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; if the Strategy identifies policy and practices that result in programmatic differences among covered agencies with respect to Federal broadband programs, provide a plan to streamline and create consistent policies and practices across all covered agencies for the purposes of Federal broadband programs; for Federal broadband programs that are not technologically neutral, determine a ceiling on the amount of a subsidy or funding award to provide broadband internet access service to a single location, to be consistently applied and adopted by all covered agencies for the funding of infrastructure with respect to broadband internet access service; 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 coordination among Federal broadband programs and for permitting processes for infrastructure with respect to broadband internet access service; provide a plan for regular evaluation and public reporting of Federal broadband programs against clear objectives and performance measures, 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 the Deployment Locations Map; applications regarding those awards, as described in section 903(e) of the ACCESS BROADBAND Act ( 47 U.S.C. 1307(e) ); and rules for prohibiting awards by covered agencies in areas identified as served by the maps created under title VIII of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 641 et seq. ) or in areas already subject to an award or enforceable deployment obligations by a covered agency under a Federal broadband program or a State, local, or Tribal program with respect to broadband internet access service; provide a plan to monitor, publicly report, and reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal broadband programs, including wasteful spending resulting from fragmented, overlapping, and 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) ) and the Deployment Locations Map; provide a plan to increase awareness of, and participation 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.
In developing the Implementation Plan, the Assistant Secretary shall publish a draft version of the Implementation Plan in the Federal Register for a period of notice and comment (and reply comment) that is not less than 60 days.
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