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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2805 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and |
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| 6 | 6 | | Information to develop a National Strategy to Close the Digital Divide, |
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| 7 | 7 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | APRIL9, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. W |
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| 11 | 11 | | ALBERG(for himself and Mr. PETERS) introduced the following bill; |
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| 12 | 12 | | which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Commu- |
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| 15 | 15 | | nications and Information to develop a National Strategy |
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| 16 | 16 | | to Close the Digital Divide, and for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Proper Leadership to 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Align Networks for Broadband Act’’ or the ‘‘PLAN for 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Broadband Act’’. 6 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. NATIONAL STRATEGY TO CLOSE THE DIGITAL DI-1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | VIDE. 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (a) I |
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| 29 | 29 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary, 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | in consultation with the heads of the covered agencies, 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | shall develop and submit to the appropriate committees 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | of Congress a National Strategy to Close the Digital Di-7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | vide to— 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (1) support better management of Federal 9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | broadband programs to deliver on the goal of pro-10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | viding high-speed, affordable broadband internet ac-11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | cess service to all individuals in the United States; 12 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (2) synchronize interagency coordination among 13 |
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| 40 | 40 | | covered agencies for Federal broadband programs; 14 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (3) synchronize interagency coordination re-15 |
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| 42 | 42 | | garding the process for approving the grant of an 16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | easement, right of way, or lease to, in, over, or on 17 |
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| 44 | 44 | | a building or any other property owned by the Fed-18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | eral Government for the right to install, construct, 19 |
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| 46 | 46 | | modify, or maintain infrastructure with respect to 20 |
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| 47 | 47 | | broadband internet access service; and 21 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (4) reduce barriers, lower costs, and ease ad-22 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ministrative burdens for State, local, and Tribal gov-23 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ernments to participate in Federal broadband pro-24 |
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| 51 | 51 | | grams. 25 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (b) R |
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| 53 | 53 | | EQUIREDCONTENTS.—The Strategy shall— 26 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (1) list all— 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (A) Federal broadband programs; and 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (B) programs that exist at the State and 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | local levels that are directly or indirectly in-4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | tended to increase the deployment of, access to, 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | the affordability of, or the adoption of 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | broadband internet access service; 7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (2) describe current, as of the date on which 8 |
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| 65 | 65 | | the Strategy is submitted, Federal efforts to coordi-9 |
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| 66 | 66 | | nate Federal broadband programs; 10 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (3) identify gaps and limitations, including 11 |
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| 68 | 68 | | laws, that hinder, or may hinder, coordination across 12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Federal broadband programs; 13 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (4) establish clear roles and responsibilities for 14 |
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| 71 | 71 | | the heads of the covered agencies, as well as clear 15 |
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| 72 | 72 | | goals, objectives, and performance measures, for— 16 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (A) the management of all Federal 17 |
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| 74 | 74 | | broadband programs; and 18 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (B) interagency coordination efforts with 19 |
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| 76 | 76 | | respect to Federal broadband programs; 20 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (5) address the cost of the Strategy, the sources 21 |
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| 78 | 78 | | and types of resources and investments needed to 22 |
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| 79 | 79 | | carry out the Strategy, and where those resources 23 |
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| 80 | 80 | | and investments should be targeted based on bal-24 |
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| 81 | 81 | | ancing risk reductions with costs; 25 |
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| 85 | 85 | | (6) address factors that increase the costs and 1 |
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| 86 | 86 | | administrative burdens for State, local, and Tribal 2 |
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| 87 | 87 | | governments with respect to participation in Federal 3 |
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| 88 | 88 | | broadband programs; 4 |
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| 89 | 89 | | (7) recommend incentives, legislative solutions, 5 |
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| 90 | 90 | | and administrative actions to help State, local, and 6 |
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| 91 | 91 | | Tribal governments more efficiently— 7 |
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| 92 | 92 | | (A) distribute, and effectively administer, 8 |
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| 93 | 93 | | funding received from Federal broadband pro-9 |
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| 94 | 94 | | grams; and 10 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (B) resolve conflicts with respect to the 11 |
