Program Implementation Review Resulting from FCC Orders

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Program Implementation Review Resulting from FCC
Orders

Train-the-Trainer Workshop September 17-18,
2001 Schools Libraries Division, USAC
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Recent FCC Orders

• From August 2000 to present.
• Check appeals yourself on the FCC web site
  athttp//www.fcc.gov/ccb/universal_service/
  appeals.html, or http//www.fcc.gov/ccb/universal
  _service/ schoolsandlibs.html

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Master Mind (8-11-00)

• FCC supported SLDs denial of funding due to
  material discrepancies between prices presented
  by MasterMind and rates offered by actual
  provider.
• Order gave applicants opportunity to refile
  because it appeared they were unaware of the
  irregularities.

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Brooklyn Public Library (9-26-00)

• Applicant must prorate 12.6 million in
  nonrecurring costs associated with service
  provider infrastructure in a multi-year contract
  over a period of not less than three years.

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Iowa Communications Network (12-26-00)

• A state-owned network can be an eligible
  telecommunications service provider even if it
  provides service only to a limited portion of the
  public provided that is the only portion it is
  legally authorized to serve, it serves that
  portion without discrimination, and customers
  choose content.

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LA Unified School District(2-14-01)

• Directs SLD to approve service substitutions if
  (1) same functionality, (2) no increase in price,
  (3) would not violate contract or state/local
  laws, (4) no increase in percent ineligible, and
  (5) applicant certifies its consistent with
  470/RFP.

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Naperville Community Unit (2-27-01)

• Application should not have been rejected for
  failing to meet minimum processing standards
  since it was a first-time information requirement
  on a revised form, the missing information could
  have been reasonably discerned, and the form was
  otherwise substantially complete.

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Bethlehem Temple Christian School (4-6-01)

• Applicants must be able to demonstrate they have
  the necessary resources to make effective use of
  the services for which support is requested.
• Applicants should not abdicate control over the
  application process.
• Connectivity much in excess of computers to be
  served can suggest fraud.

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FCC Deadline Extension (6-29-01)

• Deadline for delivery and installation of
  nonrecurring services is the September 30 that
  follows the June 30 close of the relevant funding
  year.
• If certain decisions (e.g., FCDL, Service
  Provider change approved) are issued after March
  1, nonrecurring services may be delivered through
  September 30 of the following calendar year.

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Project Interconnect (7-11-01)

• Consortium leaders should be prepared to submit
  to SLD, upon request, Letters of Agency from
  their members.
• SLD should not deny all funding for a consortium
  when only a few members fail to provide Letters
  of Agency, but should deny funding for members
  for whom it receives no such Letters.

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Cleveland Municipal School District (8-16-01)

• File servers are conditionally eligible products.
  Eligible servers are conduits for content that
  originates elsewhere, rather than sources of
  content.