Broadband Competition and Efficient Deployment Act

Subjects: Science, Technology, Communications


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3288 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3288

 To provide that a project for the collocation of a telecommunications 
  service facility is not subject to requirements to prepare certain 
           environmental or historical preservation reviews.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 2023

  Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
  the Committee on Natural Resources, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that a project for the collocation of a telecommunications 
  service facility is not subject to requirements to prepare certain 
           environmental or historical preservation reviews.

    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 ``Broadband Competition and Efficient 
Deployment Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF NEPA AND NHPA TO COLLOCATION OF 
              TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE FACILITIES.

    (a) NEPA Exemption.--A Federal authorization with respect to a 
covered project may not be considered a major Federal action under 
section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)).
    (b) National Historic Preservation Act Exemption.--A covered 
project may not be considered an undertaking under section 300320 of 
title 54, United States Code.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal 
        Communications Commission.
            (2) Covered project.--The term ``covered project'' means a 
        project--
                    (A) for the placement, construction, or 
                modification of a telecommunications service facility 
                in or on eligible support infrastructure; and
                    (B) for which a permit, license, or approval from 
                the Commission is required or that is otherwise subject 
                to the jurisdiction of the Commission.
            (3) Eligible support infrastructure.--The term ``eligible 
        support infrastructure'' means infrastructure that supports or 
        houses a facility for communication by wire (or is designed to 
        or capable of supporting or housing such a facility) at the 
        time when a complete request to a State or local government or 
        instrumentality thereof, or to an Indian Tribe, for 
        authorization to place, construct, or modify a 
        telecommunications service facility in or on the infrastructure 
        is received by the government, instrumentality, or Indian 
        Tribe.
            (4) Federal authorization.--The term ``Federal 
        authorization''--
                    (A) means any authorization required under Federal 
                law with respect to a covered project; and
                    (B) includes any permits, special use 
                authorizations, certifications, opinions, or other 
                approvals as may be required under Federal law with 
                respect to a covered project.
            (5) Indian tribe.--The term ``Indian Tribe'' has the 
        meaning given the term ``Indian tribe'' under section 102 of 
        the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 
        U.S.C. 5130).
            (6) State.--The term ``State'' means each State of the 
        United States, the District of Columbia, and each territory or 
        possession of the United States.
            (7) Telecommunications service.--The term 
        ``telecommunications service'' has the meaning given such term 
        in section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153).
            (8) Telecommunications service facility.--The term 
        ``telecommunications service facility''--
                    (A) means a facility that is designed or used to 
                provide or facilitate the provision of any interstate 
                or intrastate telecommunications service; and
                    (B) includes a facility described in subparagraph 
                (A) that is used to provide other services.
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