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FCC 27.1214
Revised as of October 2, 2015
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2016
§ 27.1214 EBS spectrum leasing arrangements and grandfathered leases.
(a) A licensee in the EBS that is solely utilizing analog transmissions may
enter into a spectrum leasing arrangement to transmit material other than
the educational programming defined in § 27.1203(b) and (c) subject to the
following conditions:
(1) Before entering into a spectrum leasing arrangement involving material
other than educational programming on any one channel, the licensee must
provide at least 20 hours per week of EBS educational programming (as
defined in § 27.1203(b) and (c)) on that channel, except as provided in
paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(3) of this section. An additional 20 hours per
week per channel must be strictly reserved for EBS use and not used for
non-EBS purposes, or reserved for recapture by the EBS licensee for its EBS
educational usage, subject to one year's advance, written notification by
the EBS licensee to its lessee and accounting for all recapture already
exercised, with no economic or operational detriment to the licensee. These
hours of recapture are not restricted as to time of day or day of the week,
but may be established by negotiations between the EBS licensee and the
lessee. The 20 hours per channel per week EBS educational usage requirement
and the recapture and/or reservation requirement of an additional 20 hours
per channel per week shall apply spectrally over the licensee's whole actual
service area.
(2) For the first two years of operation, an EBS entity may enter into a
spectrum leasing arrangement involving material other than educational
programming if it provides EBS educational usage for at least 12 hours per
channel per week, provided that the entity does not employ channel loading
technology.
(3) The licensee may shift its requisite EBS educational usage onto fewer
than its authorized number of channels, via channel mapping or channel
loading technology, so that it can enter into a spectrum leasing arrangement
involving full-time channel capacity on its EBS station and/or associated
EBS booster stations, subject to the condition that it provide a total
average of at least 20 hours per channel per week of EBS educational usage
on its authorized channels. The use of channel mapping or channel loading
consistent with the Rules shall not be considered adversely to the EBS
licensee in seeking a license renewal. The licensee also retains the
unabridgeable right to recapture, subject to six months' advance written
notification by the EBS licensee to the spectrum lessee, an average of an
additional 20 hours per channel per week, accounting for all recapture
already exercised. Regardless of whether the licensee has educational
receive sites within its GSA, the licensee may lease booster stations in the
entire GSA, provided that the licensee maintains the unabridgeable right to
ready recapture at least 40 hours per channel per week for EBS educational
usage. The licensee may agree to the transmission of this recapture time on
channels not authorized to it, but which are included in the wireless system
of which it is a part. A licensee under this paragraph which enters into a
spectrum leasing arrangement on any one of its channels to an operator may
“channel shift” pursuant to and under the conditions of paragraph (d)(2) of
this section.
(b) A licensee utilizing digital transmissions on any of its licensed
channels may enter into a spectrum leasing arrangement to transmit material
other than the educational programming defined in § 27.1203(b) and (c),
subject to the following conditions:
(1) The licensee must reserve a minimum of 5% of the capacity of its
channels for educational uses consistent with § 27.1203 paragraphs (b) and
(c), and may not enter into a spectrum leasing arrangement involving this
reserved capacity. In addition, before leasing excess capacity, the licensee
must provide at least 20 hours per licensed channel per week of EBS
educational usage. This 5% reservation and this 20 hours per licensed
channel per week EBS educational usage requirement shall apply spectrally
over the licensee's whole actual service area. However, regardless of
whether the licensee has an educational receive site within its GSA served
by a booster, the licensee may lease excess capacity without making at least
20 hours per licensed channel per week of EBS educational usage, provided
that the licensee maintains the unabridgeable right to recapture on one
months' advance notice such capacity as it requires over and above the 5%
reservation to make at least 20 hours per channel per week of EBS
educational usage.
(2) The licensee may shift its requisite EBS educational usage onto fewer
than its authorized number of channels, via channel mapping or channel
loading technology, and may shift its requisite EBS educational usage onto
channels not authorized to it, but which are included in the wireless system
of which it is a part (“channel shifting”), so that it can enter into a
spectrum leasing arrangement involving full-time channel capacity on its EBS
station, associated EBS booster stations, and/or EBS response stations and
associated response station hubs, subject to the condition that it provide a
total average of at least 20 hours per licensed channel per week of EBS
educational usage. The use of channel mapping, channel loading, and/or
channel shifting consistent with the Rules shall not be considered adversely
to the EBS licensee in seeking a license renewal. In addition, an EBS entity
receiving interference protection will continue to receive such protection
if it elects to swap channels with another EBS or BRS station.
(c) All spectrum leasing arrangements involving EBS spectrum must afford the
EBS licensee an opportunity to purchase or to lease the dedicated or common
EBS equipment used for educational purposes, or comparable equipment in the
event that the spectrum leasing arrangement is terminated.
(d) All leases of current EBS spectrum entered into prior to January 10,
2005 and in compliance with leasing rules formerly contained in part 74 of
this chapter may continue in force and effect, notwithstanding any
inconsistency between such leases and the rules applicable to spectrum
leasing arrangements set forth in this chapter. Such leases entered into
pursuant to the former part 74 rules of this chapter may be renewed and
assigned in accordance with the terms of such lease. All spectrum leasing
arrangements leases entered into after January 10, 2005, pursuant to the
rules set forth in part 1 and part 27 of this chapter, must comply with the
rules in those parts.
(e) The maximum permissible term of an EBS spectrum leasing arrangement
entered into on or after July 19, 2006 (including the initial term and all
renewal terms that commence automatically or at the sole option of the
lessee) shall be 30 years. In furtherance of the educational purposes for
which EBS spectrum is primarily allocated, any spectrum leasing arrangement
in excess of 15 years that is entered into on or after July 19, 2006 must
include terms which provide the EBS licensee on the 15th year and every 5
years thereafter, with an opportunity to review its educational use
requirements in light of changes in educational needs, technology, and other
relevant factors and to obtain access to such additional services, capacity,
support, and/or equipment as the parties shall agree upon in the spectrum
leasing arrangement to advance the EBS licensee's educational mission.
[ 69 FR 72034 , Dec. 10, 2004, as amended at 71 FR 35190 , June 19, 2006; 73 FR 26041 , May 8, 2008]
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