855 
(i) by striking ‘‘Subject to paragraph 
(1),’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph 
(1) and subparagraph (B),’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘loan or’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘grant, loan, or’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(B) PILOT
PROGRAMS.—The Secretary 
shall establish pilot programs under which the 
Secretary may, at the discretion of the Sec-
retary, provide grants, loans, or loan guarantees 
under this section to eligible entities, including 
interested entities described in subparagraph 
(A)— 
‘‘(i) 
to 
address 
areas 
that 
are 
unserved or have service levels below the 
minimum acceptable level of broadband 
service established under subsection (e); or 
‘‘(ii) for the purposes of providing a 
proposed service territory with ultra-high 
speed service, subject to the conditions 
that— 
‘‘(I) not more than 5 projects, 
and not more than 1 project in any 
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State, shall be carried out under this 
clause during the period beginning on 
the date of enactment of this Act and 
ending on September 30, 2018; 
‘‘(II) for each fiscal year, not 
more than 10 percent of the funds 
made available under subsection (l) 
shall be used to carry out this clause; 
‘‘(III) for each fiscal year, not 
more than 20 percent of the funds 
made available under subclause (II) 
shall be used for any 1 project; and 
‘‘(IV) paragraph (2)(A)(i) shall 
apply to the project, unless— 
‘‘(aa) the Secretary deter-
mines that no other project in 
the State is funded under this 
section; and 
‘‘(bb) no application for any 
other project that could be fund-
ed under this section, other than 
under this clause, is pending in 
the State.’’; 
(E) in paragraph (5)— 
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(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A), by striking ‘‘loan or’’ and in-
serting ‘‘grant, loan, or’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting 
‘‘, and proportion relative to the service 
territory,’’ after ‘‘estimated number’’; 
(F) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘loan or’’ 
and inserting ‘‘grant, loan, or’’; 
(G) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘a loan 
application’’ and inserting ‘‘an application’’; 
and 
(H) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) TRANSPARENCY
AND
REPORTING.—The 
Secretary— 
‘‘(A) shall require any entity receiving as-
sistance under this section to submit quarterly, 
in a format specified by the Secretary, a report 
that describes— 
‘‘(i) the use by the entity of the assist-
ance, including new equipment and capac-
ity enhancements that support high-speed 
broadband access for educational institu-
tions, health care providers, and public 
safety service providers (including the esti-
mated number of end users who are cur-
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rently using or forecasted to use the new 
or upgraded infrastructure); and 
‘‘(ii) the progress towards fulfilling 
the objectives for which the assistance was 
granted, including— 
‘‘(I) the number and location of 
residences and businesses that will re-
ceive new broadband service, existing 
network service improvements, and fa-
cility upgrades resulting from the 
Federal assistance; 
‘‘(II) the speed of broadband 
service; 
‘‘(III) the price of broadband 
service; 
‘‘(IV) any changes in broadband 
service adoption rates, including new 
subscribers generated from demand- 
side projects; and 
‘‘(V) any other metrics the Sec-
retary determines to be appropriate; 
‘‘(B) shall maintain a fully searchable 
database, accessible on the Internet at no cost 
to the public, that contains, at a minimum— 
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