Sec. 73.713  Program tests.

    (a) Upon completion of construction of an international broadcasting 
station in accordance with the terms of the construction permit, the 
technical provisions of the application therefor, and the rules and 
regulations and the applicable engineering standards, and when an 
application for station license has been filed showing the station to be 
in satisfactory operating condition, the permittee may request authority 
to conduct program tests. Such request shall be filed with the FCC at 
least 10 days prior to the date on which it is desired to begin such 
operation. All data necessary to show compliance with the terms and 
conditions of the construction permit must be filed with the license 
application.
    (b) Program tests shall not commence until specific Commission 
authority is received. The Commission reserves the right to change the 
date of the beginning of such tests or to suspend or revoke the 
authority for program tests as and when such action may appear to be in 
the public interest, convenience, and necessity.
    (c) Unless sooner suspended or revoked, program test authority 
continues valid during Commission consideration of the application for 
license and during this period further extension of the construction 
permit is not required. Program test authority shall be automatically 
terminated by final determination upon the application for station 
license.
    (d) All operation under program test authority shall be in strict 
compliance with the rules governing international broadcasting stations 
and in strict accordance with representations made in the application 
for license pursuant to which the tests were authorized.
    (e) The granting of program test authority shall not be construed as 
approval by the Commission of the application for station license.

[ 38 FR 18894 , July 16, 1973, as amended at  47 FR 40174 , Sept. 13, 1982]