Sec. 8.
(1) As part of an application under this act, an applicant may request that the department specifically delineate an area within a census block as being an unserved area. To tentatively establish an unserved area within a census block, an applicant must attest to all of the following:
(a) The delineated area within the census block is unserved and does not have access to broadband service.
(b) To the best of the applicant's knowledge, no other internet service provider has plans to provide broadband service within the delineated area within 3 years after the date of the application.
(c) The delineated area is not within a census block that has been selected to receive, provisionally or otherwise, funding to support the expansion of broadband networks from the Federal Communications Commission or the United States Department of Agriculture.
(2) If a delineated area within a census block is tentatively determined by the department to be an unserved area, the recommended grant award for the application is still subject to a challenge by internet service providers under section 7(5) and (6).
History: 2020, Act 224, Imd. Eff. Oct. 16, 2020