Illinois Administrative Code › Title 14 - COMMERCE › Part 548 - BROADBAND GRANT PROGRAMS › Subpart C - BEAD FUNDED CONNECT ILLINOIS GRANTS › Section 548.90 - Program Specific Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Assistant Secretary" means the Assistant Secretary of
				  Commerce for Communications and Information or the individual who holds any
				  successor position.
"BEAD NOFO" means the Broadband Equity, Access, and
				  Deployment ("BEAD") Program Notice of Funding Opportunity posted by the
				  National Telecommunications and Information Administration to describe the
				  requirements under which it will award grants for the BEAD Program.
"Community Anchor Institution" means an entity such as a
				  school, library, health clinic, health center, hospital or other medical
				  provider, public safety entity, institution of higher education, public housing
				  organization, or community support organization that facilitates greater use of
				  broadband service by vulnerable populations, including, but not limited to,
				  low-income individuals, unemployed individuals, children, the incarcerated, and
				  aged individuals. DCEO may propose to NTIA that additional types of
				  institutions should qualify as CAIs.
"Digital Equity" means the condition in which individuals and
				  communities have the information technology capacity that is needed for full
				  participation in the society and economy of the United States.
"Eligible Community Anchor Institution" means a community
				  anchor institution that lacks access to Gigabit-level broadband service.
"Eligible Subgrantee" means an incorporated business or
				  partnership; a political subdivision; a nonprofit organization; a cooperative
				  association; or a limited liability corporation organized for the purpose of
				  expanding broadband access. Illinois public school districts are eligible to
				  apply but may be encouraged to leverage other available federal or
				  education-specific funding prior to an award.
"Extremely High Cost Per Location Threshold" means cost per
				  location above which the DCEO may decline to select a proposal if use of an
				  alternative technology meeting the BEAD Program's technical requirements would
				  be less expensive.
"Location" and "Broadband Serviceable Location" mean a
				  business or residential location in the United States at which fixed broadband
				  internet access service is, or can be, installed.
"Middle Mile Infrastructure" means:
any broadband infrastructure that does not connect directly
				  to an end-user location, including a community anchor institution; and
				  includes:
leased dark fiber, interoffice transport, backhaul,
				  carrier-neutral internet exchange facilities, carrier-neutral submarine cable
				  landing stations, undersea cables, transport connectivity to data centers,
				  special access transport, and other similar services; and
wired or private wireless broadband infrastructure, including
				  microwave capacity, radio tower access, and other services or infrastructure
				  for a private wireless broadband network, such as towers, fiber, and microwave
				  links.
"Open Access" refers to an arrangement in which the
				  subgrantee offers nondiscriminatory access to and use of its network on a
				  wholesale basis to other providers seeking to provide broadband service to
				  end-user locations, at just and reasonable wholesale rates for the useful life
				  of the subsidized network assets. For this purpose, "just and reasonable
				  wholesale rates" means rates that include a discount from the provider's retail
				  rates reflecting the costs that the subgrantee avoids by virtue of not
				  providing retail service to the end user location (including, for example,
				  marketing, billing, and collection-related costs).
"Priority Broadband Project" means a project that will
				  provision service via end-to-end fiber-optic facilities to each end-user
				  premises. DCEO may disqualify any project that might otherwise qualify as a
				  priority broadband project from priority broadband project status, with the
				  approval of the Assistant Secretary, on the basis that the location surpasses
				  DCEO's extremely high cost per location threshold, or for other valid reasons
				  subject to approval by the Assistant Secretary.
"Project" means an undertaking by a subgrantee to construct
				  and deploy infrastructure for the provision of broadband service. A "project"
				  may constitute a single unserved or underserved broadband-serviceable location,
				  or a grouping of broadband-serviceable locations in which not less than 80% of
				  broadband-serviceable locations served by the project are unserved locations or
				  underserved locations.
"Program" means the portion of the Connect Illinois Broadband
				  Grant Program applying federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD)
				  dollars as a funding source.
"Reliable Broadband Service" means broadband service that the
				  Broadband DATA Maps show is accessible to a location via:
fiber-optic technology;
cable modem/hybrid fiber-coaxial technology;
digital subscriber line (DSL) technology; or
terrestrial fixed wireless technology utilizing entirely
				  licensed spectrum or using a hybrid of licensed and unlicensed spectrum.
"Underserved Location" means a broadband-serviceable location
				  that is:
not an unserved location; and
that the Broadband DATA Maps show as lacking access to
				  reliable broadband service offered with:
a speed of not less than 100 Mbps for downloads;
a speed of not less than 20 Mbps for uploads; and
latency less than or equal to 100 milliseconds.
"Underserved Service Project" means a project in which not
				  less than 80% of broadband-serviceable locations served by the project are
				  unserved locations or underserved locations. An "Underserved Service Project"
				  may be as small as a single underserved broadband-serviceable location.
"Unserved Location" means a broadband-serviceable location
				  that the Broadband DATA Maps show as:
having no access to broadband service; or
lacking access to reliable broadband service offered
				  with:
a speed of not less than 25 Mbps for downloads;
a speed of not less than 3 Mbps for uploads; and
latency less than or equal to 100 milliseconds.
"Unserved Service Project" means a project in which not less
				  than 80% of broadband-serviceable locations served by the project are unserved
				  locations. An "Unserved Service Project" may be as small as a single unserved
				  broadband serviceable location.