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FCC RIN: 3060-AH71 Publication ID: Fall 2014 
Title: Enhanced and Standardized Disclosure (MM Docket No. 00-168; MB Docket No. 11-189) 
Abstract: This proceeding concerns rules and policies on how commercial television broadcast station licensees provide public interest information to the public. The 2000 NPRM proposed amendments to the public inspection file rules that would standardize the format used for providing public interest information to the public and make information contained in public inspection files available on the Internet. The intended effect of this action is to propose rules that would make information regarding how television broadcast stations meet their fundamental public interest obligation to serve the needs and interests of their communities of license easier to understand or more accessible to the public. In the 2008 Report and Order, a standardized form was adopted and a requirement was imposed obligating stations to place a portion of its public inspection file on the Internet. In 2011, on reconsideration, the Commission vacated the prior Report and Order and sought comment on proposals intended to make broadcaster information more accessible to the public. Comment was also sought on proposals to streamline the standardized disclosure form. The Second Report and Order modernized the procedures television broadcasters use to inform the public about how they are serving their communities by establishing a requirement that stations post their public files online in a Commission-hosted database. 
Agency: Federal Communications Commission(FCC)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Long-Term Actions 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 47 CFR 73.3526   
Legal Authority: 47 USC 154(i)    47 USC 303    47 USC 307    47 USC 309    47 USC 336   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  10/19/2000  65 FR 62683   
R&O  03/13/2008  73 FR 13452   
Order on Recon  11/17/2011  76 FR 71267   
FNPRM  11/22/2011  76 FR 72144   
Notice of Inquiry (NOI)  12/15/2011  76 FR 77999   
2nd R&O  05/11/2012  77 FR 27631   
Next Action Undetermined  To Be Determined    
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Undetermined  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: Businesses 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Maria Mullarkey
Chief, Policy Division, Media Bureau
Federal Communications Commission
45 L Street NE,
Washington, DC 20554
Phone:202 418-1067
Email: maria.mullarkey@fcc.gov