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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1681 
To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
Information to establish an interagency strike force to ensure that certain 
Federal land management agencies, including the organizational units 
of such agencies, prioritize the review of requests for communications 
use authorizations, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 27, 2025 
Mr. EVANS of Colorado (for himself and Ms. CRAIG) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and 
in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, 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 com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Commu-
nications and Information to establish an interagency 
strike force to ensure that certain Federal land manage-
ment agencies, including the organizational units of such 
agencies, prioritize the review of requests for communica-
tions use authorizations, 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 ‘‘Expediting Federal 
Broadband Deployment Reviews Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERAGENCY STRIKE FORCE. 
(a) INTERAGENCY STRIKE FORCE.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the As-
sistant Secretary shall establish an interagency 
strike force to ensure that each Federal land man-
agement agency, including each organizational unit 
of the agency, prioritizes the review of requests for 
communications use authorizations. 
(2) MEMBERS.—The strike force shall be com-
posed of— 
(A) the Assistant Secretary; 
(B) the head of each Federal land manage-
ment agency; 
(C) a designee of the Secretary of Agri-
culture, other than the Chief of the Forest 
Service; and 
(D) a designee of the Secretary of the In-
terior, other than the Director of the Bureau of 
Land Management. 
(3) DUTIES.—The duties of the strike force 
shall include— 
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(A) conducting periodic calls between the 
members of the strike force to ensure that each 
Federal land management agency, including 
each 
organizational 
unit 
of 
the 
agency, 
prioritizes the review of requests for commu-
nications use authorizations; 
(B) establishing objective and reasonable 
goals for the review of requests for communica-
tions use authorizations; and 
(C) monitoring, and facilitating the ac-
countability of, each Federal land management 
agency, including each organizational unit of 
the agency, with respect to meeting such goals. 
(4) REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—Not later than 
270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Assistant Secretary shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a report on the ef-
fectiveness of the strike force in ensuring that each 
Federal land management agency, including each or-
ganizational unit of the agency, prioritizes the review 
of requests for communications use authorizations. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
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(A) the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce of the House of Representatives; 
(B) the Committee on Natural Resources 
of the House of Representatives; 
(C) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate; 
(D) the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works of the Senate; 
(E) the Committee on Agriculture of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(F) 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) COMMUNICATIONS
FACILITY.—The term 
‘‘communications facility’’ has the meaning given the 
term ‘‘communications facility installation’’ in sec-
tion 6409(d) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job 
Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455(d)). 
(4) COMMUNICATIONS USE.—The term ‘‘com-
munications use’’ means the placement and oper-
ation of a communications facility. 
(5) COMMUNICATIONS USE AUTHORIZATION.— 
The term ‘‘communications use authorization’’ 
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(A) with respect to the Bureau of Land 
Management— 
(i) a State office; 
(ii) a regional office; 
(iii) a district office; or 
(iv) a field office; and 
(B) with respect to the Forest Service— 
(i) a regional office; 
(ii) a management unit; or 
(iii) a ranger district office. 
(10) PUBLIC LANDS.—The term ‘‘public lands’’ 
has the meaning given that term in section 103 of 
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702). 
(11) STRIKE FORCE.—The term ‘‘strike force’’ 
means the interagency strike force established under 
subsection (a)(1). 
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