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The Washington Monitor
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The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau announced that $600 million in unused
federal universal service funds for schools and libraries will be carried forward to increase
disbursements to schools and libraries in Funding Year 2008 in excess of the annual cap. The
2008 funding year for purposes of the schools and libraries cap is July 1, 2008 to June 30,
2009. Commission rules require that “all funds that are collected and that are unused from
prior years shall be available for use in the next full funding year of the schools and libraries
mechanism in accordance with the public interest and notwithstanding the annual cap.”
Public Notice, CC Docket No. 02-6, DA 08-1470, released June 23, 2008.
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