Notes on 47 U.S.C. § 390 : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on 47 U.S.C. § 390 : US Code - Notes

(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.