Sec. 4. Implementation Plan
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Not later than 120 days after the date on which the Assistant Secretary submits the Strategy to the appropriate committees of Congress under section 3(a), the Assistant Secretary shall develop and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress an implementation plan for the Strategy. The Implementation Plan shall, at a minimum— provide a plan for implementing the roles, responsibilities, goals, objectives, and performance measures for the management of Federal broadband programs and interagency coordination efforts identified in the Strategy; provide a plan for holding the covered agencies accountable for the roles, responsibilities, goals, objectives, and performance measures identified in the Strategy; describe the roles and responsibilities of the covered agencies, and the interagency mechanisms, to coordinate the implementation of the Strategy; provide a plan for regular meetings among the heads of the covered agencies to coordinate the implementation of the Strategy and improve coordination among Federal broadband programs and for permitting processes for infrastructure with respect to broadband internet access service; provide a plan for regular engagement with interested members of the public to evaluate Federal broadband programs, permitting processes for infrastructure with respect to broadband internet access service, and progress in implementing the Strategy; with respect to the awarding of Federal funds or subsidies to support the deployment of broadband internet access service, provide a plan for the adoption of— common data sets regarding those awards, including a requirement that covered agencies use the maps created under title VIII of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 641 et seq. ); and applications regarding those awards, as described in section 903(e) of the ACCESS BROADBAND Act ( 47 U.S.C. 1307(e) ); provide a plan to monitor and reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal broadband programs, including wasteful spending resulting from fragmented, overlapping, and unnecessarily duplicative programs; require consistent obligation and expenditure reporting by covered agencies for Federal broadband programs, which shall be consistent with section 903(c)(2) of the ACCESS BROADBAND Act ( 47 U.S.C. 1307(c)(2) ); provide a plan to increase awareness of, and participation and enrollment in, Federal broadband programs relating to the affordability and adoption of broadband internet access service; and describe the administrative and legislative action that is necessary to carry out the Strategy.
Not later than 30 days after the date on which the Assistant Secretary submits the Strategy to the appropriate committees of Congress under section 3(a), the Assistant Secretary shall seek public comment regarding the development and implementation of the Implementation Plan.
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