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C. Petitions for Judicial Review 

Under section 307(b)(1) of the CAA, 

petitions for judicial review of this 

action must be filed in the United States 

Court of Appeals for the appropriate 

circuit by March 23, 2015. Filing a 

petition for reconsideration by the 

Administrator of this final rule does not 

affect the finality of this action for the 

purposes of judicial review nor does it 

extend the time within which a petition 

for judicial review may be filed, and 

shall not postpone the effectiveness of 

such rule or action. This action revising 

the PM10 BART emission limitation for 

Cheswick for Pennsylvania’s regional 

haze SIP may not be challenged later in 

proceedings to enforce its requirements. 

(See section 307(b)(2).) 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Incorporation by 

reference, Intergovernmental relations, 

Particulate matter, Reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements. 

Dated: December 30, 2014. 

William C. Early, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 

Therefore, 40 CFR part 52 is amended 

as follows: 

PART 52—APPROVAL AND 

PROMULGATION OF 

IMPLEMENTATION PLANS 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 52 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. 

Subpart NN Pennsylvania 

■ 2. In § 52.2020, the table in paragraph 

(e)(1) is amended by adding an entry 

under ‘‘Regional Haze Plan’’ to read as 

follows: 

§ 52.2020 Identification of plan. 

* * * * * 

(e) * * * 

(1) * * * 

Name of non-regulatory 

SIP revision 

Applicable geographic 

area 

State submittal 

date EPA approval date Additional explanation 

*******

Regional Haze Plan ....... Statewide ..................... 3/25/14 [01/21/15] [Insert Federal Register citation].Revises PM10 Best Available Retrofit Technology emission limit for Boiler No. 1 of the 

Cheswick Power Plant in Allegheny County. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 15 

[ET Docket No. 10–97; DA 14–1189] 

Unlicensed Personal Communications 

Service Devices in the 1920–1930 MHz 

Band 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: This document modifies the 

rules governing the operation of 

Unlicensed Personal Communications 

Service (UPCS) devices in the 1920– 

1930 MHz band (UPCS band) to 

reference the 2013 version of the 

American National Standards Institute 

(ANSI) C63.17 standard, Methods of 

Measurement of the Electromagnetic 

and Operational Compatibility of 

Unlicensed Personal Communications 

Service (UPCS) Devices, ANSI C63.17– 

2013, by which UPCS devices must be 

measured for compliance with the 

technical requirements in the 

Commission’s regulations. 

DATES: Effective January 21, 2015. The 

incorporation by reference listed in the 

rule is approved by the Director of the 

Federal Register as of January 21, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patrick Forster, (202) 418–7061, Policy 

and Rules Division, Office of 

Engineering and Technology, (202) 418– 

2290, Patrick.Forster@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s Order, ET 

Docket No. 10–97, adopted August 13, 

2014, and released August 14, 2014, DA 

14–1189. The full text of this document 

is available on the Commission’s 

Internet site at www.fcc.gov. It is also 

available for inspection and copying 

during regular business hours in the 

FCC Reference Center (Room CY–A257), 

445 12th Street SW., Washington, DC 

20554. The full text of this document 

also may be purchased from the 

Commission’s duplication contractor, 

Best Copy and Printing Inc., Portals II, 

445 12th St. SW., Room CY–B402, 

Washington, DC 20554; telephone (202) 

488–5300; fax (202) 488–5563; email 

FCC@BCPIWEB.COM. 

Summary of the Order 

1. The Order modifies the rules in 

part 15 subpart D governing the 

operation of UPCS devices in the 1920– 

1930 MHz band (UPCS band) to 

reference the 2013 version of the ANSI 

C63.17 standard, Methods of 

Measurement of the Electromagnetic 

and Operational Compatibility of 

Unlicensed Personal Communications 

Service (UPCS) Devices, ANSI C63.17– 

2013. This version of the standard 

supersedes ANSI C63.17–2006, which 

contains measurement procedures for 

verifying the compliance of UPCS 

devices (including wideband voice and 

data devices) that operate in the 1920– 

1930 MHz frequency band with 

applicable requirements regarding 

radiofrequency (RF) emission levels and 

spectrum access procedures in part 15 

subpart D of the Commission’s rules. 

