regulations pertaining to fees as set forth in Part 1, Subpart G of the rules.

(f) To direct and supervise the development and execution of a technical assistance program in cooperation with the Agency for International Development and other Government agencies.

(g) To give general direction to The Secretary of the Commission. The Secretary maintains records of official Commission actions; with minor exceptions, signs correspondence and documents adopted by the Commission; maintains records of docketed cases; is the recipient of papers filed with the Commission; and is custodian of the Commission's seal and records.

(h) To give general direction to the Public Information Officer. The Public Information Officer releases and is the central depository for public announcements concerning actions which have been taken by the Commission; prepares informational publications and materials; and is the contact point for the press and public in the matter of general information relating to the Commission and its activities.

[36 F.R. 15120, Aug. 13, 1971]

(a) Immediate Office of the Executive Director.

(b) Administrative Services Division. (c) Financial Management Division. (d) Data Processing Division.

(e) Emergency Communications Division.

(f) Management Information Division.

(g) Personnel Division.

(h) Records Management Division.
(i) The Secretary.

(j) The Public Information Officer.
(k) Procurement Division.

[34 F.R. 14330, Sept. 12, 1969, as amended at 36 FR 15120, Aug. 13, 1971; 38 FR 1505, Jan. 13, 1973; 38 FR 24900, Sept. 11, 1973] OFFICE OF PLANS AND POLICY

international communication industries and services, with due consideration of the responsibilities and programs of other staff units, and to recommend appropriate Commission action. The Office is also responsible for coordinating the policy research and development activities of other staff units, with special concern for matters which transcend their individual areas of responsibility. The Office is composed of legal, engineering, economic, and sociological policy analysts and other personnel, and is headed by a chief having the following duties and responsibilities:

(a) To identify and define significant communications policy issues in all areas of Commission interest and responsibility;

(b) To conduct technical, economic, and sociological impact studies of existing and proposed communications policies and operations, including cooperative studies with other staff units and consultant and contract efforts as appropriate;

(c) To develop and evaluate alternative policy options and approaches for consideration by the Commission;

(d) To review and comment on all significant actions proposed to be taken by the Commission in terms of their overall policy implications;

(e) To recommend and evaluate governmental (state and federal), academic, and industry sponsored research affecting Commission policy issues;

(f) To prepare briefings, position papers, proposed Commission actions, or other agenda items as appropriate;

(g) To manage the Commission's policy research program, recommend budget levels and priorities for this program, and serve as central account manager for all contractual policy research studies funded by the Commission;

(h) To coordinate the development and presentation of Commission views and position papers regarding both domestic and international communications policy, participate in interagency and international discussions and conferences, as may be authorized and approved by the Commission, and periodically advise the Commission of current and future participation in international conferences.

(i) To develop and recommend procedures and plans for the effective handling of policy issues within the Commission.

[38 FR 17005, June 28, 1973, as amended at 40 FR 7914, Feb. 24, 1975]

§ 0.31

OFFICE OF CHIEF ENGINEER

Functions of the Office.

The Office of the Chief Engineer has the following duties and responsibilities:

(a) To plan and direct broad programs to develop information on the progress of communication techniques and equipment, radio wave propagation, and new uses for communications, and to advise the Commission and bureaus in such matters.

(b) To represent the Commission on various national and international organizations devoted to the progress of communications and the development of information and standards relative thereto.

(c) To conduct scientific and technical studies in advanced phases of terrestrial and space communications and to conduct special projects to obtain theoretical and experimental data on new or improved techniques.

(d) To develop and administer procedures to acquire, store, and retrieve scientific and technical information useful in the engineering work of the Commission.

(e) To advise and represent the Commission on the allocation of radio frequencies, including international agreements pertaining to frequency allocations and usage.

(f) In cooperation with the General Counsel, to render advice to the Commission, participate in and coordinate the staff work with respect to general frequency allocation proceedings and other proceedings not within the jurisdiction of any single bureau, and to render advice with respect to rule making matters and proceedings affecting more than one bureau.

(g) To collaborate with the bureaus in the formulation of the technical requirements of the rules and regulations, and to advise the Commission on such matters.

(h) To administer Part 5 of this chapter, including licensing, record keeping, and rule making.

(1) To perform all engineering and management functions of the Commission with respect to formulating rules and regulations, technical standards, and general policies for Parts 15 and 18 of this chapter, and for type approval, type acceptance, and certification of radio equipment for compliance with the Commission's rules.

(c) Research and Standards Division. (d) Laboratory Division.

(e) Spectrum Management Task Force.

[39 FR 24011, June 28, 1974, as amended at 39 FR 31322, Aug. 28, 1974]

§ 0.33 Immediate Office of the Chief Engineer.

The Immediate Office of the Chief Engineer assists the Chief Engineer in planning, directing, coordinating, and executing his functions. The Immediate Office of the Chief Engineer is composed of the Chief Engineer, the Deputy Chief Engineer, a Planning and Coordinating Staff, a Spectrum Allocations Staff and an Administrative Section.

