G/TBT/N/USA/1776  
13 September 2021  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [1805]  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated  if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other  [X]:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Unmanned 
aircraft systems use of 5GHz band; Radiocommunications (ICS 33.060), Mobile services 
(ICS 33.070), Emission (ICS 3 3.100.10), Aircraft and space vehicles in general (ICS 
49.020), On -board equipment and instruments (ICS 49.090)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Wireless 
Telecommunications Bureau Seeks To Refresh the Record on Unmanned Aircraft Systems 
Use of the 5 GHz Band (4 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice - In this document, the Wireless Telecommunications 
Bureau seeks  to refresh and update the record in this proceeding, which was commenced 
to consider a petiti on for rulemaking filed by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) 
that asked the Commission to adopt licensing and service rules for Control and Non -
Payload Communications (CNPC) links in the 5030 -5091 MHz band to support Unmanned 
Aircraft Systems (UAS ) operations in the United States.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety; Cost saving and productivity 
enhancement  
8. Relevant documents:   
86 Federal Register (FR) 50715, 10 September 2021:   
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-09-10/html/2021 -19499.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-09-10/pdf/2021 -19499.pdf  
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's document 
(Public Notice), RM -11798, DA 21 -1025, released on 20 August 2021. The comple te text 
of this document is available on the Commission's website at 
https://www.fcc.gov/document/wtb -seeks -refresh -record -uas-use-5-ghz-band or by 
using t he search function for RM -11798 on the Commission's ECFS web page at 
www.fcc.gov/ecfs . G/TBT/N/USA/1776  
 
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  WTO Members and their stakeholders are asked to submit comments to the USA TBT 
Enquiry Point . Comments received within the comment period will be submitted to the 
FCC at https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings  if received within the comment period.  
G/TBT/N/USA/1457  - Safe and Secure Operations of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems  
G/TBT/N/USA/1558 and subsequent addenda  - Remote Identification of Unmanned 
Aircraft Systems  
G/TBT/N/USA/1571 and G/TBT/N/USA/1571/Add.1  - Type Certification of Unmanned 
Aircraft Systems  
G/TBT/N/USA/1732  - Amendment to the Definition o f Unmanned Aircraft Accident  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  12 October 2021; Comments are due 12 October 2021 and 
reply comments are due 25 October 2021.  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/USA/21_5711_00_e.pdf