Wireless Broadband Competition and Efficient Deployment Act
Bill: H.R.1056 | Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Bill (R-OH)
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Wireless Broadband Competition and Efficient Deployment Act
This bill excludes certain personal wireless facility projects from specified review requirements.
Specifically, the bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review a project that involves the mounting, installation, or modification of eligible personal wireless facilities (i.e., antennas, apparatuses, transmitting devices, and related equipment for the provision of personal wireless service).

To provide that a project for the collocation of a personal wireless 
  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 ``Wireless Broadband Competition and 
Efficient Deployment Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF NEPA AND NHPA TO COLLOCATION OF CERTAIN PERSONAL 
              WIRELESS 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--
                            (i) the mounting or installation of an 
                        eligible personal wireless service facility 
                        with another eligible personal wireless service 
                        facility that exists at the time at which a 
                        complete request for authorization of such 
                        mounting or installation is filed with a State 
                        or local government or instrumentality thereof; 
                        or
                            (ii) the modification of an eligible 
                        personal wireless service facility; 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 personal wireless service facility.--The term 
        ``eligible personal wireless service facility'' means any 
        antenna, apparatus, or transmitting device, and any equipment, 
        switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters, or 
        cabinets, for the provision of a personal wireless service.
            (4) Personal wireless services.--The term ``personal 
        wireless services''--
                    (A) has the meaning given such term in section 
                332(c)(7)(C) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
                U.S.C. 332(c)(7)(C)); and
                    (B) also includes commercial mobile data service 
                (as defined in section 6001 of the Middle Class Tax 
                Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1401)).
            (5) 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.
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