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Subject: CASF Staff Draft Proposal
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 01:02:50 +0000
From: TD_AR <[email protected]>
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STATE OF CALIFORNIAEdmund G. Brown Jr.,/Governor///
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
505 VAN NESS AVENUE
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102-3298
May 17, 2017
To: Parties on the CASF Distribution (Service) List:
As part of our efforts to improve CASF program efficiency and efficacy,
Communications Division (CD) staff is holding a public workshop on
Thursday, May 25, 2017 to continue to engage stakeholders. At this
workshop, we will discuss the following three documents available at the
following link
<ftp://ftp.cpuc.ca.gov/Telco/CASF/CASF%20Workshop%20May%2025th.pdf>.
1. *_Proposed Rule/Application Changes for the CASF Program Summary_*
This is a summary of the proposed rule changes for the Infrastructure
Grant Account, Consortia Account, and Public Housing Account.
* Infrastructure Grant Account: Remove unnecessary application
requirements to streamline the process. Some of the current rules
need updating to obtain the most efficient results. Ten areas have
been identified as needing changes to more effectively implement the
program.
* Consortia Account: Develop consortia measurement criteria
requirements. The State Controller’s performance audit identified
there was a lack of measurement criteria.^^[1] <#_ftn1> Proposed
changes include modifications to the guidelines, timelines,
requirements, and scoring criteria in Decision 11-06-038 to
establish a measurement and performance criteria.
* Public Housing Account: Proposed changes to Decision 14-12-039 to
change and clarify reporting, payment, and execution and performance
sections.
2. *_Strategies Summary_*
Using existing CASF 6/1.5 Mbps threshold and CD staff’s current method
to calculate served households, we estimate that California is currently
359,800 households short of meeting the 98% served status goal contained
in statute. CD staff offers several general approaches policy makers may
wish to take to reach that goal.
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3. *_Cost Estimates_*
CD staff prepared several cost estimates assuming that 359,000
households remain to reach the 98 percent statewide goal and also
calculated the cost to reach the 98 percent goal if that goal is
calculated by CASF consortia region, instead of the existing statewide
practice, at speeds of 10/1 and 6/1.
The workshop will take place on May 25 from 1pm to 5p m at the following
location:
California Public Utilities Commission
Hearing Room A
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 95102
Those wishing to listen to the staff workshop may call in using the
information list below.
·Call in number: 866-918-9521
·Participant Code: 6211814#
Your participation is greatly appreciated. CD would like to gather
input from participants in preparation for the CASF proceeding.
Sincerely,
Robert Wullenjohn
Manager, Broadband, Video and Market Branch
Communications Division, CPUC
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[1] <#_ftnref1>CASF Second Interim Performance Audit Report (issued
March 30, 2017), available at http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/General.aspx?id=9226
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