roundtable: TIIAP Update - Case Studies, Letters, Etc.

roundtable: TIIAP Update - Case Studies, Letters, Etc.

TIIAP Update - Case Studies, Letters, Etc.

Richard Civille (rciville@civicnet.org)
Sun, 16 Apr 1995 23:16:55 -0400 

Message-Id: <199504170321.XAA09610@clark.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 23:16:55 -0400
To: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable <ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG>
From: rciville@civicnet.org (Richard Civille)
Subject: TIIAP Update - Case Studies, Letters, Etc.


April 17, 1995

UPDATE ON TIIAP PROGRAM CUTS AND REQUEST FOR CASE STUDIES AND LETTERS

WE HAVE RECEIVED ABOUT FIFTY REPLIES IN THE PAST WEEK.
They include case studies,  letters to representatives, comments and 
critiques.

Are you wondering if there is still time send us your story? Yes there 
is! Send us your stories! Congress is home for the recess until the end 
of April. This game is not over yet. Go have a chat with your elected 
official about the value of TIIAP to their district. We can turn this 
around.

We have compiled case studies and other materials and are passing them 
on to the White House, NTIA and key Hill staff. We will contact sources 
of case studies, letters and other comments for permission to repost on 
the Center's world wide web site, and edited summaries to our mailing 
lists.  This should be completed by the end of this week. If you sent 
us material, and you are reading this, and it is OK for us to repost--or 
not OK, please let us know, you'll save us some time. Some of you have 
been in touch with us already on this matter, thank you all.

Thank you and stay tuned.

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TIIAP Grant Program Cut -- Please Repost

Over 4,000 applicants for information high way grants could have much less
money this year. A recission bill signed into law by President Clinton on
April 5 cut grant funding from $64M to $49M, less than two weeks after
Administration officials testified in Congress that the President would
oppose any cuts in the fund this year. This amount is not secure. Another
bill awaits the return of Congress from recess that could lop an additional
$30M from the program. Worst case: only $19M may remain for the program for
this year. The new Telecommunications Information Infrastructure
Applications Program (TIIAP) has been under fire in Congressional recission
hearings for the past several months. The popular program leverages local
dollars to build on-ramps to the information superhighway for municipal
governments, educational institutions and non-profit organizations. This
year TIIAP will automatically set aside 25 percent of its funding for
smaller, public access projects to quickly disperse funds to rural and
underserved urban areas.

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