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 Public Laws ENACTED DURING THE

SECOND SESSION OF THE EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, January 3, 1956, and adjourned sine die on Friday, July 27, 1956. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President; RICHARD M. NIXON, Vice President; SAM RAYBURN, Speaker oj the House of Representatives.

Public Law 391

CHAPTER 1

AN ACT To amend the Communications Act of 1934 in regard to protests of grants of instruments of authorization without hearing.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (c) of section 309 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "(c) When any instrument of authorization is granted by the Commission without a hearing as provided in subsection (a) hereof, such grant shall remain subject to protest as hereinafter provided for a period of thirty days. During such thirty-day period any party in interest may file a protest under oath directed to such grant and request a hearing on said application so granted. Any protest so filed shall be served on the grantee, shall contain such allegations of fact as will show the protestant to be a party in interest, and shall specify with particularity the facts relied upon by the protestant as showing that the grant was improperly made or would otherwise not be in the public interest. The Commission shall, within thirty days of the filing of the protest, render a decision making findings as to the sufficiency of the protest in meeting the above requirements; and, where it so finds, shall designate the application for hearing upon issues relating to all matters specified in the protest as grounds for setting aside the grant, except with respect to such matters as to which the Commission, after affording protestant an opportunity for oral argument, finds, for reasons set forth in the decision, that, even if the facts alleged were to be proven, no grounds for setting aside the grant are presented.

January 20, 1956 [H. R. 5614]

C onununic ations Act of 1934, amendment. 66 Stat. 715. 47 USC 309.

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