Title: Streamlining and Expediting Approval for Communications Technologies Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Streamlining and Expediting Approval for Communications Technologies Act
This bill directs Senior Real Property Officers of specified federal agencies to track applications to locate or modify communications facilities on certain federal real property assets of those agencies.
Each officer shall report on the tracking of such applications to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). In turn, the NTIA shall report to Congress on the information in each submitted report and analyses of the application process.
An officer must respond to an inquiry about the status of an application from the applicant no later than seven days after receiving such inquiry.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4802 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4802

To track applications to locate or modify communications facilities on 
             Federal real property, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2018

Mr. Kinzinger introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and 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 track applications to locate or modify communications facilities on 
             Federal real 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 ``Streamlining and Expediting Approval 
for Communications Technologies Act''.

SEC. 2. TRACKING OF APPLICATIONS TO LOCATE OR MODIFY COMMUNICATIONS 
              FACILITIES ON FEDERAL REAL PROPERTY.

    (a) Tracking by Senior Real Property Officers.--
            (1) In general.--For the first fiscal year that begins more 
        than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 
        each fiscal year thereafter, the Senior Real Property Officer 
        of a covered agency shall track applications to locate or 
        modify communications facilities on covered assets of such 
        agency.
            (2) Information included.--The tracking required by 
        paragraph (1) shall include tracking of--
                    (A) the number of applications described in such 
                paragraph that are--
                            (i) received;
                            (ii) approved; and
                            (iii) denied;
                    (B) in the case of an application described in such 
                paragraph that is denied, the reasons for the denial;
                    (C) the amount of time between the receipt of an 
                application described in such paragraph and the 
                issuance of a final decision on such application;
                    (D) in the case of an application described in such 
                paragraph with respect to which the agency is not in 
                compliance with a deadline for action that is imposed 
                by statute or regulation or has not achieved a 
                performance goal included in a performance plan of the 
                agency under section 1115(b) of title 31, United States 
                Code, the reasons for the delay; and
                    (E) the cost to the agency of considering 
                applications described in such paragraph.
            (3) Reports.--
                    (A) From srpos to ntia.--Not later than 90 days 
                after the end of each fiscal year for which the Senior 
                Real Property Officer of a covered agency is required 
                under paragraph (1) to track applications described in 
                such paragraph, the Senior Real Property Officer shall 
                submit to the Assistant Secretary a report on the 
                tracking of such applications during such fiscal year 
                that includes the information described in paragraph 
                (2).
                    (B) From ntia to congress.--Not later than 180 days 
                after the end of each fiscal year for which the Senior 
                Real Property Officer of a covered agency is required 
                under paragraph (1) to track applications described in 
                such paragraph, the Assistant Secretary shall submit to 
                the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
                Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
                and Transportation of the Senate a report that 
                contains--
                            (i) the information described in paragraph 
                        (2) that was contained in each report submitted 
                        by a Senior Real Property Officer under 
                        subparagraph (A) for the fiscal year;
                            (ii) an analysis of the speed and 
                        efficiency of the consideration by each covered 
                        agency of such applications during the fiscal 
                        year; and
                            (iii) any recommendations on how to improve 
                        the process of considering such applications 
                        that the Assistant Secretary considers 
                        appropriate.
            (4) Response to inquiries.--Beginning on the first day of 
        the first fiscal year for which the Senior Real Property 
        Officer of a covered agency is required under paragraph (1) to 
        track applications described in such paragraph, the Senior Real 
        Property Officer shall respond to an inquiry about the status 
        of such an application from the applicant not later than 7 days 
        after the date on which the Senior Real Property Officer 
        receives the inquiry.
    (b) Inclusion of Goals in Agency Performance Plans.--Beginning with 
the first performance plan that the head of a covered agency is 
required to make available under section 1115(b) of title 31, United 
States Code, after the date that is 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the head of the agency shall include in such 
plan performance goals for the speed and efficiency of the 
consideration by the agency of applications described in subsection 
(a)(1).
    (c) Covered Agency Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
agency'' means an agency for which a Senior Real Property Officer is 
designated under Executive Order 13327 (69 Fed. Reg. 5895).
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