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The applicant's record in past funding programs is weighed

To require the Federal Communications Commission to establish a vetting process for prospective applicants for high-cost universal service program funding, section 2, Sec. 2. Written by .

The applicant's record in past funding programs is weighed

The document says “shallWho acts: Federal Communications CommissionHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says

“the applicant's history of complying with requirements in Commission and other government broadband deployment funding programs”

To require the Federal Communications Commission to establish a vetting process for prospective applicants for high-cost universal service program funding, Sec. 2

The second thing the Commission is to evaluate a proposal against. It reaches beyond the Commission's own programs to other government broadband deployment funding programs, and it is the applicant's history of complying with the requirements of those programs that is weighed. The section does not say how far back that history runs or what weight it carries.

What the document actually says

“the applicant's history of complying with requirements in Commission and other government broadband deployment funding programs”

To require the Federal Communications Commission to establish a vetting process for prospective applicants for high-cost universal service program funding, Sec. 2
That sentence, in plain words

The FCC must also look at what the person did before. Did they follow the rules in past internet funding programs?

What this is about

Some who ask have taken money like this before. Some took it from other parts of the government. Both records count now. The law does not say how far back to look.

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