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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 185 / Tuesday, September 28, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
considering the respective occupied bandwidths. The Commission also finds it appropriate to use the common FM
emission designator used for Part 95
GMRS and MURS for FM CB Radio Service. These technical rules are implemented through the amendment of Sections 95.967, 95.971, 95.973, 95.975, and 95.979 of the Commissions rules to reflect the addition of FM as an optional additional mode of transmission. The Commission notes that parties planning to incorporate the FM mode into CB
radios will have to obtain a valid grant of certification under the Commissions equipment authorization rules.
4. Motorola Petition. GMRS is a mobile two-way voice communications service, with limited data applications, for facilitating activities of individual licensees and their family members, including communications during emergencies and natural disasters.
Similarly, Family Radio Service FRS is a very short-distance, two-way voice communications service, with limited data applications, between low-power hand-held radios, for facilitating individual, family, group, recreational, and business activities. GMRS and FRS
co-exist on the same frequencies, except for the GMRS 467 MHz main channels.
In its petition, Motorola seeks reconsideration of the Commissions decision in the 2017 Report and Order not to permit automatic or periodic location and data transmissions. It seeks harmonized rule amendments for both the GMRS and FRS, since the two services coexist on the same frequencies. Motorola argues that automatic transmissions should be allowed because almost all of the reasons that support permitting manual data transmissions apply equally to transmissions initiated automatically, except for how frequently a user could transmit the data information. Members of the GMRS community support Motorolas suggestion to permit automatic or periodic location and data transmissions. Motorola contends that allowing automatic data transmissions is in the public interest and will enhance public safety. Motorola explains that automatic location transmissions will provide tracking capabilities for individuals in remote areas where these expanded capabilities will aid search and rescue missions.
5. The Commission concludes that the public interest will be furthered by allowing automatic or periodic location and data transmission on all GMRS
channels. Automatic or periodic location and data transmissions will be subject to the same technical limitations as manual data transmissions.
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will be limited to no more than once every 30 seconds and no more than one second in duration. Consistent with the Commissions approach to treating GMRS and FRS similarly with regard to digital data transmissions, the Commission amends its rules to permit automatic or periodic location and data transmissions for both GMRS and FRS.
Indeed, because FRS operates on channels shared with GMRS, automatic or periodic location and data transmissions would be permitted on those channels even if we did not amend the FRS rules.
6. The Commission finds that the public interest will be furthered by granting the Motorola Petition to the extent described in the Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration.
Specifically, the Commission amends Sections 95.531, 95.587, and 95.1787 of its rules to permit FRS and GMRS units to transmit location and data information automatically or periodically, subject to the same restrictions as are currently in place for manual data transmissions. The Commission also corrects a typographical error in the GMRS
frequency listings in Section 95.1763d as adopted in the 2017 Report and Order by correcting the erroneous entry for 467.5675 MHz to refer to 467.5625 MHz.
7. Medtronic Petition. Medtronic points out in its petition that several rule revisions in the 2017 Report and Order meant to be ministerial inadvertently may have modified the existing MedRadio Service rules.
Medtronic requests that the Commission revise certain rules to fix the inadvertent substantive changes and correct typographical errors.
8. The Commission grants the Medtronic Petition and amends the rules as requested, with a few modifications, to undo inadvertent changes to the MedRadio Service rules.
First, Medtronic points out that the new version of Section 95.303 defines the authorized bandwidth for Part 95
services in terms of occupied bandwidth, but the flexible rules applicable to the MedRadio Service do not require the measurement of occupied bandwidth. The Commission resolves this inconsistency by amending the MedRadio rules to remove the incompatible authorized bandwidth concept. Specifically, the Commission amends Section 95.2573 to clarify that the emission bandwidth definition in Section 95.2503 should be used for the MedRadio Service and make other conforming edits to indicate the channelization flexibility up to the bandwidth limits outlined in Section 95.2573. Further, the Commission
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amends Section 95.2579 to remove the use of the term occupied bandwidth, which has a specific definition in Section 95.303, and instead refer to the MedRadio channel the transmission is intended to occupy in order to make the language consistent with similar language in other MedRadio Service rules. These changes will remove the use of similar yet incompatible terms from the MedRadio rules. The Commission accepts Medtronics suggested changes to Sections 95.2557b, c and 95.2559a6
because it agrees they return the rules back to their original intent. Further, the Commission corrects certain typographical errors, as suggested by Medtronic and on its own motion, in Sections 95.2503, 95.2509e2, 95.2533e2, and 95.2559f of the MedRadio Service rules.
9. Finally, the Commission clarifies the language in Section 95.2569c to remove incorrect terminology regarding SAR Measurement techniques and return the rule to be closer to its previous language. Section 95.2569c is designed to address the measurement of field strength and radiated power of devices that are implanted within a body. SAR measurements, by contrast, are used in connection with the evaluation of radiofrequency exposure and are already addressed in Section 95.2585. Because the original language and measurement guidance accurately described in-body simulations, the Commission corrects Section 95.2569c to refer to the dielectric parameters for the tissue-equivalent material with regard to measuring energy emitted from implanted devices.
List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 95
Communications, Radio equipment.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch, Secretary.

Final Rules The Federal Communications Commission amends part 95 of Title 47
of the Code of Federal Regulations CFR
as set forth below:
PART 95PERSONAL RADIO
SERVICES
1. The authority citation for part 95
continues to read as follows:

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 307.

2. Section 95.531 is amended by revising paragraph a to read as follows:

95.531

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