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FCC 54.675
Revised as of October 1, 2013
Goto Year:2012 |
2014
§ 54.675 Cap.
(a) Amount of the annual cap. The aggregate annual cap on federal
universal service support for health care providers shall be $400
million per funding year, of which up to $150 million per funding year
will be available to support upfront payments and multi-year
commitments under the Healthcare Connect Fund.
(b) Funding year. A funding year for purposes of the health care
providers cap shall be the period July 1 through June 30.
(c) Requests. Funds shall be available as follows:
(1) Generally, funds shall be available to eligible health care
providers on a first-come-first-served basis, with requests accepted
beginning on the first of January prior to each funding year.
(2) For the Telecommunications Program and the Healthcare Connect Fund,
the Administrator shall implement a filing window period that treats
all eligible health care providers filing within the window period as
if their applications were simultaneously received.
(3) [Reserved]
(4) The deadline to submit a funding commitment request under the
Telecommunications Program and the Healthcare Connect Fund is June 30
for the funding year that begins on the previous July 1.
(d) Annual filing requirement. Health care providers shall file new
funding requests for each funding year, except for health care
providers who have received a multi-year funding commitment under
§ 54.644.
(e) Long-term contracts. If health care providers enter into long-term
contracts for eligible services, the Administrator shall only commit
funds to cover the portion of such a long-term contract scheduled to be
delivered during the funding year for which universal service support
is sought, except for multi-year funding commitments as described in
§ 54.644.
(f) Pro-rata reductions for Telecommunications Program support. The
Administrator shall act in accordance with this section when a filing
window period for the Telecommunications Program and the Healthcare
Connect Fund, as described in paragraph (c)(2) of this section, is in
effect. When a filing window period described in paragraph (c)(2) of
this section closes, the Administrator shall calculate the total demand
for Telecommunications Program and Healthcare Connect Fund support
submitted by all applicants during the filing window period. If the
total demand during a filing window period exceeds the total remaining
support available for the funding year, the Administrator shall take
the following steps:
(1) The Administrator shall divide the total remaining funds available
for the funding year by the total amount of Telecommunications Program
and Healthcare Connect Fund support requested by each applicant that
has filed during the window period, to produce a pro-rata factor.
(2) The Administrator shall calculate the amount of Telecommunications
Program and Healthcare Connect Fund support requested by each applicant
that has filed during the filing window.
(3) The Administrator shall multiply the pro-rata factor by the total
dollar amount requested by each applicant filing during the window
period. Administrator shall then commit funds to each applicant for
Telecommunications Program and Healthcare Connect Fund support
consistent with this calculation.
[ 78 FR 13992 , Mar. 1, 2013]
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Goto Section: 54.672 | 54.679
Goto Year: 2012 |
2014
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