Streamlining Rural Broadband Act of 2025 repeals the Community Connect Grant program and reallocates its funds to the ReConnect Program.
The Streamlining Rural Broadband Act of 2025 repeals the Community Connect Grant program, which was established under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. The bill also makes conforming amendments to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. Additionally, it allocates the unobligated balances of the Community Connect Grant program to the ReConnect Program, a broadband loan and grant pilot program authorized under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018. This reallocation allows the Secretary of Agriculture to use these funds without further appropriation.
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