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108hr5073ih | Revocation of the Ashcroft Memo and the Card Memo
The Memorandum for Heads of all Federal Departments and Agencies” on “The Freedom of Information Act” issued by Attorney General John Ashcroft on October 12, 2001, and the “Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Department and Agencies on Action to Safeguard Information... |
108hr5073ih | Findings and policy relating to disclosure of information under the Freedom of Information Act
(a) Findings
Congress finds the following: (1) Public access to information held by the Federal Government is vitally important to the functioning of a democratic society. (2) The Freedom of Information Act was enacted to e... |
108hr5073ih | (4) In establishing the categories of exempt information under the Freedom of Information Act, Congress allowed agencies to withhold information in those categories, but did not in any way mandate or encourage such withholding. (b) Policy
The policy of the Federal Government is to release information to the public in ... |
108hr5073ih | (c) Guidance
All guidance provided to Federal Government employees responsible for carrying out the Freedom of Information Act shall be consistent with the policy set forth in subsection (b). 103. Protection of voluntarily furnished confidential information
(a) In general
Title II of the Homeland Security Act of 200... |
108hr5073ih | Protection of voluntarily furnished confidential information
(a) Definitions
In this section: (1) Critical infrastructure
The term critical infrastructure has the meaning given that term in section 1016(e) of the USA PATRIOT ACT of 2001 ( 42 U.S.C. 5195c(e) ). |
108hr5073ih | (2) Furnished voluntarily
(A) Definition
The term furnished voluntarily means a submission of a record that— (i) is made to the Department in the absence of authority of the Department requiring that record to be submitted; and (ii) is not submitted or used to satisfy any legal requirement or obligation or to obtain ... |
108hr5073ih | (b) In general
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a record pertaining to the vulnerability of and threats to critical infrastructure (such as attacks, response, and recovery efforts) that is furnished voluntarily to the Department shall not be made available under section 552 of title 5, United States Code, i... |
108hr5073ih | (c) Records shared with other agencies
(1) In general
(A) Response to request
An agency in receipt of a record that was furnished voluntarily to the Department and subsequently shared with the agency shall, upon receipt of a request under section 552 of title 5, United States Code, for the record— (i) not make the r... |
108hr5073ih | (B) Segregable portion of record
Any reasonably segregable portion of a record shall be provided to the person requesting the record after deletion of any portion which is exempt under this section. (2) Disclosure of independently furnished records
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), nothing in this section shall prohibit... |
108hr5073ih | (d) Withdrawal of confidential designation
The provider of a record that is furnished voluntarily to the Department under subsection (b) may at any time withdraw, in a manner specified by the Department, the confidential designation. |
108hr5073ih | (e) Procedures
The Secretary shall prescribe procedures for— (1) the acknowledgement of receipt of records furnished voluntarily; (2) the designation, certification, and marking of records furnished voluntarily as confidential and not customarily made available to the public; (3) the care and storage of records furnis... |
108hr5073ih | (f) Effect on State and local law
Nothing in this section shall be construed as preempting or otherwise modifying State or local law concerning the disclosure of any information that a State or local government receives independently of the Department. (g) Report
(1) Requirement
Not later than 18 months after the da... |
108hr5073ih | and the number of State and local agencies, that furnished voluntarily records to the Department under this section; (B) the number of requests for access to records granted or denied under this section; and (C) such recommendations as the Comptroller General considers appropriate regarding improvements in the collecti... |
108hr5073ih | (2) Committees of Congress
The committees of Congress specified in this paragraph are— (A) the Committees on the Judiciary and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and (B) the Committees on the Judiciary and Government Reform and Oversight of the House of Representatives. |
108hr5073ih | (3) Form
The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.. (b) Technical and conforming amendment
The table of contents for the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( Public Law 107–296 ) is amended by striking the items relating to subtitle B of title II and sections 211 through 215 a... |
108hr5073ih | Protection of voluntarily furnished confidential information
(a) Definitions
In this section: (1) Critical infrastructure
The term critical infrastructure has the meaning given that term in section 1016(e) of the USA PATRIOT ACT of 2001 ( 42 U.S.C. 5195c(e) ). |
108hr5073ih | (2) Furnished voluntarily
(A) Definition
The term furnished voluntarily means a submission of a record that— (i) is made to the Department in the absence of authority of the Department requiring that record to be submitted; and (ii) is not submitted or used to satisfy any legal requirement or obligation or to obtain ... |
