Colorado’s EAGLE-Net Alliance broadband project is cooperating with...
Colorado’s EAGLE-Net Alliance broadband project is cooperating with federal auditors, the stimulus grantee told us in a statement late Thursday. It was responding to concerns raised by three House Republicans in a letter to the Commerce Department Office of Inspector…
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General Thursday (CD May 10 p19). “The OIG has been in our facilities this week, and we have already responded to most of the questions that were listed in the letter sent by the three Congressmen on May 9th,” EAGLE-Net said in a statement through its spokeswoman. “We have been and will continue to answer OIG’s questions in a timely and efficient manner.” Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., was critical of the project, in addition to signing the letter. “EAGLE-Net has spent all but $7.8 million of the $100 million it was originally given, and it has only reached half of the schools it promised to serve,” Gardner said in a statement Thursday. “Now they're trying to raise additional funds from the private sector with no clear plan for how they're ever going to be sustainable. This is a government program run amok, and we owe it to the taxpayers to find out exactly what happened before EAGLE-Net wastes anymore money.” EAGLE-Net and NTIA have defended the infrastructure project’s spending in the past, countering persistent claims from Gardner and other critics in the state.