use without causing harmful interference with incumbents. If the NTIA, in consultation with the Commission, makes an identification described in paragraph (1), the Commission shall consider initiating a rule making with respect to the unlicensed use described in that paragraph.
Not later than December 31, 2020, the NTIA, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report relating to the relocation of incumbent Federal stations authorized to use spectrum in the frequencies between 1300 megahertz and 1350 megahertz and between 1780 megahertz and 1830 megahertz in order to facilitate the reallocation of such spectrum from Federal to non-Federal use. The relocation described in paragraph
(1)with respect to the frequencies between 1780 megahertz and 1830 megahertz shall take place not earlier than 2023. Section 1004 of the Spectrum Pipeline Act of 2015 ( 47 U.S.C. 921 note) is amended— in subsection (a), by striking 30 megahertz and inserting 100 megahertz ; and in subsection (c)(1)(B), by striking July 1, 2024 and inserting July 1, 2023 .
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