Department of Public Safety D. LANCE DAVENPORT Commissioner GARY R. HERBERT Governor GREG BELL Lieutenant Governor March 24, 2010 Admiral James Arden Barnett, Jr. Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20554 (E911 Federal Communications Commission) Re: Initial Information Collection Mandated By the New and Emerging Technologies Improvement Act of 2008; PS Docket No. 09-14 Admiral Barnett: The following information is provided pursuant to your request. 1. The State of Utah has established a funding mechanism in State Code 69-2-5 Funding for 911 emergency telecommunications service. The code allows several funding mechanisms and the most popular method employed is that of imposing a surcharge on communication services as described below: (3) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (3)(b) and subject to the other provisions of this Subsection (3) a county, city, or town within which 911 emergency telecommunications service is provided may levy monthly an emergency services telecommunications charge on: (i) each local exchange service switched access line within the boundaries of the county, city, or town; (ii) each revenue producing radio communications access line with a billing address within the boundaries of the county, city, or town; and (iii) any other service, including voice over Internet protocol, provided to a user within the boundaries of the county, city, or town that allows the user to make calls to and receive calls from the public switched telecommunications network, including commercial mobile radio service networks. 2. The 911 surcharge is bifurcated into a $0.61 per line charge and a $0.08 per line charge. The surcharge is collected by the Utah State Tax Commission and the $0.61 per line charge is remitted to the local entity (city, county, or public agency supporting the local PSAP) and the $0.08 per line charge is remitted to the state. The amounts that can be collected are specified in State Code 69-2-5 and State Code 69-2- 5.6. The total amount collected for local PSAP authorities from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008 was $20,739,355. The total amount collected for the State of Utah from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009 was $2,724,374. 3. The city, county, or public agency sponsoring the PSAP is responsible for the expenditure of their portion of the 911 funds according to local and state laws and policies. With regards to 911 funds collected by the state, State Code 53- 10-603 creates a restricted account in the General Fund entitled the "Statewide Unified E- 911 Emergency Service Fund," or "fund.” State Code 23-10-601 creates the Utah 911 Committee that consists of 18 members made up of local, state, and industry representatives. This committee authorizes the use of the money in the fund pursuant to State Code 53-10-605, by grant, to local entity or state agency. 4. State Code 53-10-605 sets forth the criteria for the use of 911 funds. The purpose is to enhance the 911 emergency services and where needed, assist the counties, in cooperation with private industry, with the creation or integration of wireless systems and location technology in rural areas of the state. The state's Automated Geographic Reference Center in the Division of Integrated Technology of the Department of Technology Services receives an amount equal to 1 cent per month levied on telecommunications service under Section 69-2-5.6 to provide assistance to the various PSAPs to establish addressing standards and enhance and upgrade statewide digital mapping for the express use of supporting E911 in the various PSAPs. The 1 cent is taken from the 8 cents collected for the state. The State of Utah Tax Commission is authorized to retain up to 1.5% for the collection and distribution of 911 funds per State Code 69-2-5. 5. The 911 fund, local and state, are a restricted fund and are to be used for 911 and 911 related items. Radios, CAD systems, digital call log recorders are not funded from the 911 restricted fund. The funds roll over from year to year and any funds not spent during the year are available to be used in the subsequent year. 911 funds are used only for the support of 911 as provided by law. 6. The 911 funding mechanism in Utah has enabled local government to provide 911 Emergency Telephone Service throughout the state. The service is, for the most part, Enhanced 911 and, for the most part, Phase II compliant. State grants have enabled local PSAPs to upgrade and refresh their equipment. The most recent equipment purchases have IP capability and position the state to move forward towards NG 911. Please contact me with any questions and/or concerns. Sincerely, Bill Jensen Utah 911 Program Manager 801-647-8193 awjensen@utah.gov 4501 South 2700 West, Box 141775, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-1775•telephone main # (801) 965-4461 or (800) 222-0038 WV Code 3CC WEST VIRGINIA CODE §7-1-3cc. Authority of county commissions to establish enhanced emergency telephone systems, technical and