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enforceable right to maintain any 

particular home run wire dedicated to a 

particular unit on the premises against 

the MDU owner’s wishes. 

We use the term ‘‘MDU owner’’ to 

include whatever entity owns or 

controls the common areas of an 

apartment building, condominium or 

cooperative. For building-by-building 

disposition of home run wiring, the 

MDU owner gives the incumbent service 

provider a minimum of 90 days’ written 

notice that its access to the entire 

building will be terminated. The 

incumbent then has 30 days to elect 

what it will do with the home run 

wiring. Where parties negotiate a price 

for the wiring and are unable to agree 

on a price, the incumbent service 

provider must elect among 

abandonment, removal of the wiring, or 

arbitration for a price determination. 

Also, regarding cable home wiring, 

when the MDU owner notifies the 

incumbent service provider that its 

access to the building will be 

terminated, the incumbent provider 

must, within 30 days of the initial 

notice and in accordance with our home 

wiring rules: 

(1) Offer to sell to the MDU owner any 

home wiring within the individual 

dwelling units which the incumbent 

provider owns and intends to remove, 

and 

(2) Provide the MDU owner with the 

total per-foot replacement cost of such 

home wiring. 

The MDU owner must then notify the 

incumbent provider as to whether the 

MDU owner or an alternative provider 

intends to purchase the home wiring not 

later than 30 days before the 

incumbent’s access to the building will 

be terminated. For unit-by-unit 

disposition of home run wiring, an 

MDU owner must provide at least 60 

days’ written notice to the incumbent 

MVPD that it intends to permit multiple 

MVPDs to compete for the right to use 

the individual home run wires 

dedicated to each unit. The incumbent 

service provider then has 30 days to 

provide the MDU owner with a written 

election as to whether, for all of the 

incumbent’s home run wires dedicated 

to individual subscribers who may later 

choose the alternative provider’s 

service, it will remove the wiring, 

abandon the wiring, or sell the wiring to 

the MDU owner. 

In other words, the incumbent service 

provider will be required to make a 

single election for how it will handle 

the disposition of individual home run 

wires whenever a subscriber wishes to 

switch service providers; that election 

will then be implemented each time an 

individual subscriber switches service 

providers. 

Where parties negotiate a price for the 

wiring and are unable to agree on a 

price, the incumbent service provider 

must elect among abandonment, 

removal of the wiring, or arbitration for 

a price determination. The MDU owner 

also must provide reasonable advance 

notice to the incumbent provider that it 

will purchase, or that it will allow an 

alternative provider to purchase, the 

cable home wiring when a terminating 

individual subscriber declines. If the 

alternative provider is permitted to 

purchase the wiring, it will be required 

to make a similar election during the 

initial 30-day notice period for each 

subscriber who switches back from the 

alternative provider to the incumbent 

MVPD. 

While the American Housing Survey 

estimates that there were some 

7,600,000 MDUs with 24,600,000 

resident occupants in the United States 

in 2000, we estimate that there will be 

only 12,500 notices and 12,500 elections 

being made on an annual basis. In many 

buildings, the MDU owner will be 

unable to initiate the notice and election 

processes because the incumbent MVPD 

service provider continues to have a 

legally enforceable right to remain on 

the premises. In other buildings, the 

MDU owner may simply have no 

interest in acquiring a new MVPD 

service provider. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–3005 Filed 2–21–07; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting; FCC 

Announces Details for Public Hearing 

on Media Ownership in Harrisburg, PA 

February 16, 2007. 

Washington, DC—The Federal 

Communications Commission today 

announced further details of its 

previously announced Harrisburg field 

hearing regarding media ownership (see 

press release dated February 8, 2007.) 

The hearing date, time, and location 

are as follows: 

DATE: Friday, February 23, 2007. 

TIME: 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m. 

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO

CHANGE): 9 a.m.–9:30 a.m.: Welcome/ 

Opening Remarks 

9:30 a.m.–11 a.m.: Panel Discussion 

11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Public Comment 

12:30 p.m.–1 p.m.: Break 

1 p.m.–2:30 p.m.: Public Comment 

LOCATION: Whitaker Center for Science 

and the Arts, Sunoco Performance 

Theater, 222 Market Street, Harrisburg, 

Pennsylvania 17101. 

Link to Whitaker Center: http:// 

www.whitakercenter.org. 

The purpose of the hearing is to fully 

involve the public in the process of the 

2006 Quadrennial Broadcast Media 

Ownership Review that the Commission 

is currently conducting. The hearing is 

open to the public, and seating will be 

available on a first-come, first-served 

basis. This hearing is the third in a 

series of media ownership hearings the 

Commission intends to hold across the 

country. 

There will be one panel of presenters 

followed by public comment. The 

hearing format will enable members of 

the public to participate via ‘‘open 

microphone.’’

Open captioning and sign language 

interpreters will be provided for this 

event. Other reasonable 

accommodations for people with 

disabilities are available upon request. 

Include a description of the 

accommodation you will need including 

as much detail as you can. Also include 

a way we can contact you if we need 

more information. Make your request as 

early as possible. Last minute requests 

will be accepted, but may not be 

possible to fill. Send an e-mail to 

fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer & 

Governmental Affairs Bureau: For 

reasonable accommodations: 202–418–

0530 (voice), 202–418–0432 (TTY). 

Further details including names of the 

panelists will be released prior to the 

hearing. 

For additional information about the 

hearing, please visit the FCC’s Web site 

at http://www.fcc.gov/ownership. Press 

inquiries should be directed to Clyde 

Ensslin, at 202–418–0506, or David 

Fiske, at 202–418–0513. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 07–819 Filed 2–20–07; 11:23 am] 

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FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Notice of Agreements Filed 

The Commission hereby gives notice 

of the filing of the following agreements 

under the Shipping Act of 1984. 

Interested parties may submit comments 

on agreements to the Secretary, Federal 

Maritime Commission, Washington, DC 

20573, within ten days of the date this 

notice appears in the Federal Register. 


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