SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Provide Rigorous Over-
sight To Optimize Connectivity and Offset Latency Act’’ 
or the ‘‘PROTOCOL Act’’. 
SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENTS TO FCC BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT 
LOCATIONS MAP AND NTIA BROADBAND IN-
FRASTRUCTURE FUNDING DATABASE. 
(a) ADDITIONAL DATA ELEMENTS.— 
(1) FCC MAP.—Section 60105(d) of the Infra-
structure Investment and Jobs Act (47 U.S.C. 
1704(d)) is amended by striking paragraph (3) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(3) allows users to manipulate the Deployment 
Locations Map to identify, search, and filter 
broadband infrastructure deployment projects by— 
‘‘(A) the Federal agency of jurisdiction; 
‘‘(B) the program title; 
‘‘(C) the network type, including wired, 
terrestrial fixed, wireless, mobile, and satellite 
broadband infrastructure deployment; 
‘‘(D) the name of the entity receiving sup-
port to deploy the broadband infrastructure; 
‘‘(E) whether the entity receiving support 
to deploy the broadband infrastructure is— 
‘‘(i) a private, for-profit entity; 
‘‘(ii) a nonprofit organization; 
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‘‘(iii) a public-private partnership; 
‘‘(iv) a public utility; 
‘‘(v) a private utility; 
‘‘(vi) a public utility district; 
‘‘(vii) a government entity; 
‘‘(viii) a cooperative; 
‘‘(ix) a Tribal entity; or 
‘‘(x) a type of entity not listed in 
clauses (i) through (ix); 
‘‘(F) the amount of Federal funding 
awarded; 
‘‘(G) whether any non-Federal matching 
funds were contributed, and, if so, the amount 
of such funds; 
‘‘(H) the duration timeline, including the 
dates of a project’s beginning and ending, or 
anticipated beginning or ending date; 
‘‘(I) the total number of locations to which 
a project makes service available; and 
‘‘(J) minimum required download and 
upload speeds;’’. 
(2) NTIA DATABASE.—Section 903(c)(2)(A) of 
the ACCESS BROADBAND Act (47 U.S.C. 
1307(c)(2)(A)) is amended— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘The Office’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Office’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(ii) 
DATA
ELEMENTS.—For 
any 
Federal broadband support program or 
Universal Service Fund Program that pro-
vides support for broadband infrastructure 
deployment, the database required by 
clause (i) shall include the data described 
in paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 
60105(d) of the Infrastructure Investment 
and Jobs Act (47 U.S.C. 1704(d)).’’. 
(b) DEFINITIONS OF FEDERAL BROADBAND SUP-
PORT PROGRAM AND BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 903(g) of the AC-
CESS BROADBAND Act (47 U.S.C. 1307(g)) is 
amended— 
(A) in paragraph (4), by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(H) The Broadband Equity, Access, and 
Deployment Program established under section 
60102 of the Infrastructure Investment and 
Jobs Act (47 U.S.C. 1702).’’; 
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(B) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(3) 
through (8) as paragraphs (4) through (9), re-
spectively; and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 
following: 
‘‘(3) 
BROADBAND
INFRASTRUCTURE.—The 
term ‘broadband infrastructure’ has the meaning 
given such term in section 60105(a) of the Infra-
structure Investment and Jobs Act (47 U.S.C. 
1704(a)).’’. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 903 
of the ACCESS BROADBAND Act (47 U.S.C. 
1307) is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘broadband deployment’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘broadband 
infrastructure deployment’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (8) (as redesignated by 
this section) of subsection (g), by striking 
‘‘broadband’’ and inserting ‘‘broadband infra-
structure’’. 
(c) COORDINATION BETWEEN FCC AND NTIA.— 
Section 60105(g) of the Infrastructure Investment and 
Jobs Act (47 U.S.C. 1704(g)) is amended— 
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(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘NONDUPLICA-
TION’’ and inserting ‘‘NONDUPLICATION; COORDINA-
TION’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘The 
Commission and the Assistant Secretary of Com-
merce for Communications and Information shall co-
ordinate with each other to ensure consistency be-
tween, and accuracy in, the Deployment Locations 
Map and the central database required by subsection 
(c)(2)(A) of such section.’’. 
