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Friday, October 1, 2010
As of September 30, 2010, all Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) applicants that are receiving an award have been notified. All other applicants will soon receive additional information from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) concerning their applications.
We encourage all applicants that did not receive a BIP award to consider applying for funds under RUS' Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program, Community Connect Grant Program, and the Telecommunications Infrastructure Program. Information on these programs can be found at
http://www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/index.htm.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010 RUS has issued additional guidance for BIP awardees concerning the keeping of certified payroll documentation, as necessary to comply with the Davis-Bacon Act requirements of the Recovery Act. All BIP award recipients must maintain in its files the original Davis-Bacon Act payroll records it prepares for itself, as well as those prepared by subrecipients, contractors, and subcontractors. The recipient is
not required to submit any of the payroll documents to RUS unless RUS makes a request for such records. The payroll records must be maintained so as to be easily accessed by RUS and by other duly authorized officials.
In the coming weeks RUS will be posting additional guidance on this site for complying with the requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act.
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Friday, September 17, 2010 RUS has posted the sample grant agreement for the BIP Technical Assistance Grant Program in the
Information Library.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 RUS has now posted a
Satellite, Rural Library and Technical Assistance
Application Directory due to the numerous requests that RUS received for this information. This directory provides a listing of the Satellite, Technical Assistance and Rural Library applications RUS received under the Second Round NOFA. |
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
RUS has sent additional
Second Review letters to a
limited number of Last Mile
applicants requesting
supplemental information to
address specific and limited
adjustments to their Round 2
BIP Infrastructure
applications. These letters
are not an indication of an
intent to award, nor are
they an indication of an
award denial. RUS will post
another notice on this
website if additional Second
Review letters are sent in
the future. |
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
RUS has sent Second Review letters to a limited number of Middle Mile applicants requesting supplemental information to address specific and limited adjustments in their NOFA II applications. These letters are not an indication of an intent to award, nor are they an indication of an award denial. If RUS proposes to send additional Second Review letters in the future, notice will be published on this website.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
To assist RUS Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) applicants during the final application days for the Satellite, Rural Library Broadband, and Technical Assistance Grant Programs, the Broadband USA Help Desk is announcing extended support hours. The Help Desk will be open Saturday June 5, and Sunday June 6, 2010 between the hours of 9am until 7pm EDT and on the deadline day of Tuesday June 8, 2010 from 7am until 9pm EDT. For any assistance with BIP or this website, please contact the Broadband USA Help Desk by phone at 1-877-508-8364 or by email at BroadbandUSA@usda.gov. |
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
RUS has posted an updated version of the
Round 2 Application Directory. This directory provides a
listing of the BIP Infrastructure applications received
under NOFA 2, as well as a listing of the organizations
which filed Public Notice Responses to Round 2 BIP
Infrastructure applications. |
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
RUS has published a notice in the Federal Register, extending the 30-day Public Notice Filing period, as well as the application deadline for the Satellite, Rural Library Broadband, and Technical Assistance Grant Programs. For more details on the extensions, please see the
Federal Register Notice (May 24, 2010). |
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Due to the additional emergency maintenance which was conducted this past weekend, RUS is again extending the Public Notice Filing period. The new deadline for existing service providers to file a response to any Public Notice Filing will be Tuesday, May 25th at 12:00pm (noon) CDT.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
RUS has posted the Powerpoint presentations for the
Satellite,
Rural Library Broadband, and
Technical Assistance grant program webinars held earlier this week in the Information Library. |
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
RUS has posted a
Listing of the USDA's Community Facilities Program's Awardees and Applicants. This list can be used by applicants of the Rural Library Broadband Grant Program to identify those libraries which were constructed, or are to be constructed, with funding from the USDA's Community Facilities program of the Rural Housing Service. |
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Next week, RUS will be hosting webinars for the recently announced Satellite, Rural Library Broadband, and Technical Assistance Grant Programs. Please see the following flyers for more information:
Satellite |
Rural Library Broadband |
Technical Assistance
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Friday, May 7, 2010
Federal Register Notice: Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Request for Proposals: RUS announces the opening of a window for requests to its new Satellite, Rural Library Broadband, and Technical Assistance Grant Programs. Click the Apply button on the left side of this page to view application guides, materials, and attachments for all three programs.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
RUS has posted a list of
Project Summaries for all 68 Round 1 BIP awards
announced through the following USDA Press Releases:
December 17, 2009
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January 25, 2010 |
February 17, 2010 |
March 4, 2010 |
March 23, 2010 |
March 30, 2010
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
RUS has posted a list of
Project Summaries for all 68 Round 1 BIP awards announced through the following USDA Press Releases:
December 17, 2009
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January 25, 2010 |
February 17, 2010 |
March 4, 2010 |
March 23, 2010 |
March 30, 2010
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
RUS has posted Public Notice Filings of the proposed funded service area(s) of each Round 2 BIP Infrastructure application. You are now able to view these filings by going to the
BroadbandUSA Mapping Tool. For more information about the Public Notice Filings, please click on the "Public Notice" menu option.
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Friday, April 16, 2010
The Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) has posted an
Application Directory of BIP Infrastructure applications received under NOFA 2. Under NOFA 2, RUS received a total of 776 applications requesting nearly $11.2 billion.
Within the next week, RUS will be posting Public Notice Filings (PNFs) for these applications. A separate notice will be posted at
www.broadbandusa.gov when these PNFs will be available for comment by existing Internet Service Providers.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
RUS is posting two letters addressed to Administrator Jonathan Adelstein commenting on the BIP Round 2 NOFA, as well as the Administrator's responses to those letters. As RUS receives additional letters in reply to the Administrator's Open Letter, RUS will post these letters and the Administrator's responses to the BroadbandUSA website.
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