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Thu, May 13th 2021 6:31am — Karl Bode While the Biden administration's $2 trillion American Jobs Plan set aside $100 billion for broadband infrastructure, the details of how that money is to actually be spent remains murky. Enter cable industry lobbyists, who are hard at work attempting to dictate who gets access to those funds, while also trying to make sure the funds aren't used for anything that could threaten their regional monopolies. They're particularly worried about the Biden administration's promise that a big focus of the effort will be on giving aid to locally owned and operated...

Six Ways the Funds Can be Used Today, the U.S. Treasury released the Interim Final Rule on the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. The funds were authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which was signed into law earlier this year. Under the ARPA, states, territories, metropolitan cities, counties and tribal governments will receive the funds directly from the U.S. Treasury. Local governments that are deemed non-entitlement entities will receive the funds through the state government. The Treasury Department said it expects to issue additional guidance on the distrib...

PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS Senate Committee Approved Bill that Would Require Guidance on Reducing Firefighter Exposure to PFAS Regulatory Developments EPA Makes Changes to New Chemicals Program Likely to Further Complicate, Slow Reviews EPA Takes Steps to Set PFAS Agenda OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012 EPA Said Interim Rule to Amend TSCA Mercury Reporting Requirements Was Forthcoming Environmental Groups Seek EPA Actions on Phosphogypsum and Process Wastewater from Phosphoric Acid Production EPA Ann...

[co-author: Stephen Kim] REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS Treasury to Invest $9 Billion in Community Development Financial Institutions and Minority Depository Institutions Through Emergency Capital Investment Program On March 4, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced that it was opening the application process for the Emergency Capital Investment Program (ECIP) – a Congressionally authorized new program designed to provide long-term, low-cost equity and subordinated debt financing for participating institutions in order to support low-and-moderate income historically disadvantaged...

The Biden administration plans to allow a Trump-era rule targeting Chinese technology firms deemed to pose a threat to the United States to go into effect despite objections from U.S. businesses, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday. The department issued an interim final rule in the final days of the Trump administration aimed at addressing information and communications technology supply chain concerns and said it would become effective after a 60-day period of public comment. On Friday, a Commerce spokeswoman said in a statement the department would continue to accept public commen...