I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7355 
To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
Information to submit a plan to Congress to track requests for commu-
nications use authorization on Federal land. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 25, 2020 
Mr. HUDSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Commu-
nications and Information to submit a plan to Congress 
to track requests for communications use authorization 
on Federal land. 
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 ‘‘Federal Broadband 
Deployment Tracking Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REPORT ON TRACKING FORM 299 REQUESTS. 
(a) 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; and 
(B) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate. 
(2) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist-
ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Communications and Information. 
(3) DEPARTMENT
CONCERNED.—The term 
‘‘Department 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. 
(4) 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. 
(5) NTIA.—The term ‘‘NTIA’’ means the Na-
tional Telecommunications and Information Admin-
istration. 
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(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. 
(b) REPORT ON TRACKING FORM 299 REQUESTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the As-
sistant Secretary shall submit to the appropriate 
committees of Congress a report with the elements 
described in paragraph (2). 
(2) ELEMENTS DESCRIBED.—The elements de-
scribed are as follows: 
(A) A plan describing how NTIA will track 
the acceptance, processing, and disposal of a 
Form 299 submitted to the Department con-
cerned by a requesting party. 
(B) A description of how NTIA would 
most expeditiously implement the plan de-
scribed in subparagraph (A). 
(C) How to increase transparency to a re-
questing party on the status of a Form 299 re-
ceived by the Department concerned. 
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(D) Any barriers the Assistant Secretary 
determines could delay the implementation of 
the plan described in subparagraph (A). 
Æ 
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