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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 43 / Monday, March 8, 2021 / Notices CC Docket Nos. 0192, 9645; WT
Docket No. 10208, Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 26 FCC
Rcd 17663 2011 USF/ICC
Transformation Order, and the Commission and Wireline Competition Bureau have since adopted a number of orders that implement the USF/ICC
Transformation Order; see also Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket No. 10
90 et al., Third Order on Reconsideration, 27 FCC Rcd 5622
2012; Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket No. 1090 et al., Order, 27
FCC Rcd 605 Wireline Comp. Bur.
2012; Connect America Fund et al., WC
Docket No. 1090 et al., Fifth Order on Reconsideration, 27 FCC Rcd 14549
2012; Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket No. 1090 et al., Order, 28
FCC Rcd 2051 Wireline Comp. Bur.
2013; Connect America Fund et al., WC
Docket No. 1090 et al., Order, 28 FCC
Rcd 7227 Wireline Comp. Bur. 2013;
Connect America Fund, WC Docket No.
1090, Report and Order, 28 FCC Rcd 7766 Wireline Comp. Bur. 2013;
Connect America Fund, WC Docket No.
1090, Report and Order, 28 FCC Rcd 7211 Wireline Comp. Bur. 2013;
Connect America Fund, WC Docket No.
1090, Report and Order, 28 FCC Rcd 10488 Wireline Comp. Bur. 2013;
Connect America Fund et al., WC
Docket No. 1090 et al., Report and Order, Order and Order on Reconsideration and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 31 FCC Rcd 3087
2016; Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket Nos. 1090, 16271; WT
Docket No. 10208, Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 31 FCC Rcd 10139 2016;
Connect America Fund; ETC Annual Reports and Certifications, WC Docket Nos. 1090, 1458, Order, 32 FCC Rcd 968 2017; Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket No. 1090 et al., Report and Order, Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and Order on Reconsideration, 33 FCC Rcd 11893
2018; Connect America Fund; ETC
Annual Reports and Certifications, WC
Docket Nos. 1090, 1458, Report and Order, 32 FCC Rcd 5944 2017. The Commission has received OMB
approval for most of the information collections required by these orders.
Through several orders, the Commission has recently changed or modified reporting obligations for highcost support.
In September 2019, the Commission adopted the Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin Islands Stage 2 Order, which allocated nearly a billion additional dollars to United States territories that had suffered extensive infrastructure damage due to Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The
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Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund and the Connect USVI Fund, et al., WC Docket No. 18143, et al., Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration, 34 FCC Rcd 9109 2019 Puerto Rico and USVI
Stage 2 Order. The Commission adopted similar accountability measures for recipients of this support as required of other high-cost support recipients to ensure that providers receive support only for the provision, maintenance, and upgrading of facilities and services for which the support is intended.
Puerto Rico and USVI Stage 2 Order, 34
FCC Rcd at 9149, para. 72.
In the 2019 Supply Chain Order, the Commission adopted a rule prohibiting the use of USF support to purchase or obtain any equipment or services produced or provided by a covered company posing a national security threat to the integrity of communications networks or the communications supply chain.
Protecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply Chain Through FCC Programs, WC
Docket No. 1889, Report and Order, Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and Order, 34 FCC Rcd 11423, 11433, para. 26. See also 47 CFR 54.9. In June 2020, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau issued final designations of Huawei Technologies Company Huawei and ZTE Corp.
ZTE as covered companies for the purposes of this rule. Protecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply Chain Through FCC ProgramsHuawei Designation, WC Docket No. 19351, Order, 35 FCC
Rcd 6604 PSHSB June 30, 2020
Huawei Designation Order; Protecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply Chain Through FCC ProgramsZTE Designation, WC
Docket No. 19352, Order, 35 FCC Rcd 6633 PSHSB June 30, 2020 ZTE
Designation Order. Accordingly, USF
recipients may not use USF funds to purchase, obtain, maintain, improve, modify, manage, or otherwise support Huawei or ZTE equipment or services in any way, including upgrades to existing Huawei or ZTE equipment and services.
Huawei Designation Order, 35 FCC Rcd at 6608, para. 10; ZTE Designation Order, 35 FCC Rcd at 6637, para. 10.
Moreover, USF recipients must certify that they are in compliance with this rule. 2019 Supply Chain Order, 34 FCC
Rcd at 11454, para. 79; see also 47 CFR
54.9.
In the CAF Phase II Auction Order, in addition to rules requiring Connect America Phase II auction support recipients to report regarding support used for capital expenditures, certify regarding available funds, and certify
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that the Phase II-funded network meets performance requirements, the Commission also adopted rules requiring that Phase II auction support recipients must report information on served community anchor institutions and certify regarding bidding on FCC
Form 470 postings for eligible schools and libraries in census blocks where the carrier receives auction support.
Connect America Fund, et al., WC
Docket No. 1090, et al., Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 31 FCC Rcd 5949 2016
CAF Phase II Auction Order.
Recipients of Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund and Connect USVI Fund Stage 2
support must also observe these requirements in addition to the general requirements for high-cost support recipients and requirements specific to the Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund and Connect USVI Fund programs. See Puerto Rico and USVI Stage 2 Order, 34
FCC Rcd at 9150, para. 74.
We therefore propose to revise this information collection, as well as Form 481 and its accompanying instructions, to reflect these new and revised requirements. We also eliminate one requirement that is associated with obligations no longer in effect for certain carriers. Finally, we propose to increase the burdens associated with existing reporting requirements to account for additional carriers that will be subject to those requirements.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch, Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
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