operational standards for emergency communications centers and standards for education and training of emergency communications systems personnel; standards for alarm systems; fee upon consumers of telephone service for the systems and for roadway conversion systems; authority to contract with the telephone companies for billing of fee. (a) In addition to possessing the authority to establish an emergency telephone system pursuant to section four, article six, chapter twenty-four of this code, a county commission or the county commissions of two or more counties may, instead, establish an enhanced emergency telephone system or convert an existing system to an enhanced emergency system. The establishment of such a system shall be subject to the provisions of article six of said chapter. The county commission may adopt rules after receiving recommendations from the West Virginia Enhanced 911 Council concerning the operation of all county emergency communications centers or emergency telephone systems centers in the state, including, but not limited to, recommendations for: (1) Minimum standards for emergency telephone systems and emergency communications centers; (2) Minimum standards for equipment used in any center receiving telephone calls of an emergency nature and dispatching emergency service providers in response to that call and which receives 911 moneys or has basic 911 service funded through its county commission; and (3) Minimum standards for education and training of all personnel in emergency communications centers. (b) A county commission may impose a fee upon consumers of local exchange service within that county for an enhanced emergency telephone system and associated electronic equipment and for the conversion of all rural routes to city-type addressing as provided in section three of this article. The fee revenues may only be used solely and directly for the capital, installation, administration, operation and maintenance costs of the enhanced emergency telephone system and of the conversion to city-type addressing and including the reasonable costs associated with establishing, equipping, furnishing, operating or maintaining a county answering point. Effective on the first day of July, two thousand six, all county enhanced emergency telephone system fees that are in effect as of the first day of July, two thousand six, and as such may later be modified by action of a county commission, shall be imposed upon in-state subscribers to voice over internet protocol (VoIP) service, as VoIP service is defined by the Federal Communications Commission of the United States. A nonbusiness VoIP service subscriber shall be considered in-state if the primary residence of the subscriber is located within West Virginia. A business subscriber shall be considered in-state if the site at which the service is primarily used is located within West Virginia. The Public Service Commission may, as it deems appropriate and in accordance with the requirements of due process, issue and enforce orders, as well as adopt and enforce rules, dealing with matters concerning the imposition of county enhanced emergency telephone system fees upon VoIP service subscribers. (c) A county commission may contract with the telephone company or companies providing local exchange service within the county for the telephone company or companies to act as the billing agent or agents of the county commission for the billing of the fee imposed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. The cost for the billing agent services may be included as a recurring maintenance cost of the enhanced emergency telephone system. Where a county commission has contracted with a telephone company to act as its billing agent for enhanced emergency telephone system fees, all competing local exchange telephone companies with customers in that county shall bill the enhanced emergency telephone system fees to its respective customers located in that county and shall remit the fee. It may deduct its respective costs for billing in the same manner as the acting billing agent for the enhanced emergency telephone system fee. (d) A county commission of any county with an emergency communications center or emergency telephone system may establish http://www.legis.state.wv.us/WVCODE/ChapterEntire.cfm?chap=07&art=1§ion=3CC (1 of 2) [4/29/2010 12:30:43 PM] WV Code 3CC standards for alarm systems, including security, fire and medical alarms. (e) The books and records of all county answering points that benefit from the imposition of the local exchange service fees shall be subject to annual examination by the state auditor's office. