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The USAC Schools and Libraries Committee held a non-quarterly Board meeting on November 28th and recommended that the priority two E-rate requests with a discount rate at or below 80%  be denied because USAC will not have the dollars to support those E-rate requests.

The SLD released wave 28 for FY 2007 committing $40.3 million in E-rate funding, notifying 331 applicants and 390 service providers about the status of their FY 2007 applications.  The SLD has committed $1.7 billion and has $1.78 billion pending in E-rate Funding Year 2007 requests.

USAC has submitted detailed information about the procedures in place to administer the E-rate program.  In the FCC's Fifth Schools and Libraries Report and Order, USAC was directed to submit to the Commission all USAC administrative procedures that they use to make E-rate funding decisions that are not explicitly stated in FCC rules.  The USAC procedures also highlight specific statutory requirements that the procedures further as well as outline how they protect against waste, fraud, and abuse.

The SLD today officially announced the opening and closing dates of the E-rate Funding Year 2008 Form 471 filing window. The filing window will open at noon Eastern Time on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 and close at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, February 7, 2008.

At its quarterly board meeting held at USAC headquarters in Washington, DC, USAC today approved the opening and closing dates of the E-rate Form 471 application filing window for Funding Year 2008. USAC, or the Universal Service Administrative Company, is the organization charged with administering policy for the E-rate program established by the Federal Communications Commission.