Sec. 7502. STUDIES ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS

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## SEC. 7502 STUDIES ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS ###

(a)Allocations of Spectrum for Emergency Response Providers The Federal Communications Commission shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, conduct a study to assess short-term and long-term needs for allocations of additional portions of the electromagnetic spectrum for Federal, State, and local emergency response providers, including whether or not an additional allocation of spectrum in the 700 megahertz band should be granted by Congress to such emergency response providers. ###

(b)Strategies To Meet Public Safety Telecommunications Requirements The Secretary of Homeland Security shall, in consultation with the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, conduct a study to assess strategies that may be used to meet public safety telecommunications needs, including— ####

(1)the need and efficacy of deploying nationwide interoperable communications networks (including the potential technical and operational standards and protocols for nationwide interoperable broadband mobile communications networks that may be used by Federal, State, regional, and local governmental and nongovernmental public safety, homeland security, and other emergency response personnel); ####

(2)the capacity of public safety entities to utilize wireless broadband applications; and ####

(3)the communications capabilities of all emergency response providers, including hospitals and health care workers, and current efforts to promote communications coordination and training among emergency response providers. ###

(c)Study Requirements In conducting the studies required by subsections

(a)and (b), the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Federal Communications Commission shall— ####

(1)seek input from Federal, State, local, and regional emergency response providers regarding the operation and administration of a potential nationwide interoperable broadband mobile communications network; and ####

(2)consider the use of commercial wireless technologies to the greatest extent practicable. ###

(d)Reports ####

(1)Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission (in the case of the study required by subsection (a)) and the Secretary of Homeland Security (in the case of the study required by subsection (b)) shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on such study, including the findings of such study. ####

(2)In this subsection, the term “**appropriate committees of Congress**” means— #####

(A)the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and #####

(B)the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Select Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives. ## Subtitle F Presidential Transition