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FACTS ON NJ E-RATE FUNDING COMMITMENTS - YEAR TWO, WAVE NINE

Year Two Summary

Wave Nine Details

September 3, 1999

NATIONAL INFORMATION

  • More than 32,000 applications were received for the Universal Service Fund - Year 2.
  • This ninth wave notified agencies that submitted approximately 1,000 applications.
  • Total amount of Universal Service Funds committed nationally in the form of a discount on eligible services for this wave: approximately $81 million.

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION

  • Total amount of Universal Service Funds committed to New Jersey in the form of a discount on eligible services in this wave: $1,999,017.96. Total amount committed to New Jersey at this time: $13,580,182.49 which is 2.0% of national total thus far (approximately $664 million).
  • Total number of awards in NJ for wave nine: 35.
  • Number of agencies notified in this ninth wave: 21. (NJ comprised 2.1% of the total national funded applications for this wave.)
  • Many agencies filed more than one application for separate services in the following categories:

(Three Abbott districts received awards in this wave.)

Public School Districts: 14
Non-Public Schools: 6
Public Libraries: 1

TOP 10 AWARDS:

DISTRICT

TOWN

COUNTY

# OF AWARDS

AMOUNT*

DISCOUNT

Jersey City School District**

Jersey City

Hudson

1

$1,569,868.22

79

Orange Board of Education**

Orange

Essex

1

$142,219.92

86

Paterson School District**

Paterson

Passaic

1

$107,778.09

90

Weehawken Township School District

Weehawken

Hudson

2

$68,868.20

73

Mount Laurel Township School District

Mount Laurel

Burlington

11

$29,489.88

40

Cumberland Regional High School

Seabrook

Cumberland

1

$24,700.00

50

Secaucus School District

Secaucus

Hudson

2

$10,439.52

42

Guttenberg School District

Guttenberg

Hudson

1

$8,160.00

80

Libraries of Middlesex Automation Consortium

Avenel

Middlesex

1

$6,785.52

49

Lakehurst Elementary School

Lakehurst

Ocean

1

$5,918.40

60

*Amount = Funds committed in the form of a discount on eligible services (telecommunications and dedicated services, Internet access, and internal connections).

**Abbott districts.