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47 U.S.C. § 156 — Authorization of appropriations
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**(a) Authorization** There are authorized to be appropriated to the Commission to carry out the functions of the Commission $333,118,000 for fiscal year 2019 and $339,610,000 for fiscal year 2020.
**(b) Offsetting collections** The sum appropriated in any fiscal year to carry out the activities described in subsection (a), to the extent and in the amounts provided for in Appropriations Acts, shall be derived from fees authorized by [section 159 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section159&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Authorization** There are authorized to be appropriated to the Commission to carry out the functions of the Commission $333,118,000 for fiscal year 2019 and $339,610,000 for fiscal year 2020.
**(b) Offsetting collections** The sum appropriated in any fiscal year to carry out the activities described in subsection (a), to the extent and in the amounts provided for in Appropriations Acts, shall be derived from fees authorized by [section 159 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section159&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Judicial review prohibited** Any adjustment or amendment to a schedule of fees under subsection (b) or (c) of [section 158 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section158&num=0&edition=prelim) or subsection (c) or (d) of [section 159 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section159&num=0&edition=prelim) is not subject to judicial review.
**(b) Notice to Congress** The Commission shall transmit to Congress notification—
(1) of any adjustment under section 158(b) or 159(c) of this title immediately upon the adoption of such adjustment; and
(2) of any amendment under section 158(c) or 159(d) of this title not later than 90 days before the effective date of such amendment.
**(c) Enforcement**
(1) **Penalties for late payment** — The Commission shall by rule prescribe an additional penalty for late payment of fees under section 158 or 159 of this title. Such additional penalty shall be 25 percent of the amount of the fee that was not paid in a timely manner.
(2) **Interest on unpaid fees and penalties** — The Commission shall charge interest, at a rate determined under [section 3717 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section3717&num=0&edition=prelim), on a fee under section 158 or 159 of this title or an additional penalty under this subsection that is not paid in a timely manner. Such section 3717 shall not otherwise apply with respect to such a fee or penalty.
(3) **Dismissal of applications or filings** — The Commission may dismiss any application or other filing for failure to pay in a timely manner any fee under section 158 or 159 of this title or any interest or additional penalty under this subsection.
(4) **Revocati
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**(a) General authority** The Commission shall assess and collect regulatory fees to recover the costs of carrying out the activities described in [section 156(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section156/a&num=0&edition=prelim) only to the extent, and in the total amounts, provided for in Appropriations Acts.
**(b) Establishment of schedule** The Commission shall assess and collect regulatory fees at such rates as the Commission shall establish in a schedule of regulatory fees that will result in the collection, in each fiscal year, of an amount that can reasonably be expected to equal the amounts described in subsection (a) with respect to such fiscal year.
**(c) Adjustment of schedule**
(1) **In general** — For each fiscal year, the Commission shall by rule adjust the schedule of regulatory fees established under this section to—
(A) reflect unexpected increases or decreases in the number of units subject to the payment of such fees; and
(B) result in the collection of the amount required by subsection (b).
(2) **Rounding** — In making adjustments under this subsection, the Commission may round fees to the nearest $5 increment.
**(d) Amendments to schedule** In addition to the adjustments required by subsection (c), the Commission shall by rule amend the schedule of regulatory fees established under this section if the Commission determines that the schedule requires amendment so that such fees reflect the full-time equivalent number of employees within the bureaus and offices of the Commission, adjusted to take into account factors that are reasonably related to the benefits provided to the payor of the fee by the Commission’s activities. In making an amendment under this subsection, the Commission may
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**(a) Number of commissioners; appointment** The Federal Communications Commission (in this chapter referred to as the “Commission”) shall be composed of five commissioners appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one of whom the President shall designate as chairman.
**(b) Qualifications**
(1) Each member of the Commission shall be a citizen of the United States.
(2)
(A) No member of the Commission or person employed by the Commission shall—
(i) be financially interested in any company or other entity engaged in the manufacture or sale of telecommunications equipment which is subject to regulation by the Commission;
(ii) be financially interested in any company or other entity engaged in the business of communication by wire or radio or in the use of the electromagnetic spectrum;
(iii) be financially interested in any company or other entity which controls any company or other entity specified in clause (i) or clause (ii), or which derives a significant portion of its total income from ownership of stocks, bonds, or other securities of any such company or other entity; or
(iv) be employed by, hold any official relation to, or own any stocks, bonds, or other securities of, any person significantly regulated by the Commission under this chapter;
except that the prohibitions established in this subparagraph shall apply only to financial interests in any company or other entity which has a significant interest in communications, manufacturing, or sales activities which are subject to regulation by the Commission.
(B)
(i) The Commission shall have authority to waive, from time to time, the application of the prohibitions established in subparagraph (A) to persons employed by the Commission if the Com
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**(a) General authority; establishment of schedule** The Commission shall assess and collect application fees at such rates as the Commission shall establish in a schedule of application fees to recover the costs of the Commission to process applications.
**(b) Adjustment of schedule**
(1) **In general** — In every even-numbered year, the Commission shall review the schedule of application fees established under this section and, except as provided in paragraph (2), set a new amount for each fee in the schedule that is equal to the amount of the fee on the date when the fee was established or the date when the fee was last amended under subsection (c), whichever is later—
(A) increased or decreased by the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index during the period beginning on such date and ending on the date of the review; and
(B) rounded to the nearest $5 increment.
