Requires the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to build public tracking tools for broadband grant projects and federal permit reviews, and to flag and address delays in processing communications use applications.

• Requires a public dashboard showing how much Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment grant money each recipient has spent and how many locations have broadband service that is in use.
• Requires a tool that helps each grant recipient identify the federal permits its subgrantees need and monitor their progress toward obtaining them.
• Requires controls to keep processing-time data accurate within 90 days, an analysis of the causes of delays as they occur, and an annual report to four congressional committees.
• Requires an alert method within 90 days that flags communications use applications at risk of missing the 270-day processing deadline, and adds to the FAST Act's covered project definition any NEPA-subject broadband project likely to need more than $5,000,000 in total investment.

• Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee (Senate)

Science, Technology, Communications