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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Pennsylvania House Republican Leader Jesse Topper’s office, Topper said on Friday that the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority provisionally approved $793 million in broadband expansion projects across Pennsylvania pending federal approval. The vote from Friday also lets public comment for a period of seven days on the projects before their federal submission. The link to the proposal for a draft of the projects and the link to submit a comment publicly about them on the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority website can be found at these website addresses below:

https://dced.pa.gov/download/bead-final-proposal-for-public-comment-draft/?wpdmdl=127493

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=QSiOQSgB1U2bbEf8Wpob3qD50183yK5Og8hdMIGSwNVUOFoxWlZFNExHQTdDSk1OUlE2MDUzUzU3US4u