PUBLIC LAW 95-567—NOV. 2, 1978
92 STAT. 2423
"(9) The term 'non-Federal financial support' means the total value of cash and the fair market value of property and services (including, to the extent provided in the second sentence of this paragraph, the personal services of volunteers) received— "(A) as gifts, grants, bequests, donations, or other contributions for the construction or operation of noncommercial educational broadcast stations, or for the production, acquisition, distribution, or dissemination of educational television or radio programs, and related activities, from any source other than (i) the United States or any agency or instrumentality of the United States; or (ii) any public broadcasting entity; or " (B) as gifts, grants, donations, contributions, or payments from any State, or any educational institution, for the construe- tion or operation of noncommercial educational broadcast stations or for the production, acquisition, distribution, or dissemination of educational television or radio programs, or payments in exchange for services or materials with respect to the provision of educational or instructional television or radio programs. Such t«rm includes the fair market value of personal services of volunteers, as computed using the valuation standards established by the Corporation and approved by the Comptroller General pursuant to section 396(g)(5), but only with respect to such services provided Ante, p. 2412. to public telecommunications entities after such standards are approved by the Comptroller General and only, with respect to such an entity in a fiscal year, to the extent that the value of the services does not exceed 5 percent of the total non-Federal financial support i, T • •.., of the entity in such fiscal year. "(10) The term 'preoperational expenses' means all nonconstruction costs incurred by new telecommunications entities before the date on which they begin providing service to the public, and all nonconstruction costs associated with expansion of existing entities before the date on which such expanded capacity is activated, except that such expenses shall not include any portion of the salaries of any personnel employed by an operating public telecommunications entity. "(11) The term 'public broadcasting entity' means the Corporation, any licensee or permittee of a public broadcast station, or any nonprofit institution engaged primarily in the production, acquisition, "' ' ' distribution, or dissemination of educational and cultural television or radio programs. " (12) The term 'public telecommunications entity' means any enterprise which— "(A) is a public broadcast station or a noncommercial telecommunications entity; and " (B) disseminates public telecommunications services to the public. "(13) The term 'public telecommunications facilities' means apparatus necessary for production, interconnection, captioning, broadcast, or other distribution of programming, including, but not limited to, studio equipment, cameras, microphones, audio and video storage or reproduction equipment, or both, signal processors and switchers, towers, antennas, transmitters, translators, microwave equipment, mobile^ equipment, satellite communications equipment, instructional television fixed service equipment, subsidiary communications authorization transmitting and receiving equipment, cable television equipment, video and audio cassettes and discs, optical fiber communications equipment, and other means of transmitting, emitting.
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