DIGITAL Applications Act

To require the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to establish online portals to accept, process, and dispose of certain Form 299s, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Deploying Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act DIGITAL Applications Act 2. Establishment of online portals to accept, process, and dispose of certain Form 299s (a) Establishment of online portals (1) Establishment Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretaries concerned shall each establish, with respect to the relevant covered department, an online portal for the acceptance, processing, and disposal of a Form 299 for communications use authorizations. (2) Notification Not later than 3 business days after the date on which an online portal has been established by a Secretary pursuant to paragraph (1), that Secretary shall notify the Assistant Secretary of the establishment of such portal. (b) Availability of online portals The Assistant Secretary shall publish on the website of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration a link to each online portal established pursuant to subsection (a)(1). (c) Definitions In this section: (1) Assistant secretary The term Assistant Secretary (2) Communications facility The term communications facility communications facility installation 47 U.S.C. 1455(d) (3) Communications use The term communications use (4) Communications use authorization The term communications use authorization (A) provided by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture; (B) to locate or modify a communications facility on covered land; and (C) for the primary purpose of authorizing the occupancy and use of such covered land for communications use. (5) Covered land The term covered land (A) public lands; and (B) National Forest System land. (6) Form 299 The term Form 299 47 U.S.C. 1455(b)(2)(A) (7) National Forest System The term National Forest System 16 U.S.C. 1609(a) (8) Public lands The term public lands 43 U.S.C. 1702 (9) Relevant covered department The term relevant covered department (A) with respect to the Secretary of the Interior, the Department of the Interior; and (B) with respect to the Secretary of Agriculture, the Department of Agriculture. (10) Secretaries concerned The term Secretaries concerned (A) the Secretary of the Interior; and (B) the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service.

Summary: Deploying Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act or the DIGITAL Applications Act This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to each establish an online portal for processing communications use authorizations. These are requests for easements, rights-of-way, leases, licenses, or other authorizations to locate or modify a transmitting device, support structure, or other communications facility on public lands or National Forest System land. Interior and the Forest Service must also notify the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within three business days of establishing their respective portals, and once the portals are established, the NTIA must link to them from its website.