I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3340 
To amend the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 to 
provide for an application for a Federal easement, right-of-way, or lease 
with respect to a communications facility installation to be deemed grant-
ed if not granted or denied by the specified deadline, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2023 
Mr. OBERNOLTE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation 
Act of 2012 to provide for an application for a Federal 
easement, right-of-way, or lease with respect to a commu-
nications facility installation to be deemed granted if 
not granted or denied by the specified deadline, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Granting Remaining 
Applications Not Treated Efficiently or Delayed Act of 
2023’’ or the ‘‘GRANTED Act of 2023’’. 
SEC. 2. TIMELY CONSIDERATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR 
FEDERAL EASEMENTS, RIGHTS-OF-WAY, AND 
LEASES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 6409(b)(3) of the Middle 
Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 
1455(b)(3)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘duly 
filed’’ and inserting ‘‘complete’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) DEEMED GRANTED.—If an executive 
agency fails to grant or deny a complete appli-
cation by the deadline under subparagraph (A), 
the application shall be deemed granted on the 
day after such deadline. 
‘‘(F) WHEN
APPLICATION
CONSIDERED 
COMPLETE; RECEIVED.— 
‘‘(i) WHEN APPLICATION CONSIDERED 
COMPLETE.—For the purposes of this 
paragraph, an application to an executive 
agency shall be considered complete if the 
applicant— 
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‘‘(I) has taken the first proce-
dural step within the control of the 
applicant to submit such an applica-
tion in accordance with the procedures 
established by the executive agency 
for the review and approval of such an 
application; and 
‘‘(II) has not received a written 
notice from the executive agency with-
in 30 days after the date on which the 
application is received by the executive 
agency— 
‘‘(aa) stating that all infor-
mation (including any form or 
other document) required by the 
executive agency to be submitted 
for the application to be consid-
ered complete has not been sub-
mitted; and 
‘‘(bb) identifying the infor-
mation required to be submitted 
that was not submitted. 
‘‘(ii) WHEN COMPLETE APPLICATION 
CONSIDERED
RECEIVED.—For the pur-
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poses of this paragraph, a complete appli-
cation shall be considered received— 
‘‘(I) except as provided in sub-
clause (II), on the date on which the 
applicant submits to the executive 
agency all information (including any 
form or other document) required by 
the executive agency to be submitted 
for the application to be considered 
complete; or 
‘‘(II) in the case of an applica-
tion with respect to which all such in-
formation is not submitted and that is 
considered complete under clause (i) 
because the applicant has not received 
a written notice from the executive 
agency within the period described in 
such clause, on the day after the last 
day of such period.’’. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub-
section (a) shall apply with respect to any application 
under subsection (b) of section 6409 of the Middle Class 
Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 
1455) that is received by an executive agency (as defined 
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in subsection (d) of such section) on or after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
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