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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 5000 

To amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration 

Organization Act to provide for the establishment of an electromagnetic 

spectrum sharing prototyping program and an integrated spectrum automation enterprise strategy, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 8, 2019 

Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. LATTA) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 

and Commerce 

A BILL 

To amend the National Telecommunications and Information 

Administration Organization Act to provide for the establishment of an electromagnetic spectrum sharing prototyping program and an integrated spectrum automation 

enterprise strategy, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Studying How to Har5 ness Airwave Resources Efficiently Act of 2019’’ or the 

6 ‘‘SHARE Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. NTIA ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM SHARING 

2 PROTOTYPING PROGRAM AND AUTOMATION 

3 STRATEGY. 

4 Part A of the National Telecommunications and In5 formation Administration Organization Act (47 U.S.C. 

6 901 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol7 lowing: 

8 ‘‘SEC. 106. ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM SHARING 

9 PROTOTYPING PROGRAM AND AUTOMATION 

10 STRATEGY. 

11 ‘‘(a) PROTOTYPING PROGRAM.— 

12 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 

13 the date of the enactment of the Studying How to 

14 Harness Airwave Resources Efficiently Act of 2019, 

15 the Assistant Secretary, in consultation with the 

16 Commission, shall establish a program to facilitate 

17 the prototyping of innovative technologies and tech18 niques that facilitate the sharing of the same cov19 ered electromagnetic spectrum by more than one 

20 Federal entity. 

21 ‘‘(2) SHARING TEST BED.—Not later than 15 

22 months after the date of the enactment of the 

23 Studying How to Harness Airwave Resources Effi24 ciently Act of 2019, the Assistant Secretary, in con25 sultation with the Commission, shall, under the pro26 gram established under paragraph (1), establish at 


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1 least one test bed to demonstrate the potential for 

2 the dynamic sharing of the same covered electro3 magnetic spectrum by more than one Federal entity. 

4 ‘‘(b) DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED SPECTRUM AU5 TOMATION ENTERPRISE STRATEGY.— 

6 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 18 months 

7 after the date of the enactment of the Studying How 

8 to Harness Airwave Resources Efficiently Act of 

9 2019, the Assistant Secretary, in consultation with 

10 the Commission, shall, under the program estab11 lished under subsection (a)(1), propose, after notice 

12 and opportunity for comment, an integrated spec13 trum automation enterprise strategy to address the 

14 management of covered electromagnetic spectrum in 

15 order to facilitate the sharing of such spectrum by 

16 more than one Federal entity. 

17 ‘‘(2) MATTERS ENCOMPASSED.—In developing 

18 the strategy under paragraph (1), the Assistant Sec19 retary shall consider, at a minimum, whether to pro20 pose in the strategy— 

21 ‘‘(A) changes in policy or to the law, in22 cluding legislative and regulatory changes; and 

23 ‘‘(B) using— 

24 ‘‘(i) databases; 

25 ‘‘(ii) artificial intelligence; 


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1 ‘‘(iii) spectrum management proc2 esses; 

3 ‘‘(iv) public-facing application pro4 gramming interfaces and online tools; 

5 ‘‘(v) automatic frequency coordination 

6 systems, including standard interfaces and 

7 data exchange formats and requirements; 

8 ‘‘(vi) spectrum enforcement require9 ments; 

10 ‘‘(vii) listen-before-talk; 

11 ‘‘(viii) environmental sensing capabili12 ties; and 

13 ‘‘(ix) electromagnetic spectrum com14 patibility analyses. 

15 ‘‘(3) UPDATES TO STRATEGY.—Not later than 

16 2 years after the strategy under paragraph (1) is 

17 proposed, and every 2 years thereafter, the Assistant 

18 Secretary shall update such strategy. 

19 ‘‘(c) BIANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 18 months 

20 after the date of the enactment of the Studying How to 

21 Harness Airwave Resources Efficiently Act of 2019, and 

22 in the last quarter of each even-numbered calendar year 

23 thereafter, the Assistant Secretary, in consultation with 

24 the Commission, shall submit to the Committee on Energy 

25 and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the 


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1 Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 

2 the Senate a report containing the status and results of 

3 the program established under subsection (a), including 

4 the status and results of the test bed established under 

5 paragraph (2) of such subsection and the strategy devel6 oped under subsection (b). 

7 ‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

8 is authorized to be appropriated to the Assistant Secretary 

9 to carry out this section $50,000,000. Such amounts are 

10 authorized to remain available until expended. 

11 ‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

12 ‘‘(1) COVERED ELECTROMAGNETIC SPEC13 TRUM.—The term ‘covered electromagnetic spec14 trum’ means electromagnetic spectrum allocated for 

15 exclusive or primary use by Federal entities. 

16 ‘‘(2) FEDERAL ENTITY.—The term ‘Federal en17 tity’ has the meaning given such term in section 

18 113(l).’’. 

19 SEC. 3. FCC AND NTIA REPORT ON EXPANDING SPECTRUM 

20 SHARING TECHNIQUES AND SHARING STRAT21 EGIES. 

22 (a) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the conclu23 sion of the first auction of Priority Access Licenses in the 

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1 munications and Information, in consultation with the Di2 rector of the National Institute of Standards and Tech3 nology, after notice and opportunity for comment, shall 

4 submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 

5 House of Representatives and the Committee on Com6 merce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report 

7 that assesses and provides recommendations for expanding 

8 upon and improving spectrum sharing techniques devel9 oped for use in the 3.5 gigahertz band, or other spectrum 

10 sharing strategies, that includes the following consider11 ations: 

12 (1) How to promote an ecosystem of devices 

13 employing such sharing techniques or such other 

14 sharing strategies. 

15 (2) How to incentivize spectrum users to em16 ploy such sharing techniques or such other sharing 

17 strategies. 

18 (3) How to ensure that any Federal protection 

19 zones and corresponding technical rules and power 

20 levels are no more protective than necessary. 

21 (4) The applicability of such sharing techniques 

22 or such other sharing strategies to frequencies be23 tween 3100 megahertz and 3550 megahertz, inclu24 sive, and frequencies between 7125 megahertz and 

25 8400 megahertz, inclusive, to the extent any portion 


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1 of such frequencies cannot be cleared in a reasonable 

2 amount of time. 

3 (b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in sub4 section (a)(4) may be construed to require that every spec5 trum sharing technique developed for use in the 3.5 

6 gigahertz band be recommended for use in other bands. 

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