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During the first week of 2021, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s or Commission’s) Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) released two Public Notices seeking comment on the Commission’s implementation of the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 (the Act) as well as the Act’s injection of new funding to the Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program first established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). As we previously explained, Section 904 of the Act appropriates $3.2 billion for the EBB Program to provide subsidies for qualifying low-income households for broadband services and certain devices during the COVID-19 pandemic, while Section 903 of the Act provided an additional $249.95 million into the telehealth program.