---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 27.1209"
title: "47"
number: "27.1209"
heading: "Reversion and overlay rights."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/27.1209"
---

# §27.1209. Reversion and overlay rights.

- (a) The frequencies associated with BRS incumbent authorizations that have cancelled automatically or otherwise recovered by the Commission automatically revert to the applicable BRS BTA licensee.
- (b) The frequencies associated with EBS incumbent authorizations with a geographic service area that have cancelled automatically or otherwise recovered by the Commission automatically revert to a co-channel EBS county-based licensee, except that if the area in question is Tribal Land as defined in [§ 27.1204(b)(3)](/cfr/47/27.1204.md?p=b-3) and is contiguous to the GSA of a co-channel authorization issued in the Tribal Priority Window, the area consisting of Tribal Land reverts to the co-channel license issued in the Tribal Priority Window.
- (c) The frequencies associated with EBS authorizations issued in the Tribal Priority Window with a geographic service area that have cancelled automatically or otherwise recovered by the Commission automatically revert to a co-channel EBS county-based authorization.

## Notes

### Amendments

[84 FR 57366, Oct. 25, 2019]

### Source

Source: 69 FR 72034, Dec. 10, 2004, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 301, 302a, 303, 307, 309, 332, 336, 337, 1403, 1404, 1451, and 1452, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 62 FR 9658, Mar. 3, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[84 FR 57366, Oct. 25, 2019]