SEC. 2. CODIFYING 60-DAY TIME FRAME FOR CERTAIN RE-
QUESTS. 
Section 6409(a) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and 
Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455(a)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘any eligible 
facilities request’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘any 
complete— 
‘‘(A) eligible facilities request for a modi-
fication of an existing wireless tower, base sta-
tion, or eligible support structure that does not 
substantially change the physical dimensions of 
such tower, base station, or eligible support 
structure; and 
‘‘(B) eligible telecommunications facilities 
request for a modification of any existing tele-
communications service facility in or on an eli-
gible support infrastructure that does not sub-
stantially change the physical dimensions of 
such facility.’’; 
(2) by amending paragraph (2) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(2) TIME FRAME.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 60 
days after the date on which a State or local 
government receives a complete request de-
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scribed under paragraph (1), the State or local 
government shall approve such request. 
‘‘(B) DEEMED APPROVAL.—If a State or 
local government does not approve a request by 
the date required under subparagraph (A), the 
request is deemed approved on the day after 
such date. 
‘‘(C) WHEN REQUEST CONSIDERED COM-
PLETE; RECEIVED.— 
‘‘(i) WHEN
REQUEST
CONSIDERED 
COMPLETE.— 
‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—For the pur-
poses of this paragraph, a request to 
a State or local government shall be 
considered complete if the requesting 
party has not received a written notice 
from the State or local government 
within 10 business days after the date 
on which the request is received by 
the State or local government— 
‘‘(aa) stating that all the in-
formation (including any form or 
other document) required by the 
State or local government to be 
submitted for the request to be 
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considered complete has not been 
submitted; and 
‘‘(bb) identifying the infor-
mation required to be submitted 
that was not submitted. 
‘‘(II) 
DEFINITION.—In 
this 
clause, the term ‘received by the State 
or local government’ means— 
‘‘(aa) in the case of a re-
quest submitted electronically, on 
the date on which the request is 
transmitted; 
‘‘(bb) in the case of a re-
quest submitted in person, on the 
date on which the request is de-
livered to the individual or at the 
location specified by the State or 
local government for in-person 
submission; and 
‘‘(cc) in the case of a re-
quest submitted in any other 
manner, on the date determined 
under regulations promulgated by 
the Commission for the manner 
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in which the request is sub-
mitted. 
‘‘(ii) WHEN COMPLETE REQUEST CON-
SIDERED RECEIVED.—For the purposes of 
this paragraph, a complete request shall be 
considered received on the date on which 
the requesting party submits to the State 
or local government all information (in-
cluding any form or other document) re-
quired by the State or local government to 
be submitted for the request to be consid-
ered complete.’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) ELIGIBLE
FACILITIES
REQUEST.— 
The term ‘eligible facilities request’ means any 
request for modification of an existing wireless 
tower, base station, or eligible support structure 
that involves— 
‘‘(i) collocation of new transmission 
equipment; 
‘‘(ii) removal of transmission equip-
ment; 
‘‘(iii) replacement of transmission 
equipment; or 
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‘‘(iv) placement, modification, or con-
struction of equipment that— 
‘‘(I) improves the resiliency of 
the wireless tower, base station, or eli-
gible support structure; and 
‘‘(II) provides a direct benefit to 
public safety, such as— 
‘‘(aa) 
providing 
backup 
power for the wireless tower, base 
station, or eligible support struc-
ture; 
‘‘(bb) hardening the wireless 
tower, base station, or other eligi-
ble support structure; or 
‘‘(cc) providing more reliable 
connection capability using the 
wireless tower, base station, or 
other eligible support structure. 
‘‘(B) ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS FA-
CILITIES
REQUEST.—The term ‘eligible tele-
communications facilities request’ means any 
request for modification of an existing tele-
communications service facility in or on an eli-
gible support infrastructure that involves— 
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‘‘(i) collocation of new telecommuni-
cations service facility equipment; 
‘‘(ii) removal of telecommunications 
service facility equipment; or 
‘‘(iii) replacement of telecommuni-
cations service facility equipment. 
‘‘(C) ELIGIBLE
SUPPORT
INFRASTRUC-
TURE.—The term ‘eligible support infrastruc-
ture’ means infrastructure that supports or 
houses a facility for communication by wire (or 
is designed to and capable of supporting or 
housing such a facility) at the time when a 
complete request to a State or local government 
or instrumentality thereof for authorization to 
place, construct, or modify a telecommuni-
cations service facility in or on the infrastruc-
ture is received by the government or instru-
mentality. 
‘‘(D) ELIGIBLE
SUPPORT
STRUCTURE.— 
The term ‘eligible support structure’ means a 
structure that supports a personal wireless serv-
ice facility at the time at which the eligible fa-
cilities request is made. 
‘‘(E) PERSONAL
WIRELESS
SERVICE
FA-
CILITY.—The term ‘personal wireless service fa-
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