ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 11, Number 54
July 1, 2002

In This Issue: FCC Provides for CIPA Remedies Including Year 4

On Friday, June 28, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 
released an order (FCC 02-196) providing additional details about 
its adjustments to implementation of the Children's Internet 
Protection Act (CIPA) in view of the recent court decision 
declaring CIPA unconstitutional as applied to public libraries.  
The order also instructs the Schools and Libraries Division of 
USAC to take certain actions that will further clarify the E-rate 
situation for libraries.  The order does the following and becomes 
effective upon its publication in the Federal Register:

+  suspends enforcement of FCC rules requiring public and private 
libraries to filter Internet access;

+  directs the SLD to change Forms 486 and 479 to specify the 
types of certification that libraries will need to make under 
NICPA; 

+  directs the SLD to accept Form 486 from any library that, IN 
YEAR 4 (or 2001), did not file the form by the deadline or that 
chose to file the form without certifying to CIPA; 

+  directs the SLD to determine if there are consortia applicants 
that reduced their discount rates based on participants not filing 
Form 479 and provide them the same opportunity to request funding 
discounts at the original rate requested;

+  specifies that libraries applying only for telecommunications 
services and not Internet access or internal connections are 
exempt from NCIPA; and 

+  specifies that the rules have not changed for schools or school 
libraries.

Additional details will be posted on the SLD Web site 
(www.sl.universalservice.org) as they work with the FCC to 
implement this order.



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