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Broadband applicants press UDOT on BEAD/BEED process; Utah Broadband Center update given
Summary
Service providers urged clarity on BEAD/BEED project selection and raised concerns about UDOT's middle‑mile application and mapping assumptions. UDOT staff summarized the Utah Broadband Center’s process, project‑area counts and technology mix but said awardee list remained pending NTIA coordination.
Multiple service providers and applicants used public comment time at the Aug. 12 Transportation Commission meeting to press UDOT staff about the state’s BEAD/BEED process and to question UDOT’s own role in some middle‑mile proposals.
Sylvia Wilkins, representing a BEED applicant, asked who will finalize project priorities to send to NTIA, how project areas were defined using census blocks, and how mixed private/tribal lands and noncontiguous project areas…
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