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                     FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                           WASHINGTON, DC 20554


                                                       IN REPLY REFER TO:
                                May 1, 1995DA 95-1001                      
                                                     Released:  May 5, 1995

J. Christopher Redding
Dow, Lohnes & Albertson
1255 Twenty-Third Street, N.W., Suite #500
Washington, DC  20037

Re:  Vantage Cable Associates, L.P., CUID No. CO0297 (Lyons, Colorado)

Dear Mr. Redding:

       This letter is in reference to your Motion to Dismiss filed with the Commission on
March 17, 1994, with respect to a complaint filed February 28, 1994, against the price
Vantage Cable Associates, L.P. was charging for cable programming service in Lyons,
Colorado, CUID No. CO0297.  In that motion, you state that Vantage Cable is not required
to justify its rates prior to May 15, 1994, because Vantage Cable's Lyons, Colorado system
has fewer than 1,000 subscribers.  Based on the information you have provided, it appears
that the Town of Lyons system qualifies as a "small system" pursuant to 47 C.F.R. 
76.901(c), and was therefore exempt from rate regulation until May 15, 1994.

       We will rule at a later date on Vantage Cable's justification under the Commission's
revised rate regulations of its cable programming service rates in Lyons, Colorado beginning
May 15, 1994.  

       Should you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact Gwendolyn G.
Flowers at (202) 416-1112.
              
              Sincerely,


              JoAnn Lucanik
              Chief, Financial Analysis and Compliance Division
              Cable Services Bureau

cc:    John Kilian, II, Vice President-Operations, Vantage Cable Associates, L.P.
       Town of Lyons (Attention: Robert G. Freeman, Jr.)