United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States National Archives and Records Administration Office of the Federal Register author aut Government Organization text government publication eng FR Regulatory Information 2012_register executive 2012-08-11 article Rules and Regulations D09002ee1c7fc9a44 D09002ee1c7fc9ab9 United States Federal Communications Commission originator org United States Government Agency or Subagency In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) determines that the four factors contained in section 713(e) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (Act) will continue to apply when evaluating individual requests for closed captioning exemptions under section 713(d)(3) and our corresponding rules, notwithstanding a change in terminology in the statute, enacted by the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA), which replaced the term "undue burden" in that section with the term "economically burdensome." The Order further amends the Commission's rules to replace all current references to "undue burden" with the term "economically burdensome." These rule amendments correspond with the new statutory language in the CVAA requiring petitioners seeking individual closed captioning exemptions under section 713(d)(3) of the Act to show that providing captions on their programming would be economically burdensome. 77 FR 48102 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2012-08-13/2012-18898 2012-18898 fr13au12-10 6712-01-P CG Docket No. 11-175 FCC 12-83 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2012-08-13/2012-18898 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2012-08-13/html/2012-18898.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2012-08-13/pdf/2012-18898.pdf Cable Television Closed Captioning 4 p. 48102 48105 77 FR 48102 Title 47 Part 79 47 CFR Part 79 Closed Captioning and Video Description of Video Programming; Federal Register Vol. 77, Issue RULE 2012-18898 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 2012-09-12 CG Docket No. 11-175 FCC 12-83 6712-01-P 2012-18898 Final rule.

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) determines that the four factors contained in section 713(e) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (Act) will continue to apply when evaluating individual requests for closed captioning exemptions under section 713(d)(3) and our corresponding rules, notwithstanding a change in terminology in the statute, enacted by the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA), which replaced the term "undue burden" in that section with the term "economically burdensome." The Order further amends the Commission's rules to replace all current references to "undue burden" with the term "economically burdensome." These rule amendments correspond with the new statutory language in the CVAA requiring petitioners seeking individual closed captioning exemptions under section 713(d)(3) of the Act to show that providing captions on their programming would be economically burdensome.

Effective September 12, 2012. Karen Peltz Strauss, Deputy Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; phone: (202) 418-2388; email: Karen.Strauss@fcc.gov. Cable Television Closed Captioning Closed Captioning and Video Description of Video Programming , fcc504@fcc.gov fcc@bcpiweb.com Karen.Strauss@fcc.gov http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2012/db0720/FCC-12-83A1.doc Vol. 77, no. 156 Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration 2012-08-13 continuing daily deposited born digital 383 p. Table of Contents: AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106: KF70.A2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2012-08-13 P0b002ee1833c8a61 0097-6326 0042-1219 0364-1406 769-004-00000-9 000582072 f:fr13au12 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2012-08-13 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2012-08-13/pdf/FR-2012-08-13.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2012-08-13/xml/FR-2012-08-13.xml fdlp 48045 48418 DGPO 2012-08-11 2024-06-03 FR-2012-08-13 machine generated eng FR FR-2012-08-13 77 156