Sec. 2. Purposes
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The purposes of this Act are to— provide resilient and redundant middle mile fiber optic infrastructure to provide more opportunity for last mile providers to connect to unserved locations and underserved locations in rural and remote areas and urban areas with high-quality, high-speed broadband; enhance the resilience, reliability, and security of the electric grid in order to guarantee delivery of power to critical facilities and electricity-dependent essential services and reduce restoration time following power disturbances; permanently reduce the cost of high-speed broadband across the United States, including for low-income households and small businesses; expand interconnections and the communications capacity of the electric grid of the United States to facilitate deployment of more diverse and distributed generation resources and smart-grid technologies; provide rural and remote areas and urban areas with new economic growth opportunities and ensure equal access to education, healthcare, telework, and e-commerce opportunities; and leverage assets such as tower facilities, buildings, land, and rights-of-way to lower broadband buildout costs to encourage private-sector companies to expand affordable telecommunication offerings.