Online and off I’ve heard a lot of grumblings about the NTIA/RUS review process. I think that they were supposed to announce the first round cuts from the first round of grants this week. It didn’t happen. Then I heard from Geoff Daily’s blog that the grants were going straight to the states for their input. Today I heard from Diane Wells (Dept of Commerce) that the State had indeed heard from the NTIA and they are getting the applications for early inspection. The State is supposed to make their comments by October 14.

The State is working getting an evaluation team together.

I’m not sure what that means for anyone with an application in the hopper – but there you go. I was in the right place at the right time for this latest update but I still think Mike O’Connor continues to keep people as informed as he is with the BTOP Review blog.