§1704 Broadband Deployment Locations Map

Summary

Create an online map, no later than 18 months after November 15, 2021, that shows where the federal government is funding broadband infrastructure projects and their geographic footprints. "Broadband infrastructure" means cables, fiber, wiring, or other permanent equipment (including wireless) that can give internet to individual places and meets the law’s definition of advanced telecom capability. "Commission" means the Federal Communications Commission. "Deployment Locations Map" means the required online mapping tool. The FCC must make the map the single, public source on its website for federal broadband funding. The map must pull data from the FCC, NTIA, USDA, HHS, Treasury, HUD, IMLS, and other federal agencies and must cover funding under this Act; the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136); the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116–260); the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117–2); and any federal funding or programs authorized after November 15, 2021. For each program the map must show the agency, program title, and network type (wired, terrestrial fixed, wireless, mobile, satellite). Users must be able to search and filter by company name, project start/end or expected dates, number of locations served, and download/upload speeds, and the map must include data from the national Broadband Map under section 642(c)(1). The FCC must update the map at least every 180 days, federal agencies must report data regularly, the map must not change agencies’ program missions, and it must avoid duplicating section 903 of division FF of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (47 U.S.C. 1307). Ten million dollars ($10,000,000) of amounts appropriated to carry out this division are set aside to build this map.