(a) Plans and coordination staff. This staff is responsible for developing medium and long range programs for the Office of Chief Engineer (OCE) and evaluating program accomplishments and advises the Chief Engineer of their effectiveness. In carrying out these responsibilities, the staff:

(1) Develops and coordinates overall policies, programs, objectives, and priorities for all programs and activities in consultation with the Divisions and activities of the Office of Chief Engineer; insures that programs are consistent with Commission policies; reviews program performance, accomplishments and effectiveness; recommends changes in policies, programs, objectives and priorities.

(2) Analyzes short and long term technical developments and the impact that predicted growth of existing and new technology will have on the Chief Engineer's mission and workload; develops plans to integrate new and revised requirements for the Divisions and activities into current and future programs.

(3) Develops and evaluates (through such techniques as cost benefit-analysis) alternative engineering techniques; considers potential tradeoffs between various technologies applicable to accomplishing the Chief Engineer's mission; recommends changes in present engineering techniques and organizations which will maximize mission accomplishment under alternative resource allocations.

(4) Recommends legislation and rule changes; reviews legislation and rulemaking proposals initiated by other offices which will have a potential impact on the Office of Chief Engineer programs and operations; determines impact in terms of engineering techniques and organization, workload and resource requirements.

(5) Provides the Chief Engineer with planning projections of future requirements for personnel, technical equipment and real property requirements to support programs.

(6) Maintains liaison with other agencies and communications users on matters concerning program development and evaluation.

(7) Develops and applies techniques for measuring program performance and provides the Chief Engineer with program progress and evaluation reports.

(8) Assists the Divisions in formulating budget estimates and justifications for approved programs.

(b) Spectrum Allocations Staff. This staff is responsible for the conduct of surveys, studies, and proceedings aimed at achieving optimum use of the Spectrum. In carrying out its responsibilities, the staff:

(1) Conducts engineering surveys of the usage being made of frequency bands allocated to the various U.S. radio services throughout the usable spectrum and makes engineering studies directed toward obtaining the most efficient use of the radio spectrum from existing services and to provide for the frequency requirements of new users of radio.

(2) Administers those portions of Part 2 of the Commission's rules dealing with

the assignment and use of frequencies and the U.S. Table of Frequency Allocations, including development and initiation of rule making proceedings pertaining to changes in the Table of Frequency Allocations.

(3) Conducts engineering studies, directed toward obtaining the greatest number of usable channels within a given frequency band through the use of the least channel width practical.

(4) Conducts studies and initiates rulemaking to optimize use of the radio spectrum.

(5) Anticipates and develops solutions for future allocations problems.

(6) Accomplishes coordination of frequency allocation problems with the public, with other offices of the Commission and with other government agencies. [39 FR 24011, June 28, 1974]

§ 0.34 Research and Standards Division.

The Research and Standards Division reviews and analyzes technical and scientific data relating to terrestial and space communications; conducts scientific studies in wave propagation, satellite and space communications; studies technical aspects of potential new uses of radio; conducts special projects to obtain theoretical and experimental data on new or improved techniques; develops practical applications for various radio services in consultation with the Bureaus concerned; conducts technical studies of equipment design and performance; and provides Commission representation at national and international conferences. [39 FR 31322, Aug. 28, 1974]

The Laboratory Division studies new phenomena, proposed new systems, and new equipment looking toward the greater use of radio, the reduction of interference, and the establishment of appropriate rules and regulations; participation in various intergovernmental, national, and international organizations looking toward the standardization of equipment and measuring units and methods as well as the more efficient use of the radio spectrum or the reduction of interference; designs and assembles apparatus for special tests and studies, and performs special tests and studies concerning propagation, equipment or systems, and evaluates the results of such tests or studies with regard to the Commission's problems, often looking toward new or modified rules; acts on applica

tion for type approval and makes type approval tests on equipment including those equipments under Parts 15, 18, 73, 81, 83, and 95 of this chatper requiring type approval; acts on applications for type acceptance of equipment and issues lists of type accepted and type approved equipment; acts on applications for type certification of equipment and issues lists of certified equipment; acts on applications for advance approval of subscription television teclinical systems and issues lists of approved subscription television technical systems; conducts technical studies of equipment design and performance; provides information and comments on test procedures and test results to assist in the evaluation of material supporting certifications; conducts special tests of equipments in connection with the certification and type acceptance programs; designs, develops and constructs equipment for use in connection with other Commission activities; standardizes and calibrates equipment and installations for other Commission activities and makes tests of radio devices for other Government departments and agencies.

[40 FR 33217, Aug. 7, 1975]

The International and Operations Division administers Part 5 of this chapter regulating the Experimental Radio Services; formulates rules, technical standards and general policy for Parts 15 and 18 of this chapter; reviews patents as they are issued by the Patent Office to determine which patents may dominate radio services regulated by the Commission and notifies the General Counsel as to such findings; provides Commission representation on, and coordination with, the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC) and, as may be required, on other national and international telecommunication bodies; coordinates frequency allocation policy matters involving government users of radio with the Office of Telecommunications Policy; maintains the Commission's master frequency record of assignments made; notifies United States frequency assignments to the International Frequency Registration Board of the International Telecommunication Union; performs staff functions relating to international communications conferences and agreements having to do with frequency allocation and assignment; and

communicates as necessary with administrations in foreign countries, through appropriate channels, concerning matters which relate to assignment of radio frequencies and to control of radio interference.

