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 PUBLIC LAW 109–171—FEB. 8, 2006

120 STAT. 21

to section 2102, the assessment regulations in effect immediately before the date of the enactment of this Act shall continue to apply to all members of the Deposit Insurance Fund, until such regulations are modified by the Corporation, notwithstanding that such regulations may refer to ‘‘Bank Insurance Fund members’’ or ‘‘Savings Association Insurance Fund members’’.

TITLE III—DIGITAL TELEVISION TRANSITION AND PUBLIC SAFETY

Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005. 47 USC 309 note.

SEC. 3001. SHORT TITLE; DEFINITION.

(a) SHORT TITLE.—This title may be cited as the ‘‘Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005’’. (b) DEFINITION.—As used in this Act, the term ‘‘Assistant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of the Department of Commerce. SEC. 3002. ANALOG SPECTRUM RECOVERY: FIRM DEADLINE.

(a) AMENDMENTS.—Section 309(j)(14) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 309(j)(14)) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A)— (A) by inserting ‘‘full-power’’ before ‘‘television broadcast license’’; and (B) by striking ‘‘December 31, 2006’’ and inserting ‘‘February 17, 2009’’; (2) by striking subparagraph (B); (3) in subparagraph (C)(i)(I), by striking ‘‘or (B)’’; (4) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘subparagraph (C)(i)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (B)(i)’’; and (5) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively. (b) TERMINATIONS OF ANALOG LICENSES AND BROADCASTING.— The Federal Communications Commission shall take such actions as are necessary— (1) to terminate all licenses for full-power television stations in the analog television service, and to require the cessation of broadcasting by full-power stations in the analog television service, by February 18, 2009; and (2) to require by February 18, 2009, that all broadcasting by Class A stations, whether in the analog television service or digital television service, and all broadcasting by full-power stations in the digital television service, occur only on channels between channels 2 and 36, inclusive, or 38 and 51, inclusive (between frequencies 54 and 698 megahertz, inclusive). (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— (1) Section 337(e) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 337(e)) is amended— (A) in paragraph (1)— (i) by striking ‘‘CHANNELS 60 TO 69’’ and inserting ‘‘CHANNELS 52 TO 69’’; (ii) by striking ‘‘person who’’ and inserting ‘‘fullpower television station licensee that’’; (iii) by striking ‘‘746 and 806 megahertz’’ and inserting ‘‘698 and 806 megahertz’’; and

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