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                               Before the
                    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                         Washington, D.C.  20554



In the Matter of      )
     )
Implementation of Section 302 of )     CS Docket No. 96-46
the Telecommunications Act of 1996     )
     )     
Open Video Systems    )


ORDER
       

Adopted:  June 6, 1996Released:  June 7, 1996

By the Commission:


     1.    The Telecommunications Act of 1996 added Section 653 to the Communications
Act of 1934, establishing a new framework for entry into the video programming marketplace,
the open video system.  The 1996 Act required that the Commission, within six months after the
date of enactment of the 1996 Act, "complete all actions necessary (including any
reconsideration) to prescribe regulations" to govern the operation of open video systems.  The
Commission issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on March 11, 1996.  On May 31, 1996,
the Commission adopted a Second Report and Order implementing Section 653.  Pursuant to the
1996 Act, the Commission must issue an order on reconsideration by August 8, 1996.

 2.   The Communications Act, and the Commission's rules, require that petitions for
reconsideration of a Commission order may be filed within thirty days from the date upon which
public notice is given of the order.  Public notice of the Second Report and Order was given on
June 5, 1996, when a summary of the order was published in the Federal Register.  Petitions for
reconsideration are due, therefore, on July 5, 1996.  In order to afford the Commission sufficient
time to review the issues raised in the petitions and to meet its statutory requirement to issue an
order on reconsideration by August 8, 1996, we believe it is in the public interest for the
Commission to waive its rules regarding the filing of oppositions to petitions for reconsideration
and replies to oppositions.  We are waiving Section 1.429(f) to provide that oppositions must be
filed by July 15, 1996.  We are also waiving Section 1.429(g) and will not accept any replies
to oppositions.  Finally, in order to afford the fullest consideration possible to the issues raised
on reconsideration, we strongly encourage parties to file pleadings in advance of the deadlines.


      FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



      William F. Caton
      Acting Secretary