Goto Section: 54.633 | 54.635 | Table of Contents
FCC 54.634
Revised as of October 1, 2013
Goto Year:2012 |
2014
§ 54.634 Eligible services.
(a) Eligible services. Subject to the provisions of § § 54.600 through
54.602 and § § 54.630 through 54.680, eligible health care providers
may request support from the Healthcare Connect Fund for any advanced
telecommunications or information service that enables health care
providers to post their own data, interact with stored data, generate
new data, or communicate, by providing connectivity over private
dedicated networks or the public Internet for the provision of health
information technology.
(b) Eligibility of dark fiber. A consortium of eligible health care
providers may receive support for "dark" fiber where the customer, not
the vendor, provides the modulating electronics, subject to the
following limitations:
(1) Support for recurring charges associated with dark fiber is only
available once the dark fiber is "lit" and actually being used by the
health care provider. Support for non-recurring charges for dark fiber
is only available for fiber lit within the same funding year, but
applicants may receive up to a one-year extension to light fiber if
they provide documentation to the Administrator that construction was
unavoidably delayed due to weather or other reasons.
(2) Requests for proposals (RFPs) that solicit dark fiber solutions
must also solicit proposals to provide the needed services over lit
fiber over a time period comparable to the duration of the dark fiber
lease or indefeasible right of use.
(3) If an applicant intends to request support for equipment and
maintenance costs associated with lighting and operating dark fiber, it
must include such elements in the same RFP as the dark fiber so that
the Administrator can review all costs associated with the fiber when
determining whether the applicant chose the most cost-effective bid.
(c) Dark and lit fiber maintenance costs. (1) Both individual and
consortium applicants may receive support for recurring maintenance
costs associated with leases of dark or lit fiber.
(2) Consortium applicants may receive support for upfront payments for
maintenance costs associated with leases of dark or lit fiber, subject
to the limitations in § 54.638.
(d) Reasonable and customary installation charges. Eligible health care
providers may obtain support for reasonable and customary installation
charges for eligible services, up to an undiscounted cost of $5,000 per
eligible site.
(e) Upfront charges for vendor deployment of new or upgraded
facilities. (1) Participants may obtain support for upfront charges for
vendor deployment of new or upgraded facilities to serve eligible
sites.
(2) Support is available to extend vendor deployment of facilities up
to the "demarcation point," which is the boundary between facilities
owned or controlled by the vendor, and facilities owned or controlled
by the customer.
[ 78 FR 13986 , Mar. 1, 2013]
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Goto Section: 54.633 | 54.635
Goto Year: 2012 |
2014
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