The Commonwealth of Virginia has published the Initial Proposal, as required under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program (BEAD). These sections serve as Volume 1 of the Initial Proposal.
Upon approval of this plan, as well as submission of those remaining requirements for the Initial Proposal as outlined in the BEAD Notice of Funding Opportunity, the Office of Broadband will commence the challenge process as outlined in this document while other Initial Proposal components are under consideration by the National Telecommunications and Information Association. This approach, that of submitting in two volumes, allows the Office of Broadband to maintain an accelerated timeline of approval and implementation of funds provided under the BEAD program.
For more information about how the Initial Proposal, as well as other documents under the BEAD program align with closing the digital divide, we recommend reviewing the resources at Virginia Telecommunication Initiative (VATI) | DHCD.
The section numbers of the initial proposal (3, 5, 6, and 7) correspond with the according sections of the BEAD Notice of Funding Opportunity.
