Implementation of Section 403(k) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Citizenship Requirements)

Section 403(k) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 amends Sections 310(b) (3) and (4) of the Communications Act of 1934 to remove the restrictions against corporate licensees having alien officers and directors. To implement that statutory change, the Commission has amended rules relating to the citizenship of licensees of broadcast, common carrier, aeronautical en route, and aeronautical fixed radio stations to conform to the new statutory language. The Commission has also modified in part related policies regarding partnerships that it had adopted to implement the (now repealed) restrictions on foreign officers and directors.