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Equipment Transfer Request Dismissal

Administrative Procedure:

Equipment Transfer Request Dismissal

Further Detail:

USAC will dismiss equipment transfer requests when the equipment was not received and/or installed at the originally funded location(s) prior to transferring it to another location. Since the equipment was never used, the transfer request for such equipment will not be permitted.

Rules that this furthers:

1. 47 C.F.R. § 54.504(a)(1)(iii) and (vii) requires applicants certify that that the “entities listed in the FCC Form 471 application have secured access to all of the resources . . . necessary to make effective use of the services purchased” and the “services purchas[ed] at discounts . . . will not be sold, resold, or transferred in consideration for money or any other thing of value.”

2. 47 C.F.R § 54.701(a) requires USAC to “administer[ ] the universal service support mechanisms in an efficient, effective, and competitively neutral manner.”

3. 47 C.F.R. § 54.702(g) requires USAC to take “administrative action intended to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.”

How this furthers program integrity:

This rule ensures that equipment transfers are made in a manner consistent with FCC rules which require that equipment purchased with universal service discounts be used at a particular location, for the specified purpose, and for a reasonable period of time before the equipment can be transferred to another location.