108hr5073ih | (b) In general
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a record pertaining to the vulnerability of and threats to critical infrastructure (such as attacks, response, and recovery efforts) that is furnished voluntarily to the Department shall not be made available under section 552 of title 5, United States Code, i... |
108hr5073ih | (c) Records shared with other agencies
(1) In general
(A) Response to request
An agency in receipt of a record that was furnished voluntarily to the Department and subsequently shared with the agency shall, upon receipt of a request under section 552 of title 5, United States Code, for the record— (i) not make the r... |
108hr5073ih | (B) Segregable portion of record
Any reasonably segregable portion of a record shall be provided to the person requesting the record after deletion of any portion which is exempt under this section. (2) Disclosure of independently furnished records
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), nothing in this section shall prohibit... |
108hr5073ih | (d) Withdrawal of confidential designation
The provider of a record that is furnished voluntarily to the Department under subsection (b) may at any time withdraw, in a manner specified by the Department, the confidential designation. |
108hr5073ih | (e) Procedures
The Secretary shall prescribe procedures for— (1) the acknowledgement of receipt of records furnished voluntarily; (2) the designation, certification, and marking of records furnished voluntarily as confidential and not customarily made available to the public; (3) the care and storage of records furnis... |
108hr5073ih | (f) Effect on State and local law
Nothing in this section shall be construed as preempting or otherwise modifying State or local law concerning the disclosure of any information that a State or local government receives independently of the Department. (g) Report
(1) Requirement
Not later than 18 months after the da... |
108hr5073ih | and the number of State and local agencies, that furnished voluntarily records to the Department under this section; (B) the number of requests for access to records granted or denied under this section; and (C) such recommendations as the Comptroller General considers appropriate regarding improvements in the collecti... |
108hr5073ih | (2) Committees of Congress
The committees of Congress specified in this paragraph are— (A) the Committees on the Judiciary and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and (B) the Committees on the Judiciary and Government Reform and Oversight of the House of Representatives. (3) Form
The report shall be submitted in uncl... |
108hr5073ih | 56025), shall have no force or effect, and Executive Order number 12667, dated January 18, 1989 (54 Fed. Reg. 3403), shall apply by its terms. 301. |
108hr5073ih | Presidential inter-agency advisory committees
(a) Definition
The term Presidential inter-agency advisory committee is any committee or task force that— (1) is composed wholly of full-time, or permanent part-time, officers or employees of the Federal Government; (2) includes officers or employees of at least two separ... |
108hr5073ih | (b) Requirements
(1) The President shall ensure that the names of the members of the committee are published in the Federal Register. |
108hr5073ih | (2) The committee must make public each substantive contact between the advisory committee, or individual members of the advisory committee acting on the committee’s behalf, and any person who is not a full-time or permanent part-time officer or employee of the Federal Government, including— (A) the date of the contact... |
108hr5073ih | (3) For purposes of this subsection, a contact shall be considered substantive if the information conveyed influenced or was reflected in any way in the committee’s advice, recommendations, or report to the President or Vice President. 401. Reducing excessive classification of information
As soon as possible, but in n... |
108hr5073ih | Citizen actions
Section 552(a)(4)(E) of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting , or in any case seeking information from a Federal agency or official under any other Federal law, after case under this section ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: For purposes of this section, a complainant h... |
108hr5073ih | or if the complainant’s pursuit of a nonfrivolous claim or defense has been a catalyst for a voluntary or unilateral change in position by the opposing party that provides any significant part of the relief sought. |
108hr5186ih | 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Taxpayer-Teacher Protection Act of 2004. 2. Reduction of special allowance payments for loans from the proceeds of tax exempt issues
Section 438(b)(2)(B) ( 20 U.S.C. 1087–1(b)(2)(B) ) is amended— (1) in clause (i), by striking this division and inserting this clause ; (2) i... |
108hr5186ih | by inserting or refunded after September 30, 2004, and before October 1, 2005, after October 1, 1993, ; and (4) by adding at the end the following new clause: (v) Notwithstanding clauses (i) and (ii), the quarterly rate of the special allowance shall be the rate determined under subparagraph (A), (E), (F), (G), (H), or... |
