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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1055 

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 

FEBRUARY 15, 2021 

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. 

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 ‘‘Federal Broadband 

5 Deployment Tracking Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. REPORT ON TRACKING FORM 299 REQUESTS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 

8 date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary 

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1 shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress 

2 a report containing the elements described in subsection 

3 (b). 

4 (b) ELEMENTS DESCRIBED.—The elements described 

5 in this subsection are the following: 

6 (1) A plan describing how the Assistant Sec7 retary will track the acceptance, processing, and dis8 posal of a Form 299 submitted to the Secretary con9 cerned by a requesting party. 

10 (2) A description of how the Assistant Sec11 retary would most expeditiously implement the plan 

12 described in paragraph (1). 

13 (3) A description of how the Assistant Sec14 retary may increase transparency to a requesting 

15 party on the status of a Form 299 received by the 

16 Secretary concerned. 

17 (4) A description of any barriers the Assistant 

18 Secretary determines could delay the implementation 

19 of the plan described in paragraph (1). 

20 (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

21 (1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON22 GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con23 gress’’ means— 

24 (A) the Committee on Energy and Com25 merce of the House of Representatives; and 

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1 (B) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 

2 and Transportation of the Senate. 

3 (2) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist4 ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of 

5 Commerce for Communications and Information. 

6 (3) FORM 299.—The term ‘‘Form 299’’ means 

7 the form developed pursuant to section 

8 6409(b)(2)(A) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and 

9 Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 

10 1455(b)(2)(A)), or any successor form. 

11 (4) NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM.—The term 

12 ‘‘National Forest System’’ has the meaning given 

13 the term in section 11(a) of the Forest and Range14 land Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 

15 U.S.C. 1609(a)). 

16 (5) PUBLIC LAND.—The term ‘‘public land’’ 

17 means land under the management of— 

18 (A) the Bureau of Land Management; 

19 (B) the National Park Service; 

20 (C) the United States Fish and Wildlife 

21 Service; or 

22 (D) the Bureau of Reclamation. 

23 (6) SECRETARY CONCERNED.—The term ‘‘Sec24 retary concerned’’ means— 

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1 (A) the Secretary of the Interior, with re2 spect to public land; and 

3 (B) the Secretary of Agriculture, with re4 spect to National Forest System land. 

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