(d) STATE REPORTING.— 
(1) DATA RELATING TO FEDERAL PROGRAMS.— 
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the As-
sistant Secretary shall transmit to each State a re-
quest for the State to submit to the Assistant Sec-
retary a report, with respect to the 1-year period im-
mediately preceding the report date, that— 
(A) lists the locations at which broadband 
service was made available using broadband in-
frastructure deployed with support provided 
through any covered Federal award received by 
the State; and 
(B) lists any subgrants or other awards 
made by the State to other entities of support 
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provided through a covered Federal award re-
ceived by the State, and the locations at which 
broadband service will be made available using 
broadband infrastructure deployed with such 
support. 
(2) DATA RELATING TO STATE PROGRAMS.—In 
requesting a State to submit a report under para-
graph (1), the Assistant Secretary shall request the 
State to include in the report, with respect to the 1- 
year period immediately preceding the report date— 
(A) a list of the locations at which 
broadband service was made available using 
broadband infrastructure deployed with support 
provided through a program established by the 
State; and 
(B) a list of any awards of support for the 
deployment of broadband infrastructure made 
by the State through a program established by 
the State, and the locations at which broadband 
service will be made available using broadband 
infrastructure deployed with such support. 
(3) TRANSMISSION BY NTIA TO FCC.—Not later 
than 45 days after receiving a report from a State 
in response to a request under paragraph (1), the 
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Assistant Secretary shall transmit the report to the 
Commission. 
(4) INCLUSION IN FCC MAP AND NTIA DATA-
BASE.— 
(A) FCC MAP.—Section 60105(d) of the 
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (47 
U.S.C. 1704(d)), as amended by the preceding 
provisions of this section, is further amended— 
(i) in paragraph (4), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 
and 
(ii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(5) incorporates the data in the State reports 
transmitted to the Commission by the Assistant Sec-
retary of Commerce for Communications and Infor-
mation under section 2(d) of the PROTOCOL Act.’’. 
(B) 
NTIA 
DATABASE.—Section 
903(c)(2)(A) of the ACCESS BROADBAND 
Act (47 U.S.C. 1307(c)(2)(A)), as amended by 
the preceding provisions of this section, is fur-
ther amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(iii) DATA SUBMITTED BY STATES.— 
The database required by clause (i) shall 
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incorporate the data in the State reports 
submitted to the Assistant Secretary under 
section 2(d) of the PROTOCOL Act.’’. 
(e) REQUIRED USE
OF FCC MAP
BY FEDERAL 
AGENCIES; OUTREACH BY FCC.—Section 60105 of the 
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (47 U.S.C. 1704) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(i) REQUIRED USE OF MAP BY FEDERAL AGEN-
CIES; OUTREACH BY FCC.— 
‘‘(1) REQUIRED
USE.—Each Federal agency 
providing funding for broadband infrastructure de-
ployment shall use the Deployment Locations Map 
in making an award of any such funding. 
‘‘(2) OUTREACH.—The Commission shall con-
duct outreach to each Federal agency providing 
funding for broadband infrastructure deployment to 
ensure that such agency is aware of— 
‘‘(A) the requirement of subsection (e)(2) 
to report relevant data to the Commission; and 
‘‘(B) the requirement of paragraph (1) of 
this subsection to use the Deployment Loca-
tions Map in making an award of such fund-
ing.’’. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In this section: 
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(A) BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE.—The 
term ‘‘broadband infrastructure’’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 60105(a) of the 
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (47 
U.S.C. 1704(a)). 
(B) BROADBAND
SERVICE.—The term 
‘‘broadband service’’ has the meaning given the 
term ‘‘broadband internet access service’’ in 
section 8.1(b) of title 47, Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, or any successor regulation. 
(C) COVERED
FEDERAL
AWARD.—The 
term ‘‘covered Federal award’’ means any 
award made under a covered Federal program, 
to the extent such award provides support for 
broadband infrastructure deployment. 
(D) COVERED
FEDERAL
PROGRAM.—The 
term ‘‘covered Federal program’’ means any of 
the following: 
(i) A Federal broadband support pro-
gram. 
(ii) A Universal Service Fund Pro-
gram. 
(E) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means 
each State of the United States, the District of 
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Columbia, and each commonwealth, territory, or 
possession of the United States. 
(2) TERMS DEFINED IN ACCESS BROADBAND 
ACT.—In this section, the terms ‘‘Assistant Sec-
retary’’, ‘‘Commission’’, ‘‘Federal broadband support 
program’’, and ‘‘Universal Service Fund Program’’ 
have the meanings given such terms in section 
903(g) of the ACCESS BROADBAND Act (47 
U.S.C. 1307(g)). 
Æ 
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