A bipartisan group of senators is pushing the Commerce Department to release long-delayed guidance for states seeking to use remaining funds from a $42 billion broadband grant program.
In a letter first shared with CQ Roll Call, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., with Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine; Angus King, I-Maine.; Bill Cassidy, R-La.; Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev.; and Mark Warner, D-Va., urge the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to tell states what uses will be approved for “non-deployment” funding under the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program.