108hr5186ih | for a holder of loans that— (I) were made or purchased with funds— (aa) obtained from the issuance of obligations the income from which is excluded from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and which obligations were originally issued before October 1, 1993; or (bb) obtained from collections or default ... |
108hr5186ih | or been retired or defeased; (bb) refinanced after September 30, 2004, and before October 1, 2005, with funds obtained from a source other than funds described in subclause (I) of this clause; or (cc) sold or transferred to any other holder after September 30, 2004, and before October 1, 2005. 3. |
108hr5186ih | Loan forgiveness for teachers
(a) Implementing highly qualified teacher requirements
(1) Amendments
(A) FFEL loans
Section 428J(b)(1) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. |
108hr5186ih | 1078–10(b)(1) ) is amended— (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; and (ii) by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C) and inserting the following: (B) if employed as an elementary school or secondary school teacher, is highly qualified as defined in section 9101 of the Elementary Secondary Educa... |
108hr5186ih | 1087j(b)(1)(A) ) is amended— (i) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; and (ii) by striking clauses (ii) and (iii) and inserting the following: (ii) if employed as an elementary school or secondary school teacher, is highly qualified as defined in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Educatio... |
108hr5186ih | (2) Transition rule
(A) Rule
The amendments made by paragraph (1) of this subsection to sections 428J(b)(1) and 460(b)(1)(A) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 shall not be applied to disqualify any individual who, before the date of enactment of this Act, commenced service that met and continues to meet the require... |
108hr5186ih | (B) Rule not applicable to increased qualified loan amounts
Subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall not apply for purposes of obtaining increased qualified loan amounts under sections 428J(c)(3) and 460(c)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 as added by subsection (b) of this section. (b) Additional amounts eligib... |
108hr5186ih | 1078–10(c) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (3) Additional amounts for teachers in mathematics, science, or special education
Notwithstanding the amount specified in paragraph (1), the aggregate amount that the Secretary shall repay under this section shall be not more than $17,500 in the case of— (A) ... |
108hr5186ih | and (B) an elementary school or secondary school teacher— (i) who meets the requirements of subsection (b); (ii) whose qualifying employment for purposes of such subsection is as a special education teacher whose primary responsibility is to provide special education to children with disabilities (as those terms are de... |
108hr5186ih | is teaching children with disabilities that correspond with the borrower’s special education training and has demonstrated knowledge and teaching skills in the content areas of the elementary school or secondary school curriculum that the borrower is teaching. (2) Direct loans
Section 460(c) of the Higher Education Ac... |
108hr5186ih | the aggregate amount that the Secretary shall cancel under this section shall be not more than $17,500 in the case of— (A) a secondary school teacher— (i) who meets the requirements of subsection (b)(1); and (ii) whose qualifying employment for purposes of such subsection is teaching mathematics or science on a full-ti... |
108hr5186ih | (ii) whose qualifying employment for purposes of such subsection is as a special education teacher whose primary responsibility is to provide special education to children with disabilities (as those terms are defined in section 602 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act); and (iii) who, as certified by the... |
108hr5186ih | (3) Effective date
The amendments made by this subsection shall apply only with respect to eligible individuals who are new borrowers (as such term is defined in 103 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1003 )) on or after October 1, 1998, and before August 16, 2005. |
108hr3725ih | 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Egyptian Counterterrorism and Political Reform Act. 2. Findings
Congress finds the following: (1) Egypt is not a reliable ally in the war on terrorism. (2) The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports that only two weeks before the September 11, 2001, attacks, t... |
108hr3725ih | must be destroyed because of following the idiotic American policy that goes from disgrace to disgrace in the swamp of bias and blind fanaticism. (3) According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, the Egyptian Government weekly newspaper Al-Ahram Al-Arabi published on September 22, 2001, an op-ed article that s... |
108hr3725ih | (4) In the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, signed after the Camp David Accords, each party agreed to ensure that acts or threats of belligerency, hostility or violence do not originate from and are not committed from within its territory... against the population, citizens, or property of the other party.. ... |
108hr3725ih | (6) Egyptian President Mubarak publicly stated that Hezbollah had a right to attack Israelis in Southern Lebanon. (7) The Middle East Media Research Institute reports that Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, recently appointed by the Egyptian Government to be the Mufti of Egypt, told a conference at the University of Cairo in March 2... |
