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[CITE: 22USC1465e]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
 CHAPTER 18--UNITED STATES INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
 
               SUBCHAPTER V-A--RADIO BROADCASTING TO CUBA
 
Sec. 1465e. Compensation for Cuban interference with 
        broadcasting in United States
        

(a) Interim assistance to United States broadcasters

    It is the intent of the Congress that the Secretary of State should 
seek prompt and full settlement of United States claims against the 
Government of Cuba arising from Cuban interference with broadcasting in 
the United States. Pending the settlement of these claims, it is 
appropriate to provide some interim assistance to the United States 
broadcasters who are adversely affected by Cuban radio interference and 
who seek to assert their right to measures to counteract the effects of 
such interference.

(b) Money payments pursuant to authority from Federal Communications 
        Commission

    Accordingly, the Board may make payments to the United States radio 
broadcasting station licensees upon their application for expenses which 
they have incurred before, on, or after October 4, 1983, in mitigating, 
pursuant to special temporary authority from the Federal Communications 
Commission, the effects of activities by the Government of Cuba which 
directly interfere with the transmission or reception of broadcasts by 
these licensees. Such expenses shall be limited to the costs of 
equipment replaced (less depreciation) and associated technical and 
engineering costs.

(c) Regulations and procedures

    The Federal Communications Commission shall issue such regulations 
and establish such procedures for carrying out this section as the 
Federal Communications Commission finds appropriate. Such regulations 
shall be issued no later than one hundred and eighty days after October 
4, 1983.

(d) Authorization of appropriations

    There are authorized to be appropriated to the Board, $5,000,000 for 
use in compensating United States radio broadcasting licensees pursuant 
to this section. Amounts appropriated under this section are authorized 
to be available until expended.

(e) Four-year availability for appropriated funds

    Funds appropriated for implementation of this section shall be 
available for a period of no more than four years following the initial 
broadcast occurring as a result of programs described in this 
subchapter.

(f) Presidential task force

    It is the sense of the Congress that the President should establish 
a task force to analyze the level of interference from the operation of 
Cuban radio stations experienced by broadcasters in the United States 
and to seek a practical political and technical solution to this 
problem.

(g) Effective Date

    This section shall enter into effect on October 1, 1984.

(Pub. L. 98-111, Sec. 7, Oct. 4, 1983, 97 Stat. 752; Pub. L. 98-411, 
title V, Sec. 512, Aug. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 1574; Pub. L. 105-277, div. 
G, subdiv. A, title XIII, Sec. 1324(2), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-
781.)

                            Repeal of Section

        Section repealed upon transmittal of determination by President 
    under section 6063(c)(3) of this title that democratically elected 
    government in Cuba is in power, see section 6037(c) of this title.

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act 
which comprises this subchapter, and not as part of the United States 
Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 which comprises this 
chapter.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsecs. (b), (d). Pub. L. 105-277 substituted ``Board'' for 
``Agency''.
    1984--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98-411 substituted ``replaced (less'' for 
``(replaced less''.


                    Effective Date of 1998 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 105-277 effective Oct. 1, 1999, see section 
1301 of Pub. L. 105-277, set out as an Effective Date note under section 
6531 of this title.
