Sec. 74.985  Signal booster stations.

    (a) Authorizations for Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) 
booster stations may be granted to an ITFS applicant, permittee or 
licensee, or to a third party with a fully-executed lease agreement with 
an ITFS applicant, permittee, or licensee. The eligibility requirements 
of Sec. 74.932 will not apply to such third-party booster station 
applicants. A signal booster station may not extend service beyond a 
registered receive site of the primary ITFS station. No booster station 
may be authorized for retransmission of signals from an MDS, MMDS, or 
ITFS station without the written consent of the licensee of the station 
whose signals are retransmitted.
    (b) In addition to the other application requirements of this Part 
and of Form 330, each application for a signal booster station that 
would retransmit an ITFS signal must include a demonstration that the 
proposed signal booster station will not transmit a signal to a receiver 
site that is beyond a previously-registered receive site of the primary 
ITFS station.
    (c) In addition to the other application requirements of this part 
and of Form 330, each application for a signal booster station that 
would retransmit an ITFS signal must include a demonstration that the 
power flux density of the ITFS signal does not exceed -75.6 dBW/m\2\ at 
the edge of a protected service area for the primary ITFS transmitter 
station, as defined by Sec. 21.902(d) of this chapter.
    (d) In addition to the other application requirements of this part 
and of Forms 494 and 330, each application for a signal booster station 
must include a demonstration that the proposed signal booster station 
will cause no harmful interference to cochannel or adjacent-channel, 
authorized or previously-proposed ITFS, MDS, or MMDS, stations with 
transmitters within 80.5 km (50 miles) of the proposed booster station's 
transmitter site.
    (e) In addition to the other application requirements of this part 
and of Forms 494 and 330, each application for a signal booster station 
must include a written consent statement of the licensee of each MDS, 
MMDS, and ITFS station whose signal is retransmitted.
    (f) The output power of the signal booster transmitter station must 
not exceed 18 dBW EIRP.
    (g) An MDS or ITFS licensee may install and commence operation of a 
signal booster station that has a maximum power level of -9 dBW EIRP and 
that does not extend service beyond the boundaries of an MDS station's 
protected service area or beyond an ITFS licensee's registered receive 
site, subject to the condition that for sixty (60) days after 
installation, no objection or petition to deny is filed by an authorized 
co-channel or adjacent channel ITFS or MDS station with a transmitter 
within 8 km (5 miles) (8.05 km) of the coordinates of the primary 
transmitter of the signal booster. An MDS or ITFS licensee seeking to 
install a signal booster under this rule must, within 48 hours after 
installation, submit a certification that:

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    (1) The maximum power level of the signal booster transmitter does 
not exceed -9 dBW EIRP;
    (2) A description of the signal booster technical specifications 
(including antenna gain and azimuth), the coordinates of the booster and 
receivers, and the street address of the signal booster;
    (3) No registered receiver of an ITFS E or F channel station, 
constructed prior to May 26, 1983, is located within a 1 mile (1.61 km) 
radius of the coordinates of the booster, or in the alternative, that a 
consent statement has been obtained from the affected ITFS licensee;
    (4) No environmental assessment location as defined at Sec. 1.1307 
of this chapter is affected by installation and/or operation of the 
signal booster;
    (5) Each MDS and/or ITFS station licensee with protected service 
areas or registered receivers within a 8 km (5 mile) (8.05 km) radius of 
the coordinates of the booster has been given notice of its 
installation;
    (6) Consent has been obtained from each MDS or ITFS station licensee 
whose signal is repeated by the signal booster;
    (7) The signal booster site is within the protected service area of 
the MDS station, if the signal of an MDS station is repeated;
    (8) The power flux density at the edge of the MDS station's 
protected service area does not exceed -75.6 dBW/m2, if the signal of an 
MDS station is repeated;
    (9) The antenna structure will extend less than 6.10 meters (20 
feet) above the ground or natural formation or less than 6.10 meters (20 
feet) above an existing manmade structure (other than an antenna 
structure); and
    (10) The MDS or ITFS licensee understands and agrees that in the 
event harmful interference is claimed by the filing of an objection or 
petition to deny, the licensee must terminate operation within two (2) 
hours of written notification by the Commission, and must not recommence 
operation until receipt of written authorization to do so by the 
Commission.

[ 56 FR 57601 , Nov. 13, 1991, as amended at  58 FR 11799 , Mar. 1, 1993;  58 FR 44951 , Aug. 25, 1993]