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<title>Broadband - Measuring Availability and Aligning Policies Task Force Act</title>
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<action-date>2021-02-15</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Broadband - Measuring Availability and Aligning Policies Task Force Act or the Broadband MAPS Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a task force that oversees implementation and use of broadband availability maps.</p> <p>Specifically, the task force must (1) oversee specified data collection and analysis, including creating and updating broadband availability maps; (2) identify relevant FCC actions and ensure they are informed by the maps; (3) provide cost estimates for maintaining the maps; and (4) provide necessary recommendations to ensure the FCC can produce sufficiently granular and accurate maps to determine areas that lack broadband internet access service.</p>]]></summary-text>
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