USDA Broadband Technical Assistance Program
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-07-31 — MORE USDA Grants Act: cross-connection with more-usda-grants-act: Both aim to lower application and technical-capacity barriers to USDA rural development funding for under-resourced local governments. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-03-04 — Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act: cross-connection with communications-use-authorizations-federal-lands: Both address federal levers for expanding rural broadband: USDA technical assistance funds provider capacity to apply for programs, while HR5419 targets the federal-lands permitting bottleneck for siting communications infrastructure. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-04-30 — Rural Broadband Assistance Act: HR3125 (Rural Broadband Assistance Act) introduced to give statutory authority to USDA’s Broadband Technical Assistance grant program for rural broadband expansion, while repealing certain rural broadband project database, reporting, and oversight requirements. (novelty: 2)