The Vermont Department of Public Service (DPS) asked...

The Vermont Department of Public Service (DPS) asked the FCC Wednesday to waive the Aug. 10, 2013, deadline that the Wireline Bureau had imposed for the department to file a written description of the process the state’s Department for Children and Families (DCF) would use to provide eligible telecommunications carriers electronic notice that a potential Lifeline subscriber was accepted or rejected due to duplicative support within five days of an application’s receipt (http://bit.ly/1sCV9Si). The Wireline Bureau had imposed the deadline in a February 2013 order conditionally granting the Department of Public Service’s certification to drop out of the National Lifeline Accountability Database (http://bit.ly/1ka7fNL). DCF electronically notifies ETCs if a subscriber has been accepted or rejected within five days of receiving the application, meeting the requirement by Aug. 1, 2013, DPS said.