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RIN: 3060-AI76

Publication ID: Spring 2009

Title: Spectrum Requirements for Advanced Medical Technologies
Abstract: The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking focused on ways to better accommodate the operation of implanted and body-worn medical transmitters in the 400 MHz band. These devices use wireless technologies for increasingly sophisticated and beneficial health care applications. Such applications currently include cardiac defibrillators for heart patients and real-time blood sugar monitoring devices for diabetics, and may, in the future, include applications as diverse as brain, muscle and nerve stimulation techniques for treating an array of conditions from Parkinson's disease to severe chronic depression. The Commission proposed to modify its current rules and designate an additional two megahertz of spectrum in the adjacent 401-402 MHz and 405-406 MHz bands in order to appropriately provide needed capacity and more flexible operating rules for beneficial medical radio communication devices and thereby serve the public interest.
Agency: Federal Communications Commission(FCC)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Long-Term Actions
Major: Undetermined	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 47 CFR 2
Legal Authority: 47 USC 151 47 USC 154(i) 47 USC 157(a) 47 USC 301 47 USC 303(f) and 303(g) 47 USC 307(e) 47 USC 332

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	08/02/2006	71 FR 43682
NPRM Comment Period End	10/31/2006
NPRM--Reply Comment Period End	12/04/2006
Next Action Undetermined	To Be Determined

Additional Information: ET Docket No. 06-135
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: None
Small Entities Affected: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: Gary Thayer Electronics Engineer Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street SW., Washington, DC 20554 Phone:202 418-2290 Email: gary.thayer@fcc.gov