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FACTS ON NJ E-RATE FUNDING COMMITMENTS - 5

January 21, 1999

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NATIONAL INFORMATION

More than 30,000 applications received for the Universal Service Fund by the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD).
All applications will be notified in several waves by mid-February, 1999.
This fifth wave notified agencies that submitted 4,575 applications.
Total amount of Universal Service Funds committed in the form of a discount on eligible services for this wave: approximately $212 million.

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION

New Jersey's schools and libraries have applied for more than $74 million in E-Rate discounts. New Jersey's E-Rate applications would directly benefit 63% of its public school districts, 50% of its non-public schools, and 33% of its libraries throughout the state.
Total amount of Universal Service Funds committed to New Jersey in the form of a discount on eligible services in the fifth wave: $9,942,304.76. Total amount committed to New Jersey to-date: $15,737,996.21 (3.7% of national total to-date = $429 million.)
Total number of awards in NJ: 317. (NJ comprised 2.4% of the national awards.)
Number of agencies notified in the fifth wave is: 111. Many agencies filed more than one application for separate services in the following categories:

Non-Public Schools: 19 Public Libraries: 34

Public School Districts: 58 (eight Abbott districts received awards in this wave)

Top 10 Awards:

DISTRICT	TOWN	COUNTY	DISCOUNT	AMOUNT*	NUMBER
Passaic City School District**	Passaic	Passaic	86	$2,245,699.08	6
Paterson School District**	Paterson	Passaic	90	$2,193,842.10	26
East Orange School District**	East Orange	Essex	83	$1,153,537.00	3
Union City School District**	Union City	Hudson	90	$747,522.52	17
Long Branch School District**	Long Branch	Monmouth	82	$569,033.04	18
Weehawken Township School District	Weehawken	Hudson	80	$441,327.20	3
Trenton City School District**	Trenton	Mercer	84	$297,660.72	2
Orange Board of Education**	Orange	Essex	87	$271,181.84	5
Red Bank School District	Red Bank	Monmouth	80	$174,374.85	5
Hudson County School of Technology	North Bergen	Hudson	69	$160,381.53	3

*Amount = Funds committed in the form of a discount on eligible services (telecommunications and dedicated services, Internet access, and internal connections).

**Abbott districts.