GRANTS TO PRE-MAPPED STATES HAVE MERIT,NTIA AND USDA TELL GOP LAWMAKERS

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Prioritizing broadband grants toward states that have completed mapping programs could have "certain advantages," NTIA and USDA officials told House Commerce Committee GOP leaders. But since the maps "vary in accuracy" they are "only one of many factors that we may consider in evaluating a project," officials told Reps. Joe Barton of Texas and Cliff Stearns of Florida in a letter responding to the lawmakers' questions raised in a March 25 letter. Barton and Stearns suggested that prioritizing grants to pre-mapped states could be an efficient way of spending grant money