Title: Proportional Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Proportional Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
This bill excludes certain wireless facility modification requests from specified review requirements.
Specifically, the bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review any request for modification of an existing wireless tower or base station that involves (1) collocation of new transmission equipment, (2) removal of transmission equipment, or (3) replacement of transmission equipment.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7337 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7337

To provide that an eligible facilities request under section 6409(a) of 
      the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 is 
    categorically excluded from the requirement to prepare certain 
           environmental or historical preservation reviews.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2020

Mr. Carter of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
    to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the 
    Committee on Natural Resources, 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 that an eligible facilities request under section 6409(a) of 
      the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 is 
    categorically excluded from the requirement 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 ``Proportional Reviews for Broadband 
Deployment Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF NEPA AND NHPA TO WIRELESS FACILITIES DEPLOYMENT.

    Section 6409(a)(3) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation 
Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455(a)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(3) Application of nepa; nhpa.--
                    ``(A) NEPA categorical exclusion.--
                            ``(i) In general.--An eligible facilities 
                        request shall be categorically excluded from 
                        the requirement to prepare an environmental 
                        assessment or an environmental impact statement 
                        under section 102 of the National Environmental 
                        Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332).
                            ``(ii) Relation to extraordinary 
                        circumstances procedures.--The use of the 
                        categorical exclusion under clause (i) shall 
                        not be considered to include extraordinary 
                        circumstances under section 220.6 of title 36, 
                        Code of Federal Regulations, or section 1508.4 
                        of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (or 
                        any successor to those regulations).
                    ``(B) National historic preservation act 
                exemption.--An eligible facilities request shall not be 
                considered an undertaking under section 300320 of title 
                54, United States Code.''.
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