The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau awarded more than $1.2 million Wednesday in its final round of funding through the affordable connectivity program's tribal competitive outreach program (see 2303150058). The new funding will support five tribal organizations, said a public notice in docket 21-450. The funding was limited to governmental and nongovernmental tribal entities that will do outreach and enrollment assistance to eligible households on qualifying tribal lands.

The U.S. asked the Court of International Trade for a voluntary remand in a countervailing duty case to reconsider the calculation of benchmark prices for land and ocean freight. The government said its practice regarding the calculation of these figures has evolved since the present case was brought by Risen Energy Co. and JA Solar on the 2019 review of the CVD order on solar cells from China (Risen Energy Co. v. United States, CIT Consol. # 22-00231).

The State Department approved a $1.5 billion potential military sale to Bulgaria of "Stryker Vehicles" and related equipment, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Sept. 1. The principal contractor will be General Dynamics Land Systems.

The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for CBP will next meet remotely Sept. 20, CBP said in a notice. Comments are due in writing by Sept. 15.

J.Crew enables wiretapping of electronic communications between the clothing company and its customers without the recipients' knowledge, said a Tuesday privacy class action (docket 1:23-cv-07429) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

The Treasury Department is putting eight more military bases under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. after proposing the additions in May (see 2305040052). The expansion, effective Sept. 22, includes the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota that was the subject of a controversial CFIUS decision last year (see 2212150035, 2212290023 and 2208310066) as well as bases in Texas, California, South Dakota, Iowa and Arizona. CFIUS will be able to intervene in certain land purchases by foreign buyers if they are near any of those sensitive military bases.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Mustafa Kasubhai for Oregon in Eugene postponed oral argument to Oct. 17 at 1 p.m. PDT on the cross motions for summary judgment filed June 1 by AT&T and Lake County, Oregon, said his text-only scheduling order Wednesday (docket 6:22-cv-01635). The postponement was at the request of counsel, said the order. AT&T wants the court to declare the county’s denial of its application for a wireless telecommunications facility “amounted to an effective prohibition” of services in violation of the Telecommunications Act (see 2307260023). The county contends AT&T is barred from “seeking redress” from the district court because it failed to appeal the county’s application denial to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals.

A bill that would restrict California regulators’ discretion to make extra rules for NTIA’s broadband equity, access and deployment (BEAD) program dismayed local and consumer advocates. With a month left in session, California legislators are also weighing broadband bills to require wireless eligibility for federal funding and to streamline broadband permitting. Assembly Communications Committee Chair Tasha Boerner (D) said the goal of her BEAD bill (AB-662) is to bring “accountability” to the California Public Utilities Commission.

Anti-5G group Americans for Responsible Technology is trying to organize formal opposition to the House Commerce Committee-cleared American Broadband Deployment Act (HR-3557) and other bills promoted as streamlining regulatory reviews of connectivity projects, ahead of what the group believes will be an attempt to fast-track the measures after Congress returns from the August recess after Labor Day. House Commerce advanced HR-3557, a package of GOP-led connectivity permitting revamp measures, on a party-line 27-23 vote in May, with all Democrats opposed (see 2305240069). Wired Broadband President Odette Wilkens and three lawyers rallied ART supporters against HR-3557 and other measures during a Wednesday webcast.

A group of solar companies led by JA Solar asked the Court of International Trade on Aug. 16 for the opportunity to conduct oral arguments in a countervailing duty case involving the non-use of China's Export Buyer's Credit Program (Risen Energy Co. v. U.S. CIT # 22-00231).