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Mark Hatfield: “the fiscal year 1997 Agriculture appropriations report references a Grants to Broadcasting Systems Program that I would…”

On the recordJuly 24, 1996
the fiscal year 1997 Agriculture appropriations report references a Grants to Broadcasting Systems Program that I would like to discuss with the chairman of the Agriculture Committee, Mr. Lugar, and with the Senator from North Dakota, Mr. Conrad, who was the original sponsor of the program when it was authorized in the 1989 Rural Development Partnership Act. It is my understanding that the program statutorily restricts eligibility for the program to statewide, private, nonprofit public television systems whose coverage is predominantly rural. In order to further clarify the statute, a new provision was added at my request to the 1996 Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 [FAIR] Act that defined statewide as having a coverage area of not less than 90 percent of the population of a State and not less than 80 percent of the rural land area of the State. Is my understanding of the statute correct?
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Mark Hatfield
Oregon
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Discussing the Grants to Broadcasting Systems Program and its eligibility criteria during a floor speech.

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