Vermont
Broadband Office
Name: VT Community Broadband Board
Location: Dept. of Public Service (DPS)
Enabling Act: 30 VT Stat. Ann. § 8081 et seq.
Connectivity Snapshot
Federal Funding
Summary
BEAD | CPF | ARPA | DE |
---|---|---|---|
$228,913,019 |
$113,056,440 |
$1,241,297,252 |
$9,564,095 |
BEAD
Overview
Total Allocation: $228,913,019
Current Status: Funding Allocated
Five-Year Plan
Status: Drafted
Due: 9/16/23
Link: 5-Year Plan
Initial Proposal
Status: Drafted
Due: 12/27/23
Link: Initial Proposal Vol. 1 Vol. 2
Final Proposal
Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a
Digital Equity
State Grants
Capacity Grant: $9,564,0953
Planning Grant: $518,154.20
Link to Plan: n/a
Summary of Uses: n/a
NTIA Grant Program
TBD
Middle Mile
No Middle Mile IIJA awardees
ARPA
SLFRF
- Total4
-
$1,241,297,252
- For Broadband
- $151,866,267 (12.2%)
CPF
- Total
-
$113,056,440
- For Broadband
- $90,000,000 (80%)
- Program Link
State Funding
Recent Programs5
Community Broadband Construction Grant Program [CPF]
Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $90M [allocated by Treasury in Oct. 2022, representing 80% of the state’s $113M CPF allotment]
Grantees: Grant Awards
Rules: Relevant info available here
Policies
Non-Traditional ISPs6
Pemitted to Offer Broadband
Municipalities | Yes |
Municipal Electric Utilities | Yes |
Electric Cooperatives | Yes (guardrails) |
Investor-Owned Utilities | Yes |
Footnotes
FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 24, 2023).↩︎
ACS 1-Year Data, 2021, US Census Bureau.↩︎
ACLP Overview of IIJA Digital Equity Grant Programs.↩︎
Broadband infrastructure is one of several applicable uses of SLFRF funds.↩︎
Updated as of March 2023.↩︎
Updated as of September 2022.↩︎