Federal Communications Commission DA 19-432 DA 19-432 Released: May 16, 2019 FCC ANNOUNCES MEMBERSHIP AND FIRST MEETING OF THE RE-CHARTERED BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE GN Docket No. 17-83 This Public Notice serves as notice that, consistent with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2. Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Chairman Ajit Pai has appointed members to serve on the re-chartered Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC). The re-chartered BDAC will hold its first meeting on Thursday, June 13, 2019, beginning at 9:30 am, in the Commission Meeting Room at FCC Headquarters, located at 445 12th Street, SW, Room TW-C305, Washington, DC 20554. Notice of this meeting will be published in the Federal Register. In its second term, the BDAC will continue its work to craft recommendations for the Commission on ways to accelerate the deployment of high-speed Internet access, or “broadband,” by reducing and/or removing regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment and strengthening existing broadband networks in communities across the country. The BDAC will continue to provide an opportunity for interested stakeholders to exchange ideas and develop recommendations to the Commission on broadband deployment, which will in turn enhance the Commission’s ability to carry out its statutory responsibility to encourage the deployment of broadband to all Americans. Specifically, the BDAC and its three Working Groups will address the following topics: · Disaster Response and Recovery Working Group—Measures to improve resiliency of broadband infrastructure before a disaster occurs, and strategies that can be used during and after the response to a disaster to minimize broadband network downtime. Chairman Pai has re-chartered the BDAC’s Disaster Response and Recovery Working Group to continue its work. See FCC Seeks Applicants for BDAC Disaster Response and Recovery Group, Public Notice, DA 18-837 (Aug. 9, 2018). · Increasing Broadband Investment in Low-Income Communities Working Group—New ways to encourage the deployment of high-speed broadband infrastructure and services to low-income communities. FCC Solicits Nominations for New Working Group of the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee Focused on Increasing Broadband Investment in Low-Income Communities, Public Notice, DA 19-158 (Mar. 7, 2019). · Broadband Infrastructure Deployment Job Skills and Training Opportunities Working Group—Ways to make more widely available and improve job skills training and development opportunities for the broadband infrastructure deployment workforce. FCC Solicits Nominations for New Working Group of the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee Focused on Job Skills and Training Opportunities for the Broadband Infrastructure Deployment Workforce, Public Notice, DA 19-241 (Apr. 1, 2019). These efforts will build upon the vital work done by the BDAC in its first term, including providing recommendations to help ensure that competing broadband providers can obtain efficient access to the infrastructure necessary to deploy broadband services, which greatly informed the Commission’s adoption of a one-touch make-ready pole attachment regime; See Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, WC Docket No. 17-84, Third Report and Order and Declaratory Ruling, 33 FCC Rcd 7705 (2018). adopting model legislation for use by states and local governments; providing recommendations on removing regulatory barriers to broadband deployment on federal lands and property; and identifying actions at the state and local government levels that serve as barriers to broadband deployment, along with recommendations to address these barriers. Chairman Pai has designated Elizabeth Bowles, President and Chair of Aristotle, Inc., to continue to serve as Chair of the BDAC, and David Young, Fiber Infrastructure and Right of Way Manager, City of Lincoln, Nebraska, to continue to serve as Vice Chair. A full list of BDAC members is attached to this Public Notice. Additionally, Chairman Pai has selected Justin L. Faulb to serve as Designated Federal Officer (DFO) of the BDAC. Mr. Faulb replaces Paul D’Ari, the outgoing DFO. Zach Ross and Darrel Pae will serve as the new Deputy DFOs, replacing Deborah Salons and Jiaming Shang. The agenda of the BDAC’s first meeting will be to introduce the BDAC members, describe the working groups, assign members to working groups, and begin discussing how to accelerate the deployment of broadband by reducing and/or removing regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment. The BDAC will also receive a status report from the Disaster Response and Recovery Working Group. This