Sec. 101.1  Scope and authority.

    (a) The purpose of the rules in this part is to prescribe the manner 
in which portions of the radio spectrum may be made available for 
private operational, common carrier, and Local Multipoint Distribution 
Service fixed, microwave operations that require transmitting facilities 
on land or in specified offshore coastal areas within the continental 
shelf.
    (b) The rules in this part are issued pursuant to the authority 
contained in Titles I through III of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended, which vest authority in the Federal Communications Commission 
to regulate common carriers of interstate and foreign communications, to 
regulate radio transmissions and issue licenses for radio stations, and 
to regulate all interstate and foreign communications by wire and radio 
necessary to the accomplishment of the purposes of the Act.
[ 61 FR 26677 , May 28, 1996, as amended at  62 FR 23163 , Apr. 29, 1997]