1. Acceleration of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction (a) In general With respect to the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction (in this section referred to as the auction ) provided for in the Report and Order in the matter of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund and Connect America Fund adopted by the Commission on January 30, 2020 (FCC 20–5), the Commission shall modify the framework for the auction adopted in such Report and Order as follows: (1) The Commission shall accept long-form applications before the auction, during the period that begins not earlier than the date that is 30 days after the date on which the Commission begins accepting short-form applications and ends on September 15, 2020, from such applicants as are willing to commit to the schedule described in paragraph (3)(C) for deployment of networks capable of providing gigabit broadband internet access service. (2) If the long-form applications accepted pursuant to paragraph (1) indicate that, for any census block or census block group that, as of July 31, 2020, was identified on the List of Eligible Areas maintained by the Commission, there is only 1 qualified applicant willing to commit to provide gigabit broadband internet access service pursuant to the schedule described in paragraph (3)(C), the Commission shall, not later than the earlier of October 15, 2020, or 14 days before the start of the auction— (A) award to such applicant Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I support for such census block or census block group, at 100 percent of the reserve price (in this paragraph referred to as the award ); (B) remove such census block or census block group from the auction