Biden-Harris Administration Announces Over $74.4 Million in Internet for All Grants to Tribal Lands

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded 28 grants totaling $74,424,986.73 to 28 Tribal entities as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP). Grants were made to tribes in Alaska, Arizona, California, Michigan, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. With funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), these new grants bring the total of the program to more than $1.86 billion awarded to 226 Tribal entities. These grants fulfill the TBCP’s equitable distribution requirement. This process, laid out in statute and in NTIA’s first TBCP Notice of Funding Opportunity, is intended to ensure that program funding is available to all eligible federally recognized Tribal governments who had a qualifying application.