October 2004

Priorities for Making Funding Commitments if Unobligated Cash is Insufficient to Issue All Pending Commitments (10/27/04)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began treating funding commitment decision letters (FCDLs) issued for the Universal Service Schools and Libraries and Rural Health Care Support Mechanisms as budgetary obligations on September 30, 2004. At that time, the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) began tracking the amount of unobligated Universal Service Fund (USF) monies on hand to support new funding commitments. USAC expects that, going forward, at various times, it may have less unobligated cash than the total dollar value of new commitments ready to be issued. View full article>

Rural Health Care Outreach Conference Call - Scheduled for October 14, 2004 (10/13/04)

The RHCD will host another outreach conference call on October 14, 2004 at 2 pm for those who missed the call on October 7, 2004. We will address the same issues discussed on the earlier call, particularly the suspension of funding commitment decision letters. Please follow this link to the agenda and dialing instructions of this conference call.

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