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| 96 | 96 | | funding described in subparagraph (A); 12 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (8) recommend incentives, legislative solutions, 13 |
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| 98 | 98 | | and administrative actions to— 14 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (A) improve the coordination and manage-15 |
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| 100 | 100 | | ment of Federal broadband programs; and 16 |
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| 101 | 101 | | (B) eliminate duplication with respect to 17 |
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| 102 | 102 | | Federal broadband programs; 18 |
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| 103 | 103 | | (9) describe current, as of the date on which 19 |
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| 104 | 104 | | the Strategy is submitted, efforts by covered agen-20 |
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| 105 | 105 | | cies to streamline the process for granting access to 21 |
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| 106 | 106 | | an easement, right of way, or lease to, in, over, or 22 |
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| 107 | 107 | | on a building or any other property owned by the 23 |
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| 108 | 108 | | Federal Government for the right to install, con-24 |
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| 112 | 112 | | struct, modify, or maintain infrastructure with re-1 |
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| 113 | 113 | | spect to broadband internet access service; 2 |
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| 114 | 114 | | (10) identify gaps and limitations with respect 3 |
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| 115 | 115 | | to allowing regional, interstate, or cross-border eco-4 |
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| 116 | 116 | | nomic development organizations to participate in 5 |
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| 117 | 117 | | Federal broadband programs; and 6 |
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| 118 | 118 | | (11) address specific issues relating to closing 7 |
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| 119 | 119 | | the digital divide on Tribal lands. 8 |
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| 120 | 120 | | (c) P |
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| 121 | 121 | | UBLICCONSULTATION.—In developing the 9 |
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| 122 | 122 | | Strategy, the Assistant Secretary shall consult with— 10 |
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| 123 | 123 | | (1) groups that represent consumers or the in-11 |
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| 124 | 124 | | terests of the public, including economically or so-12 |
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| 125 | 125 | | cially disadvantaged individuals; 13 |
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| 126 | 126 | | (2) subject matter experts; 14 |
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| 127 | 127 | | (3) providers of broadband internet access serv-15 |
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| 128 | 128 | | ice; 16 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (4) Tribal entities; and 17 |
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| 130 | 130 | | (5) State and local agencies and entities. 18 |
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| 131 | 131 | | SEC. 3. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. 19 |
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| 132 | 132 | | (a) I |
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| 133 | 133 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the 20 |
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| 134 | 134 | | date on which the Assistant Secretary submits the Strat-21 |
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| 135 | 135 | | egy to the appropriate committees of Congress under sec-22 |
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| 136 | 136 | | tion 2(a), the Assistant Secretary shall develop and submit 23 |
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| 137 | 137 | | to the appropriate committees of Congress an implementa-24 |
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| 138 | 138 | | tion plan for the Strategy. 25 |
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| 142 | 142 | | (b) REQUIREDCONTENTS.—The Implementation 1 |
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| 143 | 143 | | Plan shall, at a minimum— 2 |
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| 144 | 144 | | (1) provide a plan for implementing the roles, 3 |
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| 145 | 145 | | responsibilities, goals, objectives, and performance 4 |
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| 146 | 146 | | measures for the management of Federal broadband 5 |
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| 147 | 147 | | programs and interagency coordination efforts iden-6 |
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| 148 | 148 | | tified in the Strategy; 7 |
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| 149 | 149 | | (2) provide a plan for holding the covered agen-8 |
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| 150 | 150 | | cies accountable for the roles, responsibilities, goals, 9 |
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| 151 | 151 | | objectives, and performance measures identified in 10 |
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| 152 | 152 | | the Strategy; 11 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (3) describe the roles and responsibilities of the 12 |
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| 154 | 154 | | covered agencies, and the interagency mechanisms, 13 |
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| 155 | 155 | | to coordinate the implementation of the Strategy; 14 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (4) provide a plan for regular meetings among 15 |
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| 157 | 157 | | the heads of the covered agencies to coordinate the 16 |
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| 158 | 158 | | implementation of the Strategy and improve coordi-17 |
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| 159 | 159 | | nation among Federal broadband programs and for 18 |
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| 160 | 160 | | permitting processes for infrastructure with respect 19 |
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| 161 | 161 | | to broadband internet access service; 20 |
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| 162 | 162 | | (5) provide a plan for regular engagement with 21 |
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| 163 | 163 | | interested members of the public to evaluate Federal 22 |
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| 164 | 164 | | broadband programs, permitting processes for infra-23 |
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| 165 | 165 | | structure with respect to broadband internet access 24 |
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| 166 | 166 | | service, and progress in implementing the Strategy; 25 |
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| 170 | 170 | | (6) with respect to the awarding of Federal 1 |
