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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 166 / Tuesday, August 31, 2021 / Rules and Regulations delivery mechanism the Governance Authority may establish in its operating procedures.
d Review by the Wireline Competition Bureau. 1 Except in extraordinary circumstances, final action on a request for review of a Governance Authority decision to revoke a voice service providers or intermediate providers SPC token should be expected no later than 180
days from the date the request for review is filed in the Electronic Comment Filing System ECFS
pursuant to 64.6308b1. The Wireline Competition Bureau shall have the discretion to pause the 180-day review period in situations where actions outside the Wireline Competition Bureaus control are responsible for delaying review of a request for review.
2 An affected party may seek review of a decision issued under delegated authority by the Wireline Competition Bureau pursuant to the rules set forth in 1.115.
e Standard of review. The Wireline Competition Bureau shall conduct de novo review of Governance Authority decisions to revoke a voice service providers or intermediate providers SPC token.
f Status during pendency of a request for review and a Governance Authority decision. 1 A voice service provider or intermediate provider shall not be considered to be in violation of the Commissions caller ID
authentication rules under 64.6301
after revocation of its SPC token by the Governance Authority until the thirty 30 day period to file a formal appeal with the Governance Authority Board expires, or during the pendency of any formal appeal to the Governance Authority Board.
2 A voice service provider or intermediate provider shall not be considered to be in violation of the Commissions caller ID authentication rules under 64.6301 after the Governance Authority Board upholds the Governance Authoritys SPC token revocation decision until the sixty 60
day period to file a request for review with the Commission expires.
3 When a voice service provider or intermediate provider has sought timely Commission review of a Governance Authority decision to revoke a voice service providers or intermediate providers SPC token under this section, the voice service provider shall not be considered to be in violation of the Commissions caller ID authentication rules under 64.6301 until and unless the Wireline Competition Bureau, pursuant to paragraph d1 of this
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section, has upheld or otherwise decided not to overturn the Governance Authoritys decision.
4 In accordance with 1.102b and 1.106n, the effective date of any action pursuant to paragraph d shall not be stayed absent order by the Wireline Competition Bureau or the Commission.
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Wireline Competition Bureau Finalizes Application Filings, Procedures, Cost Catalog, and Replacement List for the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program Federal Communications Commission FCC.
ACTION: Final action.
AGENCY:

In this document, the Wireline Competition Bureau the Bureau adopts final procedures for, and provides eligible providers of advanced communications services with additional guidance regarding, the application filing and reimbursement process for the $1.9 billion Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program Reimbursement Program. The Bureau also adopted final versions of the FCC
Form 5640 Application Request for Funding Allocation and Reimbursement Claim Request, the Catalog of Eligible Expenses and Estimated Costs Catalog, and the List of Categories of Suggested Replacement Equipment and Services Replacement List for the Reimbursement Program.
DATES: The procedures outlined in this document are effective on September 30, 2021, except for the FCC Form 5640
application form, which is subject to approval from the Office of Management and Budget. The Bureau will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date for the FCC Form 5640. The Bureau will also subsequently release a public notice announcing when it will begin accepting applications and the application deadline for participating in the Reimbursement Program.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher Koves, Wireline Competition Bureau, 2024187400 or by emailing Supplychain@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Bureaus document SUMMARY:

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Docket No. 1889; DA 21947, released on August 3, 2021. The full text of this document is available for public inspection on the Commissions website at https docs.fcc.gov/public/
attachments/DA-21-947A1.pdf.
I. Introduction 1. By this document, the Bureau adopts final procedures for, and provides eligible providers of advanced communications services with additional guidance regarding, the application filing and reimbursement process for the $1.9 billion Reimbursement Program. After considering comments received in response to the Reimbursement Process Public Notification PN, 86 FR 31464, June 14, 2021, the Bureau finalizes the information fields on the new FCC Form 5640, which participants must submit to request funding allocations and disbursements from the Reimbursement Program, as well as the procedures governing the submission of and any modifications made to that form. Acting Chairwoman Rosenworcel has announced a target date of October 29, 2021, to open the Reimbursement Program filing window to begin accepting applications. Prior to the target date, the Bureau will announce in a forthcoming public notice when it will open the Reimbursement Program online portal and begin accepting applications, and the filing window closing date. Finally, after considering comments received in response to the Catalog PN, 86 FR 18932, April 12, 2021, the Bureau also finalizes with this document the Catalog and the Replacement List which will be made available on the Commissions website.
II. Discussion A. FCC Form 5640Application Request for Funding Allocation and Reimbursement Claim Requests 2. The Bureau adopts the application and reimbursement procedures and finalizes forms for the Reimbursement Program proposed in the Reimbursement Process PN.
3. In the Reimbursement Process PN, the Bureau provided a representative sample of the questions to be included in the FCC Form 5640 Application Request for Funding Allocation and sought comment on those information fields. The Bureau received persuasive comments regarding various fields applicants would complete in the new proposed form and, in response, it has implemented some modifications, and will proceed with finalizing that form.

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