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                                                                  DA 96-753

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

In the Matter of                   )
                              )
Implementation of the Local Competition )              CC Docket
No. 96-98
Provisions in the Telecommunications Act     )
of  1996                      )

Allocation of Costs Associated with     )
Local Exchange Carrier Provision        )              CC Docket
No. 96-112
of Video Programming Services      )


                                   ORDER

Adopted:  May 13, 1996                  Released:  May 13, 1996

By the Chief, Common Carrier Bureau

     1.  On April 19, 1996, the Commission released a Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking in CC Docket No. 96-98 to implement the local
competition provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. 
Implementation of the Local Competition Provisions of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, FCC
96-182 (Local Competition NPRM).  Parties are hereby invited to
submit, in conjunction with their comments or reply comments,
proposed text for rules that the Commission could adopt in this
proceeding.  Specific rule proposals should be filed as an appendix to a
party's comments or reply comments, and will not be counted against
the page limits set forth in paragraph 291 of the Local Competition
NPRM or the Order released May 7, 1996, modifying those page limits. 
Implementation of the Local Competition Provisions of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, Order, DA 96-700.  Such appendices
may include only proposed text for rules that would implement
proposals set forth in the parties' comments and reply comments in this
proceeding, and may not include any comments or arguments. 
Proposed rules should be provided in the format used for rules in the
Code of Federal Regulations, and should otherwise conform to the
Comment Filing Procedures set forth in the Local Competition NPRM.

     2.  On May 10, 1996, the Commission released a Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking in CC Docket No. 96-112.  Allocation of Costs
Associated with Local Exchange Carrier Provision of Video Programming
Services, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, FCC 96-214 (LEC Video
Programming NPRM).  Parties are hereby invited, in conjunction with
their comments or reply comments, to submit proposed text for rules
that the Commission could adopt in this proceeding.  Specific rule
proposals should be attached as an appendix to a party's comments or
reply comments, and will not be counted against the page limits set
forth in paragraph 66 of the LEC Video Programming NPRM.  Such
appendices may include only proposed text for rules that would
implement proposals set forth in the parties' comments and reply
comments in this proceeding, and may not include any comments or
arguments.  Proposed rules should be provided in the format used for
rules in the Code of Federal Regulations, and should otherwise conform
to the Comment Filing Procedures set forth in the LEC Video
Programming NPRM. 

     3.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that parties may file proposed
language for rules in these proceedings consistent with the procedures
set forth above.

                         FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION


                         Regina M. Keeney
                         Chief, Common Carrier Bureau