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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1988

102 STAT. 3208

PUBLIC LAW 100-626—NOV. 7, 1988

"(C) The Secretary of the Treasury shall make available and disburse to the Corporation, at the beginning of fiscal year 1991 and of each succeeding fiscal year thereafter, such funds as have been appropriated to the Satellite Interconnection Fund for the fiscal year in which such disbursement is to be made. "(D) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection except paragraphs (4), (5), (8), and (9), all funds appropriated to the Satellite Interconnection Fund and interest thereon— "(i) shall be distributed by the Corporation to the licensees and permittees of noncommercial educational television broadcast stations providing public telecommunications services or the national entity they designate for satellite interconnection purposes and to those public telecommunications entities participating in the public radio satellite interconnection system or the national entity they designate for satellite interconnection purposes, exclusively for the capital costs of the replacement, refurbishment, or upgrading of their national satellite interconnection systems and associated maintenance of such systems; and "(ii) shall not be used for the administrative costs of the Corporation, the salaries or related expenses of Corporation personnel and members of the Board, or for expenses of consultants and advisers to the Corporation.". Reports. (b) On or before March 1, 1990, the Corporation for Public Broad47 USC 396 note, casting, on behalf of the public radio and public television licensees and permittees (or their designated representatives), shall submit to Congress a report by such licensees or permittees (or their representatives) detailing the satellite replacement needs of public radio and public television, the difference in cost between leasing satellite transponder capacity and buying such capacity, and the availability of private sector rather than Federal financing. FINDING WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN PROGRAMMING

SEC. 5. Section 396(a) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 396(a)) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) and (7) as paragraphs (7) and (8), respectively; and (2) by inserting immediately after paragraph (5) the following new pars^aph: "(6) it is in the public interest to encourage the development of programming that involves creative risks and that addresses the needs of unserved and underserved audiences, particularly children and minorities;". EXERCISE OF BUSINESS JUDGMENT BY CORPORATION

SEC. 6. Section 396(g)(2)(B)(ii) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 396(g)(2)(B)(ii)) is amended by striking "contract or". ALLOCATION OF CORPORATION FUNDING

SEC. 7. (a) Section 396(k)(3)(A)(i) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 396(k)(3)(A)(i)) is amended— (1) by amending subclause (I) to read as follows: "(I) $10,200,000 shall be available for the administrative expenses of the Corporation for fiscal year 1989, and for each succeeding fiscal year the amount which shall be available for