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Currently, FCC rules require that a company's biannual Broadband Data Collection (BDC) be signed by both a corporate officer and either a corporate engineering officer or a certified professional engineer (CPE). [...]the draft report and order in MB docket 02-144, MM dockets 92-266 and 93-215, and CS docket 94-28 on cable television rate regulations "would promote competition and economic growth by simplifying and streamlining burdensome cable rate regulations, eliminating unnecessary forms and rules, deregulating certain cable equipment and small cable systems, limiting regulation to residential subscribers, and otherwise reducing the regulatory burden on cable systems." The draft order specifically would "[e]liminate unnecessary forms and rules"; "[rleduce unnecessary burdens on cable operators by deregulating cable equipment not used exclusively to receive the BST"; "[e]mpower small businesses (cable systems serving 15,000 or fewer subscribers that are owned by small cable companies serving 400,000 or fewer subscribers) by exempting them from rate regulation"; "[d]ecline to extend rate regulation to commercial establishments"; and "[m]odernize rules to account for the sunset of CPST regulation in determining BST rates and to simplify and streamline the remaining regulations," the fact sheet says. -