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May 23, 2014 Page 7 Formal franchise renewal • franchise fees charged at the maximum tate resulting in continued franchise fee payments of approximately $1.5 million per year to the NSCC; • $27.7 million over 10 years in support for PEC access•—a demand that would result in PEC fees increasing to $7.57 per customer per month ($13.5 million of that $27.7 million is to pay for operations, which the NSCC now apparently agrees it could not require under federal law); • that Comcast provide the NSCC with and maintain a $7.4 million data and telecommunications network ("the I -Net") for free—an in- kind demand that is also unlawful; • eight standard -definition PEG channels and an additional four channels in high-definition format from Comcast's network, and an unspecified quantity of video -on -demand capacity (all without a showing that those channels are necessary or capable of use by the NSAC). In its staff report, the NSCC found no instance in which Comcast was in substantial breach of a material provision of the existing franchises. The staff report also found overall that Comcast's customer service was good or very good and the staff made no finding that Comcast did not possess the legal, technical, or financial qualifications to meet the demands of the NSCC's proposal. On August 1, 2013—after the NSCC's staff or Franchise Renewal Committee issued the NSCC's RFRP to Comcast—the full NSCC summarily adopted the staff report, consultant reports, and RFRP. Presumably at the advice of the NSCC's counsel, the Chairman of the NSCC suggested that the commissioners not make any statements or discussions about these documents or anything related to the adopted community needs assessment and Comcast review; all such discussions, to the extent there were to be any, were conducted privately, presumably. D. Comcast's Proposal In response to the NSCC's RFRP Comcast submitted its franchise renewal proposal on December 20, 2013, offering the following, among other things: