$0.00-Funded BEARs (Form 472s) and What To Do
Message Posted November 11, 2009

~ 85 Affected entities listed below ~

Did you receive a BEAR (Form 472) Notification Letter and the amount of reimbursement approved was $0.00? If so, please read this message carefully. If you received your BEAR Letter and did not review it detail, please review it now to make sure it doesn't say $0.00-funded. Below is a list of everyone that appears to have been $0.00-funded (sometimes it's difficult to tell from the SLD's database so this may not be an exhaustive list).

The $0.00 approved amount does not mean that your E-rate funding has been denied. It just means that there was a simple clerical error made on your BEAR and you need to submit a corrected BEAR.

What should you do if you were $0.00-funded or forgot to file a BEAR? ... Follow these steps:
1) Because the deadline for filing Funding Year 11 (2008-2009) BEARs was October 28, 2009, you first must request an invoice deadline extension in order to submit or resubmit your BEAR. Simply fill-in the attached Invoice Deadline Extension Request (IDER) example and fax to the SLD. Within a few weeks you should receive an approval.

2) The next step is to determine what the error was on your BEAR. The BEAR letter should provide the reason for the $0.00 funding. If it doesn't, the most common denial reasons are: incorrect 471 or FRN numbers, customer billed date issues (listing 07/2009 instead of 07/2008) or math/discount errors.

If your BEAR letter doesn't provide the reason and you can't determine what it is yourself, call the SLD at 888-203-8100 and ask them to research it for you.

3) After your BEAR invoice deadline extension is approved (hopefully within a few weeks), you can resubmit your BEAR for approval. If you resubmit your BEAR before the invoice deadline extension has been approved, it will result in another rejection of the BEAR.

4) Correcting a BEAR: There's no way to correct an Online BEAR, so you'll need to start over. But if you filed a paper BEAR, you can simply correct the error on the original paper BEAR and resubmit.

If you have any questions about this message, please don't hesitate to email me at jtschell@comcast.net.

Affected Entities: (* means that invoice deadline extension is not needed)
Applicant Name FRN Service Provider Name
Academy of Notre Dame 1746439 ATT Mobility
Academy of Notre Dame 1746403 Verizon Internet Solutions
Achievement House Charter School * 1732706 Digital Schooling
Admiral Peary AVTS 1729421 Manhattan Telecomm. Corp
Allegheny Intermediate Unit 03 1682407 Verizon Wireless
Altoona AVTS 1751205 Choice One Communications
Altoona AVTS 1751168 Choice One Communications
Baden Memorial Library 1695817 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
Beaver Co Federated Lib System * 1928543 CTC Communications Corp.
Beaver County AVTS 1756891 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc.
Blair Christian Academy 1711289 XO Communication Services, Inc.
Camp Hill School District * 1926021 Verizon Wireless
Carlisle Area School District 1735160 Verizon Wireless
Chester-Upland School District 1761328 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc.
Christ The Divine Teacher Sch 1679151 NYNEX Long Distance Company
Colonial School District 1683728 NetCarrier Telecom, Inc.
Conestoga Valley School Dist 1660034 Lancaster Radio Paging, Inc.
Connellsville Area School Dist 1921502 Verizon Wireless
Craig Academy * 1748869 Verizon Internet Services Inc.
Darby Free Library 1648819 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc.
Downingtown Area School Dist 1741685 Verizon Wireless
Downingtown Area School Dist 1755730 XO Communication Services, Inc.
Forest Area School District 1715871 Dobson Cellular Systems, Inc.
Forest City Reg School Dist * 1708271 FreeFromit.com
Franklin Area School District 1650986 Time Warner Cable
Garnet Valley School District 1746538 Line Systems, Inc
Hawley Public Library 1729566 AT&T Corporation
Hopewell Area School District 1700426 Penn Telecom, Inc.
Intermediate Unit 20 1697879 Palmerton Telephone Company
Intermediate Unit 25 1640195 Level 3 Communications, LLC
Iroquois School District 1731908 Sprint Communications Co. L.P.
James V Brown Library 1759660 Comcast Business Communications
Joseph T Simpson Public Library 1691546 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc.
Knox Public Library 1753884 Radio Adventures Corp.
Lancaster County CTC 1688393 D&E Telephone Company
Lancaster County CTC 1747554 Comcast Business Communications
Lancaster County CTC 1747527 Comcast Business Communications
Lebanon County CTC 1715721 USA Mobility Wireless, Inc.
Lebanon County CTC 1715517 XO Communication Services, Inc.
Lebanon County CTC * 1715623 D&E Telephone Company
Lock Haven Catholic School 1737460 AT&T Corporation
Mckeesport Area School Dist 1661779 MetroCall, Inc.
Memorial Library of Radnor Twp 1716305 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc.
Minersville Area School Dist 1684150 Line Systems, Inc
Montoursville Area School Dist 1742673 Frontier Communications
Moon Area School District 1761937 AT&T Corporation
Moon Area School District 1762057 Nextel Communications
Moshannon Valley School Dist 1681059 Verizon Business Global LLC
Mt Pleasant Area Sch Dist 1713004 Armstrong Cable Services
Mt Pleasant Area Sch Dist 1712905 Armstrong Cable Services
Mt Pleasant Area Sch Dist 1712997 Armstrong Cable Services
Mt Pleasant Area Sch Dist 1724986 Verizon Wireless
Mt Pleasant Area Sch Dist 1712990 Armstrong Cable Services
Mt Pleasant Area Sch Dist 1712952 Armstrong Cable Services
Neshannock Twp School District 1671644 Penn Telecom, Inc.
North Allegheny School Dist 1650540 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc.
Northwestern School District * 1752786 TeacherWeb, Inc.
Oswayo Valley School District 1734673 ATT Mobility
Oswayo Valley School District 1734604 Frontier Communications
Penn Cambria School District 1671246 altoona area school district
Penn View Bible Institute 1681697 Opex Communications, Inc.
Pennridge School District 1724731 Hotwire Communications, LTD
Perseus House Charter School of Excel. 1762827 Cellco Partnership
Pocono Mountain School Dist * 1702438 Commonwealth Telecom Services
Quigley Catholic School * 1693539 FreeFromit.com, Inc.
Reading-Muhlenberg CTC 1751788 Line Systems, Inc
Sharon City School District 1751467 Time Warner Cable
Somerset County Federated Lib System 1689572 ATT Mobility
Somerset County Federated Lib System 1689733 NYNEX Long Distance Company
Somerset County Federated Lib System 1689350 Comcast Business Communications
Somerset County Federated Lib System 1689472 Cellco Partnership
Souderton Area School District 1672067 NetCarrier Telecom, Inc.
South Eastern School District 1709900 Line Systems, Inc
St Clair Elem Middle School 1737897 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc.
St Joseph Grade School 1696161 USA Choice Internet Services LLC
St Jude School 1719681 Computer Visionaries, Inc.
Timothy Academy South 1694671 Verizon North Inc.
Trinity Academy 1662666 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc.
Trinity Academy 1662677 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc.
Uniontown Public Library 1731464 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc.
Venango County AVTS School 1728289 AT&T Corporation
Venango County AVTS School 1728314 Verizon North Inc.
Warren County School District 1750162 AT&T
Yough School District * 1735658 ATT Mobility