Telecommunications Facilities and Demonstration Act
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What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Mar 20, 1975)
Telecommunications Facilities and Demonstration Act - States that the purposes of this Act are: (1) to assist (through matching grants) in the construction of noncommercial educational television or radio broadcasting facilities; (2) to demonstrate (through grants or contracts) the use of telecommunications technologies for the distribution and dissemination of health, education, and other social service information; and (3) to promote the development of nonbroadcast telecommunications facilities and services for the transmission, distribution, and delivery of health, education, and social service information.
Authorizes appropriations of $7,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and for the four succeeding fiscal years, for the payment of grants for the above purposes upon approval of applications submitted to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
What just happenedMar 20, 1975
Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce.
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