G/TBT/N/USA/1963/Add.1  
 
4 March 2024  
(24-1977) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  4 March 2024, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of the United States of America . 
 
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Title:  Establishing Rules for Full Power Television and Class A Television Stations  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[ ] Comment period changed - date:   
[ ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[X] Notified measure published - date: 1 February 2024  
[X] Notified measure enters into force - date: 4 March 2024  
[X] Text of final measure available from1:  
89 Federal Register (FR) 7224, Title 47 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 0, 27, 
73, and 74:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2024-02-01/html/2023 -24626.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2024-02-01/pdf/2023 -24626.pdf  
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC -23-72A1.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/TBT/USA/final_measure/24_01794_00
_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/TBT/USA/final_measure/24_01794_01
_e.pdf  
[ ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:   
[ ] Content or scope of notified measure changed  and text available from1:  
New deadline for comments (if applicable):   
[ ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1:  
[ ] Other:  
 
Description:  Final Rule - In this document , the Federal Communications Commission (Commission 
or FCC) adopts several rule updates for full power and Class A television stations that no longer have 
any practical effect given the completion of the transition from a nalog to digital -only operations and 
the post incentive auction transition to a smaller television band with fewer channels. The 
 
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  Commission also adopts a restructuring of its full power television rules, which largely consist of the 
technical licensing, op erating, and interference rules for full power television.  
Effective 4 March 2024, except for the amendments in instruction 15 (Sec. 73.619), instruction 21 
(Sec. 73.625); instruction 52 (Sec. 73.1250); instruction 53 (Sec. 73.1350); instruction 56 (Sec. 
73.1560); instruction 59 (Sec. 73.1615); instruction 60 (Sec. 73.1620); instruction 61 (Sec. 
73.1635); instruction 62 (Sec. 73.1675); instruction 63 (Sec. 73.1690); instruction 64 (Sec. 
73.1740); instruction 65 (Sec. 73.1750); instruction 66 (Sec. 73.2080);  instruction 75 (Sec. 
73.3540); instruction 78 (Sec. 73.3544); instruction 79 (Sec. 73.3549); instruction 80 (Sec. 
73.3550); instruction 86 (Sec. 73.3598); instruction 103 (Sec. 73.5006); instruction 116 (Sec. 
73.6024); and instruction 117 (Sec. 73.6025), which are delayed indefinitely. The Media Bureau will 
publish a separate document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of these 
amendments. The incorporation by reference of certain material listed in the rule was approved by 
the Director of the Federal Register as of 11 October 2011.  
Title 47  Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 0, 27, 73, and 74 
Establishing Rules for Full Power Television and Class A Television St ations; Final rule; 
announcement of effective date published 29 February 2024:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2024-02-29/html/2024 -03956.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2024-02-29/pdf/2024 -03956.pdf  
The final rule is identified by MB Docket No. 22 -227, FCC 23 -72. The final rule is available on the 
FCC's website at https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc -updates -rules-television -and-class-television -
stations . Documents are also accessible from the FCC's Electronic Document Management System 
(EDOCS) by searching the MB Do cket Number.  
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