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House Bill 7355
116th Congress(2019-2020)
Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act
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H. R. 7355 (Introduced-in-House)


116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 7355


To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to submit a plan to Congress to track requests for communications use authorization on Federal land.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 25, 2020

Mr. Hudson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to submit a plan to Congress to track requests for communications use authorization on Federal land.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act”.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON TRACKING FORM 299 REQUESTS.

(a) Definitions.—In this section:

(1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.—The term “appropriate committees of Congress” means—

(A) the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives; and

(B) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate.

(2) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term “Assistant Secretary” means the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information.

(3) DEPARTMENT CONCERNED.—The term “Department concerned” means—

(A) the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to public land; and

(B) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System land.

(4) FORM 299.—The term “Form 299” means the form developed pursuant to section 6409(b)(2)(A) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455(b)(2)(A)), or any successor form.

(5) NTIA.—The term “NTIA” means the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

(6) SECRETARY CONCERNED.—The term “Secretary concerned” means—

(A) the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to public land; and

(B) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System land.

(b) Report on tracking form 299 requests.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report with the elements described in paragraph (2).

(2) ELEMENTS DESCRIBED.—The elements described are as follows:

(A) A plan describing how NTIA will track the acceptance, processing, and disposal of a Form 299 submitted to the Department concerned by a requesting party.

(B) A description of how NTIA would most expeditiously implement the plan described in subparagraph (A).

(C) How to increase transparency to a requesting party on the status of a Form 299 received by the Department concerned.

(D) Any barriers the Assistant Secretary determines could delay the implementation of the plan described in subparagraph (A).