Title: Inventory of Assets for Communications Facilities Act of 2018
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Inventory of Assets for Communications Facilities Act of 2018
This bill requires the General Services Administration and the Department of Commerce to ensure the federal real property database includes an inventory of real property on which a broadband communications facility could be constructed or that is suitable for deployment of broadband communications facilities or services. Commerce must make the inventory available to any entity that constructs or operates communications facilities or provides communications services.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4798 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4798

To provide for an inventory of Federal assets on which a communications 
facility could be constructed or that could otherwise be made available 
     for use in connection with the construction or operation of a 
    communications facility or provision of communications service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2018

   Mr. Collins of New York 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 provide for an inventory of Federal assets on which a communications 
facility could be constructed or that could otherwise be made available 
     for use in connection with the construction or operation of a 
    communications facility or provision of communications service.

    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 ``Inventory of Assets for 
Communications Facilities Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. INVENTORY OF FEDERAL ASSETS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act--
            (1) the Administrator of General Services, in coordination 
        with the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
        Information, shall ensure that the database established under 
        section 5(c) of Executive Order 13327 (69 Fed. Reg. 5895) 
        includes an inventory of covered assets, which shall include 
        the information provided under subsections (b) and (c);
            (2) the Administrator shall make such inventory available 
        to the Assistant Secretary for purposes of paragraph (3); and
            (3) the Assistant Secretary shall make such inventory 
        available to any entity that constructs or operates 
        communications facilities or provides communications service.
    (b) Provision of Information by Executive Agencies.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 9 months after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the head of an Executive agency 
        shall provide to the Administrator, in a manner and format to 
        be determined by the Administrator, the information described 
        in paragraph (2) with respect to a covered asset of such 
        agency.
            (2) Information described.--The information described in 
        this paragraph is--
                    (A) the location of the covered asset;
                    (B) the type of the covered asset, such as whether 
                the asset is a building (and the type of building), 
                land (and the type or use of the land), right-of-way, 
                easement, utility pole, wireless communications tower, 
                underground utility route, or cable on which capacity 
                is available for lease;
                    (C) contact information for an officer or employee 
                of the agency who may be contacted for permitting or 
                other information about the covered asset;
                    (D) whether the covered asset is historic property 
                (as defined in section 300308 of title 54, United 
                States Code); and
                    (E) such other information as the Administrator 
                considers appropriate.
            (3) Provision of updated information.--
                    (A) Change in information.--In the case of a change 
                in any of the information provided to the Administrator 
                under paragraph (1) with respect to a covered asset of 
                an Executive agency, the head of such agency shall 
                provide updated information to the Administrator not 
                later than 30 days after such change.
                    (B) Acquisition of new covered asset.--In the case 
                of the acquisition of a covered asset by an Executive 
                agency after the date that is 9 months after the date 
                of the enactment of this Act, the head of such agency 
                shall provide to the Administrator the information 
                required by paragraph (1) with respect to such asset 
                not later than 30 days after such acquisition.
            (4) Exclusion of information for national security 
        reasons.--
                    (A) Classified information.--The head of an 
                Executive agency may exclude classified information 
                from the information provided to the Administrator 
                under this subsection.
                    (B) Other information.--If the head of an Executive 
                agency determines, in consultation with the 
                Administrator, that inclusion of information (other 
                than classified information) about a covered asset of 
                such agency in the inventory established under 
                subsection (a) would harm national security, the head 
                of the agency may exclude such information from the 
                information provided to the Administrator under this 
                subsection.
                    (C) Classified information defined.--In this 
                paragraph, the term ``classified information'' means 
                any information or material that has been determined by 
                the Federal Government pursuant to an Executive order, 
                statute, or regulation, to require protection against 
                unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national 
                security and any restricted data, as defined in section 
                11 y. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 
                2014(y)).
    (c) Information on State and Local Assets.--
            (1) Voluntary provision of information.--A State or local 
        government may provide to the Administrator for inclusion in 
        the inventory established under subsection (a), in a manner and 
        format to be determined by the Administrator, information with 
        respect to a State or local asset that would be a covered asset 
        if under the custody and control of an Executive agency.
            (2) Inclusion of information.--The Administrator shall 
        include in such inventory any information provided by a State 
        or local government in accordance with paragraph (1) in the 
        same manner as information provided by an Executive agency 
        under subsection (b).
            (3) Provision of updated information.--In the case of a 
        change in any of the information provided to the Administrator 
        under paragraph (1) with respect to a State or local asset, the 
        State or local government shall provide updated information to 
        the Administrator not later than 30 days after such change. If 
        a State or local government does not comply with the preceding 
        sentence, the Administrator shall deny the State or local 
        government access to the inventory established under subsection 
        (a).
    (d) Updating of Inventory.--After the establishment of the 
inventory under subsection (a), the Administrator shall include in the 
inventory information provided under subsection (b) or (c) not later 
than the date that is 7 days after the Administrator receives such 
information. The information with respect to each covered asset or 
State or local asset in the inventory shall include the most recent 
date on which such information was added or updated.
    (e) Format of Location Information.--The information in the 
inventory established under subsection (a) about the location of a 
covered asset or State or local asset shall be in Geographic 
Information System format or another format that the Administrator 
considers appropriate.
    (f) Information Security.--The Administrator shall adopt measures 
to prevent unauthorized access to the information in the inventory 
established under subsection (a).
    (g) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
        Administrator of General Services.
            (2) Assistant secretary.--The term ``Assistant Secretary'' 
        means the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications 
        and Information.
            (3) Communications facility.--The term ``communications 
        facility'' includes--
                    (A) any wireless or wireline infrastructure for the 
                transmission of writing, signs, signals, data, images, 
                pictures, or sounds of all kinds;
                    (B) any transmitting device, tower, or support 
                structure, and any equipment, switches, wiring, 
                cabling, power sources, shelters, or cabinets, 
                associated with the provision of communications 
                services; and
                    (C) any antenna or apparatus that--
                            (i) is designed for the purpose of emitting 
                        radio frequency;
                            (ii) is designed to be operated, or is 
                        operating, from a fixed location; and
                            (iii) is added to a tower, building, or 
                        other structure.
            (4) Communications service.--The term ``communications 
        service'' means a service for the transmission of writing, 
        signs, signals, data, images, pictures, or sounds of all kinds.
            (5) Covered asset.--The term ``covered asset'' means, with 
        respect to an agency, any Federal real property (as defined in 
        section 2(a) of Executive Order 13327 (69 Fed. Reg. 5895)) 
        under the custody and control of such agency--
                    (A)(i) on which a broadband communications facility 
                could be constructed; or
                    (ii) that could otherwise be made available to an 
                entity that--
                            (I) constructs or operates broadband 
                        communications facilities for use in connection 
                        with such construction or operation; or
                            (II) provides broadband communications 
                        service for use in connection with such 
                        provision; and
                    (B) that is suitable for the deployment, or use in 
                connection with the deployment, of broadband 
                communications facilities or broadband communications 
                services.
            (6) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given such term in section 105 of title 5, United 
        States Code.
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