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/WVCODE/ChapterEntire.cfm?chap=07&art=1§ion=3CC (2 of 2) [4/29/2010 12:30:43 PM] WVC 24 - 6 - 6 B §24-6-6b. Wireless enhanced 911 fee. (a) All CMRS providers as defined in section two of this article shall, on a monthly basis or otherwise for good cause and as directed by order of the Public Service Commission, collect from each of their in-state two-way service subscribers a wireless enhanced 911 fee. As used in this section "in-state two-way service subscriber" shall have the same meaning as that set forth in the rules of the Public Service Commission. No later than the first day of June, two thousand six, the Public Service Commission shall, after the receipt of comments and the consideration of evidence presented at a hearing, issue an updated order which directs the CMRS providers regarding all relevant details of wireless enhanced 911 fee collection, including the determination of who is considered an in-state two-way service subscriber and which shall specify how the CMRS providers shall deal with fee collection shortfalls caused by uncollectible accounts. The Public Service Commission shall solicit the views of the wireless telecommunications utilities prior to issuing the order. (b) The wireless enhanced 911 fee is three dollars per month for each valid retail commercial mobile radio service subscription, as that term is defined by the Public Service Commission in its order issued under subsection (a) of this section: Provided, That beginning on the first day of July, two thousand five, the wireless enhanced 911 fee shall include ten cents to be distributed to the West Virginia State Police to be used for equipment upgrades for improving and integrating their communication efforts with those of the enhanced 911 systems: Provided, however, That for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of July, two thousand five, and for every fiscal year thereafter, one million dollars of the wireless enhanced 911 fee shall be distributed by the Public Service Commission to subsidize the construction of towers. The moneys shall be deposited in a fund administered by the West Virginia Public Service Commission, entitled Enhanced 911 Wireless Tower Access Assistance Fund, and shall be expended in accordance with an enhanced 911 wireless tower access matching grant order adopted by the Public Service Commission. The commission order shall contain terms and conditions designed to provide financial assistance loans or grants to state agencies, political subdivisions of the state and wireless telephone carriers for the acquisition, equipping and construction of new wireless towers, which would provide enhanced 911 service coverage and which would not be available otherwise due to marginal financial viability of the applicable tower coverage area: Provided further, That the grants shall be allocated among potential sites based on application from county commissions demonstrating the need for enhanced 911 wireless coverage in specific areas of this state. Any tower constructed with assistance from the fund created by this subdivision shall be available for use by emergency services, fire departments and law-enforcement agencies communication equipment, so long as that use does not interfere with the carrier's wireless signal: And provided further, That the Public Service Commission shall promulgate rules in accordance with article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code to effectuate the provisions of this subsection. The Public Service Commission is specifically authorized to promulgate emergency rules: And provided http://www.legis.state.wv.us/WVCODE/24/co...24%20%20-%20%206%20%20-%20%20%206%20B.htm (1 of 4) [12/9/2009 11:41:08 PM] WVC 24 - 6 - 6 B further, That for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of July, two thousand six, and for every fiscal year thereafter, five percent of the wireless enhanced 911 fee money received by the Public Service Commission shall be deposited in a special fund established by the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to be used solely for the construction, maintenance and upgrades of the West Virginia Interoperable Radio Project and any other costs associated with establishing and maintaining the infrastructure of the system. Any funds remaining in this fund at the end of the fiscal year shall automatically be reappropriated for the following year. (c) Beginning in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, and every two years thereafter, the Public Service Commission shall conduct an audit of the wireless enhanced 911 fee and shall recalculate the fee so that it is the weighted average rounded to the nearest penny, as of the first day of March of the respecification year, of all of the enhanced 911 fees imposed by the counties which have adopted an enhanced 911 ordinance: Provided, That the wireless enhanced 911 fee may never be increased by more than twenty-five percent of its value at the beginning of the respecification year: Provided, however, That the fee may never be less than the amount set in subsection (b) of this section: Provided further, That beginning on the first day of July, two thousand five, the wireless enhanced 911 fee shall include ten cents to be distributed to the West Virginia State Police to be used for equipment upgrades for improving and integrating their communication efforts with