Opinion ID: 220512
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Standard of Review under Subsection 202(h)

Text: Subsection 202(h) of the 1996 Telecommunications Act requires the Commission to determine whether media concentration rules are necessary in the public interest as the result of competition and to repeal or modify any regulation it determines to be no longer in the public interest. § 202(h), 110 Stat. at 111-12. [15] In Prometheus I, we set out our standard of review under § 202(h) in detail. 373 F.3d at 390-97. With no need to repeat that detail here, we note our summary of the § 202(h) standard: In a periodic review under § 202(h), the Commission is required to determine whether its then-extant rules remain useful in the public interest; if no longer useful, they must be repealed or modified. Yet no matter what the Commission decides to do to any particular rule  retain, repeal, or modify (whether to make more or less stringent)  it must do so in the public interest and support its decision with a reasoned analysis. Id. at 395. As we did in Prometheus I, [w]e shall evaluate each aspect of the Commission's Order accordingly. Id.