108hr3725ih | Any attempt to invade Iraq is forbidden by Islamic religious law and by morality, and Islam forbids it, and even commands its believers to resist attempts at invasion and occupation. (8) According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, on August 17, 2001, the Egyptian Government daily newspaper Al-Akhbar containe... |
108hr3725ih | The only thing that will force your enemy to surrender and to accept your demands is force, whatever the sacrifices may be.. (9) On May 9, 2003, President Bush stated: Over time, the expansion of liberty throughout the world is the best guarantee of security throughout the world. Freedom is the way to peace.... We're d... |
108hr3725ih | We will live in an age of liberty.. (10) In November 2003 President Bush stated: The great and proud nation Egypt... should show the way toward democracy in the Middle East.. (11) The United States Government’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) champions an expanded public space where democratic voices can be h... |
108hr3725ih | The so-called emergency powers he renews every three years allow him to arrest political opponents, their family and friends. Some experts believe that President Mubarak's refusal to name a successor or vice president suggests his intention to have his son, Gamal Mubarak, succeed him. (13) Egypt regularly tortures its ... |
108hr3725ih | Amnesty International published a report last year stating that everyone taken into detention in Egypt is at risk of torture. (14) The Washington Post reported on January 6, 2004, that 14 people have been allegedly tortured and killed in Egyptian jails over the course of the past 2 years. (15) The Coptic Christian mino... |
108hr3725ih | (16) In the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, each party agreed that the normal relationship between them will include full recognition, diplomatic, economic and cultural relations, termination of economic boycotts, and discriminatory barriers to the free movement of people and good, and will guarantee the mu... |
108hr3725ih | (18) In the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, each party agreed that the Parties shall seek to foster mutual understanding and tolerance and will, accordingly, abstain from hostile propaganda against each other. (19) The American Jewish Committee reported that the government controlled newspaper, Al-Ahkbar, p... |
108hr3725ih | (20) The television series Knight Without a Horse was broadcast on Egypt's state-run television during Ramadan 2002. The television program was based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an anti-Semitic document that suggests that Jews are planning to take over the world. (21) On March 23, 2003, The Washington Post ... |
108hr3725ih | One of the most successful plays, Mama America , a virulently anti-American piece by well-known artist Mohammed Sobhi, has been running for months.. 3. Prohibition on United States military assistance for Egypt
(a) Prohibition
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal year 2005 and subsequent fiscal year... |
108hr3725ih | 4. Sense of Congress
It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the amount of United States military assistance that would have been provided for Egypt for a fiscal year but for the application of section 3(a) should be provided for Egypt for such fiscal year in the form of economic support fund assistance under chapter 4 ... |
108hr3725ih | (3) 30 days prior to the initial obligation of funds for economic support fund assistance for Egypt for a fiscal year, the President should certify to Congress that procedures have been established to ensure that the Comptroller General will have access to appropriate United States financial information in order to rev... |
108hr3725ih | demining and related programs and activities, including assistance under chapter 8 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (relating to anti-terrorism assistance) and assistance under chapter 9 of part II of such Act, section 504 of the FREEDOM Support Act, section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act, or the For... |
108hr3725ih | (2) assistance under section 541 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (relating to international military education and training); and (3) assistance under section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act (relating to the Foreign Military Finance program). |
108hr4212ih | 1. Removal of potential nuclear weapons materials from vulnerable sites worldwide
(a) Sense of Congress
It is the sense of Congress that removing potential nuclear weapons materials from vulnerable sites around the world would reduce the possibility that such materials could fall into the hands of al Qaeda or other g... |
108hr4212ih | (b) Task Force on Nuclear Material Removal
(1) The President shall establish in the Department of Energy a task force to be known as the Task Force on Nuclear Material Removal (in this section referred to as the Task Force ). (2) The head of the Task Force shall be the Director of the Task Force on Nuclear Material Re... |
108hr4212ih | (4) (A) The Secretary of Energy, the Administrator for Nuclear Security, and the Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation shall assign to the Task Force personnel having such experience and expertise as is necessary to permit the Task Force to carry out its mission under this section. |