Background 

2. The 1920–1930 MHz band is 

allocated to Fixed and Mobile services 

on a primary basis and is designated for 

use by UPCS devices on an unlicensed 

basis. Under the Commission’s part 15 

rules, the 1920–1930 MHz band may be 

used for both asynchronous (generally 

data) and isochronous (generally voice) 

UPCS devices. Currently, the most 

widespread use of the 1920–1930 MHz 

band is for unlicensed cordless 

telephones. UPCS devices operating in 

the 1920–1930 MHz band may not cause 

harmful interference to authorized radio 

services and must accept any 

interference received. In order to limit 

the influence of and interference 

potential from UPCS devices to 

adjacent-channel, co-channel, and 

adjacent-band devices, the 

Commission’s rules limit UPCS devices’ 

emissions bandwidth, peak power, and 

in-band and out-of-band emissions. To 

facilitate the sharing of channels in the 


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1 See 5 U.S.C. 604. The RFA, see 5 U.S.C. 601 

et seq., has been amended by the Contract With 

America Advancement Act of 1996, Public Law 

104–121, 110 Stat. 847 (1996) (CWAAA). Title II of 

the CWAAA is the Small Business Regulatory 

Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA). 

2 See 5 U.S.C. 605(b). 3 Id. 

UPCS band, the Commission’s rules 

require use of a ‘‘listen-before-transmit’’ 

protocol or ‘‘spectrum etiquette.’’ This is 

commonly referred to as the ‘‘leastinterfered channel access method,’’ and 

specifies a process of channel 

monitoring before a UPCS device selects 

a channel for transmitting. After 

monitoring the required minimum 

number of channels, UPCS devices may 

use the combined time and spectrum 

windows with the lowest signal level. 

3. As part of its equipment 

authorization process, the Commission 

uses measurements of UPCS devices in 

accordance with the procedures in ANSI 

C63.17–2006 to determine compliance 

with the technical requirements in part 

15 subpart D of the rules. Under the 

Commission’s equipment authorization 

rules (47 CFR part 2, subpart J), UPCS 

devices operated in or marketed for use 

in the United States must be certified. 

Parties making compliance 

measurements on UPCS devices subject 

to the requirements of part 15 subpart D 

are required to use the measurement 

procedures in ANSI C63.17–2006, 

which is incorporated by reference in 

Section 15.38(b)(2) of the Commission’s 

rules. On October 9, 2013, The Institute 

of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 

(IEEE) published ANSI C63.17–2013, 

which supersedes ANSI C63.17–2006. 

ANSI Accredited Standards Committee 

C63® (ASC C63®) requested that the 

Commission update its rules to replace 

current references to ANSI C63.17–2006 

with the updated ANSI C63.17–2013 

standard, and incorporate by reference 

the ANSI C63.17–2013 standard into the 

Commission’s rules. 

Discussion 

4. To help ensure that the UPCS 

device rules continue to reflect the most 

appropriate industry standards, in 2012, 

the Commission delegated to the Chief, 

Office of Engineering and Technology 

(OET), the authority to approve for use 

new versions of the ANSI C63.17 

standard for methods of measurement of 

the electromagnetic and operational 

compatibility of UPCS devices to the 

extent that the changes do not raise 

major compliance issues (ET Docket No. 

10–97, FCC 12–33, 27 FCC Rcd at 3645). 

As part of the same decision, the 

Commission modified the leastinterfered channel access method to 

promote increased use and efficiency of 

operations in the 1920–1930 MHz band. 

These modifications eliminated the 50 

dB above thermal noise least-interfered 

channel monitoring threshold and 

reduced the minimum number of 

channels that must be monitored, 

thereby enabling UPCS devices to access 

additional usable time and spectrum 

windows. ANSI C63.17–2013 

supersedes ANSI C63.17–2006 to reflect 

these changes to the least-interfered 

channel access method. ANSI ASC C63®

asserted that incorporation by reference 

of the 2013 version of ANSI C63.17 into 

the Commission’s rules would facilitate 

the implementation of the improved 

services that the Commission 

anticipated in its 2012 decision, and 

thus would serve the public interest. 

5. Because the relaxed UPCS device 

least-interfered channel monitoring 

method that the Commission adopted in 

2012 removed a maximum signal 

monitoring threshold and requires that 

fewer channels be defined and 

monitored, UPCS-band products that 

have already been authorized continue 

to be in compliance with our technical 

rules. UPCS device manufacturers 

simply have additional flexibility to 

produce UPCS devices that operate in 

accordance with the revised criteria. 

