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[CITE: 47USC604]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER VI--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 604. Effect of transfer


(a) Orders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, contracts, 
        licenses, and privileges

    All orders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, contracts, 
licenses, and privileges which have been issued, made, or granted by the 
Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Radio Commission, or the 
Postmaster General, under any provision of law repealed or amended by 
this chapter or in the exercise of duties, powers, or functions 
transferred to the Commission by this chapter, and which are in effect 
at the time this section takes effect, shall continue in effect until 
modified, terminated, superseded, or repealed by the Commission or by 
operation of law.

(b) Availability of records

    All records transferred to the Commission under this chapter shall 
be available for use by the Commission to the same extent as if such 
records were originally records of the Commission. All final valuations 
and determinations of depreciation charges by the Interstate Commerce 
Commission with respect to common carriers engaged in radio or wire 
communication, and all orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission with 
respect to such valuations and determinations, shall have the same force 
and effect as though made by the Commission under this chapter.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VII, Sec. 704, formerly title VI, 
Sec. 604, 48 Stat. 1103; renumbered title VII, Sec. 704, Pub. L. 98-549, 
Sec. 6(a), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2804; amended Pub. L. 103-414, title 
III, Sec. 304(a)(14), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4297.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this Act'', 
meaning act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, as amended, known as 
the Communications Act of 1934, which is classified principally to this 
chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
section 609 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 103-414 redesignated subsec. (c) as 
(b) and struck out former subsec. (b) which read as follows: ``Any 
proceeding, hearing, or investigation commenced or pending before the 
Federal Radio Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, or the 
Postmaster General, at the time of the organization of the Commission, 
shall be continued by the Commission in the same manner as though 
originally commenced before the Commission, if such proceeding, hearing, 
or investigation (1) involves the administration of duties, powers, and 
functions transferred to the Commission by this chapter, or (2) involves 
the exercise of jurisdiction similar to that granted to the Commission 
under the provisions of this chapter.''
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103-414, Sec. 303(a)(14)(A), struck out subsec. 
(d) which read as follows: ``The provisions of this chapter shall not 
affect suits commenced prior to the date of the organization of the 
Commission; and all such suits shall be continued, proceedings therein 
had, appeals therein taken and judgments therein rendered, in the same 
manner and with the same effect as if this chapter had not been passed. 
No suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against 
any agency or officer of the United States, in relation to the discharge 
of official duties, shall abate by reason of any transfer of authority, 
power, and duties from such agency or officer to the Commission under 
the provisions of this chapter, but the court, upon motion or 
supplemental petition filed at any time within twelve months after such 
transfer, showing the necessity for a survival of such suit, action, or 
other proceeding to obtain a settlement of the questions involved, may 
allow the same to be maintained by or against the Commission.''

                          Transfer of Functions

    Office of Postmaster General of Post Office Department abolished and 
functions, powers, and duties of Postmaster General transferred to 
United States Postal Service by Pub. L. 91-375, Sec. 4(a), Aug. 12, 
1970, 84 Stat. 773, set out as a note under section 201 of Title 39, 
Postal Service.

  Abolition of Interstate Commerce Commission and Transfer of Functions

    Interstate Commerce Commission abolished and functions of Commission 
transferred, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 104-88, to Surface 
Transportation Board effective Jan. 1, 1996, by section 702 of Title 49, 
Transportation, and section 101 of Pub. L. 104-88, set out as a note 
under section 701 of Title 49. References to Interstate Commerce 
Commission deemed to refer to Surface Transportation Board, a member or 
employee of the Board, or Secretary of Transportation, as appropriate, 
see section 205 of Pub. L. 104-88, set out as a note under section 701 
of Title 49.
