[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR54.509]

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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 54_UNIVERSAL SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
      Subpart E_Universal Service Support for Low-Income Consumers
 
Sec.  54.509  Adjustments to the discount matrix.

    (a) Estimating future spending requests. When submitting their 
requests for specific amounts of funding for a funding year, schools, 
libraries, library consortia, and consortia including such entities 
shall also estimate their funding requests for the following funding 
year to enable the Administrator, to estimate funding demand for the 
following year.
    (b) Reduction in percentage discounts. If the estimates schools and 
libraries make of their future funding needs lead the Administrator to 
predict that total funding requests for a funding year will exceed the 
available funding, the Administrator shall calculate the percentage 
reduction to all schools and libraries, except those in the two most 
disadvantaged categories, necessary to permit all requests in the next 
funding year to be fully funded.
    (c) Remaining funds. If funds remain under the cap at the end of the 
funding year in which discounts have been reduced below those set in the 
matrices, the Administrator shall consult with the Commission to 
establish the best way to distribute those funds.

[62 FR 32948, June 17, 1997, as amended at 62 FR 41304, Aug. 1, 1997; 63 
FR 70572, Dec. 21, 1998]