Appendix A - Existing Broadband Funding Sources


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3		Broadband Funding Sources - Utah
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5	Source Name of federal agency/ other source of funding.	Purpose Indicate whether the broadband funding program was federal, state/territory, or locally funded.	Total Total amount of funds awarded by the listed source.	Expended Total amount of funds expended to date.	Available Total amount of remaining funds available to date.

6	Capital Projects Fund (CPF) through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) – U.S. Dept. of the Treasury – Administered in Utah by UBC (Broadband Access Grant)	Build infrastructure to homes to connect unserved and underserved households to high-speed internet to provide access to health care, education opportunities, and employment	$10,000,000	$444,662	$0
7	Capital Projects Fund (CPF) through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) – U.S. Dept. of the Treasury – Administered in Utah by UDOT Middle Mile	Build middle mile infrastructure on state highways to connect last-mile households	$46,000,000	$0	$46,000,000
8	Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Infrastructure Grant – National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Dept . of Commerce – Administered in Utah by UBC	BEAD will provide $42.45 billion nationally to bring universal broadband access to all Americans. Utah’s allocation is $317.4 million.	$317,399,742	$1,231,746	$312,399,742
9	NTIA Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program	Ute Indian Tribe - Broadband. The Broadband Infrastructure Deployment project proposes to install fiber directly connecting 590 unserved Native American households, 14 businesses, and 16 anchor institutions with service of at least 250 Mbps symmetrical.	$15,854,542	N/A	N/A
10	NTIA Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program	Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, White Mesa Community. The Broadband Infrastructure Deployment project proposes to install two middle-mile routes across non-contiguous Tribal lands in two states, and will build a last-mile FTTP infrastructure to connect the 104 homes, businesses, and Tribal government locations in White Mesa, Utah, directly connecting approximately 817 unserved Native American households, 7 unserved Tribal businesses, and 36 unserved community anchor institutions with qualifying broadband with a range of services starting at 200 Mbps symmetrical speeds to 1 Gbps symmetrical speeds.	$22,727,874* *Partially in Colorado	N/A	N/A
11	NTIA Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program	Navajo Tribal Utility Authority. The Broadband Infrastructure Deployment project proposes to install fiber, fixed wireless, and 2.5 GHz wireless networks to directly connect 20,827 unserved and underserved Native American households with fiber-to-the-home and/or fixed wireless to the home service up to 1 Gbps/1 Gbps.	$50,830,944* *Covers tribal lands across Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. Projects may or may not include Utah.	N/A	N/A
12	State Digital Equity Planning Grant Program (DEA) – NTIA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce – Administered in Utah by UBC	Digital Equity Planning funds	$676,685	$150,002	$0
13	Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) – Federal Communications Commission (FCC)	RDOF funds awarded to Emery Telecom and ATC Communications for constructing broadband infrastructure in rural communities.	$10,422,649	N/A	N/A
14	Utah Universal Service Fund High Cost Support (UUSF)	The Utah Universal Public Telecommunications Service Support Fund (UUSF) is a funding mechanism for a qualifying carrier of last resort to obtain specific, predictable, and sufficient funds to deploy and manage, for the purpose of providing service to end-users, networks capable of providing access lines, connections, or wholesale broadband Internet access service.	2022: $21,814,225	$21,814,225	$0
15	USDA ReConnect Grants and Loans	Federal funding for grants and loans to connect households businesses.	Round 1: $28,914,950 Round 2: $32,609,449 Round 4: $4,427,690	N/A	N/A
16	USDA Community Connect Grant	The purpose of the Community Connect Program is to provide financial assistance in the form of grants to eligible applicants that will provide, on a “community -oriented connectivity” basis, broadband service that fosters economic growth and delivers enhanced educational, health care, and public safety benefits.	2018 - 2020 $4,500,065	N/A	N/A
17	E-Rate funding – The Utah Education and Telehealth Network (UETN)	The Utah Education and Telehealth Network is the consortium applicant for Utah, applying for E-Rate on behalf of its stakeholders. In 2022, UETN receive $13.6 million of E-Rate funding that supports new and existing internet connections to 1,900+ schools, libraries, and key healthcare locations throughout Utah.	$13,600,000	N/A	N/A
18	Federal Lifeline Program – Universal Service Administration Company (USAC)	The federal Lifeline program provides a discount on phone or internet service for qualifying low-income consumers to ensure that all Americans have the opportunities and security that phone and internet service brings, including being able to connect to jobs, family and emergency services.	2022: $171,565	N/A	N/A
19	Utah Lifeline Program -- Utah Universal Service Fund	The Utah Lifeline Program provides additional state funding to those that qualify for the Federal Lifeline Program.	2022: $20,767	$20,767	$0
20	Alternative Connect America Cost Model (ACAM) – Federal USAC	The federally funded Alternative Connect America Cost Model provides set monthly payments based on a cost model to Rate of Return carriers to build broadband to a specific number of fixed locations in areas eligible for funding	2022: $28,492,145	N/A	N/A
21	Connect America Fund CAF/BLS, CAF/ICC, & CACM – Federal USAC	The federally funded Connect America Fund subsidizes rural broadband development to make it more cost-effective for telecommunications firms to bring affordable broadband services to the areas that have been lagging far behind.	2022: $8,591,264	N/A	N/A
22	High Cost Loop (HCL) – Federal Universal Service Fund	The federal HCL support provides support for the last mile of connection for rural companies in service areas where the cost to provide this service exceeds 115 percent of the national average cost per line.	2022: $1,863,492	N/A	N/A
23	Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP)		Jan 2022 - July 2023: $24,243,2009	N/A	N/A
24	CARES Act	UDOT received $30 million of federal CARES funds to install 159 miles of middle mile fiber in state highways.	$30,000,000	$30,000,000	$0
25	ARPA State Fiscal Recovery Fund Allocations	Total project cost was $109,000. This project extends the Hildale City Utah fiber network from Box Elder Street (within the Hildale Industrial Park) to the west, approximately 11,000 ft to the Hildale Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). The facility is a lagoon treatment/evaporation operation. Fiber optic cable will replace an out of date, non-functional radio link formerly connecting the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) network to the sewer plant. SCADA allows "real-time” remote monitoring, security, and operational control. The project is completed.	$75,000	$75,000	$0
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2		Broadband Funding Sources - Example Template Overview
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4	Initial Proposal Requirement	Eligible Entities must identify any existing sources of funding to deploy broadband and close the digital divide. This template may be used to respond to the BEAD Initial Proposal intake question 1.1.1 for Existing Broadband Funding (Requirement 3).
5	Purpose	The Eligible Entity must submit an attachment identifying existing sources of funding to deploy broadband and close the digital divide, which outlines the sources of funding, a brief description of the broadband deployment and other broadband-related activities, the total funding, the funding amount expended, and the remaining funding amount available. NTIA will review the attachment to ensure alignment with the BEAD NOFO, the NTIA BEAD Challenge Process Policy Notice, and Initial Proposal requirements.
6	BEAD NOFO Requirement	This template must align with Section IV.5.b.3 of the BEAD NOFO (page 31), outlining existing sources of funding to deploy broadband and close the digital divide. The template must also align with the NTIA BEAD Challenge Process Policy Notice, which outlines the requirement to identify existing efforts funded by the federal government or an Eligible Entity within the jurisdiction of the Eligible Entity to deploy broadband and close the digital divide, including in Tribal Lands. Existing Broadband Funding Efforts: Identify existing efforts funded by the federal government or an Eligible Entity within the jurisdiction of the Eligible Entity to deploy broadband and close the digital divide, including in Tribal Lands (BEAD NOFO, page 31).