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📺FCC Deregulates Cable Television Rates for Small Operators

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) eliminates unnecessary cable rate regulation forms and rules; deregulates cable equipment not used exclusively to receive the basic cable service tier; deregulates small cable systems serving 15,000 or fewer subscribers that are owned by small cable companies serving 400,000 or fewer subscribers; declines to extend rate regulation to commercial establishments; and modifies rules to account for the sunset of CPST regulation and clarifies their application. This action is necessary because many of the FCC's rules governing cable rate regulation have been rendered obsolete or unworkable due to the sunset of cable programming service tier (CPST) rate regulation and the passage of time. In addition, in this document, the FCC closes several moot proceedings and dockets which are either resolved by this document or have become obsolete or irrelevant due to regulatory updates, technology advances, marketplace changes, or have been addressed in other FCC orders. The actions taken in this document by the FCC will have the effect of streamlining the cable television rate regulations, unleashing prosperity through deregulation, and reducing the administrative burdens on the cable industry, franchising authorities, and the FCC, while continuing to fulfill the statutory obligation to subscribers to ensure reasonable rates for cable service and equipment.

⚡Provisional Rate Order WAPA-218

The formula rates for the Upper Great Plains region's (UGP) Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program--Eastern Division (P-SMBP--ED) transmission and ancillary services for UGP's costs to be recovered under the Southwest Power Pool's (SPP) Open Access Transmission Tariff (Tariff) should UGP decide to expand its participation in SPP in the Western Interconnection, have been confirmed, approved, and placed into effect on an interim basis (Provisional Formula Rates). If UGP expands its participation in SPP, these new formula rates under Rate Schedules WAUGP-ATRR (transmission), WAUGP-DCTIE-IMEU (incremental market efficiency use share), and WAUGP-AS1 (scheduling, system control and dispatch) will supersede the extended formula rates for transmission and ancillary services under Rate Schedules WAUGP-ATRR, WAUGP-AS1, WAUW-AS3, WAUW-AS4, WAUW-AS5, WAUW-AS6, and WAUW-AS7, which expire on September 30, 2030.

🛢️Key Natural Gas Pipeline Rate Filings and Compliance Update

The document presents a Combined Notice of Filings from the Department of Energy, detailing various natural gas pipeline rate and refund reports. It includes Docket Numbers, applicants, filing descriptions, filed dates, and comment deadlines, providing clarity on the regulatory landscape and necessary actions for involved parties.

📈Combined Notice of Gas Pipeline Rate Filings and Compliance Requirements

The Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announce filings related to natural gas pipeline rates and refund reports. Businesses involved must adhere to comment deadlines and filing requirements to participate in proceedings concerning rate approvals and compliance filing updates.

📦Postal Service Announces New Fulfillment Product and Rates

Postal Service notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to establish a new Fulfillment Standardized Distinct Product and Non-Published Rates product, named FFNPR.

🎶Correction of Copyright Royalty Rates for Digital Services

On December 19, 2024, the Copyright Royalty Judges published for comment proposed regulations governing the rates and terms for the digital performances of sound recordings by new subscription services and for the making of ephemeral recordings necessary to facilitate those transmissions for the period commencing January 1, 2026, and ending on December 31, 2030. That document omitted certain parentheses in the rate adjustment formulas, leaving the parentheses in those formulas unbalanced. This document corrects those formulas.

⚡Analysis of Electric Corporate Filings by Federal Energy Regulators