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 124 STAT. 4075 PUBLIC LAW 111–371—JAN. 4, 2011 station by the transmitter site of a low-power FM station on a third-adjacent channel at any distance from the full- service FM station, FM translator station, or FM booster station; and (C) accept complaints of interference to mobile recep- tion. (6) The Federal Communications Commission shall for full- service FM stations that are licensed in significantly populated States with more than 3,000,000 population and a population density greater than 1,000 people per one square mile land area, require all low-power FM stations licensed after the date of enactment of this Act and located on third-adjacent, second- adjacent, first-adjacent, or co-channels to such full-service FM stations, to provide the same interference remediation require- ments to complaints of interference, without regard to whether such complaints of interference occur within or outside of the protected contour of such stations, under the same interference complaint and remediation procedures that FM translator sta- tions and FM booster stations are required to provide to full- service stations as set forth in section 74.1203 of its rules (47 CFR 74.1203) as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 74.1203, no interference that arises outside the relevant distance for the full-service station class specified in the first column titled ‘‘required’’ for ‘‘Co-channel minimum separation (km)’’ in the table listed in section 73.807(a)(1) of the Commission’s rules (47 CFR 73.807(a)(1)) shall require remediation. SEC. 8. FCC STUDY ON IMPACT OF LOW -POWER FM STATIONS ON FULL- SERVICE COMMERCIAL FM STATIONS. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Federal Communications Commission shall conduct an economic study on the impact that low-power FM stations will have on full-service commercial FM stations. (b) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall submit a report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- tation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives on the study conducted under subsection (a).