agenda may be modified at the discretion of the BDAC Chair and the Designated Federal Officer (DFO). The BDAC meeting is open to the public. The FCC will accommodate as many attendees as possible; however, admittance will be limited to seating availability. The Commission will also provide audio and/or video coverage of the meeting over the Internet from the FCC’s web page at www.fcc.gov/live. Open captioning will be provided for this event. Other reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request. Requests for such accommodations should be submitted via e-mail to fcc504@fcc.gov or by calling the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432 (TTY). Such requests should include a detailed description of the accommodation needed. In addition, please include a way for the FCC to contact the requester if more information is needed to fill the request. Please allow at least five days’ advance notice for accommodation requests; last minute requests will be accepted, but may not be possible to accommodate. Members of the public may submit comments to the BDAC in the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System, ECFS, at www.fcc.gov/ecfs. Comments to the BDAC should be filed in GN Docket No. 17-83. More information about the BDAC is available at https://www.fcc.gov/broadband-deployment-advisory-committee. You may also contact Justin L. Faulb, DFO of the BDAC, at 202-418-1589, or Justin.Faulb@fcc.gov; Zach Ross, Deputy DFO, at 202-418-1033, or Zachary.Ross@fcc.gov; or Darrel Pae, Deputy DFO, at 202-418-0687, or Darrel.Pae@fcc.gov. –FCC–BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE Justin L. Faulb, Designated Federal Officer Zach Ross, Deputy Designated Federal Officer Darrel Pae, Deputy Designated Federal Officer Chair: Elizabeth Bowles, President and Chair Aristotle Inc. Vice Chair: David Young, Fiber Infrastructure and Right of Way Manager, City of Lincoln, Nebraska National League of Cities Members: Jonathan Adelstein, President and Chief Executive Officer Wireless Infrastructure Association Claude Aiken, President and Chief Executive Officer Wireless Internet Service Providers Association Allen Bell, Distribution Support Manager, Georgia Power Southern Company Kelleigh Cole, Manager of Strategic Projects Utah Education and Telehealth Network Robert DeBroux, Director, Public Policy and Federal Regulatory Affairs TDS Telecom Douglas Dimitroff, Partner, Phillips Lytle LLP New York State Wireless Association Skyler Ditchfield, Chief Executive Officer GeoLinks David Don, Vice President, Regulatory Policy Comcast Tom Ellefson, Senior Vice President, Northeast Region Engineering T-Mobile Thomas Ferree, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Connected Nation Marc Ganzi, Chief Executive Officer Digital Bridge Holdings LLC Carlos Gutierrez, Deputy Director, Legal and Policy Affairs LGBT Technology Partnership & Institute Michael Hain, General Manager and Chief Technology Officer Nittany Media Larry Hanson, Executive Director Georgia Municipal Association Julie Kearney, Head of Regulatory Affairs Loon LLC Leticia Latino, President and Chief Executive Officer Neptuno Eve Lewis, Assistant City Attorney City of Coconut Creek, Florida Jim Matheson, Chief Executive Officer National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Kelly McGriff, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Uniti Group Charles McKee, Vice President of Government Affairs, Federal and State Regulatory Sprint Chris Nurse, Assistant Vice President for State Legislative and Regulatory Affairs AT&T The Honorable Karen Charles Peterson, Commissioner Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Scott Rudd, Director of Broadband Opportunities Office of Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch, State of Indiana The Honorable Gregg Sayre, Commissioner New York Public Service Commission Ken Simon, Senior Vice President and General Counsel Crown Castle Dileep Srihari, Senior Policy Counsel and Director, Government Affairs Telecommunications Industry Association Brent Skorup, Senior Research Fellow, Technology Policy Program Mercatus Center, George Mason University Curt Stamp, Vice President, Government Affairs Cox Communications Tom Struble, Manager and Counsel, Technology & Innovation Policy R Street Institute Rikin Thakker, Vice President, Telecommunications and Spectrum Policy Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council Larry Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, VantagePoint NECA Tim Walden, Senior Vice President, Local Network Implementation CenturyLink Nancy Werner, General Counsel National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors Christopher Yoo, Professor, University of Pennsylvania 6