SEN. MORAN, COLLEAGUES CALL ON NTIA TO PRESERVE STATES' ABILITY TO USE BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDS AS CONGRESS INTENDED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- Sen. Jerry Moran issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) - a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation - joined Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and their colleagues in urging Arielle Roth, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), to preserve the ability of states to use their remaining Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) funds consistent with congressional intent.

The senators' letter also requests NTIA to provide a public accounting of unspent BEAD funds for each state, clarification of NTIA's current interpretation of allowable "non-deployment" uses ...