Categories of eligible Project costs include but not limited to: • Make ready • Design and engineering • Permitting and regulatory compliance, including environmental, historical, and cultural reviews, building, and electrical • Network equipment, fiber/cabling, facilities and materials • Construction and installation • Customer Installation Costs, Including Long Drop, Non-Standard Customer Installation costs - Applicants may request funding to cover the cost of ”standard” and “non-standard” customer installations. A “non-standard” installation requires the customer to contribute to the upfront, non-recurring cost of the installation. The customer installation is defined as the broadband infrastructure service (aerial or conduit) running from a backbone or lateral fiber optic cable to an unserved or underserved BSL in a proposed PSA. • Incidental Overbuild costs – The Applicant must demonstrate that the proposed overbuild portions of the Project are the most cost-effective and necessary approach to reaching unserved or underserved BSLs. Incidental overbuild costs cannot exceed 15% of the total Project cost.
