---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 54.11"
title: "47"
number: "54.11"
heading: "Requirement to remove and replace."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/54.11"
---

# §54.11. Requirement to remove and replace.

- (a) Each Eligible Telecommunications Carrier receiving Universal Service Fund support must certify prior to receiving a funding commitment or support that it does not use covered communications equipment or services.
- (b) For the purposes of this section, covered communications equipment or services means any communications equipment or service that is on the Covered List maintained pursuant to [§ 1.50002](/cfr/47/1.50002.md) of this chapter, and:
  - (1) As defined in the Report and Order of the Commission in the matter of Protecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply Chain Through FCC Programs (FCC 19-121; WC Docket No. 18-89; adopted November 22, 2019 (in this section referred to as the 'Report and Order'); or
  - (2) as determined to be covered by both the process of the Report and Order and the Designation Orders of the Commission on June 30, 2020 (DA 20-690; PS Docket No. 19-351; adopted June 30, 2020) (DA 20-691; PS Docket No. 19-352; adopted June 30, 2020) (in this section collectively referred to as the 'Designation Orders').
- (c) The certification referenced in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section is required starting one year after the date the Commission releases a Public Notice announcing that applications are accepted for filing in the corresponding filing window of the Reimbursement Program per [§ 1.50004(b)](/cfr/47/1.50004.md?p=b) for the removal, replacement, and disposal of associated covered communications equipment and services.
- (d) Reimbursement Program recipients, as defined in [§ 1.50001(h)](/cfr/47/1.50001.md?p=h) of this chapter, are not subject to [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section until after the expiration of their corresponding removal, replacement, and disposal term per [§ 1.50004(h)](/cfr/47/1.50004.md?p=h) of this chapter for associated covered communications equipment and services.

## Notes

### Amendments

[86 FR 2946, Jan. 13, 2021, as amended at 86 FR 47022, Aug. 23, 2021]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 155, 201, 205, 214, 219, 220, 229, 254, 303(r), 403, 1004, 1302, 1601-1609, and 1752, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 62 FR 32948, June 17, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[86 FR 2946, Jan. 13, 2021, as amended at 86 FR 47022, Aug. 23, 2021]