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 NEWS  News  media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  TTY  202  /  418-  2555  Fax-  On-  Demand  202  /  418-  2830  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  ftp.  fcc.  gov  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  Street,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  This  is  an  unofficial  announcement  of  Commission  action.  Release  of  the  full  text  of  a  Commission  order  constitutes  official  action.  See  MCI  v.  FCC.  515  F  2d  385  (D.  C.  Circ  1974). 
 October  13,  2000 
 FCC  CALENDAR  OF  EVENTS 
 Monday,  October  16 
 The  FCC  will  hold  an  en  banc  hearing  examining  the  public  interest 
 obligations  of  television  broadcasters,  445  12  th  Street,  SW,  Washington,  DC, 
 9:  00  am. 


 Tuesday,  October  17 
 Commissioner  Harold  Furchtgott-  Roth  will  be  the  featured  speaker  at 
 the  Washington  Legal  Foundation,  “Open  Access  to  Broadband  Cable:  Will 
 Government  or  the  Free  Market  Lead  the  Way  to  High-  Speed  Internet”?  at  the 
 M.  J.  Murdock  Center  for  Free  Enterprise,  Washington,  DC,  9:  00  am. 


 Tuesday,  October  31 
 The  FCC’s  Office  of  Engineering  and  Technology  and  the  Center  for 
 Global  Security  Research  at  Lawrence  Livermore  National  Laboratory  of  the 
 University  of  California  will  co-  sponsor  a  conference  on  telecommunications 
 security  and  reliability  at  the  FCC,  Portals  II,  445  12  th  Street,  SW,  Washington, 
 DC,  8:  30  am  –  5:  00  pm. 


 Wednesday,  November  1 
 The  Public  Safety  National  Coordination  Committee,  Interoperability 
 Subcommittee  will  meet  at  the  FCC,  Portals  II,  445  12  th  Street,  SW, 
 Washington,  9:  00  am  –  11:  30  am. 
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 Public  Safety  National  Coordination  Committee,  Technology 
 Subcommittee  will  meet  at  the  FCC,  Portals  II,  445  12  th  Street,  SW, 
 Washington,  DC,  12:  30  pm  –  3:  00  pm. 


 The  Public  Safety  National  Coordination  Committee,  Implementation 
 Subcommittee  will  meet  at  the  FCC,  Portals  II,  445  12  th  Street,  SW, 
 Washington,  DC,  3:  00  pm  –  5:  30  pm. 


 Thursday,  November  2 
 The  Public  Safety  National  Coordination  Committee  will  hold  a  General 
 Membership  Meeting  at  the  FCC,  Portals  II,  445  12  th  Street,  SW,  Washington, 
 DC,  9:  30  am  –  12:  30  pm. 


 Thursday,  November  9 
 The  FCC  will  hold  a  Commission  Meeting  at  the  FCC,  Portals  II,  445 
 12  th  Street,  SW,  Washington,  DC,  9:  30  am. 


 Thursday,  December  14 
 Tom  Sugrue,  Chief,  Wireless  Telecommunications  Bureau 
 will  speak  at  the  Practicing  Law  Institute’s  18  th  Annual  Institute  on 
 Telecommunications  Policy  and  Regulation  at  the  Washington  Hilton, 
 Washington,  DC,  1:  35  pm. 


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