Sec. 207. Working group on performance criteria for radio receivers
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the Under Secretary shall convene a working group to develop, and periodically update, criteria, ratings, and other measures, including voluntary standards, for radio receivers operating in Federal systems in spectrum bands used only by Federal entities. The purpose of the criteria, ratings, and other measures, including voluntary standards, developed, and periodically updated, by the working group shall be to provide guidance on the design, manufacture, and sale of radio receivers operating in Federal systems in spectrum bands used only by Federal entities with respect to the incorporation of appropriate measures to mitigate, or enhance resiliency to, potential harmful interference to ensure that the reasonable current and future use of cochannel and non-cochannel spectrum, including use by non-Federal systems of spectrum designated by the Commission for commercial operations, will not result in receiver operations being seriously degraded or obstructed, including operations being repeatedly interrupted.
In developing, and periodically updating, criteria, ratings, and other measures, the working group shall take into consideration the unique technical and operational characteristics of the different Federal systems. In developing, and periodically updating, criteria, ratings, and other measures, the working group may not publish under this section a criteria, rating, or other measure unless the Under Secretary determines— the criteria, rating, or other measure; and the specific technical parameters of the criteria, rating, or other measure.
Chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to the working group. The Chair of the working group shall be the Under Secretary and the working group shall include representatives from the following: The Commission. The communications industry. Academia. Entities that manufacture radio receivers. Entities that establish technical specifications for radio receivers. The Under Secretary shall invite a representative from each Federal entity to participate in the working group.
Not later than 18 months after the date on which the working group is convened, the Under Secretary shall publish, consistent with the protection of classified information and intelligence sources and methods, the criteria, ratings, and other measures developed pursuant to subsection
(a)on a publicly accessible page on the website of the NTIA and in the Federal Register. Not less frequently than every 4 years, the working group shall review and update, if appropriate, the criteria, ratings, and other measures published under subsection (c). Any such update shall be published as described in subsection
(c)not later than 14 days after the date on which the update is completed. No action taken by the Under Secretary pursuant to this section shall be used to impose any obligation on manufacturers with respect to any radio receivers designed to operate exclusively in a system that is not a Federal system. In this section: The term Commission means the Federal Communications Commission. The term Federal entity has the meaning given such term in section 113(l) of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act ( 47 U.S.C. 923(l) ). The term Federal system means a system of radio stations belonging to and operated by the Federal Government that receives radio frequency signals on spectrum that is allocated exclusively for Federal Government use or allocated for both Federal and non-Federal operations. The term working group means the working group convened under subsection (a)(1).
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