§  54.1700   Terms and definitions.

   (a) Advanced telecommunications and information services. “Advanced
   telecommunications and information services” are services, as such term
   is used in section 254(h) of the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. 254(h).

   (b) Billed entity. A “billed entity” is the entity that remits payment
   to service providers for equipment and services rendered to eligible
   schools and libraries.

   (c) Connected devices. “Connected devices” are laptop computers or
   tablet computers that are capable of connecting to advanced
   telecommunications and information services. Connected devices do not
   include desktop computers or smartphones.

   (d) Consortium. A “consortium” is any local, statewide, regional, or
   interstate cooperative association of schools and/or libraries eligible
   for Emergency Connectivity Fund support that seeks funding for eligible
   services on behalf of some or all of its members. A consortium may also
   include health care providers eligible under subpart G of this part,
   and public sector (governmental) entities, including, but not limited
   to, state colleges and state universities, state educational
   broadcasters, counties, and municipalities, although such entities are
   not eligible for support.

   (e) COVID-19 emergency period. The “COVID-19 emergency period” has the
   meaning given the term in title VII, section 7402(d)(5), Public Law
   117-2 (the American Rescue Plan Act).

   (f) Educational purposes. For purposes of this subpart, activities that
   are integral, immediate, and proximate to the education of students in
   the case of a school, or integral, immediate, and proximate to the
   provision of library services to library patrons in the case of a
   library, qualify as “educational purposes.”

   (g) Elementary school. An “elementary school” means an elementary
   school as defined in 20 U.S.C. 7801, a non-profit institutional day or
   residential school, including a public elementary charter school, that
   provides elementary education, as determined under state law.

   (h) Library. A “library” includes:

   (1) A public library;

   (2) A public elementary school or secondary school library;

   (3) A Tribal library;

   (4) An academic library;

   (5) A research library, which for the purpose of this section means a
   library that:

   (i) Makes publicly available library services and materials suitable
   for scholarly research and not otherwise available to the public; and

   (ii) Is not an integral part of an institution of higher education; and

   (6) A private library, but only if the state in which such private
   library is located determines that the library should be considered a
   library for the purposes of this paragraph (h).

   (i) Library consortium. A “library consortium” is any local, statewide,
   regional, or interstate cooperative association of libraries that
   provides for the systematic and effective coordination of the resources
   of schools, public, academic, and special libraries and information
   centers, for improving services to the clientele of such libraries. For
   the purposes of this subpart, references to library will also refer to
   library consortium.

   (j) National school lunch program. The “national school lunch program”
   is a program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and
   state agencies that provides free or reduced-price lunches to
   economically-disadvantaged children. A child whose family income is
   between 130 percent and 185 percent of applicable family size income
   levels contained in the nonfarm poverty guidelines prescribed by the
   Office of Management and Budget is eligible for a reduced-price lunch.
   A child whose family income is 130 percent or less of applicable family
   size income levels contained in the nonfarm income poverty guidelines
   prescribed by the Office of Management and Budget is eligible for a
   free lunch.

   (k) Secondary school. A “secondary school” means a secondary school as
   defined in 20 U.S.C. 7801, a non-profit institutional day or
   residential school, including a public secondary charter school, that
   provides secondary education, as determined under state law except that
   the term does not include any education beyond grade 12.

   (l) Wi-Fi. “Wi-Fi” is a wireless networking protocol based on Institute
   of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standard 802.11.

   (m) Wi-Fi hotspot. A “Wi-Fi hotspot” is a device that is capable of
   receiving advanced telecommunications and information services, and
   sharing such services with another connected device through the use of
   Wi-Fi.