(a) At the same time as the RFA announcement, the Arkansas Department of Commerce Broadband Office will request that ISPs operating in Arkansas submit maps of the areas in which they either:

1. (1) Provide broadband coverage (25/3, low latency, no data usage caps or throttling below one hundred fifty gigabytes (150 GB) per month, as stated in 15 CAR § 189-102); or
2. (2) Have made commitments to governmental agencies like the United States Department of Agriculture, the Federal Communications Commission, or the broadband office (in the event of subsequent rounds of ARC grant funding) to establish broadband coverage in return for financial support.

(c)

1. (1) For ISPs which do not submit broadband coverage maps, the broadband office will use data from the most recent release of the FCC Form 477 data to map their coverage.
2. (2) ISPs are not required to submit broadband coverage maps, and are encouraged not to do so if the most recent release of FCC Form 477 data to the public adequately describes their current broadband coverage.

3. (3) But ISPs that have expanded their broadband coverage footprint too recently for the expansion to be captured in public FCC Form 477 data are encouraged to submit coverage maps both in:

   1. (A) The public interest to prevent subsidies being targeted to areas of lesser need; and
   2. (B) Their own private interest to avoid a risk of facing a publicly subsidized competitor.

(d)

1. (1) After ISPs submit maps of current broadband coverage and government-backed commitments to broadband deployment, the broadband office will combine this information with FCC Form 477 data to create a map of current and scheduled broadband coverage in the state of Arkansas.
2. (2) This will assist mayors and county judges to ascertain whether the municipalities, unincorporated communities, and counties they represent will be eligible for ARC broadband grant funding.

(e)

1. (1) Municipalities, unincorporated communities, and counties are eligible for ARC broadband grant funding if:

   1. (A) No more than eighty percent (80%) of their populations are served;
   2. (B) They have at least five hundred (500) people; and
   3. (C) They have at least two hundred (200) people unserved.
2. (2) For more details on service area eligibility, see 15 CAR § 189-401(a).