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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4802 

To track applications to locate or modify communications facilities on Federal 

real property, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 16, 2018 

Mr. KINZINGER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 

each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To track applications to locate or modify communications 

facilities on Federal real property, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Streamlining and Ex5 pediting Approval for Communications Technologies Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. TRACKING OF APPLICATIONS TO LOCATE OR MOD2 IFY COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES ON FED3 ERAL REAL PROPERTY. 

4 (a) TRACKING BY SENIOR REAL PROPERTY OFFI5 CERS.— 

6 (1) IN GENERAL.—For the first fiscal year that 

7 begins more than 1 year after the date of the enact8 ment of this Act, and each fiscal year thereafter, the 

9 Senior Real Property Officer of a covered agency 

10 shall track applications to locate or modify commu11 nications facilities on covered assets of such agency. 

12 (2) INFORMATION INCLUDED.—The tracking 

13 required by paragraph (1) shall include tracking 

14 of— 

15 (A) the number of applications described 

16 in such paragraph that are— 

17 (i) received; 

18 (ii) approved; and 

19 (iii) denied; 

20 (B) in the case of an application described 

21 in such paragraph that is denied, the reasons 

22 for the denial; 

23 (C) the amount of time between the receipt 

24 of an application described in such paragraph 

25 and the issuance of a final decision on such ap26 plication; 


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1 (D) in the case of an application described 

2 in such paragraph with respect to which the 

3 agency is not in compliance with a deadline for 

4 action that is imposed by statute or regulation 

5 or has not achieved a performance goal included 

6 in a performance plan of the agency under sec7 tion 1115(b) of title 31, United States Code, 

8 the reasons for the delay; and 

9 (E) the cost to the agency of considering 

10 applications described in such paragraph. 

11 (3) REPORTS.— 

12 (A) FROM SRPOS TO NTIA.—Not later than 

13 90 days after the end of each fiscal year for 

14 which the Senior Real Property Officer of a 

15 covered agency is required under paragraph (1) 

16 to track applications described in such para17 graph, the Senior Real Property Officer shall 

18 submit to the Assistant Secretary a report on 

19 the tracking of such applications during such 

20 fiscal year that includes the information de21 scribed in paragraph (2). 

22 (B) FROM NTIA TO CONGRESS.—Not later 

23 than 180 days after the end of each fiscal year 

24 for which the Senior Real Property Officer of a 

25 covered agency is required under paragraph (1) 


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1 to track applications described in such para2 graph, the Assistant Secretary shall submit to 

3 the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 

4 House of Representatives and the Committee 

5 on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 

6 the Senate a report that contains— 

7 (i) the information described in para8 graph (2) that was contained in each re9 port submitted by a Senior Real Property 

10 Officer under subparagraph (A) for the fis11 cal year; 

12 (ii) an analysis of the speed and effi13 ciency of the consideration by each covered 

14 agency of such applications during the fis15 cal year; and 

16 (iii) any recommendations on how to 

17 improve the process of considering such 

18 applications that the Assistant Secretary 

19 considers appropriate. 

20 (4) RESPONSE TO INQUIRIES.—Beginning on 

21 the first day of the first fiscal year for which the 

22 Senior Real Property Officer of a covered agency is 

23 required under paragraph (1) to track applications 

24 described in such paragraph, the Senior Real Prop25 erty Officer shall respond to an inquiry about the 


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1 status of such an application from the applicant not 

2 later than 7 days after the date on which the Senior 

3 Real Property Officer receives the inquiry. 

4 (b) INCLUSION OF GOALS IN AGENCY PERFORMANCE

5 PLANS.—Beginning with the first performance plan that 

6 the head of a covered agency is required to make available 

7 under section 1115(b) of title 31, United States Code, 

8 after the date that is 60 days after the date of the enact9 ment of this Act, the head of the agency shall include in 

10 such plan performance goals for the speed and efficiency 

11 of the consideration by the agency of applications de12 scribed in subsection (a)(1). 

13 (c) COVERED AGENCY DEFINED.—In this section, 

14 the term ‘‘covered agency’’ means an agency for which a 

15 Senior Real Property Officer is designated under Execu16 tive Order 13327 (69 Fed. Reg. 5895). 

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