The FY2027 President's Budget requests — for line 2, within Commerce's Middle Mile account.
Commerce discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Commerce's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
The Middle Mile Grant program provides middle mile broadband grants. NTIA awarded $940 million in competitive grants under the Middle Mile program. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act established NTIA's Middle Mile program and provided $1 billion in funding. In FY 2027, grant recipients will continue to implement their awarded projects. In FY 2026, NTIA will administer Middle Mile grants through post award technical assistance, grant monitoring and oversight to guard against waste, fraud, and abuse. NTIA will also provide technical assistance for compliance with Federal Environmental Historical Preservation (EHP) and permitting requirements, including NTIA review and approval of required EHP documentation to enable project implementation and construction. In FY 2027, the grantees will continue the implementation of the Middle Mile projects. NTIA will continue to monitor project implementation and broadband deployment and provide technical assistance, review semi-annual performance and progress and financial reports, complete review and approval of awardee EHP submitted materials, and other key critical monitoring and grant oversight activities to promote awardee project implementation success and guard against waste, fraud, and abuse. In addition, some grant awards will be completed and start the close out
Extracted from National Telecommunications and Information Administration, p. 136. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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