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...py of the decision by certified mail or electronic mail. The authority shall update the status of the application on the development services agency web site.

...dd any new residential addresses to the eligible project. (C) The broadband provider shall provide a copy of the revised application to the authority by electronic mail or by uploading it to the department of development's designated web site for applications. The department shall publish the revised application on the department's public web site and provide the application to the challenging provider by electron...

...allenging provider by certified mail or electronic mail and shall update the status of the application on the development services agency's web site. The decision shall be considered final, and further challenges to the revised application are prohibited.

...able under the law: (A) Pay to the development services agency the amount of the original broadband funding gap described in section 122.4020 of the Revised Code for the application that was challenged; (B) Comply with the requirements of any other penalties prescribed by agency rule and imposed after consultation with the authority.

...ribution received by the director of development for the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program and any money collected under section 122.4036 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 developme...

...The department of development, in consultation with the broadband expansion program authority, shall establish a scoring system to evaluate and select applications for program grants. The scoring system shall be available on the department's web site at least thirty days before the beginning of the application submission period set by the department by rule. A description of any differences in application, scoring sy...

... 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 percentage of passes in underserved areas of the application....

...cations sent to the authority by the development services agency. Awards shall be granted after the authority scores applications based on the scoring system under sections 122.4040 and 122.4041 of the Revised Code. (B) In awarding program grants, the authority shall consider all regulatory obligations under applicable law. The authority may not consider any of the following: (1) Proposed project conditions that ...

...on 122.4043 of the Revised Code, the development services agency shall disburse the program grant as follows: (A) A portion of the program grant, not to exceed thirty per cent, shall be disbursed before construction of the project begins. (B) A portion of the program grant, not to exceed sixty per cent, shall be disbursed through periodic payments over the course of construction of the eligible project as determi...

...(A) The department of development may, through an independent third party, conduct speed verification tests of an eligible project that receives a program grant. Such tests shall occur as follows: (1) After the construction is complete, but 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 d...

...(A) If the development services agency determines that a broadband provider that has been awarded a program grant under the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program has not complied with the requirements of the program, the agency shall notify the provider of 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 op...

...county commissioners may request the development services agency to solicit applications from broadband providers for program grants under the Ohio residential broadband 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 pr...

...on 122.4050 of the Revised Code, the development services agency shall solicit, on behalf of the county, applications for program grants for eligible projects under the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program. Not later than seven days after receipt of the request, the agency shall make the request, and any accompanying information submitted with the request, available for review on the agency's web site. ...

...d Code shall be construed as providing relief from compliance with any program requirements.

...The development services agency shall not be responsible for any failure by a broadband provider to respond to a request made by the agency pursuant to section 122.4051 of the Revised Code or to submit an application for a program grant under the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program.

...gram authority awards a program grant under section 122.4043 of the Revised Code. (B) After receiving a program grant award, the broadband provider shall construct and install last mile broadband infrastructure to the eligible project.

...ng legislative authorities in which the eligible project is located shall assume all financial responsibility for all of the eligible project costs incurred by the broadband provider prior to completion of the project or the award of a program grant.

...Code entitles the state of Ohio, the development services agency, the broadband expansion program authority, or any other governmental entity to any ownership or other rights to broadband infrastructure constructed by a broadband provider pursuant to a program grant awarded to an eligible project. (B) Nothing in sections 122.40 to 122.4077 of the Revised Code prevents an assignment, sale, change in ownership, or ot...

... a program grant shall submit to the development services agency an annual progress report on the status of the deployment of the broadband network described in the eligible project for which the program grant award was made. (B) The broadband provider shall submit an operational report with the agency not later than sixty days after the completion of the project and annually thereafter for a period of four years.

...ormat specified by the department of development and shall be publicly available on the department's web site. (B) In each report, the broadband provider shall include an account of how program grant funds have been used and the project's progress toward fulfilling the objectives for which the program grant was awarded. The reports, at a minimum, shall include the following: (1) The number of residential addres...

...The development services agency may set a due date for the reports required under section 122.4070 of the Revised Code and, for good cause shown, may grant extensions of the report due dates.

...ained on a confidential basis by the development services agency and shall not be published on the agency's web site until the agency determines what information or documents are not confidential pursuant to section 122.4023 of the Revised Code.

...roadband infrastructure constructed for eligible projects; (4) The number of residential addresses receiving, for that year, tier two broadband service for the first time under the program; (5) Findings and recommendations that have been agreed to by a majority of the authority members. (B) The report shall be published on the department of development's web site and shall be included as part of the departme...

...(A) The development services agency shall adopt rules for the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program. The rules shall establish an application form and application procedures for the program and procedures for periodic program grant disbursements. (B) The rules may include the following: (1) Requirements for a program application in addition to the requirements described in section 122.4020 of the Rev...

...The director of development is invested with the powers and duties provided in Chapter 122. of the Revised Code, in order to promote the welfare of the people of the state, to stabilize the economy, to provide employment, to assist in the development within the state of industrial, commercial, distribution, and research activities required for the people of the state, and for their gainful employment, or otherwise to...