lack of access to broadband services on Tribal lands and Hawaiian Home Lands during the COVID–19 pandemic further highlights the digital divide in Indian Country. (6) The Government Accountability Office found that health information technology systems at the Indian Health Service rank as the Federal Government’s third-highest need for agency system modernization, since 50 percent of Indian Health Service facilities depend on outdated circuit connections based on one or two TI circuit lines (3 Mbps), creating slower response times than any other health facility system in the United States. (7) A 2018 Tribal health reform comment filed with the Federal Communications Commission has further stated that approximately 1.5 million people living on Tribal lands lack access to broadband and, of the 75 percent of rural Indian Health Service facilities, many still lack reliable broadband networks for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) to access telehealth or clinical health care services, which is a critical need in the most geographically isolated areas of the country with some of the highest poverty rates, and lack of access to reliable transportation. (8) The Bureau of Indian Education has stated that recent estimates from 142 out of 174 schools have indicated that approximately 15 to 95 percent of students do not have access to internet services at home depending on Bureau school location and limitations on data caps during the COVID–19 crisis. (b) Deployment of wireless broadband service on Tribal lands and Hawaiian Home Lands (1) Funding of grants for immediate deployment of wireless broadband service on Tribal lands and Hawaiian Home Lands In addition to any other amounts made available, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated— (A) $297,500,000 for grants under the community facilities grant program under section 306(a)(19) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to Indian Tribes, qualifying Tribal entities, and the Director of