[40 FR 33218, Aug. 7, 1975]

§ 0.38 Spectrum Management Task Force.

The Spectrum Management Task Force is responsible, in coordination with the respective bureaus which have primary responsibility for the radio services involved, for development of a Spectrum Management Program designed to provide more effective and efficient use of the radio spectrum through the introduction of system engineering concepts and decentralized frequency assignment techniques; makes recommendations to the Chairman and Commission on policies, rules and regulations concerning decentralized frequency management; carries out research and development projects and systems enginering projects required to implement the Spectrum Management Program; develops data banks and data processing systems for decentralized frequency managment; and establishes and operates regional spectrum management centers. [36 F.R. 2561, Feb. 6, 1971]

$ 0.41

OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL

Functions of the Office.

The Office of the General Counsel has the following duties and responsibilities: (a) To advise and represent the Commission in matters of litigation.

(b) To advise and make recommendations to the Commmission with respect to proposed legislation and to coordinate the preparation of Commission views thereon for submission to Congress.

(c) To participate in internationa conferences and in the implementation of international agreements.

(d) To interpret the statutes, international agreements, and international regulations affecting the Commission.

(e) To prepare and make recommendations and interpretations concerning procedural rules of general applicability and to review all rules for consistency with other rules, uniformity. and legal sufficiency.

(f) To conduct research in legal matters as directed by the Commission.

(g) In cooperation with the Chief Engineer, to participate in, render advice

to the Commission. and coordinate the staff work with respect to general frequency allocation proceedings and other proceedings not within the jurisdiction of any single bureau, and to render advice with respect to rule making matters and proceedings affecting more than one bureau.

(h) To perform all legal functions with respect to experimental operations under Part 5 of this chapter; the operation of restricted radiation devices under Parts 15 and 18 of this chapter; and type approval and type acceptance of radio equipment.

(1) To exercise such authority as may be assigned or referred to it by the Commission pursuant to section 5(d) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.

(j) To cooperate with the Common Carrier Bureau and the Office of Chief Engineer on all matters pertaining to space satellite communications.

(k) To study the licensing practices of patentees and assignees in communications services regulated by the Commission, particularly in situations referred to it by the Office of Chief Engineer; and, in collaboration with the Office of Chief Engineer, to develop appropriate recommendations for Commission action.

(1) To interpret statutes and executive orders affecting the Commission's national defense responsibilities, and to perform such functions involving implementation of such statutes and executive orders as may be assigned to it by the Commission or the Defense Commissioner.

(m) To perform all legal functions with respect to leases. contracts, tort claims and such other internal legal problems as may arise.

(n) To prepare the bound volumes of the FCC Reports.

(0) [Reserved]

(p) To develop and administer, with guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner and in coordination with the Broadcast, Cable Television and Common Carrier Bureaus, an equal employment opportunity program for industries regulated by those bureaus; to assure consistency of equal employment opportunity plans developed by the bureaus with policies and objectives of the program; to review the implementation of EEO plans and their success in achieving the objectives of the program; to recommend such changes in the program as may be appropriate; and to

maintain liaison with those who are subject to EEO plans and with State and local agencies, community groups, and industry associations which are concerned with the provision of equal employment opportunities.

[28 FR 12392, Nov. 22, 1963; 37 FR 19372, Sept. 20, 1972, as amended at 38 FR 12743, May 15, 1973; 40 FR 17253, Apr. 18, 1975] § 0.42 Units in the Office.

The Office of General Counsel is divided into the following units:

(a) Immediate Office of the General Counsel.

(b) Litigation and Enforcement Division.

(c) Legislation Division.

(d) Legal Research and Treaty Division.

(e) Administrative Rules & Procedure Division.

(f) Equal Employment Opportunity Unit.

[40 FR 6656, Feb. 13, 1975]

§ 0.43 Immediate Office of the General

Counsel.

The Immediate Office of the General Counsel directs and coordinates the functions of the Office.

§ 0.44 Litigation and Enforcement Division.

The Litigation and Enforcement Division has the following duties and responsibilities:

(a) To advise and represent the Commission in all matters of litigation to which the Commission is a party.

(b) To advise and represent the Commission and to take action usually upon recommendations submitted by the operating bureaus, as to civil and criminal proceedings to enforce the Communications Act, the rules and regulations of the Commission, and Commission orders in the courts of the United States.

(c) To advise and represent the Commission in all matters pertaining to freedom of information matters.

(d) To advise the Commission as to legal questions involved in proposed actions and policies in the light of past and pending litigation, and to conduct research in legal matters as directed by the General Counsel. [40 FR 6656, Feb. 13, 1975]