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47 U.S.C. § 391 — Authorization of appropriations
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There are authorized to be appropriated $42,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1992, 1993, and 1994, to be used by the Secretary of Commerce to assist in the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities as provided in this subpart. Sums appropriated under this subpart for any fiscal year shall remain available until expended for payment of grants for projects for which applications approved by the Secretary pursuant to this subpart have been submitted within such fiscal year. Sums appropriated under this subpart may be used by the Secretary to cover the cost of administering the provisions of this subpart.
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There are authorized to be appropriated $42,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1992, 1993, and 1994, to be used by the Secretary of Commerce to assist in the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities as provided in this subpart. Sums appropriated under this subpart for any fiscal year shall remain available until expended for payment of grants for projects for which applications approved by the Secretary pursuant to this subpart have been submitted within such fiscal year. Sums appropriated under this subpart may be used by the Secretary to cover the cost of administering the provisions of this subpart.
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**(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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**(a) Applications for grants** For each project for the construction of public telecommunications facilities there shall be submitted to the Secretary an application for a grant containing such information with respect to such project as the Secretary may require, including the total cost of such project, the amount of the grant requested for such project, and a 5-year plan outlining the applicant’s projected facilities requirements and the projected costs of such facilities requirements. Each applicant shall also provide assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that—
(1) the applicant is (A) a public broadcast station; (B) a noncommercial telecommunications entity; (C) a system of public telecommunications entities; (D) a nonprofit foundation, corporation, institution, or association organized primarily for educational or cultural purposes; or (E) a State or local government (or any agency thereof), or a political or special purpose subdivision of a State;
(2) the operation of such public telecommunications facilities will be under the control of the applicant;
(3) necessary funds to construct, operate, and maintain such public telecommunications facilities will be available when needed;
(4) such public telecommunications facilities will be used primarily for the provision of public telecommunications services, and that the use of such public telecommunications facilities for purposes other than the provision of public telecommunications services will not interfere with the provision of such public telecommunications services as required in this part;
(5) the applicant has participated in comprehensive planning for such public telecommunications facilities in the area which the applicant proposes to serve, and such planning has included an evaluation of alternate
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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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**(a) Construction and planning grants** The Secretary, in consultation with the Corporation, 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 interested 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 subsection (a) and designed to achieve—
(1) the provision of new telecommunications facilities to extend service to areas currently not receiving public telecommunications services;
(2) the expansion of the service areas of existing public telecommunications entities;
(3) the development of public telecommunications facilities owned by, operated by, and available to minorities and women; and
(4) the improvement of the capabilities of existing public broadcast stations to provide public telecommunications services, including services to underserved audiences such as deaf and hearing impaired individuals and blind and visually impaired individuals.
**(c) Noncommercial radio broadcast station facilities** Of the sums appropriated pursuant to [section 391 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section391&num=0&edition=prelim) for any fiscal year, a substantial amount shall be available for the expansion and development of noncommercial radio broadcast station facilities.
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TITLE 47—TELECOMMUNICATIONS
§ 392
§ 391. Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated
$42,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1992, 1993,
and 1994, to be used by the Secretary of Com-
merce to assist in the planning and construction
of public telecommunications facilities as pro-
vided in this subpart. Sums appropriated under
this subpart for any fiscal year shall remain
available until expended for payment of grants
for projects for which applications approved by
the Secretary pursuant to this subpart have
been submitted within such fiscal year. Sums
appropriated under this subpart may be used by
the Secretary to cover the cost of administering
the provisions of this subpart.
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 391, as added
Pub. L. 87–447, May 1, 1962, 76 Stat. 65; amended
Pub. L. 90–129, title I, § 101, Nov. 7, 1967, 81 Stat.
365; Pub. L. 91–97, § 2, Oct. 27, 1969, 83 Stat. 146;
Pub. L. 92–411, § 2, Aug. 29, 1972, 86 Stat. 643; Pub.
L. 93–84, § 1(c), Aug. 6, 1973, 87 Stat. 219; Pub. L.
94–309, § 3, June 5, 1976, 90 Stat. 683; Pub. L.
95–567, title I, § 102, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2405;
Pub. L. 97–35, title XII, § 1222, Aug. 13, 1981, 95
Stat. 725; Pub. L. 99–272, title V, § 5001(a), Apr. 7,
1986, 100 Stat. 117; Pub. L. 100–626, § 2, Nov. 7,
1988, 102 Stat. 3207; Pub. L. 102–356, § 2, Aug. 26,
1992, 106 Stat. 949.)
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AMENDMENTS
1992—Pub. L. 102–356 substituted provisions author-
izing appropriations of $42,000,000 for each of the fiscal
years 1992, 1993, and 1994 for provisions authorizing ap-
propriations of $40,000,000 for each of the fiscal years
1979, 1980, and 1981, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1982,
$15,000,000 for fiscal year 1983, $12,000,000 for fiscal year
1984, $24,000,000 fo
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