Title: Communications Facilities Deployment on Federal Property Act of 2018
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Communications Facilities Deployment on Federal Property Act of 2018
This bill amends the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 to require the General Services Administration (GSA) to create a common form and to establish a common processing fee for applications for easements, rights-of-way, and leases relating to communications facility installations on federal property.
The GSA must develop a master contract for the placement of communications facility installations on federal property.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4795 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4795

 To amend the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 to 
 promote communications facilities deployment on Federal property, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2018

 Mrs. Mimi Walters of California introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 
in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 to 
 promote communications facilities deployment on Federal property, and 
                          for other purposes.

    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 ``Communications Facilities Deployment 
on Federal Property Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES DEPLOYMENT ON FEDERAL PROPERTY.

    (a) In General.--Section 6409 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and 
Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455) is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``wireless'' and inserting 
        ``communications''; and
            (2) by striking subsections (b), (c), and (d) and inserting 
        the following:
    ``(b) Federal Easements, Rights-of-Way, and Leases.--
            ``(1) Grant.--If an entity applies for the grant of an 
        easement, right-of-way, or lease to, in, over, or on a building 
        or other property owned by the Federal Government for the right 
        to install, construct, modify, or maintain a communications 
        facility installation, the executive agency that is authorized 
        to grant such easement, right-of-way, or lease for the building 
        or other property may grant to the applicant an easement, 
        right-of-way, or lease to perform such installation, 
        construction, modification, or maintenance.
            ``(2) Application forms.--Not later than 30 days after the 
        date of the enactment of the Communications Facilities 
        Deployment on Federal Property Act of 2018, the Administrator 
        of General Services shall develop a required common form for 
        applications for easements, rights-of-way, or leases under 
        paragraph (1). An executive agency may not require an applicant 
        under paragraph (1) to use any form for submitting the 
        application other than the common form developed by the 
        Administrator of General Services under this paragraph and may 
        not require any significant information beyond the information 
        required by such common form.
            ``(3) Common fees.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding any other 
                provision of law, not later than 30 days after the date 
                of the enactment of the Communications Facilities 
                Deployment on Federal Property Act of 2018, the 
                Administrator of General Services shall establish a 
                common fee for the processing of applications under 
                paragraph (1) and subsection (c).
                    ``(B) Fee guidelines.--The application fees 
                established pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall be--
                            ``(i) based on direct and actual cost 
                        recovery; and
                            ``(ii) competitively neutral with regard to 
                        other users of the building or other property 
                        owned by the Federal Government.
                    ``(C) Exceptions.--The Administrator of General 
                Services may establish exceptions to the fee amount 
                required under subparagraph (A)--
                            ``(i) in consideration of the public 
                        benefit provided by a grant of an easement, 
                        right-of-way, or lease; and
                            ``(ii) in the interest of expanding 
                        wireless and broadband coverage.
            ``(4) Use of fees collected.--Any fee collected by an 
        executive agency pursuant to paragraph (3) may be made 
        available, as provided in appropriations Acts, to such agency 
        to cover the costs of granting the easement, right-of-way, or 
        lease.
    ``(c) Master Contracts for Communications Facility Installation 
Sitings.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding section 704 of the 
        Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-104; 110 Stat. 
        151) or any other provision of law, not later 30 days after the 
        date of the enactment of the Communications Facilities 
        Deployment on Federal Property Act of 2018, the Administrator 
        of General Services shall--
                    ``(A) develop one or more master contracts that 
                shall govern the placement of a communications facility 
                installation on a building or other property owned by 
                the Federal Government, which shall include offers of 
                lease terms for the communications facility 
                installation of not less than 10 years with automatic 
                lease renewals; and
                    ``(B) in developing the master contract or 
                contracts, standardize the treatment of the placement 
                of a communications facility installation on a building 
                rooftop or facade, the placement of a communications 
                facility installation on a rooftop or inside a 
                building, the technology used in connection with a 
                communications facility installation placed on a 
                Federal building and other property, and any other key 
                issues the Administrator of General Services considers 
                appropriate.
            ``(2) Applicability.--The master contract or contracts 
        developed by the Administrator of General Services under 
        paragraph (1) shall apply to all publicly accessible buildings 
        and other property owned by the Federal Government. An 
        executive agency may not enter into a contract governing the 
        placement of a communications facility installation on a 
        building or other property to which such a master contract 
        applies, unless the contract entered into by the agency is 
        consistent with, and does not contain any significant terms 
        beyond the terms contained in, such master contract.
    ``(d) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Communications facility installation.--The term 
        `communications facility installation' includes--
                    ``(A) any infrastructure, including any 
                transmitting device, tower, or support structure, and 
                any equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power 
                sources, shelters, or cabinets, associated with the 
                licensed or permitted unlicensed wireless or wireline 
                transmission of writings, signs, signals, data, images, 
                pictures, or sounds of all kinds; and
                    ``(B) any antenna or apparatus that--
                            ``(i) is designed for the purpose of 
                        emitting or receiving radio frequency;
                            ``(ii) is designed to be operated, or is 
                        operating, from a fixed location pursuant to 
                        authorization by the Commission or is using 
                        duly authorized devices that do not require 
                        individual licenses; and
                            ``(iii) is added to a tower, building, or 
                        other structure.
            ``(2) Executive agency.--The term `executive agency' has 
        the meaning given such term in section 102 of title 40, United 
        States Code.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--This Act, and the amendments made by this Act, 
shall take effect 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (c) Effect on Existing Applications.--An application for an 
easement, right-of-way, or lease that was made or granted under section 
6409 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 
U.S.C. 1455) before the effective date of this Act shall continue, 
subject to such section as in effect on the day before such effective 
date.
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