Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 4 - ADMINISTRATION
Part XXI - Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities
Chapter 4 - Scoring
Section XXI-403 - Overlapping Applications or Project Areas

A. At the close of the application period, should one or more applications overlap one or more other applications; relative to one or more unserved individual addresses, the impacted applicants shall have the option and ability to resolve the overlapping individual addresses through the applicants' own volition, discussion, and efforts. Applicants working to resolve an instance of overlapping applications, following the close of the application period, shall jointly notify the office of such efforts. An acceptable resolution and amended applications will be accepted by the office until 5 p.m. on the fifteenth day of the 30-day evaluation period. Such an acceptable resolution between impacted applicants shall not result in the addition of partners to a previously submitted application nor the expansion of an application's project area.

B. Following 5 p.m. on the fifteenth day of the 30-day evaluation period, should one or more applications overlap one or more other applications; relative to one or more individual addresses, each application shall be scored independently. The application receiving the highest score shall proceed to grant funding consideration with its project area boundary intact. Any lower-scored application overlapping a higher-scored application shall be removed from grant funding consideration.