113 STAT. 1501A-596 PUBLIC LAW 106-113—APPENDIX I of this subsection, a licensee may submit an application for class A designation under this paragraph within 30 days after final regulations are adopted under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph. Except as provided in paragraphs (6) and (7), the Commission shall, within 30 days after receipt of an application of a licensee of a qualifying low-power television station that is acceptable for filing, award such a class A television station license to such licensee. "(D) RESOLUTION OF TECHNICAL PROBLEMS. —The Commission shall act to preserve the service areas of lowpower television licensees pending the final resolution of a class A application. If, after granting certification of eligibility for a class A license, technical problems arise requiring an engineering solution to a full-power station's allotted parameters or channel assignment in the digital television Table of Allotments, the Commission shall make such modifications as necessary— "(i) to ensure replication of the full-power digital television applicant's service area, as provided for in sections 73.622 and 73.623 of the Commission's regulations (47 CFR 73.622, 73.623); and "(ii) to permit maximization of a full-power digital television applicant's service area consistent with such sections 73.622 and 73.623, if such applicant has filed an application for maximization or a notice of its intent to seek such maximization by December 31, 1999, and filed a bona fide application for maximization by May 1, 2000. Any such applicant shall comply with all applicable Commission rules regarding the construction of digital television facilities. "(E) CHANGE APPLICATIONS.— If a station that is awarded a construction permit to maximize or significantly enhance its digital television service area, later files a change application to reduce its digital television service area, the protected contour of that station shall be reduced in accordance with such change modification. " (2) QUALIFYING LOW-POWER TELEVISION STATIONS.— For purposes of this subsection, a station is a qualifying low-power television station if— "(A)(i) during the 90 days preceding the date of the enactment of the Community Broadcasters Protection Act of 1999— "(I) such station broadcast a minimum of 18 hours per day; "(II) such station broadcast an average of at least 3 hours per week of programming that was produced within the market area served by such station, or the market area served by a group of commonly controlled low-power stations that carry common local programming produced within the market area served by such group; and "(III) such station was in compliance with the Commission's requirements applicable to low-power television stations; and "(ii) from and after the date of its application for a class A license, the station is in compliance with the
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