How will challenges to unserved vs. underserved/served areas be reviewed?
Any party that challenges a CBG as being served or (for applications for unserved areas) underserved will have to provide documentation that the CBG is in fact already served (e.g., a copy of a customer bill). Commission Staff will then investigate this information, along with the applicant’s documentation supporting its assertion that the CBG is unserved. Once Staff makes a final determination, we will notify the applicant of our determination. If the challenged CBG is determined to be “served” or (for applications for unserved areas) underserved, the application can not be considered and will be rejected. The applicant, however, has the option to submit a modified application in subsequent rounds of proposals, either for the same area (provided that the parts of the CBG that are not “unserved” are omitted from project cost and budget considerations) or for only those parts of the CBG that are unserved.
