Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $5.8 Million in Internet for All Grants to Tribal Lands

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded grants totaling $5,841,477.13 to 12 Tribes as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP). In the next few months, NTIA will release a second Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for an additional round of funding from the TBCP program.  The Tribes awarded are:

• Blue Lake Rancheria (CA): Broadband Infrastructure Deployment & and Planning, Engineering, Feasibility, and Sustainability, $493,400.48;
• Bridgeport Indian Colony (CA): Planning, Engineering, Feasibility, and Sustainability, $355,153.32;
• Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria (CA): Broadband Use and Adoption,  $495,477.00;
• Resighini Rancheria (CA): Planning, Engineering, Feasibility, and Sustainability, $499,953.00;
• The Wiyot Tribe (CA): Broadband Use and Adoption, $499,997.16;
• Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (KS): Broadband Infrastructure Deployment, $499,741.00;
• Bay Mills Indian Community (MI): Broadband Infrastructure Deployment, $499,850.00;
• Sault Sainte Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (MI): Broadband Use and Adoption, $500,000.00 ;
• Comanche Nation (OK): Planning, Engineering, Feasibility, and Sustainability, $500,000.00;
• Burns Paiute Tribe (OR): Broadband Infrastructure Deployment, $499,728.17;
• Nisqually Indian Tribe (WA): Broadband Infrastructure Deployment, $499,960.00;
• Oneida Nation (WI): Broadband Infrastructure Deployment, $498,217.00.