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To implement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service. 6/21/2007--Introduced. Local Community Radio Act of 2007 - Repeals provisions in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, that required the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) modify rules authorizing the operation of low-power FM radio stations to prescribe minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels; (2) prohibit applicants who have engaged in the unlicensed operation of any station from obtaining a low-power FM license; and (3) conduct a program to test whether low-power FM radio stations will result in harmful interference to existing FM radio stations if minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels are not required. Requires the FCC to modify its rules to eliminate third-adjacent minimum distance separation requirements between specified [...]

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  • 06/21/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
  • 06/21/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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H.R.2802 Introduced in House08/31/2007