Broadband Competition and Efficient Deployment Act
Bill: H.R.1141 | Sponsor: Rep. Joyce, John (R-PA)
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Broadband Competition and Efficient Deployment Act
This bill excludes the deployment or modification of certain telecommunications service facility projects from specified review requirements.
Specifically, the bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review a project for the placement, construction, or modification of a telecommunications service facility in or on infrastructure that supports or houses a facility for communication by wire.

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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Broadband Competition and Efficient 
Deployment Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF NEPA AND NHPA TO COLLOCATION 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 Exemption.--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 facility 
                in or on eligible support infrastructure; and
                    (B) for which a permit, license, or approval from 
                the Commission is required or that is otherwise subject 
                to the jurisdiction of the Commission.
            (3) Eligible support infrastructure.--The term ``eligible 
        support infrastructure'' means infrastructure that supports or 
        houses a facility for communication by wire (or is designed to 
        and capable of supporting or housing such a facility) at the 
        time when a complete request to a State or local government or 
        instrumentality thereof for authorization to place, construct, 
        or modify a telecommunications 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 facility.--The term 
        ``telecommunications service facility''means a facility for the 
        provision of any interstate or intrastate telecommunications 
        service.
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