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[CITE: 47USC390]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO
 
      Part IV--Assistance for Planning and Construction of Public 
   Telecommunications Facilities; Telecommunications Demonstrations; 
         Corporation for Public Broadcasting; General Provisions
 
     subpart a--assistance for planning and construction of public 
                      telecommunications facilities
 
Sec. 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.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 390, as added Pub. L. 87-447, 
May 1, 1962, 76 Stat. 64; amended Pub. L. 90-129, title I, Sec. 103(a), 
title II, Sec. 201(2), Nov. 7, 1967, 81 Stat. 365, 367; Pub. L. 94-309, 
Sec. 2(c), June 5, 1976, 90 Stat. 683; Pub. L. 95-567, title I, 
Sec. 101, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2405.)


                               Amendments

    1978--Pub. L. 95-567 expanded scope of section to authorize 
construction financing for telecommunications facilities other than 
television and radio broadcasting, and assistance in the planning, as 
well as the construction, of such facilities, and substituted provisions 
relating to the objectives of this subpart for former provision relating 
to the demonstration of the use of telecommunication technologies for 
the distribution of information.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-309 designated existing phrase relating to 
assistance in the construction of noncommercial educational broadcasting 
facilities as cl. (1) and added cl. (2).
    1967--Pub. L. 90-129 inserted ``noncommercial'' and ``or radio'' and 
substituted ``subpart'' for ``part'', respectively.


                    Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

    Section 403 of Pub. L. 95-567 provided that: ``The provisions of 
this Act [enacting section 395 of this title, amending this section and 
sections 391, 392, 393, 394, and 396 to 398 of this title, repealing 
sections 392a and 395 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as 
notes under this section, sections 392 and 396 of this title, and 
section 5316 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees], and the 
amendments made by this Act, shall take effect on the date of the 
enactment of this Act [Nov. 2, 1978].''


                                 Grants

    Pub. L. 100-584, Sec. 3, Nov. 3, 1988, 102 Stat. 2970, provided 
that: ``The Administrator [of the National Telecommunications and 
Information Administration] shall enter into discussions with the 
Federal Communications Commission for the purposes of determining the 
feasibility of awarding public telecommunications facilities program 
grants for low-power television stations and television translator 
stations on a conditional basis pending the award by the Commission of 
licenses for such stations. The Administrator shall also work with the 
Commission to establish a schedule for the expedited and coordinated 
consideration, on a regular basis, of future grant requests and license 
applications for low-power television stations and television translator 
stations. The Administrator shall, within ninety days after the date of 
enactment of this Act [Nov. 3, 1988], report to the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives on the progress made 
in carrying out the requirements of this section.''


           Study of Educational and Instructional Broadcasting

    Pub. L. 90-129, title III, Secs. 301-303, Nov. 7, 1967, 81 Stat. 
373, authorized the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to 
conduct, directly or by contract, and in consultation with other 
interested Federal agencies, a comprehensive study of instructional 
television and radio (including broadcast, closed circuit, community 
antenna television, and instructional television fixed services and two-
way communication of data links and computers) and their relationship to 
each other and to instructional materials such as videotapes, films, 
discs, computers, and other educational materials or devices, and such 
other aspects thereof as may be of assistance in determining whether and 
what Federal aid should be provided for instructional radio and 
television and the form that aid should take, and which may aid 
communities, institutions, or agencies in determining whether and to 
what extent such activities should be used. The study was required to be 
submitted to the President for transmittal to the Congress on or before 
June 30, 1969.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 393a, 902 of this title.
