美国宽带倡议进展报告

JUNE 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On February 13, 2019, the American Broadband Initiative (ABI) was launched with therelease of theMilestones Report, detailing the Administration’s strategy to drivechanges across Federal Agencies to identify and remove barriers to broadband accessand leverage public assets and resources to expand our Nation’s broadbandinfrastructure capacity. The ABI’s mission is built on three core principles: •Government processes should be clear, transparent, and responsive tostakeholders.•Federal assets should provide the greatest possible benefit to stakeholders andthe public.•The Federal Government should be a good steward of taxpayer funds. The Milestones Report outlined time-framed commitments from Agencies and the three“workstreams” that were created to promote accountability and focus Agencies on theimplementation of the ABI’s mission. Since its formation, the ABI has made substantialprogress on the identified commitments in the report. This progress report is intendedto provide the public with an update on its work to date. Of the 60 commitmentsincluded in the original Milestones Report, 48 (80%) have been successfully completed.The remaining 12 commitments are in progress. Appendix A provides the status of allthe Agency and workstream actions. Highlights of the accomplishments include: 1.Through the ReConnect program, as of March 2020, theU.S. Department ofAgriculture(USDA)awarded over $744 million in funds to support more than 80broadband projects benefiting more than 430,000 rural residents in 34 states (seepages 18-19). TheFederal Communications Commission (FCC)and USDA alsoestablished processes to coordinate awards for rural broadband deployment toensure that USDA-funded grants do not overlap with the FCC’s $20 Billion RuralDigital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) or the $9 Billion 5G Fund for Rural America (seepages 22-23). 2.The Department of the Interior (DOI)launched a Joint Overview-EstablishedLocations (JOEL) mapping tool to make site locations visible to service providerslooking to locate equipment on Federal property, and added new data layersfrom the General Services Administration, the U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. PostalService. Since its release, the map has been viewed 4,294 times, averaging 7 viewsper day (see page 14). 3.In June 2019, theGeneral Services Administration (GSA)published the FY 2018Federal Real Property Profile (FRPP) public data set, updated with a set of filtersallowing users to identify Federal property that could be candidates forcommunications infrastructure installation. This publicly available data nowincludes the height of buildings and facilities and the elevation above mean sealevel, helping the communications industry to determine a structure’s suitabilityfor siting communications facilities. In June 2020, GSA will update the FRPP publicdata set with more current data from FY 2019 (see page 15). 4.In March 2019, theDepartment of Commerce’s National Telecommunicationsand Information Administration (NTIA)updated its website with informationabout Federal Agencies’ permitting processes and funding information to provideeasier, “one-stop” access to the information. NTIA continues to update thisinformation with support from Agencies (see pages 11 and 22). 5.In September 2019,NTIAcompleted the first phase of its National BroadbandAvailability Map (NBAM), a geographic information system platform which allowsfor the visualization and analysis of federal, state, and commercially available datasets. As of June 2020, the NBAM program includes 18 States who are partneringon this critical broadband data platform (see page 20). 6.In February 2020,GSAandUSDA’s Forest Service (FS)finalized a revisedStandard Form (SF-299), making this Common Application Form suitable fortelecommunications purposes (see page 8). Although a tremendous amount of progress has been made to identify and removeFederal barriers to broadband access, there is still work to do to achieve the President’spriority of ensuring that broadband is an engine for economic growth and prosperity forall American communities. The ABI continues to be an important part of theAdministration’s overall strategy. The entire Trump Administration is committed toadvancing the ABI’s mission to achieve full access to high-speed broadband throughoutthe country. In addition to the contents of the report, a number of attachments are included thatreflect the progress of the ABI workstreams and informed their work. These include: •Appendix A: Chart depicting status of Milestones Report actions•Appendix B1: Streamlining Federal Permitting Workstream data-call survey•Appendix B2: Streamlining Federal Permitting Workstream survey results andanalysis•Appendix C: Streamlining Federal Permitting Workstream Memo on Fees•Appendix D: Leveraging Federal Assets Workstream Recommendations Report•Appendix E: Federal Funding Workstream Analysis•Appendix F: Federal Funding Workstream Findings and Recommendations•Appendix G: M