Post-award chores for successful stimulus applicants

If you are lucky and perseverant enough to be awarded broadband stimulus funds, your travails are not yet over. In fact, they may just be beginning. Awardees under both "BIP" (the program administered by the Rural Utilities Service) and "BTOP" (the NTIA-administered program) must comply with a number of post-award requirements.

We're providing a thumb-nail introduction to those requirements below. As you review the various post-award obligations, keep in mind the stern admonition, at least for BIP winners, that in the event of failure to comply with the terms of an award, "RUS may exercise rights and remedies." That vague but menacing threat is intended to ensure that winners carefully comply with the various post-award requirements...