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10 February 2023  
(23-0989) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [1995]  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicate d if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Full power 
television and Class A television stations; Transmission apparatus for radio -broadcasting 
or television , whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or 
reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders 
(HS code(s): 8525); Audio, video and audiovisual engineering (ICS code(s): 33.160); 
Television an d radio broadcasting (ICS code(s): 33.170)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Establishing 
Rules for Full Power Television and Class A Television Stations; (178 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice of pr oposed rulemaking - In this document, the Federal 
Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) seeks comment on comprehensively 
deleting, updating, or otherwise revising Commission rules for full power television and 
Class A television stations that no lo nger have any practical effect given the completion 
of the transition from analog to digital -only operations and the post incentive auction 
transition to a smaller television band with fewer channels. This NPRM also seeks 
comment on a restructuring of the Commission's full power television rules, which largely 
consist of the technical licensing, operating, and interference rules for full power 
television.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer informa tion, labelling  G/TBT/N/USA/1963  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
88 Federal Register (FR) 8636, 9 February 2023; Title 47 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Parts 0, 27, 73, and 74:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-02-09/html/2022 -24751.htm  
https://www.govin fo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-02-09/pdf/2022 -24751.pdf  
The full text of the Proposed Rule is available at https://www.fcc.gov/edocs/search -
results?t=quick&dockets=22 -227. This pro posed rule is identified by IB Docket No. 22 -
227. The Docket Folder is available on the FCC's website at 
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc -proposes -eliminate -obsolete-analog -tv-rules-0 and 
provides access to primary documents as well as comments received (if any). Documents 
are also accessible from the FCC's Electronic Document Management System (EDOCS)  by 
searching the IB Docket Number. Comments are due on or before 10 April 2023; reply 
comments are due on or before 25 April 2023. WTO Members and their stakeholders are 
asked to submit comments to the USA TBT Enqu iry Point  by or before 4pm Eastern Time  
on 10 April 2023. Comments received by the USA TBT Enquiry Point from  WTO Members 
and their stakeholders will be shared with the regulator and will also be submitted to the 
FCC Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS)  if received within the comment period.  
FCC Proposes to Eliminate O bsolete Analog TV Rules:  
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc -proposes -eliminate -obsolete -analog -tv-rules-0 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  10 April 2023  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/USA/23_1027_00_e.pdf  
 