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47 U.S.C. § 393a — Long-range planning for facilities

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47 U.S.C. § 393a — Long-range planning for facilities

**(a)** The Secretary, in consultation with the Corporation, public telecommunications entities, and as appropriate with other parties, shall develop a long-range plan to accomplish the objectives set forth in [section 390 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section390&num=0&edition=prelim). Such plan shall include a detailed 5-year projection of the broadcast and nonbroadcast public telecommunications facilities required to meet such objectives, and the expenditures necessary to provide such facilities. **(b)** Repealed. Pub. L. 104–66, title I, § 1021(a), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 712.

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47 U.S.C. § 390 — Declaration of purpose

The purpose of this subpart is to assist, through matching grants, in the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities in order to achieve the following objectives: (1) extend delivery of public telecommunications services to as many citizens of the United States as possible by the most efficient and economical means, including the use of broadcast and nonbroadcast technologies; (2) increase public telecommunications services and facilities available to, operated by, and owned by minorities and women; and (3) strengthen the capability of existing public television and radio stations to provide public telecommunications services to the public.

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47 U.S.C. § 394 — Establishment of National Endowment

**(a) Purpose** It is the purpose of this section to enhance the education of children through the creation and production of television programming specifically directed toward the development of fundamental intellectual skills. **(b) Establishment; contracts and grants** (1) There is established, under the direction of the Secretary, a National Endowment for Children’s Educational Television. In administering the National Endowment, the Secretary is authorized to— (A) contract with the Corporation for the production of educational television programming for children; and (B) make grants directly to persons proposing to create and produce educational television programming for children. The Secretary shall consult with the Advisory Council on Children’s Educational Television in the making of the grants or the awarding of contracts for the purpose of making the grants. (2) Contracts and grants under this section shall be made on the condition that the programming shall— (A) during the first two years after its production, be made available only to public television licensees and permittees and noncommercial television licensees and permittees; and (B) thereafter be made available to any commercial television licensee or permittee or cable television system operator, at a charge established by the Secretary that will assure the maximum practicable distribution of such programming, so long as such licensee, permittee, or operator does not interrupt the programming with commercial advertisements. The Secretary may, consistent with the purpose and provisions of this section, permit the programming to be distributed to persons using other media, establish conditions relating to such distribution, and apply those conditions to any contract or grant made un

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47 U.S.C. § 396 — Corporation for Public Broadcasting

**(a) Congressional declaration of policy** The Congress hereby finds and declares that— (1) it is in the public interest to encourage the growth and development of public radio and television broadcasting, including the use of such media for instructional, educational, and cultural purposes; (2) it is in the public interest to encourage the growth and development of nonbroadcast telecommunications technologies for the delivery of public telecommunications services; (3) expansion and development of public telecommunications and of diversity of its programming depend on freedom, imagination, and initiative on both local and national levels; (4) the encouragement and support of public telecommunications, while matters of importance for private and local development, are also of appropriate and important concern to the Federal Government; (5) it furthers the general welfare to encourage public telecommunications services which will be responsive to the interests of people both in particular localities and throughout the United States, which will constitute an expression of diversity and excellence, and which will constitute a source of alternative telecommunications services for all the citizens of the Nation; (6) it is in the public interest to encourage the development of programming that involves creative risks and that addresses the needs of unserved and underserved audiences, particularly children and minorities; (7) it is necessary and appropriate for the Federal Government to complement, assist, and support a national policy that will most effectively make public telecommunications services available to all citizens of the United States; (8) public television and radio stations and public telecommunications services constitute valuable local community resour

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47 U.S.C. § 393a — Long-range planning for facilities

Page 232 TITLE 47—TELECOMMUNICATIONS § 392a § 392a. Repealed. Pub. L. 95–567, title II, § 201, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2409 Section, act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 392A, as added June 5, 1976, Pub. L. 94–309, § 8, 90 Stat. 685, re- lated to demonstrations of telecommunications, grants and contracts. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL Repeal effective Nov. 2, 1978, see section 403 of Pub. L. 95–567, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 390 of this title. § 393. Criteria for approval and expenditures by Secretary (a) Construction and planning grants The Secretary, in consultation with the Cor- poration, public telecommunications entities, and as appropriate with others, shall establish criteria for making construction and planning grants. Such criteria shall be consistent with the objectives and provisions set forth in this subpart, and shall be made available to inter- ested parties upon request. (b) Basis for determination The Secretary shall base determinations of whether to approve applications for grants under this subpart, and the amount of such grants, on criteria developed pursuant to sub- section (a) and designed to achieve— (1) the provision of new telecommunications facilities to extend service to areas currently not receiving public telecommunications serv- ices; (2) the expansion of the service areas of ex- isting public telecommunications entities; (3) the development of public telecommuni- cations facilities owned by, operated by, and available to minorities and women; and (4) the improvement of the capabilities of ex- isting public broadcast stations to provide public telecommunications services, including services to underserved audiences such as deaf and h

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