(a) Annual filing requirement. Health care providers seeking support under the Telecommunications Program shall file new funding requests for each funding year.
(b) Long term contracts. Under the Telecommunications Program, if health care providers enter into long term contracts for eligible services, the Administrator shall only commit funds to cover the portion of such a long term contract scheduled to be delivered during the funding year for which universal service support is sought. [78 FR 13984, Mar. 1, 2013]