Sec.  73.713   Program tests.

   (a) Upon completion of construction of an international broadcasting station
   in accordance with the terms of the construction permit, the technical
   provisions of the application therefor, and the rules and regulations and
   the applicable engineering standards, and when an application for station
   license has been filed showing the station to be in satisfactory operating
   condition, the permittee may request authority to conduct program tests.
   Such request shall be filed with the FCC at least 10 days prior to the date
   on which it is desired to begin such operation. All data necessary to show
   compliance with the terms and conditions of the construction permit must be
   filed with the license application.

   (b) Program tests shall not commence until specific Commission authority is
   received.  The Commission reserves the right to change the date of the
   beginning of such tests or to suspend or revoke the authority for program
   tests as and when such action may appear to be in the public interest,
   convenience, and necessity.

   (c) Unless sooner suspended or revoked, program test authority continues
   valid during Commission consideration of the application for license and
   during this period further extension of the construction permit is not
   required. Program test authority shall be automatically terminated by final
   determination upon the application for station license.

   (d) All operation under program test authority shall be in strict compliance
   with the rules governing international broadcasting stations and in strict
   accordance with representations made in the application for license pursuant
   to which the tests were authorized.

   (e)  The  granting of program test authority shall not be construed as
   approval by the Commission of the application for station license.

   [ 38 FR 18894 , July 16, 1973, as amended at  47 FR 40174 , Sept. 13, 1982]