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| 171 | 171 | | funds or subsidies to support the deployment of 2 |
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| 172 | 172 | | broadband internet access service, provide a plan for 3 |
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| 173 | 173 | | the adoption of— 4 |
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| 174 | 174 | | (A) common data sets regarding those 5 |
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| 175 | 175 | | awards, including a requirement that covered 6 |
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| 176 | 176 | | agencies use the maps created under title VIII 7 |
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| 177 | 177 | | of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 8 |
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| 178 | 178 | | 641 et seq.); and 9 |
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| 179 | 179 | | (B) applications regarding those awards, 10 |
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| 180 | 180 | | as described in section 903(e) of the ACCESS 11 |
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| 181 | 181 | | BROADBAND Act (47 U.S.C. 1307(e)); 12 |
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| 182 | 182 | | (7) provide a plan to monitor and reduce waste, 13 |
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| 183 | 183 | | fraud, and abuse in Federal broadband programs, 14 |
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| 184 | 184 | | including wasteful spending resulting from frag-15 |
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| 185 | 185 | | mented, overlapping, and unnecessarily duplicative 16 |
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| 186 | 186 | | programs; 17 |
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| 187 | 187 | | (8) require consistent obligation and expendi-18 |
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| 188 | 188 | | ture reporting by covered agencies for Federal 19 |
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| 189 | 189 | | broadband programs, which shall be consistent with 20 |
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| 190 | 190 | | section 903(c)(2) of the ACCESS BROADBAND 21 |
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| 191 | 191 | | Act (47 U.S.C. 1307(c)(2)); 22 |
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| 192 | 192 | | (9) provide a plan to increase awareness of, and 23 |
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| 193 | 193 | | participation and enrollment in, Federal broadband 24 |
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| 198 | 198 | | of broadband internet access service; and 2 |
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| 199 | 199 | | (10) describe the administrative and legislative 3 |
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| 200 | 200 | | action that is necessary to carry out the Strategy. 4 |
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| 201 | 201 | | (c) P |
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| 202 | 202 | | UBLICCOMMENT.—Not later than 30 days after 5 |
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| 203 | 203 | | the date on which the Assistant Secretary submits the 6 |
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| 204 | 204 | | Strategy to the appropriate committees of Congress under 7 |
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| 205 | 205 | | section 2(a), the Assistant Secretary shall seek public com-8 |
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| 206 | 206 | | ment regarding the development and implementation of 9 |
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| 207 | 207 | | the Implementation Plan. 10 |
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| 208 | 208 | | SEC. 4. BRIEFINGS AND IMPLEMENTATION. 11 |
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| 209 | 209 | | (a) B |
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| 210 | 210 | | RIEFING.—Not later than 21 days after the date 12 |
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| 211 | 211 | | on which the Assistant Secretary submits the Implementa-13 |
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| 212 | 212 | | tion Plan to the appropriate committees of Congress under 14 |
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| 213 | 213 | | section 3(a), the Assistant Secretary, and appropriate rep-15 |
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| 214 | 214 | | resentatives from the covered agencies involved in the for-16 |
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| 215 | 215 | | mulation of the Strategy, shall provide a briefing on the 17 |
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| 216 | 216 | | implementation of the Strategy to the appropriate commit-18 |
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| 217 | 217 | | tees of Congress. 19 |
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| 218 | 218 | | (b) I |
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| 219 | 219 | | MPLEMENTATION.— 20 |
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| 220 | 220 | | (1) I |
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| 221 | 221 | | N GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary 21 |
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| 222 | 222 | | shall— 22 |
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| 223 | 223 | | (A) implement the Strategy in accordance 23 |
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| 224 | 224 | | with the terms of the Implementation Plan; and 24 |
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| 228 | 228 | | (B) not later than 90 days after the date 1 |
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| 229 | 229 | | on which the Assistant Secretary begins to im-2 |
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| 230 | 230 | | plement the Strategy, and not less frequently 3 |
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| 231 | 231 | | than once every 90 days thereafter until the 4 |
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| 232 | 232 | | date on which the Implementation Plan is fully 5 |
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| 233 | 233 | | implemented, brief the appropriate committees 6 |
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| 234 | 234 | | of Congress on the progress in implementing 7 |
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| 235 | 235 | | the Implementation Plan. 8 |
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| 236 | 236 | | (2) R |
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| 237 | 237 | | ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing in this 9 |
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| 238 | 238 | | subsection may be construed to affect the authority 10 |
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| 239 | 239 | | or jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Com-11 |
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| 240 | 240 | | mission or confer upon the Assistant Secretary or 12 |
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| 241 | 241 | | any executive agency the power to direct the actions 13 |
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| 242 | 242 | | of the Federal Communications Commission, either 14 |
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| 243 | 243 | | directly or indirectly. 15 |
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| 244 | 244 | | SEC. 5. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE STUDY 16 |
