The Missouri Broadband Infrastructure Grant Program helps providers, communities, counties, and regions invest in building broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas of the state through competitive grants.
Donor Name: Missouri Department of Economic Development
State: Missouri
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 09/29/2022
Grant Size: $100 million
Details:
Funding Information
- Grants will be subject to the following limitations:
- Project minimum grant amount: $100,000;
- Project maximum grant amount: $10 million; and
- Applicant maximum for Program:$100 million
- The Department of Economic Development will hold multiple funding rounds in Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024 (July 1, 2022 –June 30, 2024)
Eligible Projects
Broadband infrastructure projects meeting the following criteria are eligible for funding under this Program:
- The project is designed to meet a critical need of the community to be served, as is related to access, affordability, reliability, and/or consistency. Applicants must document their justification for critical need.
- Treasury’s Guidance for the Coronavirus CPF requires DED to consider whether the broadband service options offered by subrecipients will be affordable to their target markets in the proposed service area. DED will therefore prioritize projects addressing critical need related to access and affordability.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants eligible for grants awarded include:
- Corporations;
- Partnerships;
- Limited liability companies;
- Non profit organizations;
- Local governments;
- Rural electric cooperatives organized under chapter 394 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri and their broad band affiliates;
- Telephone cooperatives, as defined in §386.020(55);and
- Public-private partnerships, with private or nonprofit partners that are registered in this state.
- All entities required to register with the Missouri Secretary of State to conduct business in the State must be registered and in good standing.
- Applicants that are debarred or suspended are not eligible.
- The SFRF regulation requires that for as long as the SFRF-funded infrastructure is in use that provides service to households, the provider must participate in the Federal Communications Commission’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) through the lifetime of the ACP, or otherwise provide access to a broad-based affordability program to low-income consumers in the proposed service area that provides benefits to households commensurate with those provided under the ACP.
- CPF guidance requires awarded applicants, or subrecipients, must offer at least one low-cost option without data usage caps and at speeds that are sufficient for a household with multiple users to simultaneously telework and engage in remote learning
For more information, visit Missouri Department of Economic Development.
