085-4 Wyo. Code R. §§ 4-5 - Eligible Projects

An eligible project shall:

(a) Include the construction and deployment of broadband infrastructure projects. "Broadband Infrastructure Projects" are eligible for funding if the infrastructure is designed to deliver, upon project completion, service that reliably meets or exceeds symmetrical download and upload speeds of 100 Mbps. If it would be impracticable, because of geography, topography, or excessive cost, for a Broadband Infrastructure Project to be designed to deliver services at such a speed, the Project must be designed so that it reliably meets or exceeds 100 Mbps download speeds and between 20 Mbps and 100 Mbps upload speeds and be scalable to a minimum of 100 Mbps symmetrical for download and upload speeds. Broadband infrastructure investment will be installed, owned, and operated by an eligible applicant;

(b) Meet federal funding criteria, which is designed to address key areas of public health and safety by improving opportunities to telework, facilitate distance learning, and improve public safety;

(c) Be a project which does not overbuild existing adequate broadband service. The Council shall not consider Applications for projects in areas with reliable speeds of at least one hundred (100) Megabits per second (Mbps) download and twenty (20) Megabits per second (Mbps) upload, nor shall it consider projects for areas in which written agreements to develop services at or above this level prior to December 31, 2024, exist.

(d) Include Broadband Infrastructure and equipment costs meeting federal funding criteria such as:

(i) Middle-mile fiber-optic infrastructure, the primary purpose of which is to connect last-mile infrastructure and networks to network service providers; or

(ii) Last-mile fixed terrestrial infrastructure, the primary purpose of which is to provide broadband internet service to end users or end-user devices, including households, businesses, public safety entities and community facilities.

Notes

085-4 Wyo. Code R. §§ 4-5

Adopted, Eff. 11/16/2021. Amended, Eff. 11/2/2022.