Goto Section: 54.633 | 54.635 | Table of Contents
FCC 54.634
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 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: 2014 |
2016
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