PUBLIC NOTICE![](media/image1.png){width="0.6902777777777778in"
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**Federal Communications Commission**

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

**Washington, D.C. 20554**

**DA 99-2568**

**Released: November 18, 1999**

> **Training for Telecommunication Certification Bodies Will Be**
>
> **Held At FCC Laboratory December 6-10, 1999**
>
> In December 1998, the Commission adopted new rules in ET Docket 98-68
> to streamline its equipment authorization requirements by allowing
> Telecommunications Certification Bodies (TCBs) to certify equipment
> under Parts 2 and 68 of the Commission\'s Rules. This notice provides
> information about the initial training of TCBs, which will be held at
> the FCC Laboratory.
>
> The requirements for TCBs were specified in the Commission's Report
> and Order (R&O) in GEN Docket 98-68 (FCC 98-338), adopted on December
> 17, 1998, http://www.fcc.gov/
> Engineering_Technology/Orders/1998/fcc98338.pdf/. TCBs are required to
> be accredited by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
> (NIST), or NIST may allow, in accordance with its procedures, other
> appropriate qualified accrediting bodies to accredit TCBs.
>
> Additional information about the new TCB program was provided in a
> Public Notice dated August 17, 1999, DA-1640,
> http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Public_Notices/1999/da99-1640.html.
> NIST also released a Federal Notice on October 5, 1999 (64 FR 64000),
> http://ts.nist.gov/nvcase/, announcing, among other things,
> administrative details for applying for TCB accreditation.
>
> In an open meeting on August 30, 1999 at the FCC, the Commission staff
> announced that the FCC Laboratory would host an initial training
> session in the near future to get the program started. The purpose of
> the five day training course is to instruct prospective TCBs about the
> procedures that the FCC Laboratory uses to approve equipment subject
> to certification by the Commission.
>
> The TCB training program will be hosted at the FCC Laboratory during
> the period of December 6-10, 1999. Due to space limitations,
> attendance to this training will limited as follows:

-   1 representative from each organization that has filed an
    > application to become a TCB in accordance with the procedures in
    > the NIST Federal Register Notice of October 5, 1999.

-   No more than five prospective trainers

-   No more than five technical assessors

> The training assumes that the people attending the course are
> knowledgeable of the FCC Rules and procedures. The course will cover
> administrative details for granting certification, common application
> deficiencies, technical and administrative procedures for granting
> applications for certification of intentional radiators subject to
> Part 15 of the FCC Rules and licensed radio transmitters. An
> additional day, December 13, 1999, is provided for the FCC staff and
> assessors to discuss details of the assessment and accreditation of a
> TCB.
>
> TCB trainers and assessors are expected to have extensive experience
> in working with the FCC equipment authorization Rules and procedures.
> Prospective trainers must have documented training experience:
> prospective assessors must have documented lead assessor experience.
> We are making space available for prospective trainers in the hopes
> that they will provide similar training to other prospective domestic
> or foreign TCBs.
>
> TCBs located outside the United States will be permitted to certify
> equipment in accordance with the terms of an effective bilateral or
> multilateral mutual recognition agreement for conformity assessment.
> Details for providing training to representative from foreign TCBs
> will be provided later.
>
> Prospective TCB representatives, trainers and technical assessors that
> have the necessary experience and qualifications should contact Art
> Wall at 202-418-2442, email: [awall@fcc.gov](mailto:smata@fcc.gov) to
> be included in the above training.
>
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