Pursuant to the House Joint Resolution No. 238 of February 7, 1975, the Virginia Public Telecommunications Council has reviewed the pertinent technical findings of the Center for Excellence, Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia, regarding the establishment of an Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) distribution system in the Williamsburg/Hampton area, for the purpose of providing diagnostic and instructional services for profoundly or severely handicapped youth.

The Virginia Public Telecommunications Council's review of the pertinent findings (see attached documents) indicates that the proposed ·program is technically feasible; if the following assumptions on the part of the Center for Excellence prove correct:

1) the Federal Communications Commission will accept a proposal for an ITFS system containing a mobile transmitter;

2) suitable transmitter locations and mobile transmitter sites can be identified.

Cost projections for the technical requirements of Phase One of the Project seem to be accurate; however, it is the recommendation of the VPTC that a more detailed description of technical services to be required in Phase Two of the project would need to be formalized before. the initial phase were actually undertaken.

Determination of the potential cost-effectiveness of such a technical system in reaching the instructional objectives of the Department of Education must, of course, be provided by that agency in a companion report.