§ 90.527   Regional plan requirements.

   Each regional planning committee must submit a regional plan for approval by
   the Commission.

   (a) Common elements. Regional plans must incorporate the following common
   elements:

   (1) Identification of the document as the regional plan for the defined
   region with the names, business addresses, business telephone numbers, and
   organizational affiliations of the chairpersons and all members of the
   planning committee.

   (2) A summary of the major elements of the plan and an explanation of how
   all  eligible  entities within the region were given an opportunity to
   participate in the planning process and to have their positions heard and
   considered fairly.

   (3) A general description of how the spectrum would be allotted among the
   various eligible users within the region with an explanation of how the
   requirements of all eligible entities within the region were considered and,
   to the degree possible, met.

   (4) An explanation as to how needs were assigned priorities in areas where
   not all eligible entities could receive licenses.

   (5)  An explanation of how the plan had been coordinated with adjacent
   regions.

   (6) A detailed description of how the plan put the spectrum to the best
   possible use by requiring system design with minimum coverage areas, by
   assigning frequencies so that maximum frequency reuse and offset channel use
   may be made, by using trunking, and by requiring small entities with minimal
   requirements to join together in using a single system where possible.

   (7) A detailed description of the future planning process, including, but
   not  limited  to,  amendment process, meeting announcements, data base
   maintenance, and dispute resolution.

   (8) A certification by the regional planning chairperson that all planning
   committee meetings, including subcommittee or executive committee meetings,
   were open to the public.

   (b)  Modification of regional plans. Regional plans may be modified by
   submitting a written request, signed by the regional planning committee, to
   the Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. The request must
   contain the full text of the modification. Modifications are considered
   either  major or minor. Regional planning committees must certify that
   successful coordination with all adjacent regions has occurred for major
   modifications and that all such regions concur with the major modification.
   Unless requested otherwise by the regional planning committee, the Bureau
   will only place major modifications on public notice for comment.

   (1) Except as noted below, modifications changing the way channels are
   allocated, allotted or coordinated are considered major modifications.

   (2) Modifications changing how channels are allotted are considered minor
   modifications only if:

   (i) The proposed channel change or channel addition involves a facility
   located more than seventy miles from the adjacent region border;

   (ii) The co-channel or adjacent channel interference contour of the facility
   changing or adding the channel does not intersect the border of an adjacent
   region, or

   (iii) The proposed channel change or channel addition has been coordinated
   in writing with any affected adjacent region.

   (3) Changes in membership or leadership of regional planning committees are
   considered minor modifications.

   [ 63 FR 58651 , Nov. 2, 1998, as amended at  79 FR 39339 , July 10, 2014]

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