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bonded or have similar insurance
coverage to indemnify recipients against
losses resulting from fraudulent or
dishonest acts committed by one or
more employees, officers, directors,
agents, volunteers, and third-party
contractors who handle LSC funds.
§ 1629.2
Definitions.
Annualized funding level means the
amount of:
(1) Basic Field Grant funds (including
Agricultural Worker and Native
American) and
(2) Special grants of LSC funds,
including Technology Initiative
Grants, Pro Bono Innovation Fund
grants, and emergency relief grants,
awarded by LSC to the recipient for
the fiscal year included in the
recipient’s annual audited financial
statements.
§ 1629.3
Who must be bonded?
(a) A recipient must supply fidelity
bond coverage for all employees,
officers, directors, agents, and
volunteers.
(b) If a recipient uses a third party for
payroll, billing, or collection services,
the recipient must either supply
coverage covering the third party or
ensure that the third party has a fidelity
bond or similar insurance coverage.
(c) For recipients with subgrants:
(1) The recipient must extend its
fidelity bond coverage to supply
identical coverage to the subrecipient
and the subrecipient’s directors,
officers, employees, agents, and
volunteers to the extent required to
comply with this Part; or
(2) The subrecipient must supply
proof of its own fidelity bond coverage
that meets the requirements of this Part
for the subrecipient’s directors, officers,
employees, agents, and volunteers.
§ 1629.4 What forms of bonds can
recipients use?
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(a) A recipient may use any form of
bond, such as individual, name
schedule, position schedule, blanket, or
any combination of such forms of
bonds, as long as the type or
combination of bonds secured
adequately protects LSC funds.
(b) A recipient may use similar forms
of insurance that essentially fulfill the
same purpose as a fidelity bond.
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cover?
What losses must the bond
The bond must provide recovery for
loss caused by such acts as fraud,
dishonesty, larceny, theft,
embezzlement, forgery,
misappropriation, wrongful abstraction,
wrongful conversion, willful
misapplication, or any other fraudulent
or dishonest act committed by an
employee, officer, director, agent, or
volunteer.
§ 1629.6 What is the required minimum
level of coverage?
(a) A recipient must carry fidelity
bond coverage or similar coverage at a
minimum level of at least ten percent of
its annualized funding level for the
previous fiscal year.
(b) If a recipient is a new recipient,
the coverage must be at a minimum
level of at least ten percent of the initial
grant.
(c) Notwithstanding paragraphs (a)
and (b) of this section, recipients must
not carry coverage under this part at a
level less than $100,000.
§ 1629.7 Can LSC funds be used to cover
bonding costs?
Costs of bonding required by this part
are allowable if expended consistent
with 45 CFR part 1630. Costs of bonding
such as rates, deductibles, single loss
retention, and premiums, are allowable
as an indirect cost if such bonding is in
accordance with sound business
practice and is reasonable.
Dated: April 27, 2017.
Stefanie K. Davis,
Assistant General Counsel.
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3075]
Petitions for Reconsideration of Action
in Rulemaking Proceeding
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Petitions for reconsideration.
AGENCY:
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Petitions for Reconsideration
(Petitions) have been filed in the
Commission’s rulemaking proceeding
by Jennifer A. Manner, on behalf of
HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC,
Bohdan R. Pankiw, on behalf of
Pennsylvania Public Utility
Commission, and Arthur F. McNulty, on
behalf of Pennsylvania Department of
Community and Economic
Development.
SUMMARY:
Oppositions to the Petitions
must be filed on or before May 18, 2017.
Replies to an opposition must be filed
on or before May 30, 2017.
DATES:
Federal Communications
Commission, 445 12th Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20554.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Alexander Minard, Telecommunications
Access Policy Division, Wireline
Competition Bureau, at (202) 418–7400
or email: Alexander.Minard@fcc.gov.
This is a
summary of the Commission’s
document, Report No. 3075, released
April 25, 2017. The full text of the
Petitions is available for viewing and
copying at the FCC Reference
Information Center, 445 12th Street SW.,
Room CY–A257, Washington, DC 20554.
They also may be accessed online via
the Commission’s Electronic Comment
Filing System at: https://apps.fcc.gov/
ecfs/. The Commission will not send a
copy of this document pursuant to the
Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C.
801(a)(1)(A), because this document
does not have an impact on any rules of
particular applicability.
Subject: In the Matter of Connect
America Fund, ETC Annual Reports and
Certifications, FCC 17–12, published at
82 FR 14466, March 21, 2017, in WC
Docket Nos. 10–90, 14–58. This
document is being published pursuant
to 47 CFR 1.429(e). See also 47 CFR
1.4(b)(1) and 1.429(f), (g).
Number of Petitions Filed: 2.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 54
[WC Docket Nos. 10-90, 14-58; Report No. 3075]
Petitions for Reconsideration of Action in Rulemaking Proceeding
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Petitions for reconsideration.
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SUMMARY: Petitions for Reconsideration (Petitions) have been filed in
the Commission's rulemaking proceeding by Jennifer A. Manner, on behalf
of HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC, Bohdan R. Pankiw, on behalf of
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, and Arthur F. McNulty, on
behalf of Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic
Development.
DATES: Oppositions to the Petitions must be filed on or before May 18,
2017. Replies to an opposition must be filed on or before May 30, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20554.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexander Minard, Telecommunications
Access Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, at (202) 418-7400
or email: Alexander.Minard@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's
document, Report No. 3075, released April 25, 2017. The full text of
the Petitions is available for viewing and copying at the FCC Reference
Information Center, 445 12th Street SW., Room CY-A257, Washington, DC
20554. They also may be accessed online via the Commission's Electronic
Comment Filing System at: https://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/. The Commission
will not send a copy of this document pursuant to the Congressional
Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A), because this document does not have
an impact on any rules of particular applicability.
Subject: In the Matter of Connect America Fund, ETC Annual Reports
and Certifications, FCC 17-12, published at 82 FR 14466, March 21,
2017, in WC Docket Nos. 10-90, 14-58. This document is being published
pursuant to 47 CFR 1.429(e). See also 47 CFR 1.4(b)(1) and 1.429(f),
(g).
Number of Petitions Filed: 2.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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