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members of the NSCC are encouraged to read these reports to ascertain the accuracy of <br />Comcast's claim of "glowing reviews." <br />Argument: "The Cable Act and FCC have limited capital funding to what is needed to <br />pay for adequate PEG facilities." <br />Response: A brief synopsis of the Cable Act and FCC decisions niay provide some <br />guidance. In 2007, the FCC ruled, <br />Sections 611 and 626 [of the Cable Act] provide a process for requiring PEG <br />carriage and determining a community's future cable -related needs and interests. <br />Section 626 requires that an LFA identify "future cable -related community needs <br />and interests" prior to the consideration of a franchise renewal proposal. <br />Therefore, LFAs are to evaluate their current and future PEG needs at the time of <br />an incumbent provider's renewal, and are allowed to request such PEG support <br />from their providers, within the limits of the Act and the Commission's statutory <br />interpretation. <br />Section 611 of the Cable Act provides: <br />A franchising authority may in its request for proposals require as part of a <br />franchise, and may require as part of a cable operator's proposal for a franchise <br />renewal, subject to section [626 (Renewal)] of this title, that channel capacity be <br />designated for public, educational, or governmental use, and channel capacity on <br />institutional networks be designated for educational or governmental use, and <br />may require rules and procedures for the use of the channel capacity designated <br />pursuant to this section. <br />Section 621 of the Cable Act allows: <br />"In awarding a franchise, the franchising authority ... may require adequate <br />assurance that the cable operator will provide adequate public, educational, and <br />governmental access channel capacity, facilities, or financial support." <br />According to the FCC, the term "adequate" should be given its plain meaning. The FCC <br />has previously used the American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition (1991) to define <br />adequate as meaning "satisfactory or sufficient." <br />En other words, based on the interpretation of the FCC, the NSCC may require <br />satisfactory or sufficient assurance that Comcast will provide satisfactory or sufficient PEG <br />4 <br />