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FCC 2.948
Revised as of October 1, 2010
Goto Year:2009 |
2011
§ 2.948 Description of measurement facilities.
(a) Each party making measurements of equipment that is subject to an
equipment authorization under part 15 or part 18 of this chapter,
regardless of whether the measurements are filed with the Commission or
kept on file by the party responsible for compliance of equipment
marketed within the U.S. or its possessions, shall compile a
description of the measurement facilities employed.
(1) If the measured equipment is subject to the verification procedure,
the description of the measurement facilities shall be retained by the
party responsible for verification of the equipment.
(i) If the equipment is verified through measurements performed by an
independent laboratory, it is acceptable for the party responsible for
verification of the equipment to rely upon the description of the
measurement facilities retained by or placed on file with the
Commission by that laboratory. In this situation, the party responsible
for verification of the equipment is not required to retain a duplicate
copy of the description of the measurement facilities.
(ii) If the equipment is verified based on measurements performed at
the installation site of the equipment, no specific site calibration
data is required. It is acceptable to retain the description of the
measurement facilities at the site at which the measurements were
performed.
(2) If the equipment is to be authorized by the Commission under the
certification procedure, the description of the measurement facilities
shall be filed with the Commission's Laboratory in Columbia, Maryland.
The data describing the measurement facilities need only be filed once
but must be updated as changes are made to the measurement facilities
or as otherwise described in this section. At least every three years,
the organization responsible for filing the data with the Commission
shall certify that the data on file is current. A laboratory that has
been accredited in accordance with paragraph (d) of this section is not
required to file a description of its facilities with the Commission's
laboratory, provided the accrediting organization (or designating
authority in the case of foreign laboratories) submits the following
information to the Commission's laboratory:
(i) Laboratory name, location of test site(s), mailing address and
contact information;
(ii) Name of accrediting organization;
(iii) Date of expiration of accreditation;
(iv) Designation number;
(v) FCC Registration Number (FRN);
(vi) A statement as to whether or not the laboratory performs testing
on a contract basis;
(vii) For laboratories outside the United States, the name of the
mutual recognition agreement or arrangement under which the
accreditation of the laboratory is recognized.
(3) If the equipment is to be authorized under the Declaration of
Conformity procedure, the laboratory making the measurements must be
accredited in accordance with paragraph (d) of this section.
(b) The description shall contain the following information:
(1) Location of the test site.
(2) Physical description of the test site accompanied by photographs of
size A4 (21 cm * 29.7 cm) or 8 *10 inches (20.3 cm * 25.4 cm). Smaller
photographs may be used if they clearly show the details of the test
site and are mounted on full size sheets of paper.
(3) A drawing showing the dimensions of the site, physical layout of
all supporting structures, and all structures within 5 times the
distance between the measuring antenna and the device being measured.
(4) Description of structures used to support the device being measured
and the test instrumentation.
(5) List of measuring equipment used.
(6) Information concerning the calibration of the measuring equipment,
i.e., the date the equipment was last calibrated and how often the
equipment is calibrated.
(7) If desired, a statement as to whether the test site is available to
do measurement services for the public on a fee basis.
(8) For a measurement facility that will be used for testing radiated
emissions, a plot of site attenuation data taken pursuant to the
procedures contained in Sections 5.4.6 through 5.5 of the following
procedure: American National Standards Institute (ANSI) C63.4-2001,
entitled "American National Standard for Methods of Measurement of
Radio-Noise Emissions from Low-Voltage Electrical and Electronic
Equipment in the Range of 9 kHz to 40 GHz" published by the American
National Standards Institute on June 22, 2001 as document number
SH94908. This incorporation by reference was approved by the Director
of the Federal Register in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR
part 51. Copies of C63.4-2001 may be obtained from: IEEE Customer
Service, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, or UPS only IEEE
Customer Service, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854; telephone
1-800-678-4333 or +1-732-981-0600 (outside the United States and
Canada). Copies of ANSI C63.4-2001 may be inspected at the following
locations:
(i) Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street, SW., Office of
Engineering and Technology (Room 7-B144), Washington, DC 20554,
(ii) Federal Communications Commission Laboratory, 7435 Oakland Mills
Road, Columbia, MD 21046, or
(iii) at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). For
information on the availability of this material at NARA, call
202-741-6030, or go to:
http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/code_of_federal_regulations/ib
r_locations.html.
(9) A description of the types of equipment intended to be measured or
other information regarding the types of measurements that would be
performed at the test facility.
(c) The Commission will publish a list of those parties who have filed
the information required by this section, provided they indicate that
they wish to perform measurement services for the public on a fee
basis. However, it should be noted that the Commission does not endorse
or approve any facility on this list.
(d) A laboratory that has been accredited with a scope covering the
required measurements shall be deemed competent to test and submit test
data for equipment subject to verification, Declaration of Conformity,
and certification. Such a laboratory shall be accredited by an approved
accreditation organization based on the International Organization for
Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC)
Standard 17025, "General Requirements for the Competence of Calibration
and Testing Laboratories." The organization accrediting the laboratory
must be approved by the Commission's Office of Engineering and
Technology, as indicated in § 0.241 of this chapter, to perform such
accreditation based on ISO/IEC 58, "Calibration and Testing Laboratory
Accreditation Systems--General Requirements for Operation and
Recognition." The frequency for revalidation of the test site and the
information that is required to be filed or retained by the testing
party shall comply with the requirements established by the accrediting
organization. However, in all cases, test site revalidation shall occur
on an interval not to exceed two years.
(e) The accreditation of a laboratory located outside of the United
States, or its possessions, will be acceptable only under one of the
following conditions:
(1) If the accredited laboratory has been designated by a foreign
designating authority and recognized by the Commission under the terms
of a government-to-government Mutual Recognition Agreement/Arrangement;
or
(2) If the laboratory has been recognized by the Commission as being
accredited by an organization that has entered into an arrangement
between accrediting organizations and the arrangement has been
recognized by the Commission.
[ 54 FR 17712 , Apr. 25, 1989, as amended at 57 FR 24990 , June 12, 1992;
58 FR 37430 , July 12, 1993; 58 FR 44893 , Aug. 25, 1993; 61 FR 31046 ,
June 19, 1996; 62 FR 41880 , Aug. 4, 1997; 63 FR 36599 , July 7, 1998; 65 FR 58466 , Sept. 29, 2000; 68 FR 68544 , Dec. 9, 2003; 69 FR 18803 , Apr.
9, 2004; 69 FR 54033 , Sept. 7, 2004; 69 FR 55982 , Sept. 17, 2004]
Verification
Authority: Sections 2.951 through 2.957 are issued under secs. 4,
303, 307, 48 Stat., as amended, 1066, 1082, 1083; 47 U.S.C. 154, 303,
307.
Source: Sections 2.951 through 2.957 appear at 46 FR 23249 , Apr. 24,
1981, unless otherwise noted.
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