(2) **Threshold for adjustment** — The Commission may not adjust a fee under paragraph (1) if—
(A) in the case of a fee the current amount of which is less than $200, the adjustment would result in a change in the current amount of less than $10; or
(B) in the case of a fee the current amount of which is $200 or more, the adjustment would result in a change in the current amount of less than 5 percent.
(3) **Current amount defined** — In paragraph (2), the term “current amount” means, with respect to a fee, the amount of the fee on the date when the fee was established, the date when the fee was last adjusted under paragraph (1), or the date when the fee was last amended under subsection (c), whichever is latest.
**(c) Amendments to schedule** In addition to the adjustments required by subsection (b), the Commission shall by rule amend the schedule of application fees established under
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Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the Commission from time to time, as public convenience, interest, or necessity requires, shall—
**(a)** Classify radio stations;
**(b)** Prescribe the nature of the service to be rendered by each class of licensed stations and each station within any class;
**(c)** Assign bands of frequencies to the various classes of stations, and assign frequencies for each individual station and determine the power which each station shall use and the time during which it may operate;
**(d)** Determine the location of classes of stations or individual stations;
**(e)** Regulate the kind of apparatus to be used with respect to its external effects and the purity and sharpness of the emissions from each station and from the apparatus therein;
**(f)** Make such regulations not inconsistent with law as it may deem necessary to prevent interference between stations and to carry out the provisions of this chapter: Provided, however, That changes in the frequencies, authorized power, or in the times of operation of any station, shall not be made without the consent of the station licensee unless the Commission shall determine that such changes will promote public convenience or interest or will serve public necessity, or the provisions of this chapter will be more fully complied with;
**(g)** Study new uses for radio, provide for experimental uses of frequencies, and generally encourage the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest;
**(h)** Have authority to establish areas or zones to be served by any station;
**(i)** Have authority to make special regulations applicable to radio stations engaged in chain broadcasting;
**(j)** Have authority to make general rules and regulations requiring stations to keep such rec
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**(a) Considerations in granting application** Subject to the provisions of this section, the Commission shall determine, in the case of each application filed with it to which [section 308 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section308&num=0&edition=prelim) applies, whether the public interest, convenience, and necessity will be served by the granting of such application, and, if the Commission, upon examination of such application and upon consideration of such other matters as the Commission may officially notice, shall find that public interest, convenience, and necessity would be served by the granting thereof, it shall grant such application.
**(b) Time of granting application** Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, no such application—
(1) for an instrument of authorization in the case of a station in the broadcasting or common carrier services, or
(2) for an instrument of authorization in the case of a station in any of the following categories:
(A) industrial radio positioning stations for which frequencies are assigned on an exclusive basis,
(B) aeronautical en route stations,
(C) aeronautical advisory stations,
(D) airdrome control stations,
(E) aeronautical fixed stations, and
(F) such other stations or classes of stations, not in the broadcasting or common carrier services, as the Commission shall by rule prescribe,
shall be granted by the Commission earlier than thirty days following issuance of public notice by the Commission of the acceptance for filing of such application or of any substantial amendment thereof.
**(c) Applications not affected by subsection (b)** Subsection (b) of this section shall not apply—
(1) to any minor amendment of an application to which such
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TITLE 47—TELECOMMUNICATIONS
§ 156
AMENDMENTS
1996—Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 104–104 inserted last sen-
tence and struck out former last sentence which read
as follows: ‘‘Nothing in this paragraph shall authorize
the Commission to provide for the conduct, by any per-
son or persons other than persons referred to in clauses
(2) and (3) of section 556(b) of title 5, of any hearing to
which such section 556(b) applies.’’
1994—Subsecs. (e), (f). Pub. L. 103–414 redesignated
subsec. (f) as (e).
1988—Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 100–594, § 8(a), inserted
‘‘and except any action referred to in sections 204(a)(2),
208(b), and 405(b) of this title’’ after ‘‘and (6) of this sub-
section’’ in first sentence.
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 100–594, § 4, struck out subsec. (g)
which required an annual report to Congress and speci-
fied its contents.
1986—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 99–272 substituted ‘‘March
31’’ for ‘‘January 31’’.
1982—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–259, § 105(a), substituted
‘‘From’’ for ‘‘Within six months after July 16, 1952, and
from’’ at beginning of subsection, and struck out
‘‘thereafter’’ after ‘‘time to time’’.
Subsecs. (c) to (e). Pub. L. 97–259, § 105(b), (c), redesig-
nated subsecs. (d) and (e) as (c) and (d), respectively,
and in par. (1) of subsec. (c), as so redesignated, sub-
stituted ‘‘two’’ for ‘‘three’’ after ‘‘employee board con-
sisting of’’.
1981—Subsecs. (f), (g). Pub. L. 97–35 added subsecs. (f)
and (g).
1980—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 96–470 struck out ‘‘; and the
Commission shall promptly report to the Congress each
such case which has been pending before it more than
such three- or six-month period, respectively, stating
the reasons therefor’’ after ‘‘hearing cases’’.
1961—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 87–192, § 1, repealed subsec.
(c) which provid
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