Sec. 8. Community Broadband Mapping

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This section may be cited as the Community Broadband Mapping Act . Section 601 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 ( 7 U.S.C. 950bb ) is amended by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Secretary may make a grant under this section to a unit of local government, a tribal government or a unit of tribal government, an economic development or other community organization, an electric cooperative (as defined in section 3 of the Federal Power Act) that sells electric energy to persons in rural areas, a telephone cooperative, or an internet service provider that has not more than 100,000 subscribers, for the purpose of enabling the collection of data relating to where broadband infrastructure is located, cost of broadband service, cost of such service by tier of service, actual speed available at household, speed advertised, and which homes are provided with non-satellite broadband service, without regard to any household service percentage requirement, and in determining the eligibility of any such entity for such a grant, the term rural area means an area that is not in an urbanized area or urban cluster with a population of 25,000 or more as determined by the Bureau of the Census.

The amount of a grant made under this subsection shall not exceed $50,000. The Secretary may use not more than 1 percent of the amounts made available under this section for each fiscal year to carry out this subsection. . Section 602 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 ( 7 U.S.C. 950bb–1 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Secretary may make a grant under this section to a unit of local government, a tribal government or a unit of tribal government, an economic development or other community organization, an electric cooperative (as defined in section 3 of the Federal Power Act) that sells electric energy to persons in rural areas, a telephone cooperative, or an internet service provider that has not more than 100,000 subscribers, for the purpose of enabling the collection of data relating to where broadband infrastructure is located, cost of broadband service, cost of such service by tier of service, actual speed available at household, speed advertised, and which homes are provided with non-satellite broadband service, without regard to any household service percentage requirement, and in determining the eligibility of any such entity for such a grant, the term rural area means an area that is not in an urbanized area or urban cluster with a population of 25,000 or more as determined by the Bureau of the Census.

The amount of a grant made under this subsection shall not exceed $50,000. The Secretary may use not more than 1 percent of the amounts made available under this section for each fiscal year to carry out this subsection. . Section 603 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 ( 7 U.S.C. 950bb–2 ), as amended by section 2 of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Secretary may make a grant under this section to a unit of local government, a tribal government or a unit of tribal government, an economic development or other community organization, an electric cooperative (as defined in section 3 of the Federal Power Act) that sells electric energy to persons in rural areas, a telephone cooperative, or an internet service provider that has not more than 100,000 subscribers, for the purpose of enabling the collection of data relating to where broadband infrastructure is located, cost of broadband service, cost of such service by tier of service, actual speed available at household, speed advertised, and which homes are provided with non-satellite broadband service, without regard to any household service percentage requirement, and in determining the eligibility of any such entity for such a grant, the term rural area means an area that is not in an urbanized area or urban cluster with a population of 25,000 or more as determined by the Bureau of the Census.

The amount of a grant made under this subsection shall not exceed $50,000. The Secretary may use not more than 1 percent of the amounts made available under this section for each fiscal year to carry out this subsection. . Section 604 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 ( 7 U.S.C. 950bb–3 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Secretary may make a grant under this section to a unit of local government, a tribal government or a unit of tribal government, an economic development or other community organization, an electric cooperative (as defined in section 3 of the Federal Power Act) that sells electric energy to persons in rural areas, a telephone cooperative, or an internet service provider that has not more than 100,000 subscribers, for the purpose of enabling the collection of data relating to where broadband infrastructure is located, cost of broadband service, cost of such service by tier of service, actual speed available at household, speed advertised, and which homes are provided with non-satellite broadband service, without regard to any household service percentage requirement, and in determining the eligibility of any such entity for such a grant, the term rural area means an area that is not in an urbanized area or urban cluster with a population of 25,000 or more as determined by the Bureau of the Census.

The amount of a grant made under this subsection shall not exceed $50,000. The Secretary may use not more than 1 percent of the amounts made available under this section for each fiscal year to carry out this subsection. . Section 2333 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 ( 7 U.S.C. 950aaa–2 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Secretary may make a grant under this section to a unit of local government, a tribal government or a unit of tribal government, an economic development or other community organization, an electric cooperative (as defined in section 3 of the Federal Power Act) that sells electric energy to persons in rural areas, a telephone cooperative, or an internet service provider that has not more than 100,000 subscribers, for the purpose of enabling the collection of data relating to where broadband infrastructure is located, cost of broadband service, cost of such service by tier of service, actual speed available at household, speed advertised, and which homes are provided with non-satellite broadband service, without regard to any household service percentage requirement, and in determining the eligibility of any such entity for such a grant, the term rural area means an area that is not in an urbanized area or urban cluster with a population of 25,000 or more as determined by the Bureau of the Census.

The amount of a grant made under this subsection shall not exceed $50,000. The Secretary may use not more than 1 percent of the amounts made available under this section for each fiscal year to carry out this subsection. . Section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (132 Stat. 399; Public Law 115–141 ) is amended by inserting : Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Secretary may use not more than 1 percent of the amounts made available to carry out this section to make grants, each not exceeding $50,000, to a unit of local government, a tribal government or a unit of tribal government, an economic development or other community organization, an electric cooperative (as defined in section 3 of the Federal Power Act) that sells electric energy to persons in rural areas, a telephone cooperative, or an internet service provider that has not more than 100,000 subscribers, for the purpose of enabling the collection of data relating to where broadband infrastructure is located, cost of broadband service, cost of such service by tier of service, actual speed available at household, speed advertised, and which homes are provided with non-satellite broadband service, without regard to any household service percentage requirement, and in determining the eligibility of any such entity for such a grant, the term before the period. rural area means an area that is not in an urbanized area or urban cluster with a population of 25,000 or more as determined by the Bureau of the Census The amendments made by this section shall take effect 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.

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