Oh, that news feed. I recently complained about USAC's reference to "your News feed" being useless, because there are so many different News feeds in EPC. Turns out I wasn't looking at the only News feed USAC was talking about. Oops.
See, I was only looking at the "News" link that appears on every page in the row of links (under the title of the page) that starts with "Summary." But in the recent notification of some missing FCDL emails, USAC actually told us where to find the News feed they're talking about: the feed you get when you click the "News" link in the upper left-hand corner of every EPC page, to the left of the "Tasks" link. Who knew that link was there? I did, probably, at some point, but forgot about it.
So what does this News feed get us? Let's see: RNLs, RALs, FCDLs, RFCDLs, notifications of certification and approval of 486s (no acronyms for those notifications? (and yes, I know that some consider RNL and FCDL to be initialisms, not acronyms, but I prefer the broader definition of "acronym")), BEAR notification letters (should that be BNL or BEARNL, or perhaps IDN from "Invoice Disbursement Notification"?), notification of Service Substitution receipt, notification of Form 500 receipt, notification of Appeal receipt, QDRs, SPIN Change request notification letters (SPINCRNLs), News Briefs, notification of changes in EPC (like changing the General Contact), and probably more.
All of the above you see only for your district, or in the case of consultants, districts to which you are currently attached as a consultant.
And, for some reason, all the RFPs that are added to existing 470s (not the RFPs that are uploaded while creating a Form 470) for all applicants, whether you have any association with them or not.
Naturally, it goes back to 2016, when EPC was born. Yes, I scrolled all the way down to check.
The best part about this News feed is that the Search tool works pretty well, so you don't have to scroll through all those documents.
What will I use this News feed for? Nothing. That's why I forgot it existed.