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scribers in such franchise area on the effective date 
of such national franchise. If there is no other cable 
operator in such franchise area on the effective date 
of such national franchise, or there is no other cable 
operator in such franchise area on such date that is 
required to provide channel capacity for public, edu-
cational, and governmental use, the cable operator 
shall provide the amount of channel capacity for 
such use as determined by Commission rule. 
‘‘(2) PEG AND I–NET FINANCIAL SUPPORT.—A 
cable operator with a national franchise under this 
section for a franchise area shall pay an amount 
equal to 1 percent of the cable operator’s gross reve-
nues (as such term is defined in this section) in the 
franchise area to the franchising authority for the 
support of public, educational, and governmental use 
and institutional networks (as such term is defined 
in section 611(f)). Such payment shall be assessed 
and collected in a manner consistent with section 
622, including the authority of the cable operator to 
designate that portion of a subscriber’s bill attrib-
utable to such payment. A cable operator that pro-
vided cable service in a franchise area on the date 
of enactment of this section and that obtains a na-
tional franchise under this section shall continue to 
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provide any institutional network that it was re-
quired to provide on the day before its national fran-
chise became effective in such franchise area under 
section 621 or any other law. Notwithstanding sec-
tion 621(b)(3)(D), a franchising authority may not 
require a cable operator franchised under this sec-
tion to construct a new institutional network. 
‘‘(3) ADJUSTMENT.—Every 10 years after the 
commencement of a franchise under this section for 
a franchise area, a franchising authority may require 
a cable operator authorized under such franchise to 
increase the channel capacity designated for public, 
educational, or governmental use, and the channel 
capacity designated for such use on any institutional 
networks required under paragraph (2). Such in-
crease shall not exceed the higher of— 
‘‘(A) one channel; or 
‘‘(B) 10 percent of the public, educational, 
or governmental channel capacity required of 
that operator prior to the increase. 
‘‘(4) TRANSMISSION AND PRODUCTION OF PRO-
GRAMMING.— 
‘‘(A) A cable operator franchised under 
this section shall ensure that any public, edu-
cational, or governmental programming carried 
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by the cable operator under this section within 
a franchise area is available to all of its sub-
scribers in such franchise area. 
‘‘(B) The production of any programming 
provided under this subsection shall be the re-
sponsibility of the franchising authority. 
‘‘(C) A cable operator franchised under 
this section shall be responsible for the trans-
mission from the signal origination point (or 
points) of the programming, or from the point 
of interconnection with another cable operator 
under subparagraph (D), to the cable operator’s 
subscribers, of any public, educational, or gov-
ernmental programming produced by or for the 
franchising authority and carried by the cable 
operator pursuant to this section. 
‘‘(D) Unless two cable operators otherwise 
agree to the terms for interconnection and cost 
sharing, such cable operators shall, if at least 
one of the operators is providing cable service 
in the franchise area pursuant to a franchise 
under this section, comply with regulations pre-
scribed by the Commission providing for— 
‘‘(i) the interconnection between two 
cable operators in a franchise area for 
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