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DOCURENT RESUlE
05623 - [B0965904']
Greater Coordination and a Bore Effective Policy Needed for
International Telecommunications Facilities. CID-78-87;
B-168707. larch 31, 1978. 60 pp. * 5 Appendices (15 pp.).
Report to Rep. Lionel van Deerlin, Chairsan, House Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce: Communications Subcommittee;
Rep. Louis Frey, Jr., Ranking minority Besber; by Elmer P.
Str,! ts, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Alteraativ6 Approaches or methods to Achieve Federal
Program Objectives (3600).
Contact: Comunity and Economic D.velopment Div.
Budget Function: Commerce and Transportation: Other Advancement
and Regulation of Commerce (403).
Organization Concerne6, Department of Commerce; Department of
State; Federal CosmunicatioLs Commission; Offic, of
Teleommunications Policy.
congressional Relerance: House Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce; House Committee ou Interstate and F-reign
Commerce: Comaunications Subcommittee; Senate Conmitt : on
Commezce, Science, and Transportation. Rep. Lionel van
Deerlin; Rep. Louis Frey, Jr.
Authority: Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151).
Communications Satellite Act of 1962 (47 U.S.C. 701), Cable
Landing License Act of 1921 (47 U.S.C. 34). Administrative
Procedures Act (5 U.S.C. 551). Executive Order 11556.
Executive Order 10530. Home Box Office Inc., et al. v. FCC,
567 F.2d 9 (D.C. Cir. 1977).
Although the organization of entities proriding
international telecommunications services varies from nation to
L tioa, the United States and foreign eutities jointly provide
invernational telecommunications services and jointly own the
cab.e and satellite facilities over which the services are
provided. Development and implementation of a U.S. policy
goveining the construction and use of international
telecamunications facilities involves primarily the
respon;ibilities of the Federal Communications Commiz.iion (FCC),
but can also involve the resFonsibilities nf the Stat,.
Department- the Office of Telecommunications Policy, and the
Office oi Teleconunications in the Department of Commerce.
Findings/conclulsions: A more effective international
telecomsun:.cations facilities policy can be developed and
carried out by developing specific procedures for coordinati'
the decisiontaking responsibilities of the agencies involved.
establishing and maintaining policy guidelines for facilitieo
which will al.ow U.S. international carriers and foreign
entities to plani their own actions; clarifying the process oi
providing instr'actions to the Coounications Satellite
Corporation in its role as U.S. representative iu the
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