Amendment of the Commission's Rules Concerning Airport Terminal Use Frequencies in the 450-470 MHz Band of the Private Land Mobile Radio Services

In this document the Commission addresses comments received in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, released by the Commission on October 10, 2002, which sought comment on proposed revisions to the Commission's rules and policies regarding Airport Terminal Use (ATU) frequencies in the 450-470 MHz Private Land Mobile Radio (PLMR) Industrial Business (I/B) Pool. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was issued in response to a Petition for Rulemaking filed on June 25, 2001 by the Personal Communications Industry Association, Inc. (PCIA), an FCC-certified frequency coordinator. Generally, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking considered PCIA's recommendations and proposed to revise the power limits on ATU frequencies in order to facilitate communications at large airports.