those of the enhanced 911 systems: And provided further, That beginning on the first day of July, two thousand five, one million dollars of the wireless enhanced 911 fee shall be distributed by the Public Service Commission to subsidize the construction of wireless towers as specified in said subsection. (d) The CMRS providers shall, after retaining a three-percent billing fee, send the wireless enhanced 911 fee moneys collected, on a monthly basis, to the Public Service Commission. The Public Service Commission shall, on a quarterly and approximately evenly staggered basis, disburse the fee revenue in the following manner: (1) Each county that does not have a 911 ordinance in effect as of the original effective date of this section in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven or has enacted a 911 ordinance within the five years prior to the original effective date of this section in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven shall receive eight and one-half tenths of one percent of the fee revenues received by the Public Service Commission: Provided, That after the effective date of this section, in the year two thousand five, when two or more counties consolidate into one county to provide government services, the consolidated county shall receive one percent of the fee revenues received by the Public Service Commission for itself and for each county merged into the consolidated county. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/WVCODE/24/co...24%20%20-%20%206%20%20-%20%20%206%20B.htm (2 of 4) [12/9/2009 11:41:08 PM] WVC 24 - 6 - 6 B Each county shall receive eight and one-half tenths of one percent of the remainder of the fee revenues received by the Public Service Commission: Provided, however, That after the effective date of this section, in the year two thousand five, when two or more counties consolidate into one county to provide government services, the consolidated county shall receive one percent of the fee revenues received by the Public Service Commission for itself and for each county merged into the consolidated county. Then, from any moneys remaining, each county shall receive a pro rata portion of that remainder based on that county's population as determined in the most recent decennial census as a percentage of the state total population. The Public Service Commission shall recalculate the county disbursement percentages on a yearly basis, with the changes effective on the first day of July, and using data as of the preceding first day of March. The public utilities which normally provide local exchange telecommunications service by means of lines, wires, cables, optical fibers or by other means extended to subscriber premises shall supply the data to the Public Service Commission on a county specific basis no later than the first day of June of each year; (2) Counties which have an enhanced 911 ordinance in effect shall receive their share of the wireless enhanced 911 fee revenue for use in the same manner as the enhanced 911 fee revenues received by those counties pursuant to their enhanced 911 ordinances; (3) The Public Service Commission shall deposit the wireless enhanced 911 fee revenue for each county which does not have an enhanced 911 ordinance in effect into an escrow account which it has established for that county. Any county with an escrow account may, immediately upon adopting an enhanced 911 ordinance, receive the moneys which have accumulated in the escrow account for use as specified in subdivision (2) of this subsection: Provided, That a county that adopts a 911 ordinance after the original effective date of this section in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven or has adopted a 911 ordinance within five years of the original effective date of this section in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven shall continue to receive one percent of the total 911 fee revenue for a period of five years following the adoption of the ordinance. Thereafter, each county shall receive that county's eight and one-half tenths of one percent of the remaining fee revenue, plus that county's additional pro rata portion of the fee revenues then remaining, based on that county's population as determined in the most recent decennial census as a percentage of the state total population: Provided, however, That every five years from the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, all fee revenue residing in escrow accounts shall be disbursed on the pro rata basis specified in subdivision (1) of this subsection, except that data for counties without enhanced 911 ordinances in effect shall be omitted from the calculation and all escrow accounts shall begin again with a zero balance. (e) CMRS providers have the same rights and responsibilities as other telephone service suppliers in dealing with the failure by a subscriber of a CMRS provider to timely pay the wireless enhanced 911 fee. