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When the service was created, LPFM stations were not required to protect full-service FM or FM Translator stations on third-adjacent channels.  The lack of third-adjacent channel protection was a point of contention for the full-service broadcast industry to the point where the National Association of Broadcasters lobbied Congress to pass the Radio Broadcast Preservation Act of 2001 (RBPA) which forced the FCC to reinstate the third adjacent channel protection requirements.  On March 22, 2001, the FCC adopted the ''Second Report and Order'' that instated third-adjacent channel protection requirements into the LPFM radio service. A provision in the RBPA required that the FCC institute a study on the effects of full-service stations by LPFM stations on third-adjacent channels.  This would eventually become known as the [[MITRE Study]].