Sec. 4. Duties

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The Office shall— connect with communities that need access to high-speed internet and improved digital inclusion efforts through various forms of outreach and communication techniques; hold regional workshops across the United States to share best practices and effective strategies for promoting broadband access and adoption; develop targeted broadband training and presentations for various demographic communities through various media; and develop and distribute publications (including toolkits, primers, manuals, and white papers) providing guidance, strategies, and insights to communities as the communities develop strategies to expand broadband access and adoption.

The Office shall track the construction and use of and access to any broadband infrastructure built using any Federal support in a central database. The Office shall develop a streamlined accounting mechanism by which any agency offering a Federal broadband support program, and the Commission through the Universal Service Fund, shall provide the information described in paragraph

(1)in a standardized and efficient fashion. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and every year thereafter, the Office shall make public on the website of the Office and submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report on the following: A description of the work of the Office for the previous year and the number of residents of the United States who received broadband access as a result of a Federal broadband support program or a Universal Service Fund program. The number of residents of the United States described in subparagraph (A), broken down by the Federal broadband support program or universal service mechanism to which the broadband access was attributable. An estimate of the economic impact of the broadband deployment efforts described in subparagraphs

(A)and

(B)on the local economy in areas receiving assistance through those efforts, including any effect on small businesses or jobs.