108hr4212ih | (B) The Secretary of Energy and the Administrator for Nuclear Security shall jointly consult with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the heads of other appropriate departments and agencies of ... |
108hr4212ih | (C) Mechanisms under subparagraph (B) may include the assignment to the Task Force of personnel of the Department of Energy and of other departments and agencies of the Federal Government. (5) The President may establish within the Executive Office of the President a mechanism for coordinating the activities of the Tas... |
108hr4212ih | (d) Assistance
To assist the Task Force in carrying out its mission under this section, the Secretary of Energy may— (1) provide funds to remove potential nuclear weapons materials from vulnerable sites, including funds to cover the costs of— (A) transporting such materials from such sites to secure facilities; (B) pr... |
108hr4212ih | (F) assisting in the closure and decommissioning of such sites; and (G) providing incentives to facilitate the removal of such materials from vulnerable facilities; (2) arrange for the shipment of potential nuclear weapons materials to the United States, or to other countries willing to accept such materials and able t... |
108hr4212ih | potential nuclear weapons materials will remain for an extended period in order to ensure that such materials are secure against plausible potential threats, and will remain so in the future. (e) Report
(1) Not later than 30 days after the submittal to Congress of the budget of the President for fiscal year 2006 pursu... |
108hr4212ih | shall submit to Congress a report that includes the following: (A) A list of the sites determined by the Task Force to be of the highest priorities for removal of potential nuclear weapons materials, based on the quantity and attractiveness of such materials at such sites and the risk of theft or diversion of such mate... |
108hr4212ih | (B) An inventory of all sites worldwide where highly-enriched uranium or separated plutonium is located, including, to the extent practicable, a prioritized assessment of the terrorism and proliferation risk posed by such materials at each such site, based on the quantity of such materials, the attractiveness of such m... |
108hr4212ih | (C) A strategic plan, including measurable milestones and metrics, for accomplishing the mission of the Task Force under this section. (D) An estimate of the funds required to complete the mission of the Task Force under this section, set forth by year until anticipated completion of the mission. (E) The recommendation... |
108hr4212ih | (2) The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. (f) Potential nuclear weapons material defined
In this section, the term potential nuclear weapons material means plutonium, highly-enriched uranium, or other material capable of sustaining an explosive nuclear chain reaction, ... |
108hr4212ih | (g) Authorization of appropriations
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2005 for activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration in carrying out programs necessary for national security for purposes of defense nuclear nonproliferation activities, $40,000,000 to... |
108hr4998ih | 1. Payments to united states prisoners of war based on court judgment
(a) Payments
The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay, out of funds described in subsection (b), $1,000,000 to each of the 17 plaintiffs in the case of Acree v. Republic of Iraq, 271 F.Supp. 2d 179 (D.D.C. 2003) that were held captive by Iraq during... |
108hr4998ih | (b) Source of funds
$17,000,000 shall be available, from unobligated funds appropriated under chapter 2 of title II of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004, under the heading OTHER BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE — Funds Appropriated to the Pr... |
108hr4501ih | 1. Short title; table of contents
(a) Short title
This Act may be cited as the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004. (b) Table of contents
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents Title II—Federal Communications Commission Operations Sec. 201. Extension of retransmission consent exemption Se... |
108hr4501ih | Additional notices to subscribers, networks, and stations concerning signal carriage Sec. 206. Privacy rights of satellite subscribers Sec. 207. Reciprocal bargaining obligations Sec. 208. Unserved digital customers Sec. 209. Reduction of required tests Sec. 210. Carriage of certain additional stations 201. Extension o... |
108hr4501ih | 325(b)(2)(C) ) is amended by striking December 31, 2004 and inserting December 31, 2009. 202. Cable/satellite comparability
(a) Amendment
Part I of title III of the Communications Act of 1934 is amended by inserting after section 339 ( 47 U.S.C. 339 ) the following new section: 340. |
108hr4501ih | Significantly viewed signals permitted to be carried
(a) Significantly viewed stations
In addition to the broadcast signals that subscribers may receive under section 338 and 339, a satellite carrier is also authorized to retransmit to subscribers located in a community the signal of any station that a cable system i... |
108hr4501ih | (b) Limitations
(1) Analog service limited to subscribers taking local-into-local service
With respect to a signal that originates as an analog signal of a television broadcast station, this section shall apply only to retransmissions to subscribers who receive retransmissions from a satellite carrier pursuant to the... |
