[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR5.91]

[Page 640-641]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
              CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
 
PART 5--EXPERIMENTAL RADIO SERVICE (OTHER THAN BROADCAST)--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart B--Applications and Licenses
 
Sec. 5.91  Notification of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

    In order to minimize possible harmful interference at the National 
Radio Astronomy Observatory site located at Green Bank, Pocahontas 
County, West Virginia, and at the Naval Radio Research Observatory site 
at Sugar Grove, Pendleton County, West Virginia, any applicant for a 
station authorization other than mobile, temporary base, temporary 
fixed, Personal Radio, Civil Air Patrol, or Amateur seeking a station 
license for a new station, or a construction permit to construct a new 
station or to modify an existing station license in a manner that would 
change either the frequency, power, antenna height or directivity, or 
location of such a station within the area bounded by 39 deg. 15[min] N 
on the north, 78 deg. 30[min] W on the east, 37 deg. 30[min] N on the 
south and 80 deg. 30[min]

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W on the west shall, at the time of filing such application with the 
Commission, simultaneously notify the Director, National Radio Astronomy 
Observatory, P.O. Box NZ2, Green Bank, West Virginia, 24944, in writing, 
of the technical particulars of the proposed station. Such notification 
shall include the geographical coordinates of the antenna, antenna 
height, antenna directivity if any, frequency, type of emission, and 
power. In addition, the applicant shall indicate in its application to 
the Commission the date notification was made to the Observatory. After 
receipt of such applications, the Commission will allow a period of 
twenty (20) days for comments or objections in response to the 
notifications indicated. If an objection to the proposed operation is 
received during the twenty-day period from the National Radio Astronomy 
Observatory for itself or on behalf of the Naval Radio Research 
Observatory, the Commission will consider all aspects of the problem and 
take whatever action is deemed appropriate.