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...ward program grants under the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program using funds from the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program fund created in section 122.4037 of the Revised Code and other funds appropriated by the general assembly. (B) If an appropriation for the program includes funds that are not state funds or if the director of development receives funds that are in the form of a gi...

...r that fiscal year are no longer available. (B) Any application pending at the end of the fiscal year shall be deemed denied, but may be refiled in a subsequent fiscal year provided that all information in the application is still current or has been updated.

...uploaded to a designated department web site for applications. (B) Applications shall be accepted during a submission period specified by the broadband expansion program authority. Each submission period shall be at least sixty but not more than ninety days. Each fiscal year there shall be not more than two submission periods. (C) The department shall publish information from submitted applications on the depar...

...rvice policies, including any policy to credit customers for service outages or the provider's failure to keep scheduled appointments for service; (11) The length of time that the broadband provider has been operating in the state; (12) Proof that the broadband provider has the financial stability to complete the project; (13) A projected construction timetable, including the anticipated date of the provisio...

...o provide a performance bond, letter of credit, or other financial assurance acceptable to the authority prior to the commencement of construction. The bond, letter of credit, or assurance shall be in the sum, and with the sureties, that the state prescribes and shall be payable to the state, as applicable. The bond, letter of credit, or assurance may include the condition that the broadband provider will faithfull...

...ll not publish them on the agency's web site, unless the agency finds that any information or document is not proprietary or a trade secret. Any information or document found not to be proprietary or a trade secret under this section shall not be considered confidential and shall be published on the agency web site as is required for an application under division (C)(2) of section 122.4019 of the Revised Code.

...cation and other information on its web site pursuant to sections 122.40 to 122.4077 of the Revised Code.

...owards an eligible project's broadband funding gap under the following circumstances: (A) The broadband provider is a video service provider that, pursuant to section 1332.32 of the Revised Code, collects and remits video service provider fees to one or more legislative authorities in which an eligible project is located. (B) The arrangement is entered into by mutual consent with one or more of the legislative a...

...n scoring has been published on the web site as required under section 122.4019 of the Revised Code. (b) The department of development, for good cause shown, may grant the broadband provider an extension of not more than fourteen days in which to submit a challenge. (2) The challenging provider shall provide its complete challenge to the department, by electronic mail or such other means as may be established b...

...nstrating that all or part of a project under the application is ineligible for a grant. The challenge shall, at minimum, include the following information: (1) Sufficient evidence disputing the notarized letter of intent submitted with the application that the eligible project contains eligible addresses; (2) Sufficient evidence attesting to the challenging provider's existing or planned offering of tier two b...

...lished by the department of development under section 122.4019 of the Revised Code is not challenged pursuant to sections 122.4030 to 122.4035 of the Revised Code, the lack of a challenge does not do either of the following: (A) Create a presumption that residential addresses included in an application submitted in a subsequent submission period are eligible addresses under the Ohio residential broadband expansion...

... on the development services agency web site.

...ned to be proprietary or a trade secret under section 122.4023 of the Revised Code is redacted. (D) Any failure to respond to the notification or properly revise the application to the authority's satisfaction shall be considered a withdrawal of the application.

...n the development services agency's web site. The decision shall be considered final, and further challenges to the revised application are prohibited.

...y upholds a challenge to an application under sections 122.4030 to 122.4035 of the Revised Code and the challenging provider fails to provide tier two broadband service as described in the challenge, the challenging provider, after a reasonable opportunity to be heard, may be required to do either or both of the following, in addition to being subject to other remedies available under the law: (A) Pay to the develo...

...2.4036 of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. All amounts in the fund, including interest earned on those amounts, shall be used by the department of development exclusively for grants under sections 122.40 to 122.4077 of the Revised Code.

..., or other program requirements adopted under division (C) of section 122.4017 of the Revised Code shall be available with the application on the department's web site at least thirty days before the beginning of the application submission period.

...e factors and rubric. (C) Of a possible maximum score of three hundred points, the score for eligible projects for unserved and underserved areas shall be calculated as the sum of the following: (1) The point value determined by multiplying three hundred times the percentage of passes in unserved areas of the application; (2) One half of the point value determined by multiplying three hundred times the perce...

...rogram grant awards on the agency's web site.

...the course of construction of the eligible project as determined by the agency by rules adopted under section 122.4077 of the Revised Code. (C) The remaining portion shall be disbursed not later than sixty days after the broadband provider notifies the authority that it has completed construction of the project.

...ut prior to the final disbursement made under division (C) of section 122.4044 of the Revised Code to verify that tier two broadband service is being offered; (2) At any time during the reporting period required under division (B) of section 122.4070 of the Revised Code, after receiving a complaint concerning a residential address that is part of the eligible project. (B) To evaluate compliance with tier two br...

...the noncompliance. In accordance with rules adopted by the agency under section 122.4077 of the Revised Code, the agency shall give the provider an opportunity to explain or cure the noncompliance. (B) After reviewing the broadband provider's explanation or effort to cure the noncompliance, the following shall apply: (1) The agency may require the provider to refund an amount equal to all, or a portion of, the a...

...dband expansion grant program for eligible projects in the municipal corporations and townships of the county. A request made by a county shall identify, to the extent possible, the residential addresses in unserved or tier one areas of the county and provide a point of contact at the county and the municipal corporations and townships in which the addresses are located. The request may include any relevant informa...

...vailable for review on the agency's web site. The request shall remain available on the web site for a period not to exceed two years.

...for a program grant under the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program made in response to a request under section 122.4050 of the Revised Code shall fully comply with all of the program requirements. Nothing in sections 122.4050, 122.4051, and 122.4053 of the Revised Code shall be construed as providing relief from compliance with any program requirements.