a State or local government or instru-
mentality thereof to a requesting 
party under clause (ii) with respect to 
a supplemental submission identifies 
as not having been submitted any in-
formation that was not identified as 
not having been submitted in the prior 
written notice under clause (i) or (ii) 
in response to which the supplemental 
submission was submitted, the subse-
quent written notice shall be treated 
as not having been provided to the re-
questing party. 
‘‘(D) TOLLING BY MUTUAL AGREEMENT.— 
In addition to any tolling under subparagraph 
(C), the 60-day timeframe under subparagraph 
(A) may be tolled by mutual agreement between 
the State or local government or instrumen-
tality thereof and the requesting party.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘paragraph 
(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘this subsection’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) 
WHEN
REQUEST
CONSIDERED
SUB-
MITTED.— 
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For the purposes of 
this subsection, a request described in para-
graph (2)(A) shall be considered submitted on 
the date on which the requesting party takes 
the first procedural step within the control of 
the requesting party— 
‘‘(i) to submit such request in accord-
ance with the procedures established by the 
government or instrumentality for the re-
view and approval of such a request; or 
‘‘(ii) in the case of a government or 
instrumentality that has not established 
specific procedures for the review and ap-
proval of such a request, to submit to the 
government or instrumentality the type of 
filing that is typically required to initiate a 
standard review for a similar facility or 
structure. 
‘‘(B) 
NO
PRE-APPLICATION
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—A State or local government or instru-
mentality thereof may not require a requesting 
party to undertake any process, meeting, or 
other step prior to or as a prerequisite to a re-
quest being considered submitted. 
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‘‘(5) LIMITATION ON REQUIRED DOCUMENTA-
TION.—A State or local government or instrumen-
tality thereof may require a requesting party submit-
ting a request as an eligible facilities request to sub-
mit information (including a form or other docu-
ment) with such request only to the extent that such 
information is reasonably related to determining 
whether such request is an eligible facilities request 
and is identified in a publicly available rule, regula-
tion, or standard issued by the government or in-
strumentality requiring that such information be 
submitted with such a request. A State or local gov-
ernment or instrumentality thereof may not require 
a requesting party to submit any other documenta-
tion or information with such a request. 
‘‘(6) ENFORCEMENT.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—A requesting party 
may bring an action in any district court of the 
United States to enforce the provisions of this 
subsection. 
‘‘(B) EXPEDITED
REVIEW.—A district 
court of the United States shall consider an ac-
tion under subparagraph (A) on an expedited 
basis. 
‘‘(7) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
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‘‘(A) ELIGIBLE
FACILITIES
REQUEST.— 
The term ‘eligible facilities request’ means any 
request for a modification of an existing wire-
less tower, base station, or eligible support 
structure that does not substantially change the 
physical dimensions of such wireless tower, base 
station, or eligible support structure and that 
involves— 
‘‘(i) collocation of new transmission 
equipment; 
‘‘(ii) removal of transmission equip-
ment; 
‘‘(iii) replacement of transmission 
equipment; or 
‘‘(iv) 
placement, 
construction, 
or 
modification 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; 
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‘‘(bb) hardening the wireless 
tower, base station, or eligible 
support structure; or 
‘‘(cc) providing more reliable 
connection capability using the 
wireless tower, base station, or 
eligible support structure. 
‘‘(B) ELIGIBLE
SUPPORT
STRUCTURE.— 
The term ‘eligible support structure’ means a 
structure that, at the time when an eligible fa-
cilities request for a modification of such struc-
ture is submitted to a State or local government 
or instrumentality thereof, supports or could 
support transmission equipment. 
‘‘(C) 
TRANSMISSION
EQUIPMENT.—The 
term ‘transmission equipment’ has the meaning 
given such term in section 1.6100(b)(8) of title 
47, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on 
the date of the enactment of this paragraph).’’. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal 
Communications Commission shall issue final rules to im-
plement the amendments made by subsection (a). 
(c) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub-
section (a) shall apply with respect to any eligible facilities 
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request described in paragraph (1) of section 6409(a) of 
the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 
(47 U.S.C. 1455(a)) that is submitted (as determined 
under paragraph (4) of such section, as added by sub-
section (a)) by a requesting party on or after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
Æ 
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