rayiner's comment mentioning "prisoners, LGBTQI+ individuals, women, and people of color" is not about the build out. It's about community outreach and measuring impact on who is getting connected.

It's all in the Notice of Funding Opportunity for the program.

The only reference to actually diversity in the actual build out are:

* Complying with CFR 200.321, considering MWBE are considered in subcontracting, which is standard in many federal contracts

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-II/p...

* Non-discrimination in hiring, also standard in federal contracts

* Encouraging, but not requiring awardees to broaden their recruitment to underrepresented groups: > Ensuring that subgrantees prioritize hiring local workers and have robust and specific plans to recruit historically underrepresented populations facing labor market barriers and ensure that they have reasonable access to the job opportunities created by subgrantees