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users to simultaneously telework and engage in remote learning. Recipients will be required to <br />report speed, pricing, and any data allowance information as part of mandatory reporting to <br />Treasury. <br />The final rule also clarifies that subsidies to households and communities impacted by the <br />pandemic to access the Internet, broadband adoption programs, digital literacy programs, and <br />device programs are eligible programs to respond to the public health and negative economic <br />impacts of the pandemic under sections 602(c)(1)(A) and 603(c)(1)(A). See section Assistance to <br />Households in Negative Economic Impacts. <br />Treasury continues to encourage recipients to prioritize support for broadband networks <br />owned, operated by, or affiliated with local governments, nonprofits, and cooperatives. In <br />addition, to the extent recipients are considering deploying broadband to locations where there <br />are existing enforceable federal or state funding commitments for reliable service at speeds of at <br />least 100 Mbps download speed and 20 Mbps upload speed, recipients must ensure that SLFRF <br />funds are designed to address an identified need for additional broadband investment that is not <br />met by existing federal or state funding commitments. Recipients must also ensure that SLFRF <br />funds will not be used for costs that will be reimbursed by the other federal or state funding <br />streams. Further, Treasury highlights that recipients are subject to the prohibition on use of grant <br />funds to procure or obtain certain telecommunications and video surveillance services or <br />equipment as outlined in 2 C.F.R. 200.216 and 2 C.F.R. 200.471 and clarifies that modernization <br />of cybersecurity for existing and new broadband networks are eligible uses of funds under <br />sections 602(c)(1)(D) and 603(c)(1)(D). <br />298 <br />