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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1981

95 STAT. 1690

47 USC 214.

PUBLIC LAW 97-130—DEC. 29, 1981

ty to take any final action with respect to such application until the end of the one hundred and twenty-day period following the date a written agreement is entered into between such Company and other record carriers under paragraph (3), or following the effective date of any interim or final order issued by the Commission under paragraph (3)(B) with respect to such carriers. The limitation upon Commission authority established in this paragraph shall expire at the end of the two hundred and ten-day period following the date of the enactment of the Record Carrier Competition Act of 1981. "(d) Subject to the provisions of subsection (c)(5), each record carrier may provide record communications service in the United States domestic market and in the international market. Any record carrier seeking to provide domestic record communications service may provide such service without submitting an application to the Commission under section 214 unless the Commission requires such a submission. The Commission shall act expeditiously upon any application submitted pursuant to section 214.

    • (e)(l) At the end of the 36-month period following the date of the

enactment of the Record Carrier Competition Act of 1981, the provisions of subsection (c), other than paragraph (1)(B) of such subsection, shall cease to have any force or effect. "(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall not be construed to affect the obligation of any carrier to interconnect with any other carrier pursuant to this Act.". COMMISSION OVERSIGHT OF DISTRIBUTION FORMULAS

47 USC 222 note. 47 USC 609.

Ante, p. 1687.

SEC. 3. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), the Federal Communications Commission shall exercise its authority under the Communications Act of 1934 to continue its oversight of the establishment of just and reasonable distribution formulas for unrouted outbound telegraph traffic and the allocation of revenues with respect to such traffic, consistent with the purposes of section 222 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended in section 2. (b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall cease to have any force or effect at the end of the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act. EFFECT OF AMENDMENT UPON CERTAIN CONTRACTS

47 USC 222 note.

SEC. 4. The amendment made in section 2 shall not affect the validity of the terms of any otherwise lawful contract relating to the distribution of outbound international record traffic between any domestic record carrier and any international record carrier if such contract was entered into before June 23, 1981. AMENDMENT TO OTHER LAW

Rock Island g^stat 409 45 USC 1017.

SEC. 5. (a) Section 122(a) of the Rock Island Transition and Employ® Assistance Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the ® following new sentence: "The Commission shall have authority to authorize continued rail service under this section over the lines of the Rock Island Railroad until the disposition of the properties of the estate of the Rock Island Railroad.".