NTIA hasn’t yet sought Office of Management and Budget approval o...

an agency spokesman told us Thursday. When NTIA will file with the OMB “still is to be determined,” and so is whether the agency will seek fast-track emergency approval, said the spokesman. Normal OMB handling would mean five months or more to clear and enact an order. In its coupon-program rules, NTIA said ir decided to offer coupons only to “individual U.S. households,” and not “businesses, schools or other entities,” including assisted-living facilities. “There is nothing in the legislative history or the [rulemaking] comments that suggests that Congress intended to extend eligibility beyond households,” NTIA said. NTIA first proposed disqualifying anyone who getting mail at a post office box from getting a coupon. But “given the sensitivity of commenters to the prevalence of post office boxes in rural America, NTIA will make allowances for households on Indian reservations, Alaskan native villages and other rural areas where post office boxes are the only means of mail delivery,” the rules said.