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GAO-22-106116 1 (2022-09-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaonqp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O ,U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 September 22, 2022 The Honorable Chris Van Hollen Chair The Honorable Cindy Hyde-Smith Ranking Member Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The Honorable Mike Quigley Chair The Honorable Steve Womack Ranking Member Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Broadband: Needs of Rural Small Businesses and Federal Programs to Support Them This correspondence responds to a provision in the Explanatory Statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 to brief congressional committees on the broadband challenges facing rural small businesses. On September 8, 2022, we provided a briefing to congressional committees. The contents of the briefing summarized our July 2021 report on the broadband needs of small businesses.1 We sought updates from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service, and the Small Business Administration to ensure that the information from the previous report remains up to date. The summary document we provided for the briefing is attached as an enclosure. We conducted this performance audit from June to September 2022 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. We believe that the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. If you or your staff have any additional questions about this report, please contact me at 202- 512-2834 or vonaha@gao.gov. Contact points for our Offices of Congressional Relations and Public Affairs may be found on the last page of this report. GAO staff who made key 1GAO, Broadband: FCC Should Analyze Small Business Speed Needs, GAO-21-494 (Washington, D.C: July 8, 2021). GAO-22-106116 Broadband for Rural Small Business Page 1

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