Significantly, the Commission made no 

changes to the UPCS device power and 

emissions limits in its 2012 decision. 

Because ASNI C63.17–2006 was 

updated in 2013 only to reflect the 

revised least-interfered channel access 

method the Commission adopted in 

2012, but otherwise did not alter the 

methods used to measure compliance 

with the part 15 subpart D technical 

requirements or the power and 

emissions limits measured, the 

Commission concluded that updating 

ANSI C63.17–2006 with the 2013 

version of ANSI C63.17 in the 

Commission’s rules would not raise any 

major compliance issues for UPCS 

device manufacturers. Thus, consistent 

with its 2012 decision, the Commission 

amended sections 15.31(a)(2) and 

15.38(b)(2) of the rules to reference the 

2013 version of the ANSI C63.17 

standard, ANSI C63.17–2013, by which 

UPCS devices must be measured for 

compliance with the technical 

requirements in part 15 subpart D of the 

rules. 

Regulatory Flexibility Certification 

6. The Regulatory Flexibility Act 

(RFA) 1 requires that agencies prepare a 

regulatory flexibility analysis for noticeand-comment rulemaking proceedings, 

unless the agency certifies that ‘‘the rule 

will not have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities.’’ 2 The Commission hereby 

certifies that these rule revisions will 

not have a significant economic impact 

on a substantial number of small entities 

for the following two reasons: (1) The 

action updates the version of the 

standard by which UPCS devices must 

be measured for compliance with the 

technical rules in part 15 subpart D of 

the Commission’s rules, and the 

updated version of the standard only 

reflects the Commission’s revision to the 

UPCS device least-interfered channel 

access method, and does not contain 

any revised measurement procedures or 

revised power or emissions limits, and 

(2) UPCS-band products that have 

already been authorized continue to be 

in compliance with our technical rules, 

and UPCS device manufacturers have 

the option to produce UPCS devices that 

operate in accordance with the revised 

least-interfered channel access criteria 

in part 15 subpart D of the 

Commission’s rules to access additional 

available channels. The Commission 

will send a copy of this Order, including 

this certification, to the Chief Counsel 

for Advocacy of the Small Business 

Administration.3

Paperwork Reduction Analysis 

7. This document does not contain 

new or modified information collection 

requirements subject to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Public 

Law 104–13. 

Congressional Review Act 

8. The Commission will send a copy 

of this Order in a report to be sent to 

Congress and the Government 

Accountability Office pursuant to the 

Congressional Review Act, see 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A). 

Ordering Clauses 

9. Pursuant to Sections 4(i) and 303(r) 

of the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i) and 303(r), 

this Order in ET Docket No. 10–97 is 

hereby adopted, and part 15 of the 

Commission’s rules is amended as set 

forth in Final Rules effective January 21, 

2015. 

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 15 

Communications equipment, 

Incorporation by reference, Radio, 

Reporting and recordkeeping. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Mark Settle, 

Chief, Policy and Rules Division. 

Office of Engineering and Technology. 

Final Rules 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Federal Communications 


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Commission amends 47 CFR part 15 to 

read as follows: 

PART 15—RADIO FREQUENCY 

DEVICES 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 15 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 302a, 303, 304, 

307, 336, 544a, and 549. 

■ 2. Section 15.31 is amended by 

revising paragraph (a)(2) and removing 

the last sentence of paragraph (a)(3). The 

revision reads as follows: 

§ 15.31 Measurement standards. 

(a) * * * 

(2) Unlicensed Personal 

Communications Service (UPCS) 

devices are to be measured for 

compliance using ANSI C63.17–2013: 

‘‘American National Standard Methods 

of Measurement of the Electromagnetic 

and Operational Compatibility of 

Unlicensed Personal Communications 

Services (UPCS) Devices’’ (incorporated 

by reference, see § 15.38). 

* * * * * 

■ 3. Section 15.38 is amended by 

revising paragraph (b)(2) to read as 

follows: 

§ 15.38 Incorporation by reference. 

* * * * * 

(b) * * * 

(2) ANSI C63.17–2013: ‘‘American 

National Standard Methods of 

Measurement of the Electromagnetic 

and Operational Compatibility of 

Unlicensed Personal Communications 

Services (UPCS) Devices,’’ approved 

August 12, 2013, IBR approved for 

§ 15.31. 

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