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Report No. CS 97-23               CABLE SERVICES ACTION                 August 18, 1997 


             RATE REGULATION RULE CHANGES REQUIRING 
          OMB APPROVAL EFFECTIVE AS OF AUGUST 13, 1997 


     On December 23, 1996, the Commission released an order (FCC 96-491, 11 FCC Rcd 20206
(1996)) revising its rate regulation rules in response to the decision of the court in Time Warner
Entertainment Co. v. FCC, 56 F.3d 151 (D.C. Cir. 1995).  This order, among other things, amended
47 C.F.R.  76.922 (Rates for the basic service tier and cable programming services tiers) and
76.913 (Assumption of jurisdiction by the Commission).  Because they imposed new or modified
information collection requirements, these particular rule changes could not become effective until
approved by the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 104-13.  OMB approved these rule changes on August 13, 1997.

     The Commission stated that it would publish a document establishing the effective date of
the rule changes requiring OMB approval.  See Implementation of the Cable Television Consumer
Protection and Competition Act of 1992:  Rate Regulation, 62 Fed. Reg. 6491 (Feb. 12, 1997). 
Accordingly, the Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register establishing August
13, 1997 as the effective date for the amendments to 47 C.F.R.  76.922 and 76.913.  We note that
the amendments to the rate regulation rules that did not require OMB approval became effective on
March 14, 1997.


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