House Republicans are still worried about the EAGLE-Net...
House Republicans are still worried about the EAGLE-Net Alliance. Three lawmakers sent a letter to U.S. Commerce Department Inspector General Todd Zinser urging an audit of the Colorado broadband stimulus grantee and posing additional questions to ask of the project…
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leaders (http://1.usa.gov/15tx4Gi). The project, tasked with connecting schools, is controversial, they said in the Thursday letter, signed by House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden of Oregon and Reps. Cory Gardner and Scott Tipton of Colorado. They questioned its finances and buildout, repeating criticisms from a February House hearing (CD Feb 28 p2) that EAGLE-Net has defended itself against. NTIA told us in April it found EAGLE-Net’s spending reasonable, when lifting a five-month partial suspension for problems with its environmental review process (CD May 1 p5). In the letter, the representatives ask about how many funds remain and are uncommitted from the $100.6 million Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grant that EAGLE-Net received and about its plans for future buildout. EAGLE-Net will need additional millions and is seeking providers to partner with in a public-private partnership, it said this month (CD May 8 p12).