tation of this section and associated enforcement activities 
for the previous fiscal year, which may include the efforts 
by the Commission to enlist the cooperation of Federal, 
State, and local law enforcement personnel (including 
United States attorneys and the United States Marshals 
Service) for service of process, collection of fines or forfeit-
ures, seizures of equipment, and enforcement of orders. 
‘‘(d) ENFORCEMENT SWEEPS.— 
‘‘(1) ANNUAL
SWEEPS.—Not less than once 
each year, the Commission shall assign appropriate 
enforcement personnel to focus specific and sus-
tained attention on the elimination of pirate radio 
broadcasting within the top 5 radio markets identi-
fied as prevalent for such broadcasts. Such effort 
shall include identifying, locating, and taking en-
forcement actions designed to terminate such oper-
ations. 
‘‘(2) 
ADDITIONAL
MONITORING.—Within 
months after conducting the enforcement sweeps re-
quired by paragraph (1), the Commission shall con-
duct monitoring sweeps to ascertain whether the pi-
rate radio broadcasting identified by enforcement 
sweeps is continuing to broadcast and whether addi-
tional pirate radio broadcasting is occurring. 
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‘‘(3) NO
EFFECT
ON
REMAINING
ENFORCE-
MENT.—Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Com-
mission shall not decrease or diminish the regular 
enforcement efforts targeted to pirate radio broad-
cast stations for other times of the year. 
‘‘(e) STATE
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHOR-
ITY.—The Commission may not preempt any State or 
local law prohibiting pirate radio broadcasting. 
‘‘(f) REVISION OF COMMISSION RULES REQUIRED.— 
The Commission shall revise its rules to require that, ab-
sent good cause, in any case alleging a violation of sub-
section (a) or (b), the Commission shall proceed directly 
to issue a notice of apparent liability without first issuing 
a notice of unlicensed operation. 
‘‘(g) PIRATE RADIO BROADCASTING DATABASE.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this section, and 
semi-annually thereafter, the Commission shall pub-
lish a database in a clear and legible format of all 
licensed radio stations operating in the AM and FM 
bands. The database shall be easily accessible from 
the Commission home page through a direct link. 
The database shall include the following information: 
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‘‘(A) Each licensed station, listed by the 
assigned frequency, channel number, or Com-
mission call letters. 
‘‘(B) All entities that have received a no-
tice of unlicensed operation, notice of apparent 
liability, or forfeiture order issued by the Com-
mission. 
‘‘(2) CLEAR
IDENTIFICATION.—The Commis-
sion shall clearly identify in the database— 
‘‘(A) each licensed station as a station li-
censed by the Commission; and 
‘‘(B) each entity described in paragraph 
(1)(B) as operating without a Commission li-
cense or authorization. 
‘‘(h) DEFINITION
OF
PIRATE
RADIO
BROAD-
CASTING.—In this section, the term ‘pirate radio broad-
casting’ means the transmission of communications on 
spectrum frequencies between 535 and 1705 kilohertz, in-
clusive, or 87.7 and 108 megahertz, inclusive, without a 
license issued by the Commission, but does not include un-
licensed operations in compliance with part 15 of title 47, 
Code of Federal Regulations.’’. 
Æ 
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