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/WVCODE/24/co...24%20%20-%20%206%20%20-%20%20%206%20B.htm (3 of 4) [12/9/2009 11:41:08 PM] WVC 24 - 6 - 6 B (f) Notwithstanding the provisions of section one-a of this article, for the purposes of this section, the term "county" means one of the counties provided in section one, article one, chapter one of this code. (g) From any funds distributed to a county pursuant to this section, a total of three percent shall be set aside in a special fund to be used exclusively for the purchase of equipment that will provide information regarding the x and y coordinates of persons who call an emergency telephone system through a commercial mobile radio service: Provided, That upon purchase of the necessary equipment, the special fund shall be dissolved and any surplus shall be used for general operation of the emergency telephone system as may otherwise be provided by law. (h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this code, beginning the first day of July, two thousand eight, prepaid wireless calling service is no longer subject to the wireless enhanced 911 fee. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/WVCODE/24/co...24%20%20-%20%206%20%20-%20%20%206%20B.htm (4 of 4) [12/9/2009 11:41:08 PM] Page | 1 Public Service Commission of Wisconsin Eric Callisto, Chairperson 610 North Whitney Way Mark Meyer, Commissioner P.O. Box 7854 Lauren Azar, Commissioner Madison, WI 53707-7854 March 19, 2010 James Arden Barnett, Jr. Rear Admiral (Ret.) Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Federal Communications Commission 445 12 th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: PS Docket No. 09-14 Initial Information Collection Mandated By the New and Emerging Technologies Improvement Act of 2008 Dear Admiral Barnett: Governor Doyle has requested that I provide the following response to your request for information dated February 5, 2010. Wisconsin has adopted two dissimilar programs for funding wireline and wireless E911 service. For this reason, a statement regarding each program is included for each question. 1. A statement as to whether or not the State or other entity as defined by Section 6(f)(1) of the NET 911 Act has established a funding mechanism designated for or imposed for the purposes of 911 or E911 support or implementation (including a citation to the legal authority for such mechanism). Wireline E911 Wisconsin has adopted by statute a funding mechanism to reimburse local telecommunications exchange carriers for just the telecommunications network costs incurred to implement and operate an enhanced 911 system. The 911 statute permits local carriers to collect a surcharge through the monthly telephone bill to recover the 911-related network expenses. No portion of the wireline 911 surcharge is remitted to any local government or state agency. County and municipal governments that operate a wireline public safety answering point fund all equipment, training and salary expenses of that PSAP through the county or municipal budget. : The authorization for that surcharge is a contract between the county government and the participating telephone companies within the county. See Wis. Stat. § 256.35(3). Page | 2 Wireless E911 Wisconsin has adopted by statute a funding mechanism to reimburse wireless providers and county governments for expenses incurred during a specified reimbursement period (September 3, 2003 to November 30, 2008) to implement and operate an enhanced wireless 911 emergency service system. The statutory authority for the wireless 911 Fund may be found at Wis. Stat. § 256.35(3m). The wireless 911 Fund program was limited in scope and differs from the wireline scheme described above in several key respects: : • The 911 Fund collected a surcharge from wireless service subscribers with a Wisconsin billing address during the period December 1, 2005 to June 30, 2008. • The wireless providers remitted the surcharge collection to a state agency, the Public Service Commission. • The Public Service Commission reviewed and awarded grants to eligible applicants to reimburse the applicants for their reasonable wireless 911 costs. The wireless program reimburses certain categories of county and municipal 911 expense as well as the related telecommunications network expenses. • The wireless 911 Fund disbursed grant payments from June 2006 to March 2009. The total amount disbursed to grant applicants was $62,019,350.72. 