Federal Funding Account Recommendations and Awards
Grant Awards and Proposed Awards Information
Federal Funding Account Awards and Recommendations by County
Federal Funding Account Awards Map
The Federal Funding Account Awards Map is now available to explore the CPUC’s latest Federal Funding Account awards and recommended projects. The map provides project information such as grantee/applicant, award amount, speeds offered, and approval status. Users may select different layers to learn about the communities being funded through the Federal Funding Account.Awards and Proposed Awards News Releases
Below is a chronological list of Proposed Awards for Public Comment. Grants approved by Resolution or Ministerial Review will be added as they are awarded.
T-17852, may be considered at the Commission’s October 17, 2024 Voting Meeting: Recommends awards of up to $18 million for unserved areas in San Luis Obispo County. Until and unless the Commission hears the item and votes to approve it, the recommendation has no legal effect. This item may be heard, at the earliest, at the Commission’s October 17, 2024 Voting Meeting.
T-17850, may be considered at the Commission’s October 17, 2024 Voting Meeting: Recommends awards of up to $23 million for unserved areas in Madera and Napa counties. Until and unless the Commission hears the item and votes to approve it, the recommendation has no legal effect. This item may be heard, at the earliest, at the Commission’s October 17, 2024 Voting Meeting.
T-17846, may be considered at the Commission’s September 26, 2024 Voting Meeting: Recommends awards of up to ~$71.4 million for unserved areas in Del Norte, Humboldt, and Siskiyou counties. Until and unless the Commission hears the item and votes to approve it, the recommendation has no legal effect. This item may be heard, at the earliest, at the Commission’s September 26, 2024 Voting Meeting. | Press Release
T-17845, may be considered at the Commission’s September 26, 2024 Voting Meeting: Recommends awards of ~$102.9 million for unserved areas in El Dorado, and Santa Clara counties. Until and unless the Commission hears the item and votes to approve it, the recommendation has no legal effect. This item may be heard, at the earliest, at the Commission’s September 26, 2024 Voting Meeting. | Press Release
Resolution T-17839 (September 12, 2024): Approves ten applications for grants for up to $91 million from the Last Mile Federal Funding Account in Marin, Mendocino, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Sutter counties. | Press Release
Resolution T-17835 (August 22, 2024): Approves eleven applications for grants for up to $142 million from the Last Mile Federal Funding Account in Mono, Nevada, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Mateo counties. | Press Release
Resolution T-17833 (August 22, 2024): Approves ten applications for grants for up to ~$95 million from the Last Mile Federal Funding Account in Alpine, Modoc, Riverside, Santa Barbara, and Tulare counties. | Press Release
Resolution T-17829 (July 11, 2024): Approves five applications for grants for up to ~$44.4 million from the Last Mile Federal Funding Account in Alameda, San Francisco, and Sierra counties. | Press Release
Resolution T-17826 (July 11, 2024): Approves six applications for grants for up to ~$44.1 million from the Last Mile Federal Funding Account in Imperial, Lassen, and Plumas counties. | Press Release
June 7, 2024 Federal Funding Account Ministerial Review Letter awards $16.7 million for three projects in Plumas County to Plumas-Sierra Telecom (PST): PST Portola-Delleker-Whitehawk for $6,018,607, PST Plumas Pines-Graeagle for $5,134,398, and PST Quincy Coax Conversion for $5,595,647. | Press Release
Awards and Recommendations Process
The Commission began a rolling process for issuing staff recommendations for Last Mile Federal Funding Account broadband grant program awards.
Broadband infrastructure funding staff recommendations will be issued for public comment as Draft Resolutions. Draft Resolutions will be batched and may contain multiple counties and multiple awards in each county. An application not recommended for award in an initial Resolution may be recommended for award in a later Resolution. In addition, some awards may qualify for ministerial approval, which means staff can award without a Commission vote. Ministerial awards and "Final Resolutions" adopted by the Commission will be published on this webpage. View Frequently Asked Questions about Federal Funding Account recommendations and awards.
Sign up for Federal Funding Account program updates here. Subscribe to the “CASF Distribution List” to receive official notice of proposed grant award Resolutions and the opportunity to submit public comment.
Public comments should be served to the “CASF Distribution List” the same day comments are submitted to CPUC staff. The list can be downloaded here.
The Federal Funding Account, administered by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), is a $2 billion grant program for last-mile broadband infrastructure projects to connect unserved Californians in accordance with Senate Bill 156 (Chapter 112, Statutes of 2021).