SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reducing Antiquated 
Permitting for Infrastructure Deployment Act’’ or the 
‘‘RAPID Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION ON SHOT CLOCK 
TIMELINE BEGINNING FOR PURPOSES OF 
NHPA. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICE.—The term 
‘‘personal wireless service’’ means— 
(A) commercial mobile service (as defined 
in section 332(d) of the Communications Act of 
1934 (47 U.S.C. 332(d))); 
(B) commercial mobile data service (as de-
fined in section 6001 of the Middle Class Tax 
Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 
1401)); 
(C) unlicensed wireless service; and 
(D) common carrier wireless exchange ac-
cess service. 
(2) PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICE FACILITY.— 
The term ‘‘personal wireless service facility’’ means 
a facility for the provision of personal wireless serv-
ice. 
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(3) SMALL PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICE FA-
CILITY.—The term ‘‘small personal wireless service 
facility’’— 
(A) means a personal wireless service facil-
ity in which each antenna is not more than 3 
cubic feet in volume; and 
(B) does not include a wireline backhaul 
facility. 
(4) WIRELINE BACKHAUL FACILITY.—The term 
‘‘wireline backhaul facility’’ means an above-ground 
or underground wireline facility used to transport 
communications service or other electronic commu-
nications from a small personal wireless service facil-
ity or its adjacent network interface device to a com-
munications network. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—The deployment of a small per-
sonal wireless service facility shall not constitute an under-
taking under section 300320 of title 54, United States 
Code, or a major Federal action for the purposes of sec-
tion 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act 
of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332). 
(c) REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—If an Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian Organization is shown to have received a 
complete Form 620 or Form 621 (or any successor 
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form), or can be reasonably expected to have re-
ceived a complete Form 620 or Form 621 (or any 
successor form), and has not acted on a complete re-
quest contained in the form within 45 days after 
such receipt— 
(A) the Commission and a court of com-
petent jurisdiction (as the case may be) shall 
presume the applicant has made a good faith 
effort to provide the information reasonably 
necessary for Indian Tribes and Native Hawai-
ian Organizations to ascertain whether historic 
properties of religious and cultural significance 
to them may be affected by the undertaking; 
and 
(B) the Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
Organization (as the case may be) shall be pre-
sumed to have disclaimed interest in the appli-
cation. 
(2) OVERCOMING PRESUMPTION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—An Indian Tribe or Na-
tive Hawaiian Organization may overcome the 
presumption under paragraph (1) upon favor-
ably demonstrating one or more of the factors 
to be considered under subparagraph (B). 
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(B) FACTORS
CONSIDERED.—The review 
by the Commission or a court of competent ju-
risdiction under paragraph (1) shall give sub-
stantial weight to— 
(i) whether the applicant made a rea-
sonable attempt to follow up with the In-
dian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Organiza-
tion not earlier than 30 days, and not later 
than 50 days, after the applicant sub-
mitted a complete Form 620 or Form 621 
(as the case may be) to the Indian Tribe 
or Native Hawaiian Organization; and 
(ii) whether the rules of the Commis-
sion and Form 620 or Form 621 is found 
to be in violation of a Nationwide Pro-
grammatic Agreement of the Commission. 
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