G/TBT/N/USA/1925/Add.1  
 
30 September 2022  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  29 September 2022, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of the United States of America . 
 
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Title:  Establishing Rules for Digital Low Power Television and Television Translator Stations  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[ ] Comment period changed - date:   
[ ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[X] Notified measure published - date: 23 September 2022  
[X] Notified measure enters into force - date: 24 October 2022  
[X] Text of final measure available from1:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-09-23/html /2022 -20294.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-09-23/pdf/2022 -20294.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/USA/final_measure/22_6646_00_
e.pdf 
[ ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant sym bol 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:  TITLE: Establishing Rules for Digital Low Power Television and Television Translator 
Stations  
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission  
ACTION: Final rule  
SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) adopts 
several rule updates to otherwise outdated rules for low power television and TV translator stations 
following the 13 J uly 2021, transition from analog to digital operations. This final rule deletes or 
revises rules that no longer have any practical effect given the completion of the low power television 
(LPTV)/translator digital transition, or that are otherwise obsolete or irrelevant. In addition, this final 
rule makes certain ministerial changes, for example, to delete analog rules, and to add definitions 
 
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  and other information previously adopted in rulemaking proceedings but inadvertently omitted from 
the rules.  
DATES: E ffective 24 October 2022.  
This final rule and the proposed rule notified as G/TBT/N/USA/1925  are identified by MB Docket Nos. 
03-185 and 22 -261; FCC 22 -58. Additional information on the proposed rule is accessible from the 
FCC's Electronic Document Management System ( EDOCS ) at https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc -
updates -and-proposes -rules-lptv-and-tv-translator -stations . Comments are due on or before 24 
October 2022; reply comments are due on or before 7 November 2022. WTO Members and their 
stakeholders are asked to submit comments to the USA TBT Enquiry Point  by or before 4pm Eastern 
Time on 24 October 2022. Comments received by the USA TBT Enquiry Point from WTO Members 
and their stakeholders will be shared with the regulator and will also be submitted to the FCC's 
Electronic Comme nt Filing System (ECFS)  if received within the comment period.  
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