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(A) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall 
specify to the Secretary concerned which infor-
mation provided under paragraph (2) was col-
lected in a confidential or proprietary manner, 
and the Secretary concerned may not make 
such information publicly available. 
(B) FOIA.—Information provided under 
paragraph (2) is exempt from disclosure to the 
public under section 552(b)(3)(B) of title 5, 
United States Code. 
(c) WORKING GROUP.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date of enactment of this section, the Com-
mission and the Secretary concerned shall establish 
an interagency working group to facilitate the prepa-
ration and interoperability of information technology 
systems for the provision and receipt of the informa-
tion described in subsection (b)(2). 
(2) NONAPPLICABILITY OF FACA.—The Federal 
Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not 
apply to the interagency working group established 
under paragraph (1). 
(d) REPORTS.— 
(1) PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL 
BARRIERS.—Not later 120 days after the date on 
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which the interagency working group is established 
pursuant to subsection (c)(1), the Commission and 
the Secretary concerned shall jointly submit a report 
to the appropriate committees of Congress with a 
preliminary assessment of any potential barriers to 
sharing the information described under subsection 
(b)(2). 
(2) ASSESSMENTS.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date on which the Commission provides the in-
formation described under subsection (b)(2) to the 
Department concerned, the Commission and the Sec-
retary concerned shall jointly submit a report to the 
appropriate committees of Congress with— 
(A) an assessment of the effectiveness of a 
user’s ability to locate broadband infrastructure 
on covered land in an area to be determined as 
unserved by the Commission on the basis of the 
maps created under section 802(c) of the Com-
munications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 642(c)); 
and 
(B) an assessment of whether the Depart-
ment concerned prioritized the review of appli-
cations for a communications use authorization 
in an area to be determined as unserved by the 
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Commission on the basis of the maps created 
under such section. 
SEC. 224. FEDERAL BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT TRACKING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary 
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress 
a report containing the elements described in subsection 
(b). 
(b) ELEMENTS DESCRIBED.—The elements described 
in this subsection are the following: 
(1) A plan describing how the Assistant Sec-
retary will track the acceptance, processing, and dis-
posal of a Form 299 submitted to the Secretary con-
cerned by a requesting party. 
(2) A description of how the Assistant Sec-
retary would most expeditiously implement the plan 
described in paragraph (1). 
(3) A description of how the Assistant Sec-
retary may increase transparency to a requesting 
party on the status of a Form 299 received by the 
Secretary concerned. 
(4) A description of any barriers the Assistant 
Secretary determines could delay the implementation 
of the plan described in paragraph (1). 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) 
APPROPRIATE
COMMITTEES
OF
CON-
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-
gress’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce of the House of Representatives; 
(B) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate; 
(C) the Committee on Agriculture of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(D) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutri-
tion, and Forestry of the Senate. 
(2) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist-
ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Communications and Information. 
(3) FORM 299.—The term ‘‘Form 299’’ means 
the 
form 
developed 
pursuant 
to 
section 
6409(b)(2)(A) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and 
Job 
Creation 
Act 
of 
2012 
(47 
U.S.C. 
1455(b)(2)(A)), or any successor form. 
(4) NATIONAL
FOREST
SYSTEM.—The term 
‘‘National Forest System’’ has the meaning given 
the term in section 11(a) of the Forest and Range-
land Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 
U.S.C. 1609(a)). 
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(5) PUBLIC
LAND.—The term ‘‘public land’’ 
means land under the management of— 
(A) the Bureau of Land Management; 
(B) the National Park Service; 
(C) the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service; or 
(D) the Bureau of Reclamation. 
(6) SECRETARY CONCERNED.—The term ‘‘Sec-
retary concerned’’ means— 
(A) the Secretary of the Interior, with re-
spect to public land; and 
(B) the Secretary of Agriculture, with re-
spect to National Forest System land. 
Æ 
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