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$21M in stimulus money to help expand high-speed Internet network on Crow Indian Reservation, public libraries across Montana

July 2, 2010 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

Proposals to expand high-speed Internet access on the Crow Indian Reservation and at more than three dozen Montana public libraries will be funded by nearly $21 million in federal stimulus money, the White House announced Thursday.

The grants and loans, which President Barack Obama plans to unveil Friday morning, are part of $800 million in nationwide funding announced by the White House. It’s the latest round of $7 billion in federal stimulus money intended to expand high-speed Internet in "underserved" or unserved parts of the country.

Project Telephone Co., which proposed the Crow Reservation project, and the Montana State Library are the first Montana applicants to receive part of this federal stimulus money

By MIKE DENNISON Missoulian State Bureau

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_3acd7fbc-8587-11df-9593-001cc4c03286.html

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