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Senate committee seeks acceleration of interoperability funds

Published Friday, June 23, 2006

Senate Commerce Committee members yesterday decided by voice vote to approve an amendment to the massive communications bill making $1 billion in interoperability funds available to first-responder agencies this fall. Offered by Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the amendment would make the $1 billion in interoperability funds available by Oct. 1, instead of forcing public-safety entities to wait until after the 700 MHz auction—the revenue source supporting the funds—to be conducted in 2008. “This is not new money, but it would accelerate when [public safety] could use it,” said Yucel Ors, legislative director for the ...

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