Sec.  54.417   Recordkeeping requirements.

   (a) Eligible telecommunications carriers must maintain records to document
   compliance  with  all  Commission and state requirements governing the
   Lifeline/Link Up programs for the three full preceding calendar years and
   provide that documentation to the Commission or Administrator upon request.

   Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, eligible telecommunications carriers
   must maintain the documentation required in  Sec.  Sec. 54.409(d) and 54.410(b)(3) for
   as  long  as the consumer receives Lifeline service from that eligible
   telecommunications carrier

   (b) Non-eligible-telecommunications-carrier resellers that purchase Lifeline
   discounted wholesale services to offer discounted services to low-income
   consumers must maintain records to document compliance with all Commission
   requirements governing the Lifeline/Link Up programs for the three full
   preceding calendar years and provide that documentation to the Commission or
   Administrator  upon  request.  To  the extent such a reseller provides
   discounted services to low-income consumers, it constitutes the eligible
   telecommunications carrier referenced in  Sec.  Sec. 54.405(c), 54.405(d), 54.409(d),
   54.410, and 54.416.

   [ 69 FR 34601 , June 22, 2004, as amended at  72 FR 54218 , Sept. 24, 2007]