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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1141 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 18, 2021 
Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Com-
mittee 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 
A BILL 
To provide that a project for the collocation of a tele-
communications service facility is not subject to require-
ments to prepare certain environmental or historical 
preservation reviews. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Broadband Competi-
tion and Efficient Deployment Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF NEPA AND NHPA TO COLLOCA-
TION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE 
FACILITIES. 
(a) NEPA EXEMPTION.—A covered project shall not 
be subject to the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 
4332(2)(C)). 
(b) NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT EX-
EMPTION.—A covered project shall 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 fa-
cility in or on eligible support infrastructure; 
and 
(B) for which a permit, license, or approval 
from the Commission is required or that is oth-
erwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Com-
mission. 
(3) ELIGIBLE
SUPPORT
INFRASTRUCTURE.— 
The term ‘‘eligible support infrastructure’’ means in-
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frastructure that supports or houses a facility for 
communication by wire (or is designed to and capa-
ble of supporting or housing such a facility) at the 
time when a complete request to a State or local 
government or instrumentality thereof for authoriza-
tion to place, construct, or modify a telecommuni-
cations service facility in or on the infrastructure is 
received by the government or instrumentality. 
(4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the 50 
States, the District of Columbia, the territories and 
possessions of the United States, and each federally 
recognized Indian Tribe. 
(5) 
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). 
(6) TELECOMMUNICATIONS
SERVICE
FACIL-
ITY.—The 
term 
‘‘telecommunications 
service 
facility’’means a facility for the provision of any 
interstate or intrastate telecommunications service. 
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