**PUBLIC NOTICE**![](media/image1.png){width="0.6541666666666667in"
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**Federal Communications Commission**

**445 12th St., S.W.**

**Washington, D.C. 20554**

# DA 06-1496 

#  July 21, 2006

## WIRELESS TELECOMUNICATIONS BUREAU ACTION

### REGION 6 (NORTHERN CALIFORNIA) PUBLIC SAFETY 

### REGIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEE TO HOLD 

### 700 MHz AND 4.9 GHz PUBLIC SAFETY PLANNING **MEETING**

The Region 6 (Northern California)[^1] 700 MHz and 4.9 GHz Public Safety
Regional Planning Committee will hold its next meeting on Tuesday,
August 22, 2006, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the California
Department of General Services Ziggurat Building, 707 Third Street,
1^st^ floor auditorium (Room 1-301), West Sacramento, California.

The agenda for this meeting includes:

1.  Review the status of ongoing and culminating efforts concerning the
    700 MHz public safety spectrum guidelines and/or Commission Rules:

    a.  The Development of Operational, Technical and Spectrum
        Requirements for Meeting Federal, State and Local Public Safety
        Agency Communication Requirements through the Year 2010, *Eighth
        Notice of Proposed Rulemaking*, WT Docket No. 96-86 (rel. Mar.
        21, 2006). A copy is available at
        <http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-34A1.pdf>.
        In addition, general 700 MHz information is available at the
        Commission's public safety web site
        <http://wireless.fcc.gov/publicsafety/700MHz/>

    b.  The Computer Assisted Pre-coordination Resource and Database
        (CAPRAD) spectrum management system. Related information is
        available at <http://caprad.nlectc.du.edu/cp/index.jsp>.

    c.  National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC).
        Related information is available at
        [http://www.npstc.org](http://www.npstc.org/).

    d.  Other entities, including *ad hoc* factions and other regional
        planning committees.

2.  Spectrum Plan - review, modify, and approve efforts to date of the
    workgroup.

    a.  Review and approve the proposed Region 6 -- 700 MHz frequency
        repacking plan incentives and criteria.

    b.  Discuss how to fund the proposed repacking plan

3.  Conduct officer elections.

4.  Review the status of ongoing or culminating efforts concerning the
    utilization of the 4.9 GHz spectrum.

    a.  *See* The 4.9 GHz Band Transferred from Federal Government Use,
        *Memorandum Opinion and Order (MO&O)*, WT Docket No. 00-32. A
        copy is available at
        <http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-265A1.pdf>.

    b.  CAPRAD, NPSTC, and other entities.

5.  Review the Region 6 -- 4.9 GHz Plan, as submitted to the FCC in May
    2005, its implications, and subsequent 4.9 GHz systems
    implementation in California.

6.  Experience two 4.9 GHz-related presentations.

    a.  PacketHop

    b.  Riverside California Broadband Deployment

All Region 6 Public Safety Regional Planning Committee meetings are open
to the public. Any eligible public safety service providers whose sole
purpose or principal purpose is to protect the safety of life, health,
or property in Region 6 may utilize these frequencies. It is essential
that not only public safety, but all government (including state and
local officials responsible for National Security and Emergency
Preparedness within the region), Native American Tribal, and
non-governmental organizations eligible under Section 90.523 of the
Federal Communications Commission's Rules be represented in order to
ensure that each agency's future spectrum needs are considered in the
allocation process.

All interested parties wishing to participate in the planning for the
use of new public safety spectrum in the 700 MHz and 4.9 GHz bands are
encouraged to attend. For further information about the meeting, please
contact:

> William De Camp, Chair
>
> Region 6 -- 700 MHz and 4.9 GHz Regional Planning Committee
>
> Department of General Services, Telecommunications Division
>
> 601 Sequoia Pacific Boulevard, MS-WH7
>
> Sacramento, CA 95814-0282
>
> PH: 916-657-9205
>
> FX: 916-657-9231
>
> <william.decamp@dgs.ca.gov>
>
> -- FCC --

[^1]: The Region 6 (Northern California) area is comprised of
    forty-eight (48) counties of California situated north of the
    northernmost borders of San Luis Obispo, Kern and San Bernardino
    counties.