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About BTOP:Funded at $4.7 billion, BTOP provides grants to support the deployment of broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas, to enhance broadband capacity at public computer centers, and to encourage sustainable adoption of broadband service. Through this support, BTOP will also advance the Recovery Act’s objectives to spur job creation and stimulate long-term economic growth and opportunity.What's New?See also Broadband USA - The portal to apply for broadband funding Federal Register Notice: Method of acceptance of supplemental attachments: RUS and NTIA announce additional measures to ensure that all pending electronic applications can be submitted by the extended application deadline of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 20, 2009. All applicants must complete and submit their core application by the extended deadline. To the extent that any applicant has been unable to upload any of the attachments to the application by the extended deadline, it may submit those attachments on an appropriate electronic medium by hand-delivery no later than 5:00 p.m. ET on August 24, 2009 or postmarked no later than August 24, 2009. For applicants that choose a delivery service requiring a contact name and telephone number, that name and number is LaShemma Simmons, (888) 861-5509 [option 5]. The Notice is being provided for informational purposes only. If there is any difference between this document and the Notice officially published in the Federal Register, the Federal Register Notice is controlling. (PDF 126 Kb) Federal
Register Notice: Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP)
and Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP)
Extension of Application Closing Deadline for Pending
Electronic Applications: The U.S. Department
of Agriculture's Rural Utility Service (RUS) and Commerce's
NTIA announced that the application closing deadline
for BIP and BTOP is extended until 5 p.m. Eastern Time
(ET) on August 20, 2009, for any electronic applications
pending as of 5 p.m. ET on August 14, 2009. There are
no changes to the filing instructions for paper applications. (Acrobat
PDF 50 Kb) State Broadband Data and Development Program (Broadband Mapping Program) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) (Broadband Mapping Program). (Acrobat PDF 263 Kb) Federal Register Notice: State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program Clarification. On August 7, 2009, NTIA released the following Notice clarifying the information collection requirements for the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program (Broadband Mapping Program). State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program Online Workshop. On July 24, 2009, the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) hosted an online workshop on its recently announced grant program to fund collection of state-level broadband data, as well as state-wide broadband mapping and planning. (Acrobat PDF 24 Kb)
Federal Register Notice: Broadband Technology Opportunities Program publication of OMB control number for information collection. Comments on the collection of information requirements in the BTOP NOFA are due by August 31, 2009. (Acrobat PDF 42 Kb) Congressional Testimony: Hearing on Review of Rural Broadband Programs: Testimony of Mark G. Seifert, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary, NTIA, before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture. (Print version Acrobat PDF 52 Kb) Federal Register Notice: Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) and solicitation of applications for the Broadband Initiatives Program and Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. (Acrobat PDF 321 Kb) Federal Register Notice: Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. (Acrobat PDF 167 Kb) Federal Register Notice: Buy American Exemption under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(Acrobat PDF 56 Kb) Press Release: U.S. Senate Confirms Lawrence E. Strickling As Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information For news media inquiries, please contact Mark Tolbert at press@ntia.doc.gov. |
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