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| 245 | 245 | | AND REPORT. 17 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (a) S |
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| 247 | 247 | | TUDY.—The Comptroller General of the United 18 |
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| 248 | 248 | | States shall conduct a study that shall— 19 |
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| 249 | 249 | | (1) examine the efficacy of the Strategy and the 20 |
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| 250 | 250 | | Implementation Plan in closing the digital divide; 21 |
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| 251 | 251 | | and 22 |
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| 252 | 252 | | (2) make recommendations regarding how to 23 |
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| 253 | 253 | | improve the Strategy and the Implementation Plan. 24 |
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| 257 | 257 | | (b) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 1 |
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| 258 | 258 | | on which the Assistant Secretary submits the Implementa-2 |
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| 259 | 259 | | tion Plan to the appropriate committees of Congress under 3 |
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| 260 | 260 | | section 3(a), the Comptroller General shall submit to the 4 |
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| 261 | 261 | | appropriate committees of Congress a report on the re-5 |
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| 262 | 262 | | sults of the study conducted under subsection (a). 6 |
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| 263 | 263 | | SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 7 |
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| 264 | 264 | | In this Act: 8 |
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| 265 | 265 | | (1) A |
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| 266 | 266 | | PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -9 |
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| 267 | 267 | | GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-10 |
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| 268 | 268 | | gress’’ means— 11 |
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| 269 | 269 | | (A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 12 |
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| 270 | 270 | | and Transportation of the Senate; and 13 |
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| 271 | 271 | | (B) the Committee on Energy and Com-14 |
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| 272 | 272 | | merce of the House of Representatives. 15 |
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| 273 | 273 | | (2) A |
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| 274 | 274 | | SSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist-16 |
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| 275 | 275 | | ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of 17 |
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| 276 | 276 | | Commerce for Communications and Information. 18 |
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| 277 | 277 | | (3) C |
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| 278 | 278 | | OVERED AGENCIES .—The term ‘‘covered 19 |
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| 279 | 279 | | agencies’’ means— 20 |
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| 280 | 280 | | (A) the Federal Communications Commis-21 |
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| 281 | 281 | | sion; 22 |
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| 282 | 282 | | (B) the Department of Agriculture; 23 |
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| 283 | 283 | | (C) the National Telecommunications and 24 |
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| 284 | 284 | | Information Administration; 25 |
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| 288 | 288 | | (D) the Department of Health and Human 1 |
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| 289 | 289 | | Services; 2 |
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| 290 | 290 | | (E) the Appalachian Regional Commission; 3 |
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| 291 | 291 | | (F) the Delta Regional Authority; 4 |
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| 292 | 292 | | (G) the Economic Development Adminis-5 |
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| 293 | 293 | | tration; 6 |
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| 294 | 294 | | (H) the Department of Education; 7 |
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| 295 | 295 | | (I) the Department of the Treasury; 8 |
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| 296 | 296 | | (J) the Department of Transportation; 9 |
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| 297 | 297 | | (K) the Institute of Museum and Library 10 |
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| 298 | 298 | | Services; 11 |
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| 299 | 299 | | (L) the Northern Border Regional Com-12 |
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| 300 | 300 | | mission; 13 |
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| 301 | 301 | | (M) the Department of Housing and 14 |
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| 302 | 302 | | Urban Development; and 15 |
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| 303 | 303 | | (N) the Department of the Interior. 16 |
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| 304 | 304 | | (4) F |
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| 305 | 305 | | EDERAL BROADBAND PROGRAM .—The 17 |
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| 306 | 306 | | term ‘‘Federal broadband program’’ means any pro-18 |
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| 307 | 307 | | gram administered by a covered agency that is di-19 |
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| 308 | 308 | | rectly or indirectly intended to increase the deploy-20 |
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| 309 | 309 | | ment of, access to, the affordability of, or the adop-21 |
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| 310 | 310 | | tion of broadband internet access service. 22 |
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| 311 | 311 | | (5) I |
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| 312 | 312 | | MPLEMENTATION PLAN .—The term ‘‘Im-23 |
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| 313 | 313 | | plementation Plan’’ means the implementation plan 24 |
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| 314 | 314 | | developed under section 3(a). 25 |
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| 318 | 318 | | (6) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each 1 |
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| 319 | 319 | | State of the United States, the District of Columbia, 2 |
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| 320 | 320 | | and each commonwealth, territory, or possession of 3 |
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| 321 | 321 | | the United States. 4 |
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| 322 | 322 | | (7) S |
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| 323 | 323 | | TRATEGY.—The term ‘‘Strategy’’ means 5 |
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| 324 | 324 | | the National Strategy to Close the Digital Divide de-6 |
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