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Report No. CS 98-3         CABLE SERVICES ACTION             March 19, 1998


                COMMISSION'S NEW RULES REGARDING CABLE HOME
         WIRING AND MVPD HOME RUN WIRING EFFECTIVE MARCH 13, 1998


      The Commission's new rules relating to the disposition of cable home wiring and home run
wiring of multichannel video programming distributors ("MVPDs"), as well as signal leakage and
interference from MVPDs, became effective on March 13, 1998.  These amendments to Sections 76.613,
76.802 and 76.804 of the Commission's rules were set forth in the Report and Order and Second Further
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in CS Docket No. 95-184 and MM Docket No. 92-260, FCC 97-376
("Order"), released October 17, 1997, and published in the Federal Register on November 14, 1997 at
62 FR 61016.  Because these amended rules imposed new or modified information collection
requirements, they could not become effective until they were approved by the Office of Management
and Budget ("OMB"), pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.  The Order stated that the rules
as amended therein would become effective upon approval by OMB, and that the Commission would
publish a document announcing the effective date of the rules.  OMB approved the rule changes on March
13, 1998.  In addition, compliance with Sections 76.5, 76.620, 76.800, 76.805 and 76.806 of the
Commission's rules, as amended in the Order, is required as of March 13, 1998.



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