Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 4 - ADMINISTRATION › Part XXI - Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities › Chapter 1 - Program Summary › Section XXI-103 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
BEAD-
the Broadband Equity, Access, and
				  Deployment Program, as administered by the National Telecommunications and
				  Information Administration.
Broadband Service
-deployed internet access
				  service with a minimum of 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload transmission
				  speeds (100:20 Mbps).
CRN-
Sub Project Areas with Critical
				  Resiliency Needs.
Cooperative
-a corporation organized under
				  Part I of Chapter 2 of Title 12 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 or a
				  corporation who becomes subject to those provisions pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  12:401 et seq.
Director
-the Executive Director of the
				  Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity within the Division of
				  Administration.
Economically Disadvantaged Areas-
socially
				  disadvantaged areas whose ability to participate in the free enterprise system
				  has been impaired due to diminished capital and credit opportunities as
				  compared to other areas who are not socially disadvantaged.
Economically Distressed Parish
-an unserved
				  area that is in need of expansion of business and industry and the creation of
				  jobs, giving consideration to unemployment, per capita income, and the number
				  of residents receiving public assistance within that unserved area.
EHCT
-extremely high-cost threshold.
Eligible Community Anchor Institutions-
a
				  community anchor institution that lacks access to Gigabit-level broadband
				  service.
Eligible Grant Recipient
-a provider of
				  broadband service, including a provider operated by a local government if the
				  local government is compliant with the Local Government Fair Competition Act
				  prior to July 1, 2021, with respect to providing such services, a cooperative,
				  or any partnership thereof.
Eligible Locations
-locations eligible for
				  BEAD funding.
Eligible Parishes
-any parish with unserved
				  structures.
Eligible Project
-a discrete and specific
				  project located in an unserved area of an eligible parish seeking to provide
				  broadband service to homes, households, businesses, educational facilities,
				  healthcare facilities, and community anchor points not currently served. A
				  project that is primarily engaged in middle-mile, backhaul, or similar work is
				  not an eligible project. The inclusion of middle-mile, backhaul, or similar
				  capacity is permissible in an eligible project, if the capacity does not
				  otherwise exist and is necessary for the project's last-mile broadband
				  connectivity to end-users. If a contiguous project area crosses from one
				  eligible parish into one or more eligible adjacent parishes, the project shall
				  be deemed to be located in the parish where the greatest number of unserved
				  households are proposed to be served.
Fabric
-Federal Communications Commission
				  mapping fabric.
FTTH
-Fiber to the Home.
GUMBO 2.0
-Granting Unserved Municipalities
				  Broadband Opportunities 2.0.
Household
-any individual or group of
				  individuals who are living together at the same address as one economic unit. A
				  household may include related and unrelated persons. An "economic unit"
				  consists of all adult individuals contributing to and sharing in the income and
				  expenses of a household. An adult is any person eighteen years or older. If an
				  adult has no or minimal income, and lives with someone who provides financial
				  support to him, both people shall be considered part of the same household.
				  Children under the age of 18 living with their parents or guardians are
				  considered to be part of the same household as their parents or
				  guardians.
In-Kind
-existing facilities, equipment,
				  materials, and structures that a local government makes available in
				  partnership with an internet service provider as a contribution to the proposed
				  project, consistent with market rates. Examples include but are not limited to
				  copper wire, coaxial cable, optical cable, loose tube cable, communication
				  huts, conduits, vaults, patch panels, mounting hardware, poles, generators,
				  batteries and cabinets, network nodes, network routers, network switches,
				  microwave relays, microwave receivers, site routers, outdoor cabinets, towers,
				  easements, rights-of-way, and buildings or structures owned by the local
				  government that are made available for location or collocation purposes. This
				  term may also include fees.
Infrastructure
-existing facilities,
				  equipment, materials, and structures that an internet service provider has
				  installed either for its core business or public enterprise purposes. Examples
				  include but are not limited to copper wire, coaxial cable, optical cable, loose
				  tube cable, communication huts, conduits, vaults, patch panels, mounting
				  hardware, poles, generators, batteries and cabinets, network nodes, network
				  routers, network switches, microwave relays, microwave receivers, site routers,
				  outdoor cabinets, towers, easements, rights-of-way, and buildings or structures
				  owned by the entity that are made available for location or collocation
				  purposes.
Infrastructure Costs
-costs directly related
				  to the construction of broadband infrastructure for the extension of broadband
				  service for an eligible project, including installation, acquiring or updating
				  easements, backhaul infrastructure, and testing costs. The term does not
				  include overhead or administrative costs.
Limited Waiver
-Build America Buy America
				  limited waiver.
Local Government
-a parish, municipality, or
				  school board, or any instrumentality thereof.
NOFO
-notice of funding opportunity.
Office
-the Office of Broadband Development
				  and Connectivity within the Division of Administration.
Priority Projects
-Deployment projects that
				  must be prioritized before non-deployment initiatives.
Prospective Broadband Recipient
-a household,
				  home, business, educational facility, healthcare facility, community anchor
				  point, agricultural operation, or agricultural processing facility that is
				  currently unserved and is identified in an application submitted.
Reliable Service
-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 technology, or terrestrial fixed wireless technology utilizing entirely
				  licensed spectrum or using a hybrid of licensed and unlicensed spectrum.
Resolution of Consent-
Support and permission
				  from a federally-recognized tribe to build on their land.
Shapefile
-a file format for storing,
				  depicting, and analyzing geospatial data depicting broadband coverage,
				  comprised of several component files, such as a Main file (.shp), an Index file
				  (.sbx), and a dBASE table (.dbf).
SPA
-sub-project area.
Speed of Network-
advertised and actual
				  Internet speed.
Unserved
-notwithstanding any other provision
				  of law, any federal funding awarded to or allocated by the state for broadband
				  deployment shall not be used, directly or indirectly, to deploy broadband
				  infrastructure to provide broadband internet service in any area of the state
				  where broadband internet service of at least 100:20 Mbps is available from at
				  least one internet service provider.
Unserved Area
-a designated geographic area
				  that is presently without access to broadband service offered by a wireline or
				  fixed wireless provider. Areas included in an application where a provider has
				  been designated to receive funds through other state or federally funded
				  programs designated specifically for broadband deployment shall be considered
				  served if such funding is intended to result in the initiation of activity
				  related to the construction of broadband infrastructure in such area within 24
				  months of the expiration of the 60-day period related to such application
				  established pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  51:2370.4.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  51:2370.21-2370.33.