§ 0.314   Additional authority delegated.

   The Regional Directors are delegated authority to act upon applications,
   requests, or other matters, which are not in hearing status, and direct the
   following activities necessary to conduct investigations or inspections:

   (a)  On  informal requests from broadcast stations to extend temporary
   authority for operation without monitors, plate ammeter, plate volmeter,
   base current meter, common point meter, and transmission line meter from FM
   and television stations.

   (b) To act on and make determinations on behalf of the Commission regarding
   requests  for  assignments  and  reassignments of priorities under the
   Telecommunications Service Priority System, part 64 of the rules, when
   circumstances require immediate action and the common carrier seeking to
   provide service states that it cannot contact the National Communications
   System or the Commission office normally responsible for such assignments.
   To the extent possible, all such actions and determinations shall be made in
   coordination with the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.

   (c)  Require special equipment and program tests during inspections or
   investigations to determine compliance with technical requirements specified
   by the Commission.

   (d)  Require  stations  to  operate with the pre-sunrise and nighttime
   facilities during daytime hours in order that an inspection or investigation
   may  be  made  by an authorized Commission representative to determine
   operating parameters.

   (e) Issue notices and orders to operators of industrial, scientific, and
   medical (ISM) equipment, as provided in § 18.115 of this chapter.

   (f) Act on requests for permission to resume operation of ISM equipment on a
   temporary basis, as provided by § 18.115 of this chapter, and requests for
   extensions  of time within which to file final reports, as provided by
   § 18.117 of this chapter.

   (g) Issue notices and orders to operators of part 15 devices, as provided in
   § 15.5 of this chapter.

   (h) Issue notices and orders to suspend operations to multi-channel video
   programming distributors, as provided in § 76.613 of this chapter.

   (i) Issue notices and orders to suspend operations to part 74 licensees, as
   provided in § 74.23 of this chapter.

   [ 64 FR 60721 , Nov. 8, 1999, as amended at  67 FR 13221 , Mar. 21, 2002;  71 FR 69036 , Nov. 29, 2006;  78 FR 23151 , Apr. 18, 2013;  80 FR 53749 , Sept. 8,
   2015]

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