AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS

BEFORE THE

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7 ise COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 7309, H.R. 9035, S. 920
BILLS TO AJEND SECTIONS 303 AND 310 OF THE COMMUNI-
CATIONS ACT OF 1934, AS AJIENDED, TO PROVIDE THAT THE
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION MAY, IF IT FINDS
THAT THE PUBLIC INTEREST, CONVENIENCE, OR NECESSITY
MAY BE SERVED, ISSUE AUTHORIZATIONS, BUT NOT LI-
CENSES, FOR ALIEN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS

TO
OPERATE THEIR AMATEUR RADIO STATIONS IN THE UNITED
STATES, ITS POSSESSIONS, AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF
PC'ERTO RICO PROVIDED THERE IS IN EFFECT A BILATERAL
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND TH
ALIEN'S GOVERNMENT FOR SUCH OPERATION BY UNITED

STATES AMATEURS ON A RECIPROCAL BASIS

COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE

OREN HARRIS, Arkansas, Chairman JOHX BELL WILLIAMS, Mississippi

JOHN B, BENNETT, Michigan KENNETH A. ROBERTS, Alabama

WILLIAM L. SPRINGER, Illinois HARLEY 0. STAGGERS, West Virginia PAUL F. SCHENCK, Ohio WALTER ROGERS, Texas

J. ARTHUR YOUNGER, California SAMUEL N. FRIEDEL, Maryland

MILTON W. GLENN, New Jersey TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts SAMUEL L. DEVINE, Ohio JOHN JARMAN, Oklahoma

ANCHER NELSEN, Minnesota LEO W. O'BRIEN, New York

HASTINGS KEITH, Massachusetts JOHN E. MOSS, California

WILLARD S. CURTIN, Pennsylvania JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan

ABNER W. SIBAL, Connecticut PAUL G. ROGERS, Florida

GLENN CUNNINGHAM, Nebraska ROBERT W. HEMPHILL, South Caroiina JAMES T. BROYHILL, North Carolina DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, III nois

DONALD G. BROTZMAN, Colorado JAMES C. HEALEY, New York HORACE R. KORNEGAY, North Carolina W. R. HILL, JR., Missouri GILLIS W. LONG, Louisiana LIONEL VAN DEERLIN, Callfornia

W. E. WILLIAMSON, Clerk
KENNETH J. PAINTER, A88istant Olerk

ANDREW STEVENSON
KURT BORCHARDT

Professional Staff

GEORGE W. PERRY
JAMES M. MENGER, Jr.

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CONTENTS

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Page

H.R. 7309

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H.R. 9035

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S. 920.

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Report of -

Air Force Department.

9

Bureau of the Budget-

3

Federal Communications Commission.

4,7

Justice Department.--

9

State Department--

8

Statement of -

Booth, Robert M., Jr., general counsel, American Radio Relay

League, Inc.--

Cederberg, Hon. Elford A., a Representative in Congress from the

State of Michigan.----

12

Hoover, Herbert, Jr., president, American Radio Relay League, Inc. 20

Huntoon, John, secretary and general manager, American Radio

Relay League, Inc.

20

Hyde. Hon. Rosel H., Commissioner, Federal Communications

Commission.--

Additional information submitted for the record by --

American Radio Relay League, statement of Raymond E. Meyers,

director, southwest division----

26

Brown, Hon. George E., letter from..

26

Goldwater, Hon. Barry, letter from.-

11

Talcott, Hon. Burt L., letter from---

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