2. The amount of the fees or charges imposed for the implementation and support of 911 and E911 services, and the total amount collected pursuant to the assessed fees or charges, for the annual period ending December 31, 2009. Wireline E911 The local exchange carriers providing 911 service in a given county in Wisconsin enter into a service agreement, pursuant to Wis. Stat. §§ 256.35(a)2 and 256.35(b). One schedule in the service agreement identifies the network cost to be recovered. The 911 surcharge is set to recover the costs listed in that schedule. The only difference between this 911 surcharge and any other local telephone rate element is that the participating carriers’ cost of providing 911 service in a given county is pooled, and a common surcharge rate is billed to each wireline access line in the county regardless of the interconnecting local carrier. The amount of the surcharge varies from one county to the next, based upon the cost of the 911 network and the number of billable access lines in the county. : Wireless E911 The wireless E911 surcharge was discontinued on July 1, 2008. No charges were collected from wireless subscribers during calendar year 2009, although the wireless 911 fund did earn some interest on the fund balance during 2009. : Page | 3 3. A statement describing how the funds collected are made available to localities, and whether your state has established written criteria regarding the allowable uses of the collected funds; including the legal citation to such criteria. Wireline E911 No portion of the receipts from the wireline 911 surcharge is shared with the state or local governments. The surcharge for wireline E911 service is limited to the recovery of telecommunications network expenses, and is retained by the carriers participating in the 911 contract. : Wireless E911 The funds collected were made available to wireless providers and county governments in the form of a grant award. Under Wis. Stat. §§ 256.35(3m)(b) and (c), sixty eight counties and eleven wireless providers applied for grants from the Fund. Overall, the Commission approved grant awards totaling $87,514,022.84. : Generally, grant awards from the 911 Fund were limited to reimbursement for costs that an applicant had incurred, or planned to incur, during the reimbursement period to implement and operate a wireless E911 network. Specific criteria used to evaluate grant applications may be found at Wis. Stat. §§ 256.35(3m)(b)1., (c)1., and (d)3., and at Wis. Admin. Code §§ PSC 173.06 and 173.07. 4. A statement identifying an entity in your State that has the authority to approve the expenditure of funds collected for 911 or E911 purposes, and a description of any oversight procedures established to determine that collected funds have been made available or used for the purposes designated by the funding mechanism, or otherwise used to implement or support 911 or E911. Wireline E911 The wireline 911 surcharge recovers the cost of providing the telecommunications network supporting the E911 service in a given county. The surcharge is authorized by a contract or service agreement that the county enters into with the participating local exchange carriers. This contract specifies in detail the network design for the county 911 service, sets the amount of the 911 surcharge, and also sets forth the obligations of the parties to operate, maintain and repair the 911 telecommunications network. Wis. Stat. § 256.35(3)(b)3. The requirement for a county- specific contract gives a county a measure of oversight over the design and operation of the 911 network in the county. : The 911 statute also requires that the local exchange carriers submit a 911 contract, or a subsequent amendment to a 911 contract, to the Public Service Commission for review. The Commission may disapprove the contract or contract amendment if it finds the contract is not compensatory, is excessive or is not in the public interest. Wis. Stat. § 256.35(3)(i). Page | 4 Wireless E911 The Public Service Commission was designated by statute to administer the Wireless E911 grant program. The Commission evaluated and approved grant awards to reimburse counties and wireless providers for their reasonable expenses to implement and operate a wireless E911 system. The Commission then disbursed grant funds to the grant applicants upon proof that the applicants had actually purchased the equipment and services identified in their respective grant awards. Generally, copies of invoices, check vouchers and purchase orders were accepted as documentation of a purchase. A statement of staff hours on county letterhead was accepted for services rendered by county staff. : Wisconsin also requires an annual audit of the financial records of county programs receiving state funds. The Wireless 911 Fund program was included in the list of state programs subject to this audit during the years in which disbursements to counties were made. 5. A statement whether all the funds collected for 911 or E911 purposes have been made available or used for the purposes designated by the funding mechanism, or otherwise used for the implementation or support of 911 or E911. Wireline E911 All the funds collected through the wireline 911 surcharge have been used for the purpose of establishing and operating a telecommunications network dedicated to the E911 service. No portion of this surcharge has been made available to any local government or state agency. County and municipal governments operating a wireline public safety answering point have funded all equipment, training and salary expense of that PSAP through the county or municipal budget. See Wis. Stat. §§ 256.35(3)(a)2. and 256.35(3)(b). : Wireless E911 