DIGITAL Applications Act
Bill: H.R.1525 | Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred (R-MI)
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Deploying Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act or the DIGITAL Applications Act
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior to establish online portals for the acceptance, processing, and disposal of a Form 299. Form 299 is the application form for the right to install, construct, modify, or maintain a communications facility on federal real property.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration must publish links to each portal on its website.

To require the Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture 
  to establish an online portal to accept, process, and dispose of an 
 application for the placement of communications facilities on certain 
                             Federal lands.

    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 ``Deploying Infrastructure with 
Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act'' or the 
``DIGITAL Applications Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ONLINE PORTAL FOR FORM 299.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
        ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Energy and Commerce 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; and
                    (D) the Committee on Environment and Public Works 
                of the Senate.
            (2) Assistant secretary.--The term ``Assistant Secretary'' 
        means the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications 
        and Information.
            (3) Department concerned.--The term ``Department 
        concerned'' means the Department of the Interior or the 
        Department of Agriculture.
            (4) Form 299.--The term ``Form 299'' means the form 
        established under 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) Secretary concerned.--The term ``Secretary concerned'' 
        means--
                    (A) the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to 
                land administered by such Secretary; and
                    (B) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to 
                National Forest System land.
    (b) Establishment of Online Portal.--
            (1) Establishment.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Secretary concerned shall establish 
        an online portal for the acceptance, processing, and disposal 
        of a Form 299.
            (2) Notification.--Not later than 3 business days after the 
        date on which the online portal has been established pursuant 
        to paragraph (1), the Secretary concerned shall notify the 
        Assistant Secretary of such establishment.
    (c) Availability of Online Portal.--The Assistant Secretary shall 
publish on the website of the National Telecommunications and 
Information Administration a link to each online portal established 
pursuant to subsection (b)(1).
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