Two Southwest Virginia counties will receive more than $9 million combined federal funding for broadband expansion, members of Virginia’s congressional delegation have announced. BARC Electric Cooperative will receive about $4.5 million for a system in Rockbridge County that will provide broadband to 816 residents and four businesses. Carroll County is the commonwealth’s least connected county, according to the Virginia Broadband Advisory Council, and has no scheduled projects connected to the $1 billion Virginia Telecommunication Initiative (VATI). Rockbridge County was scheduled to receive more than $2 million from the telecommunication initiative, according to a July report from The News-Gazette, in Lexington. The county, which had not previously received VATI funding, matched that money, with its broadband partners contributing $3.9 million, according to that report.