Goto Section: 54.672 | 54.679 | Table of Contents
FCC 54.675
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 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: 2014 |
2016
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