108hr4501ih | this section shall apply only if— (A) the subscriber receives from the satellite carrier pursuant to the statutory license under section 122 of title 17, United States Code, the retransmission of the digital signal of a network station in the subscriber’s local market that is affiliated with the same television network... |
108hr4501ih | (3) Limitation not applicable where no network affiliates
The limitations in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not prohibit a retransmission under this section to a subscriber located in a local market in which there are no network stations affiliated with the same television network as the station whose signal is being re... |
108hr4501ih | (4) Authority to grant station-specific waivers
Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), a satellite carrier may provide to subscribers the retransmission of a network station that is determined to be significantly viewed under this section, if and to the extent that the network station in the local market in which the... |
108hr4501ih | (c) Modifications of list
(1) Petitions from satellite carriers
In addition to cable operators and television broadcast station licensees, the Commission shall permit a satellite carrier to petition for decisions and orders— (A) by which stations and communities may be added to those that are eligible for retransmiss... |
108hr4501ih | (2) Application of criteria to communities without cable service
In addition to the stations and communities that are eligible for retransmission under subsection (a) , in a community that is not served by a cable system, a satellite carrier is also authorized to retransmit to subscribers located in such community the... |
108hr4501ih | (d) Effect on other obligations and rights
(1) No effect on carriage obligations
Carriage of a signal under this section is not mandatory, and any right of a station licensee to have the signal of such station carried under section 338 is not affected by the eligibility of such station to be carried under this sectio... |
108hr4501ih | (e) Network nonduplication and syndicated exclusivity
(1) Not applicable except as provided by commission regulations
Signals eligible to be carried under this section are not subject to the Commission’s regulations concerning network nonduplication or syndicated exclusivity unless, pursuant to regulations adopted by... |
108hr4501ih | (2) Limitation
Nothing in this subsection or Commission regulations shall permit the application of network nonduplication or syndicated exclusivity regulations to the retransmission of distant signals of network stations that are carried by a satellite carrier pursuant to a statutory license under section 119(a)(2)(A... |
108hr4501ih | (f) Enforcement proceedings
(1) Notice by television broadcast stations
If a television broadcast station believes that a satellite carrier has retransmitted to any subscriber in the local market of such station the signal of another television broadcast station affiliated with the same television network in violatio... |
108hr4501ih | and call letters of the station that is claimed to have been unlawfully retransmitted (for purposes of this subsection, the imported station ); (B) the name and address of the satellite carrier; (C) the dates on which the alleged retransmission occurred; (D) the street address of at least one person to whom the alleged... |
108hr4501ih | (ii) the subscriber is not eligible for the retransmission of the signal because of the limitation in subsection (b) (1) or (2); (iii) the satellite carrier had not provided the notification required by subsection (h)(3); or (iv) two or more of the above; and (F) the name and address of counsel for the station. |
108hr4501ih | (2) Complaints by television broadcast stations
If, within 30 days of providing to the satellite carrier a notice pursuant to paragraph (1), the satellite carrier has not cured the alleged retransmission in violation of this section, or if the satellite carrier cures the alleged violation after notice and then renews ... |
108hr4501ih | (3) Service of complaints on satellite carriers
For purposes of any proceeding under this subsection, any satellite carrier that retransmits the signal of any broadcast station shall be deemed to designate the Secretary of the Commission as its agent for service of process. |
108hr4501ih | A television broadcast station may serve a satellite carrier with a complaint concerning an alleged violation of this section through retransmission of a station within the local market of such station by filing the original and two copies of the complaint with the Secretary of the Commission and serving a copy of the ... |
108hr4501ih | Service shall be deemed complete one business day after a copy of the complaint is provided to the delivery services for overnight delivery. On receipt of a complaint filed by a television broadcast station under this subsection, the Secretary of the Commission shall send the original complaint by United States mail, p... |
108hr4501ih | (4) Answers by satellite carriers
Within 20 business days after the date of service, the satellite carrier shall file an answer with the Commission and shall serve the answer by a commonly used overnight delivery service and by United States mail, on the counsel designated in the complaint at the address listed for su... |
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