All the funds collected for wireless E911 purposes have been used for the purposes specified in the 911 statute. However, the 911 Fund did collect money in excess of the actual requests for funds submitted by the 911 grant applicants. The reason for this surplus is that not all grant applicants filed documented requests for the full amount of their grant awards. There were several reasons for this: : • Some wireless providers overestimated their implementation costs. • Two wireless providers generated some cost savings by shifting their contract for data services to a different third party provider. • There were three mergers and/or acquisitions during the course of the wireless 911 program, and in two cases the acquiring companies decided not to pursue reimbursement of the former company’s 911 expenses. • During this program, Verizon Wireless decided to not to pursue collection of its Phase II 911 expenses in any of the states it operated in. Page | 5 • Many counties underestimated the amount of time needed to order and install the wireless E911 service, and therefore overestimated the amount of recurring telephone expense they would incur during the reimbursement period. • Several counties scaled back purchases of equipment and services for which the Commission had agreed to pay a portion (25-50 percent) of the total cost from the 911 Fund. This would include orthophotography and electronic mapping projects. In July 2008, the Commission recognized that the wireless 911 program would end with a substantial surplus in the Fund. The Commission extended to each grant applicant the opportunity to supplement its grant application to shift the approved grant funds to alternative uses. The proposed alternative uses had to have been incurred during the reimbursement period as well as meet the same eligibility criteria used to evaluate the original grant applications. In total, 54 of the 68 county grant applicants used this opportunity to identify eligible 911-related expenses. Over the course of the program, the Commission actually disbursed 91.57 percent ($31,873,646 of $34,808,239) of the total grant award approved for county grant applicants as reimbursement for 911-related expenses. The Commission disbursed 57.2 percent ($30,145,704 of $52,705,783) of the total grant award approved for wireless service providers. In sum, the Commission disbursed 70.87 percent ($62,019,350) of the total approved grant award for all applicants, which was 100 percent of the eligible 911-related expenses reported to the Commission in the applicants’ requests for reimbursement. On June 30, 2009, the wireless E911 Fund was closed, and the balance in the fund transferred to the state’s general purpose revenue account for further distribution pursuant to the state’s biennial budget, Wis. Act 28 (2009). 6. A statement identifying what amount of funds collected for 911 or E911 purposes were made available or used for any purposes other than the ones designated by the funding mechanism or used for purposes otherwise unrelated to 911 or E911 implementation or support, including a statement identifying the unrelated purposes for which the funds collected for 911 or E911 purposes were made available or used. Wireline E911 No portion of the wireline 911 surcharge has been made available to any local government or state agency, either for 911-related purposes or for any other purpose. : Wireless E911 As discussed above, the 911 Fund did collect approximately $25,000,000 in excess of the actual requests for funds submitted by the 911 grant applicants. A small portion of that collection was applied to the salary expense the Commission incurred to administer the program. The funds collected in excess of the wireless E911 program obligations were transferred to the state’s general purpose revenue account on June 30, 2009. : Page | 6 7. Any other comments you may wish to provide regarding the applicable funding mechanism for 911 and E911. Wireline E911 The wireline E911 program has accomplished its principal objective: 70 of 72 counties in Wisconsin provide E911 access to its residents. The two remaining counties, Iron and Menominee Counties, elected to employ a basic 911 service because of the cost of the terminal equipment and associated salary and facilities expense. : Wireless E911 The wireless E911 program has accomplished its principal objective as well: 69 of 72 counties in Wisconsin provide Phase II wireless E911 access to its residents. The three remaining counties (Iron, Menominee, and Taylor Counties) employ a basic wireless 911 service both because of the cost of the equipment and facilities and also because, in the view of the counties, there is too little wireless service coverage within those counties to justify the expense. : If you have any additional questions regarding this matter, please contact Dennis Klaila of the Public Service Commission staff at (608) 267-9780 or dennis.klaila@wisconsin.gov. Sincerely, Gary A. Evenson Gary A. 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