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  "description": "The agency urged ISPs to ensure state contracts exempt them from certain laws and include permitting commitments.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-11T16:33:51.000Z",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, May 11, 2026 – The Commerce Department doesn’t want state broadband offices signing contracts with ISPs that alter requirements for a $42.45 billion grant program.\n\nThe agency told ISPs to notify a federal program officer if a proposed contract attempts to “alter a subgrantee’s rights or fails to include required language,” according to a memo posted Monday by the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. Subgrantees are what participating ISPs are called under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program.\n\n“If a state omits or alters required language, it is out of compliance with BEAD requirements,” the agency wrote. “That puts the subgrant — as well as the state’s award — at risk.”\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "NTIA to BEAD Winners: ‘Know Your Rights’",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-21T09:47:37.946Z"
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