---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 96.53"
title: "47"
number: "96.53"
heading: "Spectrum access system purposes and functionality."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/96.53"
---

# §96.53. Spectrum access system purposes and functionality.


The purposes of the SAS include:

- (a) To enact and enforce all policies and procedures developed by the SAS Administrator pursuant to [§ 96.63](/cfr/47/96.63.md).
- (b) **To determine and provide to CBSDs the permissible channels or frequencies at their location.**
- (c) **To determine and provide to CBSDs the maximum permissible transmission power level at their location.**
- (d) **To register and authenticate the identification information and location of CBSDs.**
- (e) To retain information on, and enforce, Exclusion Zones and Protection Zones in accordance with §§ [96.15](/cfr/47/96.15.md) and [96.17](/cfr/47/96.17.md).
- (f) To communicate with the ESC to obtain information about federal Incumbent User transmissions and instruct CBSDs to move to another frequency range or cease transmissions.
- (g) To ensure that CBSDs operate in geographic areas and within the maximum power levels required to protect federal Incumbent Users from harmful interference, consistent with the requirements of §§ [96.15](/cfr/47/96.15.md) and [96.21](/cfr/47/96.21.md).
- (h) To ensure that CBSDs protect non-federal Incumbent Users from harmful interference, consistent with the requirements of §§ [96.17](/cfr/47/96.17.md) and [96.21](/cfr/47/96.21.md).
- (i) To protect Priority Access Licensees from interference caused by other PALs and from General Authorized Access Users, including the calculation and enforcement of PAL Protection Areas, consistent with [§ 96.25](/cfr/47/96.25.md).
- (j) To facilitate coordination between GAA users operating Category B CBSDs, consistent with [§ 96.35](/cfr/47/96.35.md).
- (k) To resolve conflicting uses of the band while maintaining, as much as possible, a stable radio frequency environment.
- (l) **To ensure secure and reliable transmission of information between the SAS and CBSDs.**
- (m) To protect Grandfathered Wireless Broadband Licensees consistent with §§ [90.1307](/cfr/47/90.1307.md) and [90.1338](/cfr/47/90.1338.md) of this chapter, and [§ 96.21](/cfr/47/96.21.md).
- (n) To implement the terms of current and future international agreements as they relate to the Citizens Broadband Radio Service.
- (o) To receive reports of interference and requests for additional protection from Incumbent Access users and promptly address interference issues.

## Notes

### Amendments

[80 FR 36222, June 23, 2015, as amended at 81 FR 49069, July 26, 2016]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 303, and 307.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 36222, June 23, 2015, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[80 FR 36222, June 23, 2015, as amended at 81 FR 49069, July 26, 2016]