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(3) FM translator stations, FM booster sta-
tions, and low-power FM stations remain equal in 
status and secondary to existing and modified full- 
service FM stations. 
SEC. 6. PROTECTION OF TRANSLATOR INPUT SIGNALS. 
The Federal Communications Commission shall mod-
ify its rules to address the potential for predicted inter-
ference to FM translator input signals on third-adjacent 
channels set forth in section 2.7 of the technical report 
entitled ‘‘Experimental Measurements of the Third-Adja-
cent Channel Impacts of Low-Power FM Stations, Volume 
One—Final Report (May 2003)’’. 
SEC. 7. ENSURING EFFECTIVE REMEDIATION OF INTER-
FERENCE. 
The Federal Communications Commission shall mod-
ify the interference complaint process described in section 
73.810 of its rules (47 CFR 73.810) as follows: 
(1) With respect to those low-power FM sta-
tions licensed at locations that do not satisfy third- 
adjacent channel spacing requirements under section 
73.807 of the Commission’s rules (47 CFR 73.807), 
the Federal Communications Commission shall pro-
vide the same interference protections that FM 
translator stations and FM booster stations are re-
quired to provide as set forth in section 74.1203 of 
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its rules (47 CFR 74.1203) as in effect on the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
(2) For a period of 1 year after a new low- 
power FM station is constructed on a third-adjacent 
channel, such low-power FM station shall be re-
quired to broadcast periodic announcements that 
alert listeners that interference that they may be ex-
periencing could be the result of the operation of 
such low-power FM station on a third-adjacent 
channel and shall instruct affected listeners to con-
tact such low-power FM station to report any inter-
ference. The Federal Communications Commission 
shall require all newly constructed low-power FM 
stations on third-adjacent channels to— 
(A) notify the Federal Communications 
Commission and all affected stations on third- 
adjacent channels of an interference complaint 
by electronic communication within 48 hours 
after the receipt of such complaint; and 
(B) cooperate in addressing any such in-
terference. 
(3) Low-power FM stations on third-adjacent 
channels shall be required to address complaints of 
interference within the protected contour of an af-
fected station and shall be encouraged to address all 
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other interference complaints, including complaints 
to the Federal Communications Commission based 
on interference to a full-service FM station, an FM 
translator station, or an FM booster station by the 
transmitter site of a low-power FM station on a 
third-adjacent channel at any distance from the full- 
service FM station, FM translator station, or FM 
booster station. The Federal Communications Com-
mission shall provide notice to the licensee of a low- 
power FM station of the existence of such inter-
ference within 7 calendar days of the receipt of a 
complaint from a listener or another station. 
(4) To the extent possible, the Federal Commu-
nications Commission shall grant low-power FM sta-
tions on third-adjacent channels the technical flexi-
bility to remediate interference through the coloca-
tion of the transmission facilities of the low-power 
FM station and any stations on third-adjacent chan-
nels. 
(5) The Federal Communications Commission 
shall— 
(A) permit the submission of informal evi-
dence of interference, including any engineering 
analysis that an affected station may commis-
sion; 
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(B) accept complaints based on inter-
ference to a full-service FM station, FM trans-
lator station, or FM booster station by the 
transmitter site of a low-power FM station on 
a third-adjacent channel at any distance from 
the full-service FM station, FM translator sta-
tion, or FM booster station; and 
(C) accept complaints of interference to 
mobile reception. 
(6) The Federal Communications Commission 
shall for full-service FM stations that are licensed in 
significantly populated States with more than 
3,000,000 population and a population density 
greater than 1,000 people per one square mile land 
area, require all low-power FM stations licensed 
after the date of enactment of this Act and located 
on third-adjacent, second-adjacent, first-adjacent, or 
co-channels to such full-service FM stations, to pro-
vide the same interference remediation requirements 
to complaints of interference, without regard to 
whether such complaints of interference occur within 
or outside of the protected contour of such stations, 
under the same interference complaint and remedi-
ation procedures that FM translator stations and 
FM booster stations are required to provide to full- 
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service stations as set forth in section 74.1203 of its 
rules (47 CFR 74.1203) as in effect on the date of 
enactment of this Act. Notwithstanding the provi-
sions of section 74.1203, no interference that arises 
outside the relevant distance for the full-service sta-
tion class specified in the first column titled ‘‘re-
quired’’ for ‘‘Co-channel minimum separation (km)’’ 
in the table listed in section 73.807(a)(1) of the 
Commission’s rules (47 CFR 73.807(a)(1)) shall re-
quire remediation. 
SEC. 8. FCC STUDY ON IMPACT OF LOW-POWER FM STA-
TIONS ON FULL-SERVICE COMMERCIAL FM 
STATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Federal Communications 
Commission shall conduct an economic study on the im-
pact that low-power FM stations will have on full-service 
commercial FM stations. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications 
Commission shall submit a report to the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House 
of Representatives on the study conducted under sub-
section (a). 
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(c) LICENSING NOT AFFECTED BY STUDY.—Nothing 
in this section shall affect the licensing of new low-power 
FM stations as otherwise permitted under this Act. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 17, 
2010. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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