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Permitting Success: Closing the Digital Divide Through Local Broadband Permitting
The historic levels of funding made available through the bipartisan Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program will generate historic levels of construction—and this will put enormous pressure on local governments.
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