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Nebraska Broadband Office explains BEED rollout, says federal funding is secure
Summary
Patrick Haggerty, director of the Nebraska Broadband Office, described creation of a distinct NDOT program to administer federal BEED deployment awards, outlined front‑loaded federal requests and said the office sees no current risk to federal funding.
Patrick Haggerty, director of the Nebraska Broadband Office, appeared before the Appropriations Committee to explain the office's budget request and the creation of program 562 within NDOT to separately account for broadband grant administration.
Haggerty said the Nebraska Broadband Office is "100% federally funded" and that the program request—including roughly $1.72 million in cash‑fund authority for FY2026 and nearly $140 million in…
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